Writing the Mediterranean
Erasmus Intensive Programme, Malta, 24 March-5 April 2013
Programme Outline
Students:
- you will attend all the lectures (in the morning);
- you must choose either seminar stream A or B. These take place in the afternoon (some will be held jointly).
Colour coding should help you identify the sessions: peach background: plenary sessions for lectures and joint seminars, everyone attends;
light purple: seminar A only (this will be coordinated and led by Dr Isobel Hurst, and will benefit from
the contribution of other lecturers)
light green: seminar B only (this will be coordinated and led by Prof. Lucia Boldrini, and will benefit from
the contribution of other lecturers)
 Please communicate your choice of seminar stream to Prof. Stella Borg Barthet (stella.borg-barthet@um.edu.mt) and to Prof. Lucia Boldrini
(l.boldrini@gold.ac.uk) by 1 February 2013. You will receive a full reading list of required and recommended reading for your seminar shortly thereafter.
Sun 24/3
Mon 25/3
Tue 26/3
Wed 27/3
Arrival
19.00
Registration / Welcome & Presentation of the Programme
9.30-11.00
Lecture 1
Lucia Boldrini, Introductory lecture: ‘Representations of the Mediterranean’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 2
Peter Vassallo, ‘British Writers and the Experience of Italy’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
Images of Italy in the Romantic Period: Mme de Staël, Corinne; Percy Shelley, selection of poems
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
From the ancient Mediterranean to the postcolonial: The Odyssey and Derek Walcott’s ‘The Schooner Flight’
9.30-11.00
Lecture 3
Fernando Cioni, ‘Shakespeare and the Mediterranean’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 4
Daniel Massa, ‘Marlowe and Machiavelli: The Jew of Malta and Tamburlaine’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
Shakespeare’s Mediterranean: Othello
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
Seductions of the South: Gide, The Immoralist
9.30-11.00
Lecture 5
Isobel Hurst, ‘The Victorians and Italy’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 6
James Corby, ‘Forster’s A Room with a View’
Joint Seminar
British Modernist constructions of Italy: EM Forster, A Room with a View
Thu 28/3
Fri 29/3
Sat 30/3
Sun 31/3
Mon 1/4
Tue 2/4
Wed 3/4
Thu 4/4
Fri 5/4
9.30-11.00
Lecture 7
Stella Borg Barthet, ‘Writing Egypt: some contemporary examples’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 8
Ivan Callus, ‘Growing Old in the Mediterranean: Some Considerations on a Short Text by J M Coetzee’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
Shakespeare’s Mediterranean 2: Antony and Cleopatra
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
Writing Egypt: Sonallah Ibrahim, Zaat
Public Holiday (Good Friday)
Optional Afternoon Excursion: Visit to significant churches and Good Friday procession
9.30-11.00
Lecture 9
Mauro Pala: ‘The Reluctant Island: Sardinia and the Mediterranean’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 10
Norbert Bugeja, 'Mediterranean Blues? Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories of a City'
2.30-4.30
Joint Seminar
Cities of the Mediterranean: Pamuk, Istanbul
Public Holiday (Easter)
Full Day Excursion to Megalithic temples and other important sites
9.30-11.00
Lecture 11
Jane Stabler, “Boccaccio's Lore”: Byron and the Shelleys on the Decameron’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 12
Carole Sweeney ‘Fantasia: Writing, Violence, Desire’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
Romantic Mediterranean 1: Byron
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
History, violence and desire in Algeria: Assia Djebar, Fantasia
9.30-11.00
Lecture 13
Peter Dunwoodie 'Fictional Representations of the French presence in the Maghreb’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 14
Maria Frendo, ‘Camus and The Outsider: The Rhetoric of the Mediterranean Text: Causality, Metaphor, and Irony’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
The Victorian Mediterranean
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
Growing up in Algeria: Camus, The First Man, ‘The Guest’
9.30-11.00
Lecture 15
Nicholas Roe, ‘John Keats’s voyage to Italy and his journey from Naples to Rome’
11.30-1.00
Lecture 16
Marijan Dović, ‘Nationalism and Literature in the European Mediterranean’
2.30-4.30
Seminar A
Romantic Mediterranean 2: Shelley, Keats, Clough, Barrett Browning
2.30-4.30
Seminar B
Cyclopic Nationalisms: Homer’s and Joyce’s Cyclops
9.30-11.00
Lecture 17
Ana Gabriela Macedo, Visual Representations of the Mediterranean
11.30-13.00
Joint Seminar
General discussion
2.30—
Joint
Screening of film(s) on / set in the Mediterranean
Departure