On Miracle Ground XXIII

Venue: Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver Campus

• Call for Papers
• Registration

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Thursday, 16 July

1:00 – Welcome and Introductions

• Pamela J. Francis, Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Natchitoches, USA
  Welcome from the ILDS President
• James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver
• Jonathan Mercantini, Dean of Becton College of Liberal Arts & Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver

1:30-2:30 – 1st Keynote Speaker: Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Douglas College, New Westminster)

Miracles and Spirits of Place in a Port City – Speculative Verse/Fantasy Epic: An Auto-Exegesis on THOT J BAP within the Context of Lawrence Durrell and the Blue Humanities

2:45-4:15 – Panel I: The Port City: Networks and Afterlives

Chair: Anne Zahlan

• James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver
  Blue Humanities, Canadian Ecopoetics, and the Legacy of Durrell’s Sea Writings
• James Clawson, Independent Researcher, Chicago, USA
  Harbours of Reference: Citation, Affiliation, and the Shape of Durrell Studies
• Syprien Christian Zogo, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
  Fragmented Ports: Bimbia, Atlantic Archives, and the Afterlives of Oceanic Connection

6:00-8:00 – Reception and White Mice Poetry Reading

Irish Heather Pub, Chinatown

Friday, 17 July

9:30-11:00 – Panel II: Aesthetic Shores of Belonging

Chair: David Melville Wingrove

• Isabelle Keller-Privat, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France
  Lawrence Durrell’s Port Cities: (Un)Certain Landfalls
• Fiona Tomkinson, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan
  Sicilian Carousel as Palimpsest and Haibun
• Finn Jensen, Independent Researcher, Copenhagen, Denmark
  The Sea — The Hidden Totality

11:15-12:15 – 2nd Second Keynote Speaker: Stephen Collis (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)

“A Sphere of Simple Green”: Poetry, Grass, and Abandoned Space

Lunch (not provided)

1:30-3:00 – Panel III: Island Labyrinths, Mythologies, and Theories

Chair: Fiona Tomkinson

• Athanasios Dimakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  Water-Labyrinths and Vanishing Ports: The Floating Anteroom and Inland Cave in Durrell’s Crete
• Luca Barbaglia, University of Milan, Italy
  The Dark Labyrinth and its Umwelten: Lawrence Durrell between Uexküll and Object-Oriented Ontology
• David Nigel Lloyd, Independent Researcher, Yreka, California, USA
  When There is Veneration Even a Dog’s Tooth Emits Light: A Unified Field Theory of Lawrence Durrell and His Work

3:00-4:00 – Business Meeting

6:00-9:00 – Banquet @ Seasons in the Park

• Speaker: Indran Amirthanayagam, US Foreign Service (retired)
  Poetry and Diplomacy

Saturday, 18 July

9:45 – Welcome

10:00-11:30 – Panel IV: Maritime Bodies: Flesh, Pain, and Erotics

Chair: James Decker

• Saul Leslie, Liverpool Hope University, UK
  Bodies of Work: Peasant Remedies and Disability in the Travel Texts
• David Melville Wingrove, Independent Researcher, Edinburgh, UK
  ‘A L’Ear C’est L’Heure!’—The Erotics of the Port City in Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet
• Nabil M. Abdel-Al, Independent Researcher, New York, USA
  Alexandria: a “Capital of Memory” for Characters in Ferment with its Watery Symbolism and Coastal Landscape in Clea

11:45-12:30 – In Conversation with Saul Leslie

A Working Title I Want to Change

Lunch on way to gallery

3:00-5:00 – Vancouver Art Gallery

That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Ideal of Nature

Sunday, 19 July (Postconference)

10:00 – Sun Yat Sen Gardens (included)

Afternoon – Whale Watching (optional)