Borges conference 2007
The Place of Letters: The World in Borges
Program (followed by the catalogue for the art exhibit and the program for the concert)
WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 2007
Wednesday, 5:30 pm, Special Collections, Main Library
Reception
Exhibit of Borges first editions, selected materials from José Donoso and Pedro Lastra collections
THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2007
Thursday, 8:30-10:45 am, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 1A: Short Forms (moderated by Nicolás Lucero)
Mariana Zinni (Vassar College): “Los prólogos de Borges: modos del devenir ensayo”
Nicolás Vivalda (Vassar College): “Avatares de la noción de lo clásico en JLB: tensiones de una estética fragmentaria”
César Pérez (Harvard University): “El liber mortis de Borges”
Thursday, 8:30-10:45 am, Humanities Gallery, Old Capitol
Session 1B: Psychoanalysis (moderated by Cristina Parodi)
Margarita Saona (University of Illinois at Chicago): “Yo, el otro, el universo: pérdida, melancolía y epifanía en Borges”
Miguel Rivera (University of Virginia): “El punto ciego: un detective encerrado en el panóptico”
Alfredo Duplat (University of Iowa): “El engendro piensa tras las rejas: psicoanálisis vulgarizado en Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi”
David Alejandro Malavé (Unidad Nacional de Psiquiatría, Caracas): “Borges desconocido psicoanalista”
Thursday, 8:30-10:45 am, Senate Chamber
Session 1C: Arts (moderated by Alfredo Alonso Estenoz)
Daniel Rinaldi (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): “Borges y Figari”
Marina Martín (St. John’s University, Minnesota): “Los laberintos del tiempo y del arte en Borges”
Andrés Forero (University of Iowa): "El Zahir en los relatos de Jorge Luis Borges"
Thursday, 11:00-12:45, Senate Chamber
Welcome by University of Iowa authorities: Pam Trimpe (Director, Pentacrest Museums), Tom Lewis (Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Christopher Merrill (Director, International Writing Program), Raúl Curto (Executive Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Pat Cain (Vice Provost), Jay Semel (Associate Vice President for Research)
Keynote
Evelyn Fishburn (University of London): “Digging for hrönir”
Lunch
Thursday, 2:00-4:15, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 2A: Latin America (moderated by Marina Martín)
Pablo Brescia (University of South Florida), “La influencia de la ansiedad: Borges como objeto literario”
Antoine Ventura (Universidad Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux): “El mundo de Borges en Roa Bastos, Monterroso y Bolaño”
Alberto del Pozo (Vanderbilt University): “Borges novelista: revisión de la forma estética de Historia universal de la infamia”
Thursday, 2:00-4:15, Humanities Gallery
Session 2B, Argentina I (moderated by Juan Pablo Dabove)
Ximena Briceño (Cornell University): “Emma Zunz: El crimen para la venganza”
Nicolás Lucero (University of Georgia): “Irene e Ireneo: A story of Siamese Twins”
Margaret Schwartz (University of Iowa): “Dissimulations: Repetition, Misrecognition and Negative Construction in Borges’s ‘El simulacro’”
Thursday, 2:00-4:15, Senate Chamber
Session 2C: Science (moderated by Tom Lewis)
Graciela Ricci (Universidad de Macerata): “Borges y yo, lector: de la filosofía hermética a las ciencias neuro-cognitivas”
Andrew Brown (Washington University-St. Louis): “Borges and the SF Canon”
Daniel Garcia (Universidade de São Paulo): “Hypertextuality in Borges”
Thursday, 4:30, Senate Chamber
Keynotes, introduced by Kathleen Newman
Julio Premat (Université de Paris-VIII): “El muerto”
David Oubiña (Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad del Cine): “Virtudes y beneficios de la mala vista: el cine en Borges”
Thursday, 5:30, Senate Chamber
Concert by Guillermo Gregorio and his trio
Reception, lobby area, Old Capitol
FRIDAY 13 APRIL 2007
