Convegno su Primo Levi

[27-3-1998]

"Primo Levi: Witnessing, Memory and Writing"

April 25-27, 1998

Boston University

SATURDAY APRIL 25:

8:30 PM Films on Primo Levi, including "Return to Auschwitz"

"An Interview with Primo Levi," presented by Luigi Fontanella, SUNY

Stony Brook

SUNDAY APRIL 26:

Session I: Reason and Testimony

10 AM- 12 PM

"Primo Levi's Ethical Humanism," Bryan Cheyette, Univ. of London

"News from the Sky: Poetry, Science, and Testimony in Primo Levi,"

Massimo Lollini, Univ. of Oregon

"Memory in Context: Survival in Auschwitz in 1946-7," Robert Gordon,

Cambridge Univ.

Session II: Levi and the Exigencies of Science

1:30 - 3:30 PM

"Roots and Reactions: Levi's Perspectives on Science," Mirna Cicioni,

Monash Univ.

"Science as Conscience," Nancy Harrowitz, Boston Univ.

"Levi's 'Other World': Science and Science Fiction in Natural Stories,"

Alfredo Luzi, Univ di Macerata

Respondent: Mario Bagioli, Harvard Univ.

4:30 PM:

Boston Premiere of Francesco Rosi's "The Truce"

MONDAY APRIL 27

Session III: Reception and Context

9-10 AM

"Little Known Dimensions of a Great Holocaust Writer," Ruth Feldman

"Primo Levi: Critical Response and Public Reception, Joseph Farrell,

Strathclyde Univ.

Session IV: Levi's "The Truce": From Text to Film

10:15-12:15 PM

"Storytelling and the Picaresque in Levi's The Reawakening," JoAnn

Cannon, UC Davis

"Filming the Text of Witness: 'The Truce' According to Rosi," Millicent

Marcus, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Roundtable Discussion: Levi Represented in Film

Moderator: T. Jefferson Kline, Boston Univ.

Millicent Marcus, Univ. of Texas

Bryan Cheyette, Univ. of London

Claretta Tonetti, Boston Univ.

Risa Sodi, Yale Univ.

Session V: Memory, Language, Communication

1:15-3:30 PM

"Primo Levi: Resisting the Habits of Hell," Susanna Egan, Univ. of

British Columbia

"Body, Memory and Femininity in Primo Levi's Writings," Giuseppina

Santagostino, Turin

"Minding the Gap: Levi's Theatre of the Inexpressible," Ellen Nerenberg,

Wesleyan Univ.

"At Loggerheads with Lager Jargon: The Untranslatable in Primo Levi,"

Pietro Frassica, Princeton Univ.

Session VI: Teaching Primo Levi

4-6 PM

Moderator: Susan Suleiman, Harvard Univ.

Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College

Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College

Ilona Klein, Brigham Young Univ.

Nicholas Patruno, Bryn Mawr College

Jan Darsa,"Facing History and Ourselves"

For information on registration, please call the Boston Univeristy

Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, (617) 353-2642, or

Prof, Nancy Harrowitz, Conference organizer, (617) 353-6207. Admission is

free, and pregistration is advised.