DURRELL 2012 THE LAWRENCE DURRELL CENTENARY 13 – 16 JUNE 2012 GOODENOUGH COLLEGE THE BRITISH LIBRARY LONDON Greek Village Cover Art for SONGS ABOUT GREECE [Jupiter Recordings :: 1964] Oscar Epfs [Lawrence Durrell] DURRELL 2012 :: THE LAWRENCE DURRELL CENTENARY Lawrence George Durrell Born :: 27 February 1912 :: Jalandhar Died :: 7 November 1990 :: Sommières WEDNESDAY, 13 JUNE 2012 THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012 6.30 PM 8.00 AM (All Day) Special Exhibition & Opening Reception Conference Registration (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College) The Gallery @ Foyles Books 113-119 Charing Cross Road Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule Evening free 8.30 AM :: Welcome / Opening Remarks “The agon then. It begins. Today there is a (Large Common Room) gale blowing up from the Levant… The James Gifford President, International Lawrence winter Ionian has lapsed back into its Durrell Society original secrecy…” 1 THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012 (Cont’d) IIb (Small Common Room) Chair: William L. Godshalk (University of 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions Cincinnati) Ia (Large Common Room) • Aba-Carina Parlog (West University of Chair: James Clawson, (Grambling State Timisoara, Romania), “Lawrence Durrell’s University) Elusive Narratives: The Alexandrian Universe” • Amber Rose (Independent Scholar), • Anna Lillios (University of Central Florida), “Unraveling the Human Chessboard of The “The Essence of Englishness in Lawrence Alexandria Quartet” Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet” • Barry Fruchter (Nassau Community College), “Mountolive: Nostalgia for the First Time” 12.15 PM – 1.00 PM :: Break for Lunch • Julia Gordon-Bramer (Lindenwood University), (Great Hall) “‘A Secret’ Well-Kept: Sylvia Plath’s Tribute to Working Lunches provided for registered attendees Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet” Ib (Small Common Room) 1.00 PM – 2.30 PM :: Parallel Sessions Chair: James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University) IIIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Anne R. Zahlan (Eastern Illinois • Helen Wussow (Simon Fraser University), University) “Sexual Tourism in Homer & Durrell” • Michael Heinze (Heinrich Heine University, • Dianne Vipond (California State University, Duesseldorf), “Greeks, Italians, and Turks: Long Beach), “Exploring the Uncanny in Multicultural Post-War Rhodes through the Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet.” Eyes of Lawrence Durrell” • James Clawson (Grambling State University), • Petra Tournay-Theodotou (European “Bravedent! Contextualizing the Uncanny.” University Cyprus), “The Empire Writes Back: • Alice Cheylan (Université du Sud Toulon- Two Counter-Discursive Responses to Var), “Translation or Creation: Lawrence Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons – Costas Durrell’s Use of French in The Avignon Quintet” Montis’s Closed Doors and Rodis Roufos’s The Age of Bronze” IIIb (Small Common Room) Chair: Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University) 10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Sessions • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of IIa (Large Common Room) Belgrade), “Lawrence Durrell’s Humour in the Chair: Dianne Vipond (California State Antrobus Stories” University, Long Beach) • Ravi Nambiar (Independent Scholar), “J. Krishnamurthi in Durrell’s Works: A Critical • Linda Rashidi (Mansfield University of Study” Pennsylvania), “The Black Book as Starter Novel” • Richard August (University of Manchester), “Arguments Over ‘Everything’: Lawrence Durrell & The London Psychogeographical “All our religions falter, you Tradition” remain, small sunburnt deus loci…” • Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), “The Metamorphosis of London in the Writing of Lawrence Durrell” 2 2.45 PM – 4.00 PM :: Special Session FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2012 IV (Large Common Room) 8.30 AM (All Day) Chair: Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Conference Registration (Vestibule, London Chattanooga) House, Goodenough College) • James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University), Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule “Durrell’s Shadow from Cairo to California: English Surrealism’s Cult of Sex & Anarchy” 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions • Fiona Tomkinson (Yeditepe University), “The Va (Large Common Room) Subtlest Maze, or Durrell’s Labyrinths” Chair: James Clawson (Grambling State University) • William L. Godshalk (University of Cincinnati), “Lawrence Durrell & Francis J. Mott” • Rony Alfandary (Bar Ilan University, Israel), “The City of Alexandria as a Metaphor for Durrell’s Internalized Mother” 4.15 PM – 5.00 PM :: Plenary Session • G.R. Taneja (University of Delhi), “The City (Large Common Room) & its Metaphors: The Urban Space in Durrell” • Souad Baghli-Berbar (University Abou Bakr • Corinne Alexandre-Garner (Université Paris Belkaid, Algeria), “From Reality