WORLD AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Conference

Literary Imaginary and the Poetics of Truth

February 13-17, 2012

"Literary Imaginary and the Poetics of Truth" conference presented by the Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Project Humanities (Central European Cultural Collaborative in the Department of English, the Romanian Studies Lectorate in the School of International Letters and Cultures, and the Honorary Consulate General of Romania in AZ) and the Babeş- Bolyai University (Departments of World and Comparative Literature and Romanian Language), in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, will explore different approaches to the specific competences of Comparatism (World and Comparative Literature) today.

Hosted by Arizona State University, this conference continues and extends the academic exchanges between the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and its academic partners, the Babes-Bolyai University and Arizona State University.

Presiding: Ruxandra Cesereanu, Babeş-Bolyai University; Ileana Orlich, Arizona State University

Babeş-Bolyai University Speakers: Corin Braga, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Ştefan Borbely, Doru Pop, Horea Poenar and Cornel Vilcu

ASU Organizing Committee: Julieta Paulesc, Carmen Borbely and Dacian Barbosu

 

Schedule of events


LITERARY IMAGINARY and POETICS OF TRUTH


Monday, February 13
12:00-2:00 PM
Corin BRAGA
"Ernesto Sabato: The Blindness Complex"
ASU Tempe Durham Lang. & Lit Bldg., Room 316


Tuesday, February 14
12:00-2:00 PM
Ruxandra CESEREANU
"'Saint'" Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov and "'The Demons'" of His Time: Bulgakov's Diary vis-a-vis The Master and Margarita"
ASU Tempe Discovery Bldg., Room 150


Wednesday, February 15
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Ștefan BORBĖLY
"The Literary Pursuits of a Historian of Religions: The Case of Ioan Petru Culianu"
ASU Tempe Durham Lang. & Lit Bldg., Room 316


Thursday, February 16
12:00-2:00 PM
Doru POP
"Reading Literature through Cinematic Devices: Peter Esterhazy's She Loves Me"
Lattie F. Cor Bldg., Room 199


Friday, February 17
12:00-2:00 PM
Horea POENAR
"The Life of Fiction: Hemingway's Literary Continuity"
ASU Tempe Durham Lang. & Lit Bldg., Room 316


Friday, February 17
3:30-5:00 PM
Cornel VILCU
"Thomas Mann: Reflections on Time"
ASU Tempe Durham Lang. & Lit Bldg., Room 316


Additional information about the upcoming conference can be accessed here.