What’s On.

Below please find the Final Schedule for Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary — including:

  • An Opening Exhibition of paintings, photographs, and letters — held at the Gallery at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road.
  • Lawrence Durrell at the British Library — an afternoon and evening of special events, featuring archival talks and panel discussions about Durrell’s life and writings.
  • The Durrell Centenary Banquet — an evening of toasts, stories, poetry, song, and celebration, with a keynote address from Christopher Butler (Christ Church, Oxford), author of Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916.

Over the course of the next year, we’ll be making frequent announcements when we add new exhibitions, films, speakers, sessions, and celebrations.

Follow the news as it breaks on the Durrell 2012 Facebook page.

Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.

FINAL SCHEDULE.

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::  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2012.   ::   THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012.  ::

::  FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2012.   ::   SATURDAY, 16 JUNE 2012.  ::

WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2012.

6.30 PM :: Special Exhibition & Opening Reception :: The Gallery @ Foyles Books, 113-119 Charing Cross Road.

9.00 PM + :: Drinks &c. :: Reservations Recommended.

THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012.

8.00 AM (All Day) :: Conference Registration (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College).

    • Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule.

8.30 AM :: Welcome / Opening Remarks (Large Common Room).

    • James Gifford (President, International Lawrence Durrell Society).

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: Ia (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by James Clawson (Grambling State University).

    • Anna Lillios (University of Central Florida), “The Essence of Englishness in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet.”
    • Barry Fruchter (Nassau Community College), “Mountolive: Nostalgia for the First Time.”
    • Julia Gordon-Bramer (Lindenwood University), “‘A Secret’ Well-Kept: Sylvia Plath’s Tribute to Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet.”

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: Ib (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University).

    • Helen Wussow (Simon Fraser University), “Sexual Tourism in Homer & Durrell.”
    • Michael Heinze (Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf), “Greeks, Italians, and Turks: Multicultural Post-War Rhodes through the Eyes of Lawrence Durrell.”
    • Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European University Cyprus), “The Empire Writes Back: Two Counter-Discursive Responses to Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons – Costas Montis’s Closed Doors and Rodis Roufos’s The Age of Bronze.”

10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Session :: IIa (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by Dianne Vipond (California State University, Long Beach).

    • Linda Rashidi (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania), “The Black Book as Starter Novel.”
    • Richard August (University of Manchester), “Arguments Over ‘Everything’: Lawrence Durrell & The London Psychogeographical Tradition.”
    • Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), “The Metamorphosis of London in the Writing of Lawrence Durrell.”

10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Session :: IIb (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by William L. Godshalk (University of Cincinnati).

    • Aba-Carina Parlog (West University of Timisoara, Romania), “Lawrence Durrell’s Elusive Narratives: The Alexandrian Universe.”
    • Amber Rose (Independent Scholar), “Unraveling the Human Chessboard of The Alexandria Quartet.”

12.15 PM – 1.00 PM :: Break for Lunch (Great Hall).

    • Working Lunches provided for all registered attendees.

1.00 PM – 2.30 PM :: Parallel Session :: IIIa (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by Anne R. Zahlan (Eastern Illinois University).

    • Dianne Vipond (California State University, Long Beach), “Exploring the Uncanny in Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet.”
    • James Clawson (Grambling State University), “Bravedent! Contextualizing the Uncanny.”
    • Alice Cheylan (Universite du Sud Toulon-Var), “Translation or Creation: Lawrence Durrell’s Use of French in The Avignon Quintet.”

1.00 PM – 2.30 PM :: Parallel Session :: IIIb (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University).

    • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of Belgrade), “Lawrence Durrell’s Humour in the Antrobus Stories.”
    • Ravi Nambiar (Independent Scholar), “J. Krishnamurthi in Durrell’s Works: A Critical Study.”

2.45 PM – 4.00 PM :: Special Session :: IV (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga).

    • James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University), “Durrell’s Long Shadow from Cairo to California: English Surrealisms & the Cult of Sex & Anarchy.”
    • Fiona Tomkinson (Yeditepe University), “The Subtlest Maze, or Durrell’s Labyrinths.”
    • William L. Godshalk (University of Cincinnati), “Durrell’s Mott — A Pastiche.”

4.15 PM – 5.00 PM :: Plenary Session (Large Common Room) :: Manufacturing Dreams — Lawrence Durrell’s Fiction Revisited Through Chirico’s Metaphysical Paintings.

    • Corinne Alexandre-Garner (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre).
    • Isabelle Keller-Privat (Université de Toulouse II).

5.15 PM – 6.00 PM :: Plenary Session (Large Common Room) :: Einstein or Escher? — Whose ‘Relativity’ Really Informs The Alexandria Quartet?

6.00 PM – 7.15 PM :: Break.

7.15 PM + :: Keynote Session (Large Common Room) :: Lawrence Durrell at 100: Durrell & The Biographer’s Art.

Evening Free.

FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2012.

8.00 AM (All Day) :: Conference Registration (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College).

    • Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule.

8.30 AM :: Announcements & Reminders (Large Common Room).

    • James Gifford (President, International Lawrence Durrell Society).

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: Va (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by James Clawson (Grambling State University).

    • Rony Alfandary (Bar Ilan University, Israel), “The City of Alexandria as a Metaphor for Durrell’s Internalized Mother.”
    • G. R. Taneja (University of Delhi), “The City and its Metaphors: The Urban Space in Lawrence Durrell.”
    • Souad Baghli-Berbar (University Abou Bakr Belkaid, Algeria), “From Reality to Myth: Alexandria in Lawrence Durrell’s Justine.”

