{"id":2299,"date":"2025-09-13T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencedurrell.org\/wp_durrell\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:18:42","slug":"omg-xxiii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawrencedurrell.org\/wp_durrell\/omg-xxiii\/","title":{"rendered":"On Miracle Ground XXIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n  \/* Localized styles for this page only *\/\n  p, li {\n    margin-bottom: 1em;\n  }\n  h2 + dl dt {\n    margin-top: 1em;\n  }\n  dl + h2 {\n    margin-top: 2em;\n  }\n  dl dt + dt, dl dd + dt {\n    margin-top: 2em;\n  }\n  dd {\n    margin: 1em;\n  }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div style = \"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.7em;\">Writing Port\/Cities in the Blue Humanities<\/p>\n<p><strong>16&ndash;18 July 2026 \u2013 Vancouver, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Venue: Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver Campus<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-list\" clear=\"both\" style=\"margin-top: 1.4em;\">\n<li><a href=\"cfp\/\">Call for Papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"registration\/\">Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Thursday, 16 July<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>1:00 &#8211; Welcome and Introductions<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pamela J. Francis<\/strong>, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Natchitoches, USA<br \/>Welcome from the ILDS President<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Gifford<\/strong>, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Mercantini<\/strong>, Dean of Becton College of Liberal Arts &#038; Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>1:30-2:30\t&#8211; 1st Keynote Speaker: Ren\u00e9e Sarojini Saklikar (Douglas College, New Westminster)<\/dt>\n<dd>Miracles and Spirits of Place in a Port City &#8211; Speculative Verse\/Fantasy Epic: An Auto-Exegesis on <i>THOT J BAP<\/i> within the Context of Lawrence Durrell and the Blue Humanities<\/dd>\n<dt>2:45-4:15 &#8211; Panel I: The Port City: Networks and Afterlives<\/dt>\n<dd>Chair: <strong>Anne Zahlan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Gifford<\/strong>, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver<br \/>Blue Humanities, Canadian Ecopoetics, and the Legacy of Durrell\u2019s Sea Writings<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Clawson<\/strong>, Independent Researcher, Chicago, USA<br \/>Harbours of Reference: Citation, Affiliation, and the Shape of Durrell Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Syprien Christian Zogo<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Laval, Qu\u00e9bec City, Canada<br \/>Fragmented Ports: Bimbia, Atlantic Archives, and the Afterlives of Oceanic Connection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>6:00-8:00 &#8211; Reception and White Mice Poetry Reading<\/dt>\n<dd>Irish Heather Pub, Chinatown<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>Friday, 17 July<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>9:30-11:00 &#8211; Panel II: Aesthetic Shores of Belonging<\/dt>\n<dd>Chair: <strong>David Melville Wingrove<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Isabelle Keller-Privat<\/strong>, Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s University, France<br \/>Lawrence Durrell\u2019s Port Cities: (Un)Certain Landfalls<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiona Tomkinson<\/strong>, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan<br \/>Sicilian Carousel as Palimpsest and Haibun<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finn Jensen<\/strong>, Independent Researcher, Copenhagen, Denmark<br \/>The Sea \u2014 The Hidden Totality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>11:15-12:15 &#8211; 2nd Second Keynote Speaker: Stephen Collis (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)<\/dt>\n<dd>\u201cA Sphere of Simple Green\u201d: Poetry, Grass, and Abandoned Space<\/dd>\n<dt>Lunch (not provided)<\/dt>\n<dt>1:30-3:00 &#8211; Panel III: Island Labyrinths, Mythologies, and Theories<\/dt>\n<dd>Chair: <strong>Fiona Tomkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Athanasios Dimakis<\/strong>, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece<br \/>Water-Labyrinths and Vanishing Ports: The Floating Anteroom and Inland Cave in Durrell\u2019s Crete<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luca Barbaglia<\/strong>, University of Milan, Italy<br \/><em>The Dark Labyrinth<\/em> and its Umwelten: Lawrence Durrell between Uexk\u00fcll and Object-Oriented Ontology<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Nigel Lloyd<\/strong>, Independent Researcher, Yreka, California, USA<br \/>When There is Veneration Even a Dog\u2019s Tooth Emits Light: A Unified Field Theory of Lawrence Durrell and His Work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>3:00-4:00 &#8211; Business Meeting<\/dt>\n<dt>6:00-9:00 &#8211; Banquet @ Seasons in the Park<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaker: <strong>Indran Amirthanayagam<\/strong>, US Foreign Service (retired)<br \/>Poetry and Diplomacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h2>Saturday, 18 July<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>9:45 &#8211; Welcome<\/dt>\n<dt>10:00-11:30 &#8211; Panel IV: Maritime Bodies: Flesh, Pain, and Erotics<\/dt>\n<dd>Chair: <strong>James Decker<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saul Leslie<\/strong>, Liverpool Hope University, UK<br \/>Bodies of Work: Peasant Remedies and Disability in the Travel Texts<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Melville Wingrove<\/strong>, Independent Researcher, Edinburgh, UK<br \/>\u2018A L\u2019Ear C\u2019est L\u2019Heure!\u2019\u2014The Erotics of the Port City in Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nabil M. 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