Images in Walter Benjamin's and W.G. Sebald's Writings

(Last update: 18.09.2013)

Thursday, 26.09.2013
15.30 Opening

16.00–18.00 Key note lectures
Sigrid Weigel (ZfL): The Lightning Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images. Benjamin’s epistemology and its preconditions in visual arts and media

Peter Fenves (Northwestern University): Fidelity to the Image. From the Youth Movement to the Last Manuscripts

Friday, 27.09.2013
9.00–14.00
Presentations of Doctoral- and Postdoctoral Projects with Response

16.00–18.00 Key note lectures
Carol Jacobs (Yale University): Images of Frames/ Frames of Images. W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn


Saturday, 28.09.2013
Activities in La Jonquera: Museu Memorial de l’Exili (MUME), Carrer Major 43-47, La Jonquera
11.00
Anna Soler Horta (winner of Walter Benjamin International Prize 2012): Fragments. A partir d’Els emigrats, de W.G. Sebald
Project opening and presentation of Catalan translation of Berliner Kindheit um 1900
Reading by Sílvia Bel (actress)

12.00
Verdict of Walter Benjamin International Prize 2013 (Essay)


Saturday, 28.09.2013
Lectures in Port Bou: Centre Cívic Ca l’Herrero, Carrer Méndez Núñez, s/n. Portbou
16.00
José M. González García (Consejo Superior de Investig. Cientificas, Madrid): Sobre los ángeles de Benjamin

17.00
Anna Montané Forasté (Universitat de Barcelona): Retrobaments inesperats. W. Benjamin i W.G. Sebald à Austerlitz

19.00 Reception. Homage to Walter Benjamin at Cemetery of Portbou

Sunday, 29.09.2013
Activity at Port Bou: Walk from Banyuls-sur-Mer to Portbou
Clara Galí (readings, guide). Leaving from Portbou. Please register at the Tourist Office before 25th September 2013. Phone (0033) 972 125 161

Exile, the experience and critique of violence, trauma and shock, the relation of testimony and literature, memory and history, the now of recognisability, thinking in images, the figurativity of writing, photography….. there are many topics shared by Walter Benjamin’s writings and the literature of W. G. Sebald. The lectures may discuss one of these topics either in the work of Benjamin or in the way Sebald’s texts and images refer to it.

Kooperation des ZfL mit der Universitat de Girona

Registration for Symposium needed, please contact:
Càtedra Walter Benjamin, memòria i exili, Universitat de Girona, Facultat de Lletres, Pl. Ferrater Mora, 1, 17071. Girona
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