Registration / Welcome & Presentation of the Programme at the Kappara Residence
19:00
Programme
Intensive Teaching Programme, Part of the Erasmus Strategic Partnership
Students:
- You will attend all the lectures at the Valletta Campus;
- You must choose either seminar stream A or B (a number of them will be held jointly);
- You should prepare a collaborative presentation for the final CounterText conference, The Post-Literary
- The creative writing workshop is optional and for fun.
- Sun 25/3
- Mon 26/3
- Tue 27/3
- Wed 28/3
- Thu 29/3
- Fri 30/3
- Sat 31/3
- Sun 1/4
- Mon 2/4
- Tue 3/4
- Wed 4/4
- Thu 5/4
- Fri 6/4
- Sat 7/4
- Sun 8/4
- Mon 9/4
9.30 - 11.00
Lucia Boldrini, Introductory lecture: ‘Representations of the Mediterranean’
11.30-1.00
Writing the Mediterranean
14.00 - 15.30
Ivan Callus, ‘Growing Old in the Mediterranean: Some Considerations on a Short Text by J. M. Coetzee’
16.00 - 17.30
Close reading of J. M. Coetzee, ‘As a Woman Grows Older’
11.30-1.00
Writing the Mediterranean
16.00 - 17.30
Close reading of J. M. Coetzee, ‘As a Woman Grows Older’
9.30 - 11.00
Fernando Cioni, ‘Early Modern Theatre and the Mediterranean’
11.30 - 13.00
Mauro Pala: ‘The Genealogy of an Island: Subordination and Narratives’
14.30-16.30
Turks, Moors, and Jews in the Early Modern Mediterranean – I: Othello
14.30-16.30
Sergio Atzeni’s Bakunin’s Son
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Peter Vassallo, ‘British Romantic Hellenism as a Cultural and Literary (Mediterranean) Phenomenon’
11.30 - 13.00
Ana Gabriela Macedo, ‘Contrapuntal Narratives and a Map of “Disbelonging”: The Intertextual Work of Mona Hatoum and Paula Rego’
14.30 - 16.30
Turks, Moors, and Jews in the Early Modern Mediterranean – II: The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta
14.30 - 16.30
Mona Hatoum’s and Paula Rego’s work.
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30-11.00
Natasha Periyan, ‘Woolf and Greece: Ancient Culture and Modern Travel’
11.30 - 13.00
Modernist constructions of the South – I: Woolf’s Greece
14.00 - 15.00
Daniel Massa reading from his poetry, introduced and interviewed by Ivan Callus
15.30 - 16.30
Norbert Bugeja and Abigail Zammit reading from their poetry
16.30 - 17.30
Discussion on Maltese Poetry
9.30-11.00
Natasha Periyan, ‘Woolf and Greece: Ancient Culture and Modern Travel’
11.30 - 13.00
Modernist constructions of the South – I: Woolf’s Greece
16.30 - 17.30
Discussion on Maltese Poetry
9.30 - 11.00
Chris Baldick, ‘"Sunburnt Otherwhere": W. H. Auden's "Ischian" period, 1948-57’
11.30-13.00
Stella Borg Barthet, ‘Writing Egypt: Realism, Romance, Irony’
14.30 - 16.30
W. H. Auden’s Mezzogiorno
14.30 - 16.30
Writing Egypt: Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional (TBC)
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional (TBC)
9.30 - 11.00
Isobel Hurst, ‘Victorian Odysseys: Travel and Classical Reception in Italy and Greece’
11.30 - 13.00
Leonora Flis, ‘Joe Sacco’s Literary (Graphic) Travel Journalism - History and Conflict on Mediterranean Shores in the Form of Comics”
14.30 - 16.30
Travel and Classical Reception in Italy and Greece
14.30 - 16.30
Nonfiction Comics as a Medium of Remembrance and Mourning and a Cosmopolitan Genre of Social and Political Engagement
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Isobel Hurst, ‘Victorian Odysseys: Travel and Classical Reception in Italy and Greece’
11.30 - 13.00
Leonora Flis, ‘Joe Sacco’s Literary (Graphic) Travel Journalism - History and Conflict on Mediterranean Shores in the Form of Comics”
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Nell Stevens – ‘The Strange Familiar: the Italian encounters of Gaskell, Dickens and Hawthorne’
11.30 - 13.00
Nejet M’Chala, ‘Multicultural Diversity and Co-existence in Ancient/Modern Tunisia’
14.30 - 16.30
The nineteenth-century encounter with Italy
14.30 - 16.30
Férid Boughedir’s A Summer in La Goulette : multiculturalism, intercultural communication, globalisation and geopolitics.
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Nell Stevens – ‘The Strange Familiar: the Italian encounters of Gaskell, Dickens and Hawthorne’
11.30 - 13.00
Nejet M’Chala, ‘Multicultural Diversity and Co-existence in Ancient/Modern Tunisia’
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Maria Frendo, 'Dislocation, Revolt, and History in Camus's L'Etranger and La Peste'
11.30 - 13.00
James Corby, ‘Forster’s A Room with a View’
14.30 - 16.30
Modernist constructions of the South 2: Forster’s A Room with a View
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Maria Frendo, 'Dislocation, Revolt, and History in Camus's L'Etranger and La Peste'
11.30 - 13.00
James Corby, ‘Forster’s A Room with a View’
14.30 - 16.30
Modernist constructions of the South 2: Forster’s A Room with a View
16.30 - 17.30
Creative writing workshop, led by Nell Stevens, optional
9.30 - 11.00
Tamar Steinitz, ‘Jerusalem, Al-Quds: Writing a Contested City’
11.30 - 13.00
Jerusalem, Al-Quds: Writing a Contested City
14.00 - 15.30
General final discussion and feedback on the programme
From 18.00
Start of the CounterText conference on The Post-Literary and collaborative presentation by the students on the work done on the programme
9.30 - 11.00
Tamar Steinitz, ‘Jerusalem, Al-Quds: Writing a Contested City’
From 18.00
Start of the CounterText conference on The Post-Literary and collaborative presentation by the students on the work done on the programme
11.30 - 13.00
Jerusalem, Al-Quds: Writing a Contested City
14.00 - 15.30
General final discussion and feedback on the programme
All day
CounterText conference, The Post-Literary
All day
CounterText conference, The Post-Literary
All day
CounterText conference, The Post-Literary