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THE DURRELL SCHOOL OF CORFU

Symposium "The Amateur Naturalist"
Lectures, discussions, field classses
14-19 September 2008.

Information: here
Poster: here

2008 - Calls for Papers

An Investigation of Modern Love: here
18-23 May 2008

Travel Writing: here
(seminar and writing week)
1-6 June 2008

Corfu is a crossroads of the Mediterranean, and the Durrell School of Corfu offers adventurous minds a learning environment steeped in history and cultural variety. The interdisciplinary faculty and unique location of the School offer a diversity of learning not available elsewhere.

2004 Annual Report here

To receive more information on the Durrell School of Corfu or to be added to our mailing list, just send an email to durrells@otenet.gr. If you would like to receive information by mail, please include your postal address.

There are a limited number of partial scholarships available to students in financial need.

The Durrell School of Corfu offers a variety of activities, ranging from a series week-long seminars to excursions that explore the rich cultural history of the Mediterranean basin. Past and future field classes include Butrint (Albania), Old Perithia (Corfu), Lia (mainland Greece) and Kalami (Corfu) as well as walking tours of historic Corfu Town and its colonial architecture.

Moderators and Distinguished Visiting Writers for 2008 will include Joseph Boone, Shere Hite, Jan Morris, and Mark Morris.

The DSC is pleased to announce its recent participation in the naming of the "Bosketto Durrell" and the unveiling of a plaque commemorating Lawrence Durrell and Gerald Durrell, "writers and Philhellenes" who lived in Corfu 1935-1939.

Lawrence Durrell (1912-90) was one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. In addition to being a significant poet, dramatist, and travel writer, he wrote The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60), which changed the direction of the modern novel, The Avignon Quintet (1975-85), which achieved a synthesis of Western narrative style and Eastern philosophy, and his personal evocation of Corfu, Prospero's Cell (1945).

Gerald Durrell (1925-95) was the founder of the Jersey Zoological Park (1959). He became a leading expert and activist in the breeding of animals in danger of extinction in their natural habitat. A humorous and persuasive writer and broadcaster, he popularized his work with books such as A Zoo in my Luggage (1960). His own account of growing up in Corfu, My Family and Other Animals (1956) was the subject of a BBC drama series in the 1980s.

CORFU IS BEAUTIFUL, AFFORDABLE AND SAFE!!

contact: durrells@otenet.gr