ICRNY şi Bard College prezintă în datele de 27 şi 28 iunie un eveniment special prin care celebrează cea de-a 75-a aniversare a scriitorului Norman Manea.
Colocviul, care va fi găzduit de Bard Graduate Center din New York, reprezintă un prilej de întâlnire între culturi şi de dezbatere despre rolul scriitorului în lumea contemporană. Evenimentul va reuni editori, critici şi universitari din întreaga lume, precum: Paul Bailey, scriitor, Senior Researcher in Creative Writing at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingstone University Londra, UK; Leon Botstein, Preşedinte al Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Jonathan Brent, Director Executiv al YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York; Robert Boyers, scriitor, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letter la Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Joseph Cuomo, Lecturer, Department of English, Queens College, CUNY, Fondator al Queens College Evening Readings, New York; Luca Formenton, editor, Il Saggiatore, Milano; Reginald Gibbons, poet, romancier, traducător şi critic literar, Professor of English, Classics, and Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Edward Hirsch, preşedinte al John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Edward Kanterian, Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Oxford, UK; Silviu Lupescu, director, Editura Polirom, Iaşi; Valerie Miles, editor la Duomo ediciones, Spania; Carmen Muşat, conferenţiar universitar la Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii din Bucureşt, redactor-şef al revistei Observator cultural; Maria Nadotti, jurnalist, eseist şi translator de origine italiană; Francine Prose, scriitoare, Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, director editorial al Editurii Polirom.
Simpozionul va include şi prezentarea unui documentar/interviu filmat despre viaţa şi cariera scriitorului român, articulat în jurul unei conversaţii între Norman Manea şi Robert Boyers. Filmul, produs cu sprijinul Bard College, va fi realizat de regizoarea Ioana Uricaru şi va fi prezentat în premieră cu această ocazie.
PROGRAM
THE BARD GRADUATE CENTER - LECTURE HALL
38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
The symposium is hosted by Corina Şuteu, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.
Monday, June 27
3 p.m.–4 p.m. REGISTRATION
4 p.m. OPENING REMARKS
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College
Silviu Lupescu, Director, Polirom Publishing House, Iaşi, Romania
4:20 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Thinking About Norman Manea"
Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letter at Skidmore College, founder and editor of Salmagundi quarterly, USA
4:50 p.m.–7 p.m. PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS
Brief introduction by moderator Carmen Muşat, Associate Professor, Romanian Literature Department, University of Bucharest & Editor-in-Chief of Observator cultural weekly, Romania
"A Multiplicity of Selves: An Appreciation of Norman Manea"
Joseph Cuomo, Founding Director, Queens College Evening Readings, CUNY, USA
"The Way from Trickster to Titan, and Backwards, in Norman Manea's Novel and Essay"
Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, Editorial director of Polirom Publishing House, Romania
"The Imagination of Norman Manea"
Reginald Gibbons, Professor of English, Classics, Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
"The Hooligan's Return"
Francine Prose, writer, Visiting Professor of Literature, Bard College, USA
7 p.m.–7:40 p.m. A MUSICAL AND LITERARY CODA
Cellist Sophie Shao performs Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012
Special guest Ion Caramitru reads from The Hooligan's Return
Followed by a Reception
Tuesday, June 28
3 p.m. OPENING REMARKS
Luca Formenton, Publisher, Il Saggiatore, Milan, Italy
3:15 p.m. PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS
Brief introduction by poet and critic Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NYC, who will moderate the panel
"What Norman Manea Has Taught Me About Romania"
Paul Bailey, writer and broadcaster; Senior Researcher in Creative Writing at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingstone University London, UK
"On Expressing the Nightmare: Paul Celan and Norman Manea"
Edward Kanterian, Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Oxford, UK
"Norman Manea: An Eight o'clock Dream"
Valerie Miles, Publishing Director of Duomo Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain
"Publishing Norman Manea in 1980s America"
Jonathan Brent, Executive Director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC; Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature, Bard College, USA
"The Hooligan's Lesson in the Globalized World"
Maria Nadotti, journalist, essayist and translator, Milan, Italy
5:30 p.m. SPECIAL SCREENING
"Variations to a Portrait: Norman Manea in dialogue with Robert Boyers" (A premiere presentation of a video produced by Bard College and RCINY, Creative Producer: Ioana Uricaru)
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. SPECIAL APPEARANCE
Norman Manea in conversation with the audience
CLOSING REMARKS
Moderated by Corina Şuteu
Concluded with a glass of wine
[Imagine de Isolde Ohlbaum]