Friday, 8:30-10:45, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 3A: Maps (moderated by Sergio Waisman)
Samuel Monder (University of North Carolina, Charlotte): “Del rigor del lenguaje: acerca de Borges y las cartografias de lo Real”
Marcelo Pellegrini (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Joyce, Funes y el (monstruoso) mapa del lenguaje”
Lidia Vásquez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): “Un infinito literario: interpretación de ‘El Aleph’, de Jorge Luis Borges”
Friday, 8:30-10:45, Humanities Gallery
Session 3B: National Literatures (moderated by Kate Jenckes)
Bruno Carvalho (Harvard University): “Charting Brazil in Borges”
David Laraway (Brigham Young University): “Borges among the Basques”
Juan Pablo Dabove (University of Colorado): “Hacia el fin: bandidaje y malevaje en los escritos tardíos de Borges”
Rafael Olea Franco (Colegio de México): “Borges desde México”
Friday, 8:30-10:45, Senate Chamber
Session 3C: Argentina II (moderated by Julio Premat)
Diego Alonso (Reed College): “El sueño de los héroes. Un lenguaje para la patria en la poesía de Borges”
Hernán Feldman (Emory University): “Ilustrar a Borges: política y memoria en Perramus”
Laura Demaría (University of Maryland): “Una vez más Borges lector: teoría de Almafuerte y reflexiones sobre la ética”
Friday, 11:00-12:45, Senate Chamber
Keynote (introduced by Brian Gollnick)
Sylvia Molloy (New York University): “Homecomings”
Friday, 2:00-4:15, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 4A: Popular Culture (moderated by Claire Fox)
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (University of Michigan): “Borges y el cine de culto: ‘La muerte y la brújula’ según Alex Cox”
Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz (Hanover College): “El subterráneo Borges de Moebius”
Raphael Apter (The University of Iowa): “’El milagro secreto’: obra intertextual en juego con Ett drömspel de August Strindberg”
Wilson Orozco (Universidad de Antioquia): “La cultura popular en los cuentos de Bustos Domecq”
Friday 2:00-4:15, Humanities Gallery
Session 4B: English-Speaking World (moderated by Brian Gollnick)
Alfredo Alonso Estenoz (Luther College): “La explicación está en otra parte: Chesterton en ‘Tema del traidor y del héroe’”
Leah Leone (University of Iowa): “Borges's translation of Woolf's Orlando: a biography and the neutralization of sexual difference”
Antonio Cajero (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México): “Entre el orden y el caos: irrupción de la cuarta dimensión en ‘There are more things’”
Friday 2:00-4:15, Senate Chamber
Session 4C: Globes (moderated by Silvia Dapía)
Cristina Bulacio (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán): “Sólo debe decir una palabra y en esa palabra la plenitud”
Pablo Baler (Califrornia State University-Los Angeles): “Desde el jardín: atisbos para una cosmopoética borgeana”
Carlos Mario Mejía (University of Iowa): “’El inmortal’: lectura de una flecha y otras pérdidas”
Maarten Steenmeijer (Radboud University): “De comparado a comparante: Borges como repertorio en la literatura universal”
Friday, 4:30, Senate Chamber
Keynote, introduced by Isabel Barbuzza
Buzz Spector (Cornell University): “. . . one more thing added to the world: the Borges effect on contemporary artists’ books”
Followed by comments by Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
Friday, 5:30, Humanities Gallery
Opening Reception for Art Exhibit
SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2007
Saturday, 8:30-10:45 am, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 5A: Asia (moderated by Andrew Brown)
Mac Williams (Tulane University): “Existential Dilemmas and Zoroastrian Symbolism in ‘Las ruinas circulares’”
Sahil Singh Gujral (Rice University): “Writing about Writing: An Allegorical Interpretation of ‘Las ruinas circulares’”
Ana Maria Dos Santos Delgado (Georgetown University): “Polyphony in the ‘Parábola del Palacio’”
