“Earlybird” discount expires 28 Feb for “BORDERS and BORDERLANDS” 20-24 May by the DURRELL LIBRARY OF CORFU

BORDERS & BORDERLANDS

“Earlybird” discount expires 28 February

If you are thinking of enrolling for the symposium “BORDERS and BORDERLANDS” 20-24 May by the DURRELL LIBRARY OF CORFU at the SOLOMOS MUSEUM (by kind permission of the Society of Corfiot Studies)we draw your attention to the “earlybird” discount of 175 euros available until 28 February. (The price after 28 February is 200 euros)


BORDERS and BORDERLANDS” offers an intellectual feast, with speakers from Greece, Turkey, Ireland, India, the UK, the USA, Canada and South Africa.

Keynote speakers

We are especially honoured by our keynote speakers

Blanka Cechova, international jurist and author of Total Balkans, an exposé of the Kosovo situation

Diarmaid Ferriter, author of The Border: the legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics (University College Dublin)

Christian Henderson, Middle East expert and lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands

Gail Holst-Warhaft, specialist in Rebetika and the music of Mikis Theodorakis

Kapka Kassabova, poet and novelist and author of Border: a journey to the edge of Europe

Ian MacNiven, biographer of Lawrence Durell

Hedwig Schwall, Director of the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium

Our discussions will range from politics to psychiatry, from literature to the refugee crisis, the writer-in-exile and aspects of xenophobia

A special feature of “BORDERS and BORDERLANDS” will be a reading of The Poetry of Exile, with poems by Lawrence Durrell, George Seferis, Elie Papdimitrious and Kapka Kassabova

and of course our “Farewll Dinner” (included in the Registration fee, along with all documentation).

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING US FOR THIS EVENT, PLEASE CONTACT US AT:

durrelllibrarycorfu@gmail.com

and we will send you a PayPal invoice for payment by 28 February