Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TODAY: "Transmission and Tradition: From Misunderstanding and Discomfort" By Dr Ricardo Forster, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description:
What lies beneath every gesture of the act of transmission? What languages are we to find for un-veiling what is yours and what is the other's? What are we supposed to forget and/or recall, if memory is much more than an arbitrary relationship with the past? What can be taught and how can we do that at a time when no words seem to last further than instants?
Ricardo Forster has been Visiting Professor at Princeton, Pittsburgh, México, Prague, Madrid. Among his books are Walter Benjamin and the Problem of Evil (2001), Messianism, Nihilism, and Redemption: From Abraham to Spinoza, from Marx to Benjamin (2005), The Hermeneuts of the Night, from Walter Benjamin to Paul Celan (2009)
{Will appear in FYI on Nov 10, 2009
Start Time:
4:00 PM
End Time:
6:00 PM
Room:
Maryland Room
Common Location Name:
Marie Mount
Other Contact Information:
SPAP office
+1 301 405 6441
mmunoz2@umd.edu
