October 28 | Asia Society
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5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rose Conference Room, 8th floor
After the survivor
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University), Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), Uri Cohen (Columbia University), Robert Gordon (Cambridge University)
Translation and Context: Japan and Korea
Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Marco Belpoliti (University of Bergamo), John Treat (Yale University), Robert Gordon (Cambridge University), Michael Moore (translator of The Drowned and the Saved).
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Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Department of Religion at Columbia University. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has written on Primo Levi in The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003).
Uri Cohen is a professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli culture at Columbia University. He is the author of Survival: Senses of Death between the World Wars in Italy and Palestine as well as a novel "Resting in Peace" and a documentary film "Ida Fink Traces of a Life" (Jerusalem Festival 2004), his book on the poetics of Orly Castel Bloom is about to appear. He has published on variety of topics that range from the prose of Primo Levi to Israeli cinema. Has edited and introduced the translation of Giorgio Agamben's Remnants of Auschwitz into Hebrew and is currently writing on Hebrew cultures of war.
Manuela Consonni is professor of Italian Culture and Literature and of Modern and Contemporary Jewish History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem. She is the Head of the Italian Studies Program at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote a monograph on the Memory of the Deportation and Extermination in Italy between 1945-1985. She published extensively on Jewish-Christian Relations after WW II, on Memory and Identity Issues, and on Gender questions. Her current research has the working title "Bracketing Death: Philosophical and Anthropological Analysis of Death and the History of the Shoah". The research project combines the classical sources of the Shoah with a philosophical-anthropological analysis of Death. At the Hebrew University, she is part of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Italia - On the History and the Literature of Italian Jewry".
Robert S. C. Gordon has taught at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is currently Reader in Modern Italian Culture at Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He specializes in modern Italian literature, cinema and cultural history. He is the author of a history of modern Italian literature, A Difficult Modernity and several and several monographic studies.
He has written and edited a number of books on Primo Levi, including The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (2007, with Marco Belpoliti), the English edition of Levi's collected interviews, The Voice of Memory (2000), and the first English-language edition of The Auschwitz Report (2006), Levi's medical report on Auschwitz co-written with Leonardo Debenedetti. In 2009 he gave the inaugural Primo Levi Lecture in Turin, at the opening of the Centro Studi Internazionale Primo Levi. The lecture has been published as Sfacciata fortuna'. La Shoah e il caso (2010).
Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, specializing in the history of modern Japan. Her books include Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, 1985; Showa: the Japan of Hirohito,1992; Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon (2009); and her forthcoming Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory; in Japanese, Toward Autonomy in US-Japan Relations with Wada Haruki and Kang Sangjung, 2003 and Thinking with History, 2007.
Marco Belpoliti, writer and essayist, is the curator of Primo Levi's Complete Works in Italian (Einaudi, 1997) as well as of the postomous publications: Conversations and Interviews (Einaudi 1997); The Last Christmas of War (Einaudi 2000); Asimmery and Life (Einaudi 2002). He is the author of: L'occhio di Calvino (Einaudi 1996), Moro's Photo (Nottetempo 2008); Il corpo del capo (Guanda 2009), Senza vergogna (Guanda). He is co-director of the magazine "Riga" and curator of the monographic issues on Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Alberto Arbasino, Saul Steinberg, Antonio Delfini, Alberto Giacometti, and Gianni Celati. He is a contributor of the Turin daily "La Stampa" and "L'Espresso". He curated the film Primo Levi's Journey directed by Davide Ferrario. He teaches at the University of Bergamo.
John Treat is a professor of Japanese and Korean at Yale University. He has taught at Berkeley, Texas, Washington, Stanford and Seoul National. His History of A-bomb literature in Japan, Writing Ground Zero, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995, and its Japanese translation appeared this year from Hosei University Press.