The Mediterranean Fractures International Symposium will take place on 5 and 6 November at the University of Malta Valletta Campus. The symposium brings together eminent and cutting edge-scholars, artists and activists to debate present-day modes of fractured consciousness in the Mediterranean region and beyond from a trans-disciplinary perspective, and through both contemporary and longer historiographic purviews.
The Mediterranean Institute is very happy to announce that the Symposium will be addressed by Booker-shortlisted novelist and scholar Abdulrazak Gurnah, Booker-shortlisted novelist Hisham Matar, as well as foremost Mediterranean literary and cultural scholars Stephanos Stephanides and Iain Chambers.
Novelist Hisham Matar will also be delivering a Public Reading at the University of Malta, open for free to both students and the general public. This will take place at the Gateway Building on Saturday 7 November at 11:00.
Mediterranean Fractures is being hosted by the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta in collaboration with the Centre for Postcolonial Research, University of Kent and the Associazione Italiana di Studi sulle Culture e Letterature di Lingua Inglese (AISCLI). The International Symposium and the Public Reading by Hisham Matar are supported by the Ministry for Education and Employment and the Culture Directorate within the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government.
The idea for the Mediterranean Fractures project was initiated by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Norbert Bugeja and Annalisa Oboe back in 2013, with the first edition of the symposium being held at the University of Kent in May 2014, and organised in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Kent and the Associazione Italiana di Studi sulle Culture e Letterature di lingua inglese (AISCLI).
Online registration for the Mediterranean Fractures International Symposium remains open until Friday 30 October 2015 midnight CET.
For further information on the Mediterranean Fractures project and symposium kindly contact the symposium convenor, Dr Norbert Bugeja.