An blanket email from Tony Burke of Apocryphicity:
I just wanted to bring your attention to a conference that Phil Harland and I are planning at York University April 29, 2011 on the Secret Gospel of Mark. This is intended as the first in a series of annual symposia on Christian Apocrypha, so we really hope for a good turnout. If you cannot (or would rather not) attend, please be so kind to let others know about the event (on blogs or what-have-you). See the link below for information. Thanks.
This is a Canadian university, not York in the UK as I thought on first reading.
On the link the few speakers I recognise all seem to belong to the “Secret Mark is genuine” camp. But apparently there is no intention to push this agenda. Tony adds:
We wanted Stephen [Carlson] to attend but he declined. He will contribute a paper to the published proceedings, however. Several other “nongenuine” scholars declined also. But we have Craig Evan, Bruce Chilton, Peter Jeffery, and Pierluigi Piovanelli, all of whome feel it is not genuine. We DID aim for balance.
I myself always had doubts about the supposed Letter to Theodore and all it contained, without ever spending much time on it. I was persuaded definitively by Stephen Carlson’s convincing book on the subject, which crystalised much of the unease that I had found hard to articulate. But there is certainly room for argument, I would have thought.