Tale of Three Tunnels at Asylum Steampunk Festival
The Asylum Steampunk Festival is the largest and longest running steampunk festival in the Solar System, attracting participants from around the globe. It takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in the historic City of Lincoln.
For four glorious days the historic streets of Lincoln are thronged with thousands of splendidly dressed steampunks enjoying a festival which strives to combine art, literature, music, fashion, comedy and simple good fun.
“I had to read your novel again, when I realised it was real.”
I’ll be delivering my first ever academic paper in the associated symposium run by Supernatural Cities at the Bishop Grosseteste University campus. I’ll be telling A Tale of Three Tunnels: Biology of the Metropolis & Victori-bethan Anxiety.
Going Global: Steampunk and Transnational Cultures
25th August 2018, The Asylum Steampunk Festival Conference, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln
Keynote Speaker: Yomi Ayeni – Transmedia Author, Producer, and Filmmaker
“I had to read your novel again, when I realised it was real.”
I’ll be speaking about Victorian London as an organism, evolving from the primordial ooze to seek dominance. My Lawless novels will be mentioned, but I’ll talk more about the hydraulic network and sewerage system, the slang and other othernesses beneath the gleaming surface, the city’s globality and insularity.
This year’s steampunk conference at the Asylum Festival. To celebrate a decade of Europe’s largest steampunk festival, we will be focussing on steampunk on the global scale.
Since the creation of the Asylum Festival, steampunk has grown in popularity, expanding from its initial literary forms and subcultural communities to infiltrate and inform many areas of popular culture and mass media. As it has been adopted and adapted around the world, so it has started to shift away from its Anglocentric, (neo-)Victorian roots. This has led to the rise of vibrant and diverse steampunk cultures and communities across the globe. This conference will explore the nature of what has become a worldwide phenomenon. It will reflect on the factors that have encouraged steampunk’s global development, and examine the ways in which steampunk has been appropriated and inflected by countries and cultures across the planet.
Each August Lincoln (UK) becomes the temporary capital of European steampunk culture. This is your opportunity to join us in a celebration of steampunk, to share papers and exchange ideas, and to participate in lively cross-disciplinary discussion.
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