Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Series Conference: Transmission and Tradition: From Misunderstanding and Discomfort By Dr Ricardo Forster, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Description:
What lies beneath every gesture of the act of transmission? What languages are we to find for un-veiling what is yours and what is the other's? What are we supposed to forget and/or recall, if memory is much more than an arbitrary relationship with the past? What can be taught and how can we do that at a time when no words seem to last further than instants and people run hastily to new settings and new subjectivities? How can we deal with younger generations? Is our so-called hospitality a recognition or a rejection of differences? Our words are fragile as, even though we may know exactly where they come from, we are never sure of where they are going or trying to go.
{Will appear in FYI on Nov 5, 2009
Start Time:
4:00 PM
End Time:
6:00 PM
Room:
Maryland Room
Common Location Name:
Marie Mount
Other Contact Information:
SPAP office
+1 301 405 6441
mmunoz2@umd.edu
