Walter Benjamin Portbou Summer School
2023
22-24/09/23: VIII edition. History and memory Exile and Resistance.
Speakers: Cari Oriol Serres, Jordi Palou-Loverdos, Carmen Alda Elorza, Sara Barroso, Maria Gelpí, Amalia Rodríguez Monroy and Maria Mailat.
Advance of the opera in the Liceo Benjamin in Portnbou, by the composer Antoni Ros Marbà. Exhibition Flucht, with photographs by Espe Pons; screening of the film Die Wasser des Bug (The Bug’s Waters) by Marc Sagnol, about Paul Celan's experience of the genocide. Book presentations: Paul Celan and Walter Benjamin, poems translated by Antoni Pous, with prologue by Maria Maïlat. Poem "Portbou - German?", by Paul Celan, translated for the first time into Catalan by Arnau Ferré Samon, and Las sin sombrero [Women without hat], by Tania Balló, artists and writers of the generation of the 27th, with the presence of the author, and Walter Benjamin & la tempesta del progress `Walter Benjamin & the storm of progress, by Agnès Sinai.