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: Vb (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga).

    • Peter Baldwin (Independent Publisher), “Certain Landfalls: Rare Inscriptions by Lawrence Durrell.”
    • Stela Ghetie (Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai), “I do not love thee with mine eyes. . . .”
    • Merrianne Timko (Independent Culinary Historian), “Lawrence Durrell & Elizabeth David: A Culinary Friendship.”

10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Session :: VIa (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff).

    • Nicoletta Demetriou (St. Antony’s College, Oxford), “Looking for Lawrence Durrell in Cyprus.”
    • Inna Savelyeva (Moscow Regional State Institute for Humanities & Social Studies), “D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Durrell, & John Fowles: British Islomania.”
    • Niki Marangou (Independent Writer), “Round About Durrell in Cyprus.”

10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Session :: VIb (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by David Radavich (Eastern Illinois University).

    • Monika Fiedler (Professor Emerita, Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin), “Researching Lawrence Durrell & Egypt From Behind the Wall.”
    • Michiko Kawano (retired, Bukkyo University), “Romantic Durrell, Dramatized Sappho.”
    • David Radavich (Eastern Illinois University), “A Celebration of Durrellian Poetry (Open Reading).”

12.15 PM – 1.30 PM :: Break for Lunch (Great Hall).

1.30 PM – 1.40 PM :: Welcome and Introduction :: Durrell 2012 :: Lawrence Durrell at the British Library :: An Afternoon of Archival Talks & Discussion Panels.

    • Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library).

1.40 PM – 2.15 PM :: An Introduction to the Lawrence Durrell audio collections at the British Library.

2.15 PM – 3.15 PM ::  Drop-In Sessions :: Durrell Collections in the British Library.

3.15 PM – 4.15 PM :: Archives Panel :: Chaired by Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts, British Library).

4.15 PM – 5.15 PM :: Roundtable :: Publishing Durrell ::  Chaired by Corinne Alexandre-Garner & Isabelle Keller-Privat.

    • Anthea Morton-Saner (Curtis Brown).
    • Anna Davis (Curtis Brown).
    • Peggy Fox (formerly Head of New Directions).
    • Georges Hoffman (representative of the Durrell Estate in France).
    • Marc Parent (Buchet Chastel).
    • Beatrice Commengé (writer).
    • Peter Baldwin (Delos Press).

5.15 PM – 6.30 PM :: Break.

6.30 PM – 8.00  PM :: Reach Upwards to the Affirming Sun :: Lawrence Durrell in 2012 :: Chaired by Simon Ings.

8.30 PM + :: Drinks &c. ::  St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel & St. Pancras International :: Reservations Recommended.

SATURDAY, 16 JUNE 2012.

8.00 AM (Until Noon) :: Conference Registration (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College).

    • Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule.

8.30 AM :: Announcements & Reminders (Large Common Room).

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: VIIa (Large Common Room) :: Chaired by Pamela J. Francis (Rice University).

    • Martha Klironomos (San Francisco State University), “Travel Practices, Writing, & Photography: Comparing the Works of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell.”
    • Marc Woodworth (Skidmore College), “Fiding Kovecses: An Open Letter to Patrick Leigh Fermor.”
    • Dan Popescu (Partium Christian University, Romania), “‘In Clashing Hues’: Images of the Gypsies in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods & the Water.”

9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Session :: VIIb (Small Common Room) :: Chaired by Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University).

    • Allyson Kreuiter (University of South Africa), “The Gothicized Female Form: A Visual & Textual Representation in Lawrence Durrell’s Balthazar.”
    • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of Belgrade), “Lawrence Durrell in Translation into Serbian.”
    • Isabelle Tassignon-Pierart (University of Namur, Belgium), “Lawrence Durrell & Archaeology.”

10.30 AM – 11.00 AM :: Break.

11.00 AM – 12.30 PM :: ILDS Business Meeting (Large Common Room).

12.30 PM – 2.00 PM :: Break for Lunch (Great Hall).

    • Working Lunches provided for all registered attendees.

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM :: Plenary Session (Large Common Room) :: “Durrell in Context: Interwar Writers & the Cityscape of London.”

    • Leo Mellor (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge).

3.15 PM – 4.15 PM :: Plenary Session (Large Common Room) :: “In the Days of Sappho — Lawrence Durrell’s Plays, 50 Years On.”

4.15 PM – 7.00 PM :: Break.

7.00 PM +  :: The Durrell Centenary Banquet (Great Hall).

    • Special Remarks on Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.
      • James Gifford (President, International Lawrence Durrell Society).
      • Ian S. MacNiven (Past President and Founding Member, International Lawrence Durrell Society).
      • Lee Durrell (Honorary Director, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust).
      • Anthea Morton-Saner (Curtis Brown Group Ltd, retired).
      • Susanna Nicklin (Director of Literature, British Council).
      • Suzanne Joinson (Writer and Literature Adviser, British Council).
    • Keynote Address :: Lawrence Durrell at 100: Durrell & The Novelist’s Art.
      • Christopher Butler (Christ Church, Oxford) :: Keynote.
      • Sandeep Parmar (Clare Hall, Cambridge) :: Respondent.
      • Anthony Hirst (Durrell School of Corfu) :: Respondent.
      • James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver) :: Respondent.
      • James Clawson (Grambling State University) :: Respondent.

DURRELL 2012: REGISTRATION

DURRELL 2012: VENUES

DURRELL 2012: ACCOMMODATIONS