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Monday, January 1, 2007

Jewish authors of the 20th century

Cycle of lectures 2007 organized jointly by the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies and the Chair Ferrater Mora of Contemporary Thought of the University of Girona

The program has six conferences, from January to June, at the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies

January 23
Simone Weil, un contraban difícil - Adrià Chavarria, literary critic and essayist

February 20
Paul Celan. Poesia i holocaust - Robert Caner, professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of Barcelona

March 27
Primo Levi. El testimoni - Giovanni Levi, professor of History, University of Venice

April 17
Franz Kafka. Tradició jueva i modernitat - Jörg Zimmer, professor of Aesthetics, University of Girona

22 de maig
Irène Némirovsky. La compassió de les ombres - Maria Josep Balsach, professor of Theory and History of Contemporary Art, University of Girona

June 19
Iehuda Amikhai, clavats a la carn del món - Manuel Forcano, hebraist, poet and translator of I. Amikhai

Free activity