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Symposium
For a copy of the original Call for Papers for the Symposium, please see
here.
Corfu's Asian Art Museum
The Durrell School of Corfu opens each annual session with a
symposium that examines themes of importance to the Durrells
and to our world. The first symposium in 2002 took
"Understanding Misunderstanding" as its central theme and it
included distinguished leaders in politics, economics, the arts
and environmental studies among its participants.
Keynote speakers in 2004 include: Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak,
Columbia University professor and cultural theorist; Lee Durrell
from the Durrell World Wildlife Trust; and David Bellamy,
internationally acclaimed ecologist and botanist.
Previous participants have included: John Brandon of the Asia
Foundation; Elemer Hankiss, dean of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences; Marwan Bishara from the American Univerisity of Paris;
and the environmentalist David Bellamy.
The Venetian Winged Lion
CORFU IS BEAUTIFUL, AFFORDABLE AND SAFE!!
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SYMPOSIUM: GLOBALISATION & NATIONALISM
Following the success of its 2002 and 2003 summer sessions, the
Durrell School of Corfu will open its 2004 program (June 13-25)
with a two-day symposium on
Globalisation and Nationalism
(June 13-14, 2004)
Symposium participants include:
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Lynne Alice (Deakin University, Australia)
:: "The Planet Dreaming: Deadlands, Destiny and Desire"
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Josephine Huang (State University of New York, Albany)
:: "The Deformed Policing in Double Vision (2002): This Name, This Body"
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Helen Kapstein (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York)
:: "War-Watching: Global Tourism and the Problem of National Form"
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Robert Lopez (Rutger's Univervsity, New Jersey)
:: "The Child as a License to Globalise"
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Ruth Lysaght (Trinity College, Dublin)
:: "A Pip in the Core - Irish Language Cinema in a Global Context"
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Mijong Lopez Park (State University of New York, Buffalo)
:: "A Global City Interrupted: Womanhood, the Global Ethic and the City of Incheon in Korean Literature and Film"
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Kathryn Radford (University of Montreal)
:: "The Language of Globalisation"
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Amy Staniforth (University of Birmingham, UK)
:: "Human Origins and African Nationalism: National Geographic's Africa, 1959-1961"
Gayatri Spivak and Lee Durrell will will address the Symposium and
participate in the Durrell School of Corfu session that follows.
For further information, please contact the symposium moderator:
Dr. Brewster Chamberlin
POB 490
Key West Florida 33041
USA
E-mail: smithchamberlin@aol.com
The Durrell School of Corfu offers the adventurous and enquiring mind a
route to greater understanding of the global environment and the modern
world, with its roots in Mediterranean culture, in the temperate and
welcoming atmosphere of the beautiful Greek island of Corfu, deep in the
blue Ionian Sea.
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