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Borges Center Events at the University of Pittsburgh

Text as Process: genetic and Textual Criticism in the Digital Age (4-6 April, 2016)

Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Monday 4 April

9 a.m. Welcome

  • Daniel Balderston, Mellon Professor and Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Borges Center
  • N. John Cooper, Bailey Dean, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center
  • Don Bialostosky, Chair, Department of English
  • Scott Morgenstern, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies
  • Gordon Mitchell, Associate Professor of Communication and Assistant Dean, University Honors College

First Session: Chaired by Daniel Balderston

9:30 a.m. Peter Shillingsburg (author of Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age and From Gutenberg to Google): “Confronting the Archive: Seven Questions”

Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. Anne Herschberg-Pierrot (Université Paris 8): “Style and Genetics”

11:30 a.m. Sally Bushell (University of Lancaster): “Mapping Textuality”

Lunch

Second Session: Chaired by María Laura Bocaz Leiva (University of Mary Washington)

1:30 p.m. Jerónimo Pizarro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia): “Building a Maestro: Pessoa & Caeiro”

2:30 p.m. Julio Premat (Université Paris 8): “Breves sombras: imaginarios y prácticas de creación en Saer y Onetti”

Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. Workshop with Alison Langmead (University of Pittsburgh) on Itinera (see https://itinera.pitt.edu), in Digital Scholarship Services, Hillman Library

4:30 p.m. Visit to the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Papers at Special Collections, Hillman Library

Tuesday 5 April

Third Session: Chaired by María Julia Rossi (John Jay College, City University of New York)

9 a.m. Alejandro Higashi (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico): “Crítica genética/epigenética y poética”

10 a.m. Mariana Di Ció (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Raúl Zurita: muerte y resurrección en la escritura”

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. Sebastián Urli (University of Pittsburgh): “Entre el jardín y la estación: ‘la fantasma’ en un manuscrito de Alejandra Pizarnik”

11:30 a.m. María Laura Bocaz Leiva: “‘This will certainly be one of the great stories of Latin America’: Unveiling the Writing Process of El lugar sin límites by José Donoso"

Lunch

Fourth Session: Chaired by Mariana Di Ció

1:30 p.m. Luis Othoniel Rosa (Colorado College): “The salteado writer and the eternal manuscript: Notes on two unpublished notebooks by Macedonio Fernández”

2:30 p.m. Peter Shillingsburg workshop on woolfonline.org project (on the manuscripts and editions of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, see http://www.woolfonline.com), in Digital Scholarship Services, in the basement of the Hillman Library

3:30 p.m. David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh) and Helena Bermúdez Sabel (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), workshop on digital collation tools (see http:/www.obdurodon.org), in Digital Scholarship Services, Hillman Library

4:15 p.m. Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg) on the Digital Mitford Project (see http://digitalmitford.org): “The author in between the censor and the starring actor: meddling with the social texts of plays in the Digital Mitford project,” in Digital Scholarship Services, Hillman Library

Wednesday 6 April

Fifth Session: Chaired by Peter Shillingsburg

9 a.m. Arturo Matute Castro (Denison University): “Reinaldo Arenas: reescrituras de ‘La torre de cristal’”

9:45 a.m. María Julia Rossi: “Of Epicene Particles and Other Misleading Tricks. Gender Ambiguity in a Short Story by Silvina Ocampo”

10:30 a.m. Philip Smith (University of Pittsburgh): “Oscar Wilde’s Historical Criticism Notebook”

11:15 a.m. Daniel Balderston: “Borges’s Only Writing in English: Three English Poems”

Final Discussion

Sponsors:

  • Center for Latin American Studies 
  • Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences 
  • Humanities Center 
  • University Honors College 
  • Year of Humanities 

And:

  • Cultural Studies Program
  • Department of Classics
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Department of English
  • Department of French and Italian
  • Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
  • Department of History of Art and Architecture
  • Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Department of Theatre Arts
  • Faculty Research Support Program
  • Roggiano Fund

poster for Borges symposium, 8-9 November 2012

 

Symposium on the Reception of Borges

Thursday, 8 November 2012, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh

9:30             Welcome

9:45             Alberto Rojo (Oakland University): Borges citado por científicos

10:30            Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh): The Theory of Games and Genetic Criticism: On the Manuscript of "La lotería en Babilonia"

11:15            Lies Wijnterp (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): El lenguaje de las cubiertas y su relación con la recepción temprana de la obra de Borges

lunch

2:30            María Eugenia Mudrovcic (Michigan State University): Borges y el Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura

3:15            Alfredo Alonso Estenoz (Luther College): Borges en Cuba

Discussion and coffee break

4:30            Jorge Schwartz (Universidade de São Paulo/Museu Lasar Segall): Guía de lectura de Borges para el Brasil

