The Durrell School of Corfu (http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org) is hosting a week-long "seminar" (conference), on "Cultural Collisions: Culture, Society and the State", 31 May to 5 June 2009. The seminar will be based in the Durrell School's Headquarters in the old centre of Corfu town. The topic allows plenty of scope for submissions on Modern Greek themes. For general information about the Durrell School go to http://www.durrell-school-corfu.org.

Cultural Collisions: Culture, Society and the State,

31 May – 5 June, 2009
Corfu, Greece
The Durrell School of Corfu, a centre of academic excellence and an international research network, will host ‘Cultural Collisions,’ an international seminar, at its Library and Study Centre, 31 May – 5 June, 2009. Dr. Mustafa B. Marrouchi, Rogers Fellow in Post-colonial Literature at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, will serve as keynote speaker and moderator. Dr. Raymond Marchionni, University of Toledo, serves as seminar director.

We invite submissions on all aspects of single and multi-disciplinary work, including literature, music, psychology, sociology, cultural history, philosophy, politics, and the arts, relating to notions of ‘Cultural Collisions.’

Suggested Themes

• Representing cultural collisions in literature, film and/or drama
• Transnational identities and cultures
● Tradition and Modernisation
• Intercultural spaces
● Globalisation and Nationalism
• Comparative Cultural Studies
● Gender
• Cultural Dynamics in Conflict Situations
● Age

Aims

The Durrell School of Corfu sustains a creative and critical environment for established academics and graduate students to develop their work, and to discuss key ideas in the field of modern cultural and political studies.
The texts of all papers are disseminated before the seminar, affording an in-depth consideration and discussion of each paper – all participants will have an hour to present their paper and to discuss its own implications, as well as how it contributes to the overall topic, with participants, including the resident faculty and moderators.

For further information on the School and this Seminar: www.durrell-school-corfu.org

Publication

The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies has suggested the publication of selected papers presented at the June 2009 seminar. Selected papers will also be published in the Proceedings of the DSC.
We welcome proposals from graduate students and the one-week school will feature a themed one-day symposium dedicated to student papers. For this symposium, in particular, we welcome proposals for themed panels.

Scholarships

A limited number of scholarships is available, principally for students from Eastern Europe, and the School is pleased to issue formal invitations and support for funding applications. Please contact the Secretary: Emilie.Pine@ucd.ie.

Proposals: Proposals (2 pages maximum), together with the author's CV, should reach the Durrell School by 1 April 2009. Full texts should be sent to the DSC by 10 May.

Registration: The registration fee for the seminar will be €300 for participants (to include costs of field classes). The authors of accepted proposals will be asked to give the DSC an assurance that they have secured adequate funding to enable them to take up the places offered to them. A non-refundable deposit of €100 is payable by 31 April 2009.