to Myth: Ouest Nanterre) & Isabelle Keller-Privat Alexandria in Lawrence Durrell’s Justine” (Université de Toulouse II), “Manufacturing Dreams – Lawrence Durrell’s Fiction Revisited Vb (Small Common Room) Through Chirico’s Metaphysical Paintings” Chair: Charles Sligh (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) 5.15 PM – 6.00 PM :: Plenary Session • Peter Baldwin (Independent Publisher), (Large Common Room) “Certain Landfalls: Rare Inscriptions by Lawrence Durrell” • Anthony Hirst (Durrell School of Corfu), • Stela Ghetie (École Mondiale World School, “Einstein or Escher? – Whose ‘Relativity’ Really Mumbai), “I do not love thee with mine eyes...” Informs The Alexandria Quartet?” • Merrianne Timko (Independent Culinary Historian), “Lawrence Durrell & Elizabeth David: A Culinary Friendship” 6.00 PM – 7.15 PM :: Break 10.45 AM – 12.15 PM :: Parallel Sessions 7.15 PM + :: Keynote Addresses (Large Common Room) VIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Paul Lorenz (University of Arkansas at “Lawrence Durrell at 100: Durrell & The Pine Bluff) Biographer’s Art” • Ian S. MacNiven • Michael Haag • Nicoletta Demetriou (St. Antony’s College, • Joanna Hodgkin • Eleni Verhagen Oxford) “Looking for Lawrence Durrell in Cyprus” • Inna Savelyeva (Moscow Regional State Evening Free Institute for Humanities & Social Studies), “D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Durrell, & John “Telling of the concerns of time, Fowles: British Islomania” The knife of feeling in the art of love…” • Niki Marangou (Independent Writer), “Round About Durrell in Cyprus” (cont’d page over…) 3 VIb (Small Common Room) 4.15 PM – 5.15 PM :: Publishing Durrell Chair: David Radavich (Eastern Illinois Chairs: Corinne Alexandre-Garner & Isabelle University) Keller-Privat • Monika Fiedler (Professor Emerita, Humboldt • Anthea Morton-Saner • Peggy Fox Universität zu Berlin), “Researching Lawrence • Beatrice Commengé • Anna Davis Durrell & Egypt From Behind the Wall” • Georges Hoffman • Marc Parent • Michiko Kawano (retired, Bukkyo University), • Peter Baldwin “Romantic Durrell, Dramatized Sappho” • David Radavich (Eastern Illinois University), “A Celebration of Durrellian Poetry (Open Reading)” 5.15 PM – 6.30 PM :: Break 12.15 PM – 1.30 PM :: Break for Lunch 6.30 PM – 8.00 PM :: Lawrence Durrell in 2012 (Great Hall) Reach Upwards to the Affirming Sun Working Lunches provided for registered attendees Chair: Simon Ings Move to The British Library Conference Centre • Nicoletta Demetriou • Simon Ings for Afternoon & Evening Events Joanna Hodgkin Andrew McKie • • “Water limps on ice, or scribbles On doors of sand its syllables…” Evening free “Four small nouns I put to pasture, Lambs of cloud on a green paper…” 1.30 PM – 1.40 PM :: Welcome & Introduction Durrell 2012 :: Lawrence Durrell at the British Library :: An Afternoon of Archival Talks & Discussion Panels SATURDAY, 16 JUNE 2012 • Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary 8.00 AM (Until Noon) :: Registration Manuscripts, British Library) (Vestibule, London House, Goodenough College) Coffee & Tea provided in vestibule 1.40 PM – 2.15 PM :: An Introduction Durrell Audio Collections in the British Library 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM :: Parallel Sessions VIIa (Large Common Room) Chair: Pamela J. Francis (Rice University). 3.30 PM – 4.00 PM :: Drop-in Sessions • Martha Klironomos (San Francisco State University), “Travel Practices, Writing, & 3.15 PM – 4.15 PM :: Archives Panel Photography: Comparing the Works of Patrick Chair: Rachel Foss (Curator of Modern Literary Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell” Manuscripts, British Library) • Marc Woodworth (Skidmore College), “Fiding Kovecses: An Open Letter to Patrick • Université Paris Ouest Nanterre (Corinne Leigh Fermor” Alexandre-Garner) • Dan Popescu (Partium Christian University, • Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Romania), “‘In Clashing Hues’: Images of the Carbondale (Ian MacNiven & Charles Sligh) Gypsies in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the • Faber Archive (Robert Brown) Woods & the Water” (cont’d page over…) 4 VIIb (Small Common Room) 4.15 PM – 7.00 PM :: Break Chair: Don Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University) 7.00 PM + :: The Durrell Centenary Banquet • Allyson Kreuiter (University of South Africa), (Great Hall) “The Gothicized Female Form: A Visual & Textual Representation in Durrell’s Balthazar” Special Remarks on Durrell 2012: The • Biljana Djoric Francuski (University of Belgrade), Lawrence Durrell Centenary “Lawrence Durrell in Translation into Serbian” • Isabelle Tassignon-Pierart (University of • James Gifford (President, International Namur, Belgium), “Lawrence Durrell & Lawrence Durrell Society) Archaeology” • Ian S. MacNiven (Past President & Founding Member, International Lawrence Durrell Society) • Lee Durrell (Honorary Director, Durrell 10.30 AM – 11.00 AM :: Break Wildlife Conservation Trust) • Anthea Morton-Saner (Curtis Brown Group “Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the Ltd,