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On Miracle Ground XV

On Miracle Ground XV "Lawrence Durrell at the Crossroads of Arts and Science"


 La Conférence internationale Lawrence Durrell, On Miracle Ground XV "Lawrence Durrell at the Crossroads of Arts and Science" se tiendra en salle des conférences, Bâtiment B, à l'Université Paris-X du 1er au 5 juillet.

Programme:

Conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society organized by the Research Center « Espaces/Ecritures » : Bibliothèque Durrell Université Paris X

Salle des Conférences, Bâtiment B

Tuesday 1st, Wednesday 2nd, Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th July Université de Paris X Salle des Conférences – Bât. B

Guest of honour  : Penelope Durrell-Hope

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Tuesday, July 1st

8h30 : registration

The Arts Of Politics

9h Introduction- Corinne Alexandre-Garner

9h20 Donald Kaczvinsky- From Alexandria, With Love: Durrell and the Spy Novel, Or Durrell in Bondage.

9h40 James Clawson – “Better leave the rest unsaid”: Denial and Exile in Durrell, Seferis and Cyprus.

10h Barbara Papastavrou –Koroniotakis Lawrence Durrell à la croisée de l'art et de la politique - Le séjour en Egypte (1941-1945) : ombre et lumière

Discussion

10h30 Coffee break

The Villa Seurat Circle

 

11-12h Guest speaker -Penelope Durrell-Hope

12h James Gifford – Reconstructing the Villa Seurat Network: Anarcho-Surrealist Activity 1935-60.

12h20 Paul Herron – Miller's input in Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice and the Villa Seurat Circle 12h40 Anna Lillios - A Retrospective View of the Life and Works of Lawrence Durrell."

13h Jane Eblen Keller- To Live or Die in Paris? How American Writers Changed Their Minds

Discussion

13h30 Lunch

ATERNOON EVENTS AND EXCURSIONS

Guided tour, literary and artistic Paris in the thirties: Montparnasse, Villa Seurat, ...

EVENING

 

19 h Performance of Sappho at the Theatre BMK,bâtiment L, Nanterre

20h Cocktail Party, Espace Reverdy, bâtiment L

Wednesday, July 2nd

Writers at the Crossroads

 

9h Nabil Abdel Al - Diplomacy Wedged between the Hammer of Durrell and the Anvil of Forster.

9h20 Daniel Kempton – Petrarch and Sade : Le cercle refermé.

9h40 Gulshan Taneja – An Indian View of an Indian View : Durrell's India.

10h Ian Mac Niven- The Moral Durrell.

Discussion

10h30 Coffee break

11h H.R. Stoneback- To Tune in Idly: Place and Landscape, Nature and Attention, Science and Art in Adlington, Durrell and Pound.

11h20 Matthew Nickel- At the Crossroads of Mysticism with Durrell and Stoneback : Questing After the Deus Loci into the Twenty-first Century.

The Durrell Archives in Europe

 

12h Rachel Foss Presenting the Durrell Archive in the British Library

12h20 Sarah Varron Presenting the Durrell Archive in the Durrell Library

13h30 Lunch in Nanterre

Presentation of Frédéric-Jacques Temple's film on Lawrence Durrell

AFTERNOON EVENTS AND EXCURSIONS

Musée Guimet

Institut du Monde Arabe

Thursday, July 3rd

Session 1 : Reassessing the Quintet

 

9h Grace Austin- Reality prime : Durrell's own critique of the Avignon Quintet.

9h20 Ravindran Nambiar –Affad as a Contemplative Scientist

9h40 Dianne Vipond – Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet : A Key to Achievement in Postmodern

Fiction.

10h Zahlan Anne- Collaboration and Resistance in Lawrence Durrell's Constance

Session 2 : Reassessing the Quartet

 

9h Kerrianne Pearson. – Art, Mirrors and Authenticity in Lawrence Durrell's Justine

9h20 Khalil Mohamed –Alexandria between Lawrence Durrell and Naguib Mahfouz

9h40 Alice Bayley Cheylan- Allusions to and illusions of the mirage, memory, and mirror found in Balthazar

10h Pierre Grou- Le Quatuor à la lumière de la relativité

Discussion

10h30 Coffee break

Poetry and Music

 

11h Fiona Tomkinson – Durrell's Poem in Space and Time at the Crossroads of the Arts and the Sciences: Crossroads.

11h20 Cécile Oumhani - Monsieur: writing a spiritual quest with a painter's eye

11h40 Nathalie Vincent Arnaud – « This music settling like white-hot steel » : music and transmutation in Lawrence Durrell's The Black Book and Anaïs Nin's Cities of the Interior.

Discussion

13h30 Lunch in Nanterre

AFTERNOON EVENTS AND EXCURSIONS

14h30 Cristina Delume et Bernard Wystraete :Musical creation « Swing between the lines » at the conference site

Business meeting ot the ILDS after the performance

Cité des sciences at La Vilette

Free evening

Friday, July 4th

Science and Fiction

 

9h John U Peters- "No Man's Land:Durrell Between Literature and Science"

9h20 Brien Williams – The City as a Cognitive Model – Computational Reading(s) of The Alexandria Quartet

9h40 Richard Hood – Anti-thesis : Durrell, Dialectic and the Thought-Experiment in The Alexandria Quartet

10h30 Coffee break

11h Sophie Haberbusch- The situation of “Out of Text” in Lawrence Durrell

11h20 Claudine Brelet – Durrell and Medecine.

11h40 Michel Engel and Corinne Alexandre-Garner- Where has Freud's old couch gone?.

12h Paul Lorenz – Not Science but the Poetry of Science in Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet

Discussion

Lunch at the Procope

AFTERNOON EVENTS AND EXCURSIONS

Musée d'Orsay

Free evening

Saturday, July 5 th

Visit to Giverny

Cruise-dinner on the Seine

Modérateurs

Clarisse Zimra ; Isabelle Keller Privat  ; Murielle Philippe ; Cornelius Crowley

 


Colloque organisé avec l'aide:

The International Lawrence Durrell Society

De l'UFR d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines,

Du Centre de Recherches d'Etudes Anglophones (CREA),

De l'Ecole Doctorale de Lettres, Langues et Spectacles

Université Paris X-Nanterre

200, avenue de la République

92001 Nanterre Cedex

01 40 97 71 71