Abajo el programa
del jueves 8 de noviembre y el viernes 9 de la conferencia “The Accursed Circumstance”.
The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony
Brook University
presents:
“The Accursed Circumstance”: Virgilio Piñera Centennial
Conference at Stony Brook University
Ponte and Dopico will discuss the vital importance of
Virgilio Piñera’s work and life to genealogies of political dissent and the
protection of artistic freedom. Antonio José Ponte is an internationally known
Cuban fiction writer, consummate essayist, and poet living in exile in Madrid .
Ana María Dopico is Associate Professor of Comparative
Literature at New York University ,
where she teaches comparative studies of the Americas
with special emphasis on Cuban and Caribbean contexts
and the Global South.
Thomas F. Anderson will address the anxiety-ridden final
years of the life of Cuban author Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979), with a special
focus on Piñera’s hapless efforts to have his works translated into major
European languages. Departing from information gleaned largely from some 100 unpublished
letters by Piñera to a life-long friend, Anderson
will discuss how translation projects gone awry with prestigious publishing
houses such as Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., Feltrinelli Editore in Italy, and Éditions
Gallimard in France, contributed significantly to the Cuban author’s legacy of
oblivion.
Reception to follow
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Friday, November 9th, Stony Brook-Manhattan
9:30 Desayuno continental
9:45 Bienvenida.Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Stony Brook
University
10:00-12:00 Terribilia meditans: Reflexión y disentimiento
en la obra de Piñera
Moderador y
comentarista: Paul Firbas, Stony Brook University
Jorge Brioso,
Carleton Collage: “¿Cómo nacen y mueren los conceptos? Literatura y filosofía en
la obra de Virgilio Piñera”
Mariana Amato,
University of Kentucky, Lexington: “Una época eminentemente carnal: Virgilio Piñera
y la modernidad”
Enrique del
Risco, New York University: “Piñera y los avatares de una isla imposible”
12:00-1:00 Almuerzo
1:00-3:15 Contra y por la palabra: Poesía y política en
Virgilio
Moderador y
comentarista: Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, Princeton University
Noel Luna,
Universidad de Puerto Rico: “Virgilio Piñera contra la poesía”
Gerard Aching, Cornell
University : “In Praise of
Insularity”
Juan Carlos
Quintero-Herencia, University of Maryland, College Park: “La Patria adentro: Natura
política de Virgilio Piñera”
Rafael Rojas,
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE): “Piñera y el Caribe”
3:15-3:30 Café
3:30-5:30 Un teológico atracón: Piñera y los saberes
de la carne
Moderadora y
comentarista: Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman Collage and the Graduate Center,
CUNY
Javier Guerrero,
Princeton University: “Carnicería Piñera”
Modesto Milanés,
Cubaliteraria.com: “Las pequeñas fugas: el mundo novelístico de Virgilio Piñera”
Aurea María
Sotomayor, University of Pittsburgh: “La soberana nada da fe (Bataille en Piñera)”
5:30-6:00 Café
6:00-7:30 Closing keynote event: Abilio Estévez en diálogo
con José Quiroga, Emory University.Moderadora: Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Stony
Brook University
7:30 Recepción
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