Haiqing Sun (Texas Southern University): “China as a Poetic Scope in Borges’s Fiction”
Saturday, 8:30-10:45 am, Humanities Gallery, Old Capitol
Session 5B: Law (moderated by Laura Demaría)
David Johnson (State University of New York-Buffalo): “The Secret of Culture”
Virginia Berner (State University of New York-Buffalo): “Law and Repetition in ‘El evangelio según Marcos’”
Kate Jenckes (University of Michigan): “Borges before the Law”
Saturday, 8:30-10:45 am, Senate Chamber
Session 5C: History (moderated by Edna Aizenberg)
Mariano Siskind (Harvard University): “The Cultural Politics of Cosmopolitanism: |
Borges and the Specificity of Marginal Modernities”
Sergio Waisman (George Washington University): “El secreto de 'El milagro secreto': traducción y resistencia en la obra de Jaromir Hladík”
Patricio Rizzo (Northeastern Illinois Universtity): “Paisajes e ideologías en ‘El Aleph’”
Silvia Dapía (Purdue North Central): “Borges y el problema del nacionalismo”
Saturday, 11:00-12:45, Senate Chamber (moderated by Alfredo Alfredo Estenoz)
Cristina Parodi (co-founder, Borges Center): “El humor en Bustos Domecq”
Daniel Balderston (University of Iowa): “’Oh Tiempo tus pirámides’: Ruins in Borges”
Saturday, 2:00-4:15, 315 Phillips Hall
Session 6A: France and Portugal (moderated by Luis Martin-Estudillo)
Herbert Craig (University of Nebraska at Kearney): “La novela de Proust/ Ts’ui Pen, según Borges”
Camilo Bogoya (Université de Paris IV): “Borges y Quignard: lectura, tradición e ironía de dos letrados”
Pablo Montoya: “Borges a través de Yourcenar”
Aparecida de Fatima Bueno (Universidade de São Paulo): “Borges revisitado”
Saturday, 2:00-4:15, Humanities Gallery
Session 6B: Theory (moderated by Rafael Olea Franco)
Federico Pous (University of Michigan): “Una aproximación teórica a Borges”
Lon Pearson (University of Nebraska-Kearney): “Symbolism in Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘La muerte y la brújula’ ”
Saturday, 2:00-4:15, Senate Chamber
Session 6C: Argentina III (moderated by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola)
Jorgelina Corbatta (Wayne State University): “Presencia de Borges en la obra de Manuel Puig”
Ariel De la Fuente (Purdue University): “Mark Twain, Borges, and the Problem of Authorship in Revista Multicolor”
Saturday, 4:30, Senate Chamber (moderated by Marina Martín)
Edna Aizenberg (Marymount Manhattan College): “Borges and Topographies of Terror in Contemporary Buenos Aires”
John Peters (University of Iowa): “Borges and Royce”
Ivan Almeida (co-founder, Borges Center): “Borges ‘à la carte’”
Daniel Balderston, Closing Remarks
Art exhibit, April 12, 2007-June 11, 2007
Humanities Gallery, Old Capitol
John Baldessari
Fable, 1977
Hamburg, Germany: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion
On loan from Buzz Spector
Isabel Barbuzza
Universo/universe, 2007
On loan from the artist
Doug Beube
The Silent Question, 2005
On loan from from the artist
Doug Beube
Volume, 2002
On loan from the artist
Christian Boltanski
Archives, 1989
Arles, France: Actes Sud
On loan from Buzz Spector
Christian Boltanski
Inventory of Objects Belonging to a Young Woman of Charleston, 1991
Charleston, SC: Spoleto Festival
On loan from Buzz Spector
Joe Brainard
I Remember, 2001
“Portions of the book were published as I Remember (1970), I Remember More (1972), and More I Remember (1973)
New York: Granary Books
On loan from Buzz Spector
Sophie Calle/ Jean Baudrillard
Suite Vénitienne/ Please Follow Me, 1988
Seattle, WA: Bay Press, Paris, France: Éditions de l’Étoile, 1983
On loan from Buzz Spector
Claude Closky
Tout ce que je peux être, n.d.
Limousin, France: Éditions F.R.A.C.
On loan from Buzz Spector
Claude Closky
A 1000 Things to Do, 1996
Paris, France: Éditions du jour Galerie Agnès B.
On loan from Buzz Spector
Brian Conley
Decipherment of Linear X, 2004
New York: Pierogi, Inc.
