Public engagement and impact are at the heart of the Lost Detectives project. Since 2019 the project team has made 18 presentations to specialist and generalist audiences, in addition to our podcasts, articles, and creative outputs. Keep up to date with our activities here, or contact us here if you would like to invite us to speak.
- April 2025: Carol Adlam, Talk and Book Signing, The Russian Detective. Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.
- 4 October 2024: Carol Adlam, Talk and Book Signing, The Russian Detective. Cowes, Isle of Wight Literary Festival.
- 28 May 2024: Carol Adlam, “Secrets and Lies: Making the Russian Detective”. The Oxford Comics Network, University of Oxford.
- 15 May 2024: Carol Adlam, Book Signing, The Russian Detective. Nottingham Trent Universiity / Page 45 Bookshop.
- 15 May 2024: Carol Adlam and Claire Whitehead, “Innovative Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration between Art and the Arts: Lost Detectives from Archive to Drawing Board”. Nottingham Trent University.
- 3 May 2024: Carol Adlam, Comica Panel Discussion and Book Signing, Comica 24. The Century Club, Soho, London.
- 25 April 2024: Carol Adlam Q&A with Val McDermid, Claire Whitehead. Book Signing, Toppings Bookshop, St Andrews.
- 13 March 2024: Carol Adlam and Claire Whitehead: “Lost Detectives: Early Russian Crime Fiction, Visual Adaptation, and the Art of Waiting”. Jordan Center, New York University.
- November 2023: Carol Adlam and Claire Whitehead. Networking Event: Lost Detectives and Beyond. University of St Andrews, with represenatives from the Universities of Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews; The Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science; Creative Industries.
- 4 October 2023: “Lost Detectives, True Confessions: Carol Adlam in Conversation with Claire Whitehead”. Byre Theatre, St Andrews.
- 19 April 2023: Carol Adlam. “Visual Languages and Technologies of Seeing: Making a Nineteenth-Century Graphic Novel. Illustration Studies; New Approaches, New Directions (ILLUSTR4TIO annual conference). Birkbeck College. 19–21 April 2023.
- 28 March 2023: Carol Adlam. “Lost Detectives: Old Tricks, New Magic”. Department of Russian Research Seminar, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews.
- 11 November 2020: Carol Adlam / Claire Whitehead. “Lost Detectives: Adapting Old Texts for New Media, Carol Adlam in Conversation with Claire Whitehead”. Byre World Online, St Andrews.
- 9 September 2019: Carol Adlam. “Visual Red Herrings: Creating a Graphic-novel Adaptation of a ‘Lost’ Russian-Empire Crime Novel.” Illustration and Adaptation Conference; ILLUSTR4TIO; University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.
- 9 July 2019: Carol Adlam. “It’s Murder at the Ball: Scripting and Illustrating a Victorian-Era Crime Graphic Novel.” Forms of Knowledge in Popular Fiction and Culture. VPFA (Victorian Popular Fiction Association); University of Greenwich.
- 9 July 2019: Claire Whitehead. “Sites Set on Crime: Spaces of Justice, Truth and Knowledge in Early Russian Crime Fiction”. Forms of Knowledge in Popular Fiction and Culture. VPFA (Victorian Popular Fiction Association); University of Greenwich.18 June 2019. Carol Adlam. “Graphic Novel Adaptations of Museum and Archive Texts.” College of Art, Architecture, Design and Humanities Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University.
- 20 May 2019: Carol Adlam and Claire Whitehead. Launch Event for Public Display of ‘Lost Detectives’ artwork (May-June 2019). St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews.
- 23 April 2019. Carol Adlam and Claire Whitehead. “Introduction to Lost Detectives: Adapting Old Texts for New Media”. Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies. Parliament Hall, St Andrews.