5:15            Susanne Klengel (Freie Universität Berlin): Francia después de la Colaboración: La obra de J. L. Borges en un país dividido

Discussion

Friday, 9 November 2012, 1218 Cathedral of Learning

10:00-12:00            Roundtable discussion of the reception of Borges, led by Ana Cara (Oberlin College)

12:00             Jorge Schwartz talk on Lasar Segall (in Portuguese)           


Silvia Dapía (John Jay College, CUNY), "Borges, Social Order and Human Action"

Monday 9 April 2012, 6:00 pm, 119 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh


Mariela Blanco (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata), "Una genealogía de la violencia en la narrativa argentina: Echeverría, Borges, Rozenmacher"

Friday, 30 March 2012, 2:30 pm, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning


Ivan Almeida, "Goethe y la trastienda de 'El pudor de la historia'"

Cristina Parodi, "Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch: dos ilustres desconocidos"

Thursday, 22 March 2012, 1:00-4:30 pm, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning 


Bill Richardson (National University of Ireland Galway)

"Garay Street and Being-in-the-World: Human Spatiality in Borges's 'El Aleph'"

Monday, February 13, 2012, 6:00 pm, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning


Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), Inaugural Lecture as Mellon Professor of Modern Languages

"'The Universe in a Nutshell': The Long Sentence in Borges's 'The Aleph'"

Thursday, 2 February 2012, 4:30 pm, 2500 Posvar Hall


Francisca Noguerol (University of Salamanca)

Con y contra Borges: la huella del maestro es alargada

Monday, 12 September 2011, 1:00-2:30 pm, Norwegian Room, 151 Cathedral of Learning


Genetic Criticism and Latin American Texts

Monday, March 28 - Tuesday, March 29, 2011

All events will be held in the Humanities Center, 602 CL

Monday, March 28

9:30   Welcome & Introductions
10:00 John Bryant (Hofstra University)
            "Revision, Translation and Adaptation: Editing the Fluid Text in the
            Digital Age"
10:45 Jacques Neefs (Johns Hopkins University)
            "The Making of the Work: Genetics and Esthetics"
11:45 Lunch
1:15   Elida Lois (Conicet/Universidad Nacional de San Martín)
            "Autobiografía y autoficción en la genesis de Peregrinación de Luz del
            Día o Viaje y aventuras de la Verdad en el Nuevo Mundo de Juan Bautista
            Alberdi"
2:00    Discussion

Tuesday, March 29

10:00 Sergio Delgado (Université de Bretagne Sud)
            "Rostros de jóvenes poetas: Juan L. Ortiz y Juan José Saer"
10:45 Julio Premat (Université de Paris-VIII)
            "Bocetos, borradores, esbozos: La otra obra de Saer"
11:30 María Laura Bocaz (University of Mary Washington)
            "José Donoso en el ejercicio de la escritura de El obsceno pájaro de la
            noche: Una interpretación a partir de los José Donoso Papers"
12:15  Lunch
1:30   Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh)
            "Palabras rechazadas: Borges y la tachadura"

3:00 Discussion


Borges Symposium 2010

Borges Symposium: 15 October 2010

144 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh

Welcome and introductions
1:30-3:15   First Session (in English), chaired by Lies Wijnterp
Evelyn Fishburn (University College London). "This imminence of a revelation": a Study of Epiphanies in Borges's Fiction
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh). "His insect-like handwriting": marginalia and commentaries on Borges and Menard
Leah Leone (Concordia University Montreal). Voice Distortion: Character Narration in Borges's Translations

3:30-5:00 Second Session (in Spanish), chaired by María Julia Rossi
Alfredo Alonso Estenoz (Luther College). La Batrachomyomachia en el contexto de "El inmortal"
Mireya Camurati (SUNY Buffalo). Borges ¿un argentino extraviado en la metafísica?

Roundtable discussion with all participants
Sponsored by the Borges Center, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Latin American Studies 


Fernando Degiovanni. "The Rise of Latin Americanism: Colonialism, Managerial Discourse and the Uses of Literature." Friday, 6 November 2009, 4:00 pm. 142 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh.


Alan Pauls. "La herencia Borges." Friday, 16 October 2009, 3:00 pm. 142 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh.


Hernán Martínez Millán. "El Platón de Borges." 20 February 2009, 3:00 pm. 142 Cathedral of Learning.


Borges Center Inauguration

Cristina Parodi, "Borges, Bioy y el 'lenguaje exquisito.'"

Remarks by N. John Cooper, Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Daniel Balderston and Iván Almeida

10 October 2008. 144 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh.