Colloquium Walter Benjamin 2014: WW I and its consequences under the light of Walter Benjamin

PROGRAM: World War I certified the advent of a new age and marked the beginning of an unprecedented period of ideological and political militancy in Europe since 1848. In the new arena, which opened in August 1914 , culture, science and politics were deeply affected: new ways of analyzing the new reality, renewed literary genres, philosophical approaches and artistic perspectives were born.

With this general framework in mind, this year's Walter Benjamin International Colloquium sets out to analyze, from the centrality of the German philosopher, the various aspects that derived from the conflict from the analysis of historians, philosophers, philologists. and experts in art and culture.

Friday, September 26

17.30h: Opening

6pm: Jordi Ibáñez Fanés (Pompeu Fabra University), Walter Benjamin and the avant-garde idea

19:00 h: Josep Casals (University of Barcelona), Walter Benjamin, between Berlin, Paris and Moscow: transitions to a new horizon of experience

Saturday, September 27

10:30 a.m. Javier Rodrigo (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Concentrating Europe, 1914-1945.

11:30 am: Félix Duque (Autonomous University of Madrid), Wrought iron and steel storms

4:00 pm: Maximiliano Fuentes (University of Girona), The Great War in Spain and Catalonia: readings on neutrality in a warlike context

17:00 Xavier Pla (University of Girona), New trades, new narrative genres, new critical questions. The writer-journalist on the front of World War I.

18: 00h: Tribute to the cemetery of Portbou. Floral offering, reading of poems and speeches.

7:00 pm: Screening of fragments of films about the Great War and subsequent discussion with Ramon Girona (University of Girona)

Sunday, September 28

8: 00h Route "Walter Benjamin, last passage" (Travel Program of the Arts)

Walking route, Banyuls de la Marenda-Portbou, along the path that Walter Benjamin took, accompanied by readings of his literary and philosophical work.

With the intervention of the artist Patrícia Fernández and the guidance of Clara Garí (Nau Côclea).

The Journey of the Arts is a project of Nau Côclea.

Route of medium difficulty. It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes, water and good physical fitness.