During elections at our first-ever virtual meeting of the International Lawrence Durrell Society on June 24, the membership approved the following ILDS Executive Board for 2020-2022: Isabelle Keller-Privat, President; James Decker, Vice President; Paul Lorenz, Secretary-Treasurer; and at-large members Peter Baldwin, Pamela Francis, Steven Moore, David Radavich, and Fiona Tomkinson. Thanks to all these Durrellians …
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 has been postponed from February 2021 to February 2022. Our Durrell-related scholarly panel has likewise been postponed. The theme for this year’s panel was to have been “Modernist Bodies in Sickness and Health.” We plan to revisit this timely topic when circumstances permit.
The newest volume of The Herald has been posted and can be found online here. You’ll want to read this to get the updated information regarding the ILDS ‘On Miracle Ground’ conference which, due to the covid-19 pandemic, was postponed until 2022. Included in this volume is a lengthy eulogy for Michael Haag which was …
The latest issue of The Herald is now available, admirably edited by Peter Baldwin and Steve Moore. As usual, The Herald is chock full of interesting stories and updates about Lawrence Durrell, devoted Durrellians, and the most recent activities of the International Lawrence Durrell Society. To read the new issue, click here.
In Memory and Celebration of Michael Haag I think that most of our readers will have heard about the untimely death of Michael Haag last January. It took but an instant to decide, as editors, that this edition of The Herald should be put over entirely to our memories and celebrations of Michael and his …
As has been the case for many years (decades!), members of the International Lawrence Durrell Society met in Louisville on February 22-23 for the Literature Since 1900 Conference. We held our annual Board meeting – very productive – and attended the Durrell conference session on Saturday. And as usual, we enjoyed two festive repasts – …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society is pleased to announce the publication of the 42nd volume of The Herald. A pdf version of this issue can be viewed and downloaded by clicking here (2.6 MB). Updated information is included on the ‘On Miracle Ground XXI’ conference to be held from May 28 – May 30, 2020, in Toulouse, …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society invites proposals for papers to be presented at On Miracle Ground XXI from 28-30 May 2020 in Toulouse, France. The theme of the conference will be “Mysticism, Heresies, and Heterotopias in the Works of Lawrence Durrell,” but proposals on any topic related to Durrell and his contemporaries are welcomed. For …
The winners of the 2019 White Mice Poetry Contest have been announced! Thanks to our dedicated judges, Julia Hardie Kaczvinsky, Julie Kane, and Dianne Vipond, who managed to read over 100 submissions. The theme for the 2019 contest was “The Heavens,” in anticipation of the International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference to be held in May …
