{"id":567,"date":"2016-05-15T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencedurrell.org\/wp_durrell\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2016-05-24T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:12:13","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawrencedurrell.org\/wp_durrell\/omg-xix\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG XIX &#8211; Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"programming\">\n<div id=\"coin-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lawrencedurrell.org\/wp_durrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/6786794785_6acfa84f3e_o-300x279.png\"><\/div>\n<h1>Threading the Labyrinth:<\/br> World War II in the Greek World<\/h1>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">On Miracle Ground XIX: A Conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society<\/br><br \/>\nRethymnon, Crete<\/br><br \/>\n26&ndash;30 June 2016\n<\/div>\n<h2>Sunday, June 26<\/h2>\n<section class=\"earlydays\">\n<h3>Exhibition (4:00&ndash;6:00)<\/h3>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">The Alexandria Quartet: An Exhibition of Paintings by <span class=\"presenter\">Andreas Georgiadis<\/span>, Based on the Work of Lawrence Durrell<\/span> Carob Mill Cultural Center, Panormo, Rethymno, T.K. 74057-Tel.: 2810 228 723 <\/br> (Inclusive Dates of Exhibition: 10 June&ndash;3 July 2016)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"earlydays\">\n<h3>Welcome Gathering (6:30&ndash;8:00PM)<\/h3>\n<p>Cash bar with light appetizers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primaplora.gr\">Prima Plora Restaurant<\/a>, Rethymnon<\/br>Akrotiriou 8, Rethymno 741 00. Phone: +30 2831 056990<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<h2>Monday, June 27<\/h2>\n<section class=\"earlydays\">\n<h3>Registration (9:00&ndash;1:00)<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"earlydays\">\n<h3>Welcome (9:15&ndash;45; University of Crete, Auditorium A)<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"presenter\">Linda S. Rashidi<\/span>, President, International Lawrence Durrell Society<\/br> <span class=\"presenter\">Anna Lillios<\/span>, Chair of the OMG XIX Conference Organizing Committee<\/br> <span class=\"presenter\">Lucia Athanassaki<\/span>, Dean, Division of Classical Studies, University of Crete<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Three Keynote Addresses (9:45&ndash;12:00)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Presiding: Linda S. Rashidi <span class=\"affiliation\">Mansfield University of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"presenter\">Michael Haag<\/span> &#x201c;Setting the Scene&#x201d;<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"presenter\">Ian S. MacNiven<\/span> &#x201c;Climax in Crete: A Personal Narrative&#x201d;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"presenter\">Chris White<\/span> &#x201c;The Kreipe Kidnap&#x201d;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"stage\">Lunch on Campus (12:00&ndash;1:15)<\/div>\n<section>\n<h3>Session I (1:15&ndash;2:35)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: James M. Clawson <span class=\"affiliation\">Grambling State University<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Durrell and World War II<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Anna Lillios<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">University of Central Florida<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Lawrence Durrell and His Literary Circle: Archiving the World War II Experience in Greece<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Martha Klironomos<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">San Francisco State University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#8216;The beautiful island lies \/ wounded and bleeding, the calm island, the strong&#8217;: The Battle of Crete and the Violence of Memory in the Poetry of George Seferis and Lawrence Durrell<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Brian Sneeden<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">University of Connecticut<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session II (2:45&ndash;3:30)<\/h3>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Durrell as Poet and Inspiration: Poetry by Durrell and White Mice Contest Winners<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Michael Colonnese<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Methodist University<\/span>; <span class=\"presenter\">David Radavich<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Eastern Illinois University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"stage\">Break (3:30&ndash;3:50)<\/div>\n<section>\n<h3>Session III (3:50&ndash;5:15)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Pamela J. Francis <span class=\"affiliation\">Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#8216;Enter the dark crystal if you dare&#8217;: Greece in Lawrence Durrell&#8217;s Lyric Poems<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Fiona Tomkinson<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Yeditepe University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#8216;Lawrence Durrell&#8217;s Mediterranean Hinterland: The Secret Flow of the Poet&#8217;s Heraldic Universe<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Isabelle Keller-Privat<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Universit&eacute; Toulouse I&ndash;Jean Jaur&egrave;s<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">The House as Axis Mundi on the Durrells&#8217; Island of Corfu<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Dan H. Popescu<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Partium Christian University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<h2>Tuesday, June 28<\/h2>\n<section>\n<h3>Tour of World War II Sites<\/h3>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">In the Footsteps of Leigh Fermor: The General Kreipe Abduction Route, Allied Secret Services, The Resistance<\/span> Conducted by <span class=\"presenter\">Costas Mamalakis<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">formerly of the Historical Museum of Crete<\/span>; Assisted by <span class=\"presenter\">Chris White<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"stage\">(The tour begins in Rethymnon; lunch is not provided.)<\/div>\n<h2>Wednesday, June 29<\/h2>\n<section>\n<h3>Session IVA (9:15&ndash;10:30, Room 1)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Helen Wussow<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">How the Scene Has Been Created by Modern Writers from Ted Hughes to Hasegawa Kai: Their \tObjective Motive Related to Local Myth and Their Subjective Perspective Related to Non-stereotypical Explanations of Nature<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Keiko Tawa<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Poet Laureate Study Japan<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Lawrence Durrell&#8217;s Convergence with the Cretan Landscape: An Issue of Translatability<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Nabil M. Abdel-Al<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">United Nations<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session IVB (9:15&ndash;10:30, Room 2)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Lisa Honaker <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">A Private Individual Without Concern for Policy: Durrell as a British Official, According to the <i>Times of Cyprus<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Ciara Barrick<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">European University