12 de març, 2011

Un qüentu txinu

Activitat acadèmica dels darrers dies: el senyor Andrew Moravcsik, una patum de Princeton expert en la Unió europea va xerrar la setmana passada sobre Europa com a segona superpotència i no pas la Xina, com alguns indocumentats defensen a cals ianquis. Al final li vaig fer una pregunta i em va demanar d'on era. En respondre-li que de Catalunya, el proper estat d'Europa, em va respondre tot sec "it's not up to you". Sembla que la gent pragmàtica i pròxima al poder no creu en la força de la democràcia...


El dilluns 14 he anat per primer cop a Reed College; molt clàssic, li dedicaré un post. Les dues conferències que hi he escoltat eren bastant diferents (en reprodueixo els resums perquè les pàgines web no són accessibles individualment):

Divisional Speaker: Caryl Emerson
“Tolstoy and Shakespeare: Centennial Comments on a Very Famous Feud”

4:30 p.m., Eliot 314

This illustrated lecture surveys Tolstoy’s life-long animosity toward Shakespeare, and—beginning in 1906, when George Berhard Shaw sent Tolstoy a copy of his Man and Superman—the role played in this saga by Shaw: an epistolary debate between two titans over theatrical truth, the tyranny of the “classics” over our healthy moral appetites, and the form and purposes of dramatic art. Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, chair of the Slavic department, and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. The lecture is sponsored by the Division of Literature and Languages.

Ostrow Lecture: Joseph Leo Koerner

“Hieronymus Bosch: Enemy Painting”

7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall

The Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Series brings Joseph Leo Koerner to the Reed campus. Koerner is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard and is best known for his work on German art. Koerner has organized teaching exhibitions at Harvard on Early Netherlandish Painting, German Renaissance Art, Pieter Bruegel, and Netherlandish Prints 1550–1675. At the Austrian National Gallery in 1997, he curated a retrospective of the work of his father, the painter Henry Koerner. In 2002, he collaborated with Bruno Latour and others on the exhibition Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. He wrote and presented the three-part series Northern Renaissance for BBC Television, as well as the feature-length documentary Vienna: City of Dreams, which premiered on the BBC in December 2007. Winner of the Jan Mitchell Prize for the History of Art in 1992, Koerner is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows. Koerner received the 2009 Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award.

Ja no en queden gaire més, que estan d'exàmens; m'hauré de dedicar a l'escrable...

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