On loan from Buzz Spector
Meg Cranston
As I Told You, 1989
Los Angeles, CA: Marc Richards Gallery
On loan from Buzz Spector
Toni Dove
Fugitive Concepts: A Libretto of Fragments: A Chorus, 1989
On loan from the artist
Kenneth Goldsmith
No. 11 2.7.9310.20.96, 1997
Great Barrington, MA: The Figures
On loan from Buzz Spector
Joseph Kosuth
Purloined: a novel, 2000
Cologne, Germany: Salon Verlag
On loan from Buzz Spector
Emma Kay
Worldview, 1999
London, England: Book Works
On loan from Buzz Spector
Sean Kernan
The Secret Books, 1999
On loan from the artist
Jane Lackey
Tips of the Slung: This is the Pun Fart
On loan from the artist
Meredith Lynn
The Aleph and other Stories
On loan from the artist
Ellen Lanyon
Transformations I: 1973-74, 1976
New York: Printed Matter
On loan from Buzz Spector
Sol LeWitt
Ficciones: Jorge Luis Borges, 1984
New York: Limited Editions Club
On loan from Buzz Spector
Sol LeWitt
Autobiography, 1980
New York: Multiples, Inc. and Lois and Michael K. Torf
On loan from Buzz Spector
Margot Lovejoy
Labyrinth, 1991
Purchase, NY: Center for Editions, SUNY College at Purchase
On loan from Buzz Spector
Lenore Malen
The New Society for Universal Harmony, 2005
New York: Granary Books
On loan from Buzz Spector
Joyce Carol Oates
Plagiarized Material by Fernandes, 1974
In Sparrow #19
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press
On loan from Buzz Spector
Daniel Olson
The Outline of History: a reconstituted index, 2004
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Art Metropole
On loan from Buzz Spector
Barry Perlus
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II, 2001-2003
The Jai Prakash at the Delhi Observatory D_JP_5
On loan from the artist
Barry Perlus
The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II, 2001-2003
The Ram Yantra at the Junipur Observatory-J_RY_la
Spherical Rendering Off Axis,
On loan from the artist
Karen Reimer, writing as Eve Rhymer
Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love, 1996
Chicago: Sara Ranchouse Publishing
On loan from Buzz Spector
Colin Sackett
Black Bob, 1989
London, England: Coracle
On loan from Buzz Spector
Sarah Seager
Excuse My Dust, 1992
Ghent, Belgium: Imschoot, Uitgevers
On loan from Buzz Spector
Michael Snow
Cover to Cover, 1975
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
On loan from Buzz Spector
Buzz Spector
Unpacking my Library, 1995
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
On loan from Buzz Spector
Buzz Spector
Borges/Funes, 2005
On loan from the artist
Buzz Spector
The Irony, 2004
On loan from the artist
Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas
Real Fiction: an inquiry into the bookeresque, 1987
Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press
On loan from Buzz Spector
Ulrich Tarlatt
Der Bücherwächter, 1993
On loan from the artist
Jan Voss
Detour, 1989
Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Boekie Woekie
On loan from Buzz Spector
Heather Weston
Borges and I, 2001
On loan from the artist
Heather Weston
Book of Babel, 2001
On loan from the artist
Janet Zweig and Holly Anderson
Sheherezade, 1988
Long Island City, NY: Sherezade
On loan from Buzz Spector
Concert April 12, 2007
Gallery of the Old Capitol
Otras Musicas (and Something Else)
First set: “The Argentine Historical Avant-garde”
Tres Invenciones a Dos Voces Juan Carlos Paz
10 Piezas sobre una Serie en 12 tonos Op. 30 Juan Carlos Paz
Tercera Sonatina Op. 25 Juan Carlos Paz
Jeff Kowalkowski, piano
Second set: “Otras Musicas and (Neo)Madipieces
Otra Musica 1 (2004) Guillermo Gregorio
Otra Musica 5 (2004) Guillermo Gregorio
Madipiece 1 (1999) Guillermo Gregorio
Madipiece 3 (1999) Guillermo Gregorio
Slipped Structure(s) 2006 Guillermo Gregorio
Ekstiml 5 (1972) Juan Carlos Paz
Guillermo Gregorio, clarinet, A clarinet, alto clarinet; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone, miscellaneous percussion; Jeff Kowalkowski, piano; Kevin Davis, violoncello
Earlier events on Borges at the University of Iowa include:
Floyd Merrell lecture, "Borges: Paradoxes of Thought and Other Quandaries," 17 April 2006
Borges Centenary Symposium, April 1999, with participation by Juan José Saer, Sylvia Molloy and others, and an exhibit of Borges manuscripts curated by Nicolás Helft
