1 Sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society And
1 Sponsored by The International Lawrence Durrell Society and Louisiana Tech University Provisional Program Schedule Wednesday, July 7, 2010 (7-9pm) Informal reception at the Carousel Bar in the Hotel Monteleone Thursday, 8 July Registration—8:00 (and continuing throughout the day) Welcome (8:45-9:00): —Don Kaczvinsky, President Session I (9:00—10:45) “Owed to America: Durrell, New Orleans, and the American Experience” – Chair, Don Kaczvinsky 1 "Of Oysters, Watermelon, Rice, and Thyme: Food Imagery in the Alexandria Quartet and the Historical Cuisines of Alexandria and New Orleans"—Merianne Timko (Houston, Texas) 2. "Historical Fiction at Its Best: The Landscape and Mores of Durrell's Alexandria and Frank Yerby's New Orleans"--Normajean MacLeod (Nashville, Indiana) 2 Thursday, 8 July, Session I (continued) 3. "Reverie of Utopia and Actuality in the City: The Cases of Justine and Blanche DuBois"—Michiko Kawano (Bukkyo University) 4. "'Where the blue Algonquin flows': Durrell and the American Environment"—Donald P. Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University) Plenary Session I (11:00-12:00) Alan Friedman (University of Texas) Lunch Break Session IIA (1:30-2:45) “Cityscapes of Modernism” – Chair, Charles Sligh 1. "'Roses, faeces and vampires': The Carnivalesque in Durrell"—Fiona Tomkinson (Yeditepe University, Istanbul) 2. "The Landscape of War, part 1: London, 1939-1941"-- Pamela J. Francis (Rice University) 3. "Anarchism and Poetics in Late Modernism: Paris, Cairo, San Francisco, London"—James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver) Session IIB (1:30-2:45) “City Spaces and Urban Places” – Chair, Anne Zahlan 1. "'The City Begins and Ends in Us': Durrell's City as Interior Space"—Linda Stump Rashidi (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania) 2.
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