Cyprus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">More Bitter Lemons: George Tardios&#8217;s Poem &#8216;After the Lemons&#8217; and Nora Nadjarian&#8217;s Short Story &#8216;Lemons&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Petra Tournay-Theodotou<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">European University Cyprus<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Pope Joan on Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service: Lawrence Durrell in Cyprus in 1953&ndash;56<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Panaiotis Gerontopoulos<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"stage\">Break (10:30&ndash;10:45)<\/div>\n<section>\n<h3>Session VA (10:45&ndash;12:00, Room 1)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: William Apt<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">RECEPTION (or rather non-reception) of Lawrence Durrell in Slovenia<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Marjeta Gostincar Cerar<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Association of Slovene Literary Translators<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">The Platonic Background of Durrell&#8217;s <i>The Dark Labyrinth<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Michael Paschalis<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">University of Crete<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Data as Labyrinth: Reading Durrell with Charlock&#8217;s Machine<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">James M. Clawson<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Grambling State University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session VB (10:45&ndash;12:00, Room 2)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Anne R. Zahlan <span class=\"affiliation\">Eastern Illinois University<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Parallel Lives \/ Parallel Texts: Plutarch and <i>The Alexandria Quartet<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Helen Wussow<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#8216;The Seductive Spectacle&#8217;: Durrell&#8217;s Justine Caught Between Queen and Cyborg<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Umme Al-wazedi<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Augustana College<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">The Vertiginous Musk of Modernity: Desire and Politics in Lawrence Durrell<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Izaak Hecht<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"stage\">Lunch on campus (12:00&ndash;1:15)<\/div>\n<section>\n<h3>ILDS Business Meeting (1:15&ndash;1:55, Room 1)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Linda S. Rashidi presiding<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session VIA (2:00&ndash;3:15, Room 1)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Sheila Garland<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Henry Miller on Crete<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Finn Jensen<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Copenhagen University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Henry Miller&#8217;s Writing on Crete and the Cretan Authors<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Diego Delgado Duatis<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Universitat Rovira i Virgili<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Bergson and Odysseus Toss Back a Few: Kazantzakis&#8217;s Cretan Peasants<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Pamela J. Francis<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session VIB (2:00&ndash;3:15, Room 2)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Martha Klironomos <span class=\"affiliation\">San Francisco State University<\/span><\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Monty Woodhouse&#8217;s World War II Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">David Roessel<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span> and <span class=\"presenter\">Naijasia Thomas<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">The Un-experience of War and Revolution in PH Newby&#8217;s Mediterranean Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Lisa Honaker<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Labyrinths of Language and Love: A Consideration of Lawrence Durrell and Elena Ferrante<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Candace Fertile<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Camosun College<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Session VII (3:20&ndash;4:40, Room 1)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"moderator\">Moderator: Grace Austin<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Fernando Pessoa and <i>The Avignon Quintet<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Paul H. Lorenz<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Writing History in Fiction: World War II and Nazism in <i>The Avignon Quintet<\/i><\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Corinne Alexandre-Garner<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Universit&eacute; Paris&ndash;Ouest<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Letters from Paris and Thessaloniki: The Borrowed Identity of Lawrence Durrell as a Container for Post-Holocaust Memories<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Rony Alfandary<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Bar Ilan University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>Wednesday Evening, June 29<\/h3>\n<div id=\"banquet\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">On Miracle Ground XIX Conference Banquet<\/h3>\n<p class=\"stage\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melina-rethymno.gr\/en\/\">Melina Restaurant<\/a> at the Old Fort in Rethymnon<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Welcome and Presentation of Officers<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Linda S. Rashidi<\/span>, President, The International Lawrence Durrell Society<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Commemoration of the Anniversary of On Miracle Ground IX and a Tribute to Soad Sobhy<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Ian S. MacNiven<\/span>, Former President, The International Lawrence Durrell Society<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#x201c;Swimming Near El-Alamein&#x201d;<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">David Radavich<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Eastern Illinois University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#x201c;Durrell in Alexandria, 1996: In Words and Pictures&#x201d;<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Dr. Galal Aref<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">&#x201c;Ill Met by Moonlight&#x201d;<\/span> A Presentation by <span class=\"presenter\">Gabriella Bullock<\/span> and <span class=\"presenter\">Hugh Bullock<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Dramatic Performance of Stories by Nasos Vayenas and Yiorgos Philippou-Pierides<br \/>\n<\/span> Moderated by <span class=\"presenter\">David Roessel<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span>; Performed by <span class=\"presenter\">Jade Fleming<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span> and <span class=\"presenter\">Stephanie Maniaci<\/span> <span class=\"affiliation\">Stockton University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<p><span class=\"title\">Farewells<\/span> <span class=\"presenter\">Anna Lillios<\/span> and <span class=\"presenter\">James M. 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