The ILDS Executive Board has decided to postpone the conference in Toulouse, France to 2022. But we shall meet before…at least virtually! We invite all ILDS members to join our Zoom meeting on June 24th at 2.30 p.m. (Paris time) for a plenary session. We shall read a few poems by Durrell, listen to our …
Although the 2020 ILDS Conference scheduled to be held in Toulouse, France in late May had to be canceled due to the coronavirus, plans are moving forward for a Durrell-related scholarly panel at the annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. The theme for this year’s panel will be “Modernist Bodies in Sickness …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society’s next biennial conference (our twenty-first!) will take place on May 28-30, 2020 at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès in Toulouse, France. For information about the conference and special events, click here. For the Call for Papers, click here (deadline March 2, 2020). Stay tuned for further details, and make plans to …
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 …
The Herald, [NS 2] has now been published and can be found by clicking here. In this edition we are especially pleased to have a contribution by Françoise Kestsman-Durrell, as well as a lovely article by Noel J. Guckian, former British Ambassador to Oman, 2005-2011 and his long time relationship with Mas Michel — one time …
