Agenda

Història d'un amor estrany

Activity within the framework of the festival MOT 2025

Thursday, March 27th - 18 h

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

This year the www.festivalmot.cat will take place in Girona and Olot from March 17 to 29. With the title “More names for love”, it will explore sexual and emotional relationships through literature.

The Institute of Nahmanides Studies is participating in this initiative with a conference by Patrícia Soley-Beltran, writer and sociologist.

Information about the conference:
The threesome formed by the young Russian model Vera Broïdo, the prominent Dadaist Raoul Hausmann and his wealthy wife Heta Mankiewitz exemplified a new way of living love in the 1930s. For seven years, between Berlin, Paris and the utopian island of Ibiza, the story of these historical figures weaves a thread in the cultural history of private life and personal relationships. From the communal sentimental experimentation proposed by the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia of the 19th century to today's polyamory, through the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, experimentation and criticism of love revolutionizes a fundamental socio-economic structure. Activism has allied itself with technology and reflection that, in a transversal and interdisciplinary way, innovates our perspective thanks to authors such as Matrimony Beck-Gernsheim, Zygmunt Baumann or Eva Illouz, among many others. However, the old questions are still present.

Activity in Catalan language.
Attendance is free with prior registration.

Organized by: Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies (Patronat Call de Girona). Image credits: from left to right: Hedwig (Heta) Mankiewitz, Raoul Hausmann and Vera Broïdo. Photograph: August Sander, 1929