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2009 - Summer Seminars
The Garden of the Gods: here
24-29 May 2009
Cultural Collisions: here
31 May-5 June 2009
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.
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.
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: here.
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
included Joseph Boone, 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.
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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).
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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.
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contact: durrells@otenet.gr
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