THE FUTURE OF BORGES STUDIESMarch 21-23, 2018 • University of Pittsburgh

A conference to celebrate the new formal agreement for cooperation between the Borges Center of the University of Pittsburgh and

the Centro Borges de Documentación of the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, the National Library of Argentina

Co-sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Faculty Research Support Program of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences,

the Humanities Center and the University Honors College.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 21HUMANITIES CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH602 CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING

1:00 p.m.Welcome from Daniel Balderston, Director, Borges Center; Jerome Branche, Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures; Jonathan Arac, Director, Humanities Center; Belkys Torres, Associate Director, University Council on International Studies; Karen Goldman, Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies; Kathleen Blee, Dean, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

1:30 p.m. Alberto Manguel, Writer and Director, National Library of Argentina: “Borges, the Universal Librarian”

2:30 p.m.Book presentations, part 1 (books from the Biblioteca Nacional)

THURSDAY MARCH 22HUMANITIES CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH602 CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING

9:00 a.m. Copyright issues: Roundtable with Leonardo Pitlevnik, Nora Benedict and others

10:00 a.m. Mapping Borges: Nora Benedict DIGITAL COMMONS AREA, HILLMAN LIBRARY

11:00 a.m. Integrating the Borges Center and Centro Borges Web Pages: David Mundie, Nora Benedict, Germán Álvarez, Laura Rosato, Daniel Balderston, Sylvia Saítta

11:45 a.m. Borges Letters: Daniel Balderston and María Julia Rossi

12:15 p.m. Borges Manuscripts: Daniel Balderston

12:45 p.m. Mariela Blanco, “En busca del habla de Borges. Conferencias entre 1949 y 1952”

lunch break

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2:00 p.m. Alfredo Alonso Estenoz (Luther College), “Argentina y Cuba: política y recepción de la obra de Borges”

2:30 p.m. Nora Benedict (Princeton University), “Books about Books and Books as Material Artifacts: Metabibliography in Jorge Luis Borges’s El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”

3:00 p.m. Sylvia Saítta (Universidad de Buenos Aires-Conicet), “Jorge Luis Borges, entre Florida y el martinfierrismo”

coffee break

4:00 p.m. Germán Álvarez and Laura Rosato (Centro Borges de Documentación, Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno), “Colección Jorge Luis Borges de la Biblioteca Nacional: una hipótesis de trabajo”

Discussion

FRIDAY, MARCH 23HUMANITIES CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH602 CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING

9:00 a.m.Sebastián Urli (Bowdoin College), “Soñamos una esfinge: poesía e imagen en Borges”

9:30 a.m. María Julia Rossi (John Jay College, City University of New York), “El policial sudamericano tongue in cheek. Pistas materiales e ideológicas para leer los textos rioplatenses de El Séptimo Círculo (1945-1956)”

10:00 a.m.María Celeste Martín (Emily Carr University of Art + Design), “Transcripciones tipográficas de los manuscritos de Borges”

coffee break

11:00 a.m. Leonardo Pitlevnik (Universidad de Buenos Aires), “En torno a ‘El hombre en el umbral’ y las formas de juzgar”

11:30 a.m.Martín Gaspar (Bryn Mawr College), “Cofradías imaginadas: Borges y el tamaño de la comunidad ideal”

lunch break

1:30 p.m. Mariela Blanco (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata-Conicet), “Individuo vs. pueblo. Un binomio en tensión en las escrituras de Borges y Marechal”

2:15 p.m. Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh, “Revelando las falacias del nacionalismo: un ensayo político de Borges, de ‘Viejo hábito argentino’ a ‘Nuestro pobre individualismo’ (1946)”

3:00 p.m. Book presentations, part 2 (Borges Center books)

Final discussion