V Walter Benjamin Summer School Portbou 2020. From 25 to 27 September THE BORDER Languages: Catalan, Spanish and French. Free admission, reservations: OF MEMORY [email protected] Tel: + 34. 660 82 70 23 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WALTER BENJAMIN More information: 75 YEARS SINCE THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST www.passatgescultura,org www.walterbenjaminportbou.org

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With the collaboration of: V WALTER BENJAMIN SUMMER SCHOOL PORTBOU 2020 Graphic design and photography: Manel Gràvalos FROM 25 TO 27 SEPTEMBER Cover photo: pebbles on Portbou beach PROGRAM Friday, September 25th 11:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Break The Porous Borders of Francisco García, Marta Photography and Walter García, Sebastià Masramon, From 25 to 27 September 2020 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. 11:30 a.m.-12:00 m. Benjamin. Daniel Morán, Vanessa Roca, Ca l’Herrero Civic Center Cari Oriol Serres Jean-Yves i Michèle Troel A collaboration with the Alex Wix. Curators. Neus Solà Méndez Núñez, 2. Portbou Philologist and professor of Translators. Fotolimo Festival. and David del Campo. literature. Presentation of the A collaboration with Fotolimo Women writers and victims translation of the book Le 6:00 p.m.-19:30 p.m. Festival. THE BORDER OF MEMORY of the Holocaust, including passage de frontière by Round table on photography 80th anniversary of the death of Walter Benjamin Gertrud Kolmar, Walter Ann Bridge from English from the “ALADERIVA” Walter Benjamin House 75 years since the end of the Holocaust Benjamin’s cousin. to French, with a chapter workshop held in Portbou. especially dedicated to Topic: “Inhabiting borders” 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the death of 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Cerbère-Portbou Participants: Irma Estrada: Presentation of the new the thinker and intellectual Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Carme Alda Anthropologist and specialist edition of Walter Benjamin’s when he decided to end his life on September 26, 1940 Psychoanalyst. Member 12:00 a.m. -13:00 p.m. in urban contexts; Sebastià book. Art and mass in this border town when he fled into exile and learned of the World Association Claudia Kálasz Masramón, co-founder of the literature. Translation by that he would be repatriated. It was a fateful date for of Lacanian Orientation Claudia Kálasz. PhD in group “Les Octavianes”, who Antoni Pous (Manlleu, 1932- this intellectual who in the same year of his death and Psychoanalysis (AMP). philosophy with a thesis have collaborated with Macba 1976), professor in Tübingen, after seven years of exile (1933-1940) wrote the theses Walter Benjamin: “A on Friedrich Hölderlin. She and Neus Solà and David published by the Angelus On the concept of History, premonitory of the historical fantastic melancholy has been a professor at the del Campo, co-founders of Novus Foundation and situation today, of the rise of authoritarianisms, of the dominated”. Goethe-Institut Barcelona. “ALADERIVA”. Edicions Reremús, with cover advance of unbridled capitalism and of the possibilities She is a literary translator of by Sacha Brylla, participant of emancipation breaking the course of history, when the 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.: Break 20th century Catalan poetry Walter Benjamin House from Berlin in the Walter past bursts into the present. The conditions of the exile of into German. He has written Benjamin Summer School Walter Benjamin, an intellectual devoted to research and 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. about the correspondence 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. 2016. Presentation of the investigation in turbulent times, undermined a persona- Poetic readings between the artist Francesc Performance show Jamel book: Carles Duarte. lity of privileged intelligence that still sheds light on the Gertrud Kolmar, Charlotte Abad and Walter Benjamin. Ibntrewan-Lost in Berlin, leading intellectuals of our time. Portbou, a wild border of Delbo, Anna Akhamatova, Infinite hope, only not for us. by Catherine Estrade and Screening of the short film smuggling culture, is also a “border of memory”, but where Hermann Hesse, among Why wasn’t Walter Benjamin Vincent Commaret, with The Angel of History (Angelus 300,000 people fled in exile from the Civil War from south others. saved? music, texts and projections. Novus), by Eric Esser, with to north, but also many German intellectuals who cros- the presence of the director. sed the Pyrenees from north to the south, as Alma Mahler, Saturday, September 26th 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday, September 27th Resident of the Portbou Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, and also Walter Benjamin. Maria Maïlat Border Film Festival 2014 The 5th edition of the Walter Benjamin Summer School is 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Anthropologist, writer and Portbou station. Duane and awarded a scholarship dedicated to the “frontier of memory”. We will talk about Marta Simó teacher at the ARTEFA center. Customs Hall for the Rencontres Benjamin’s years of exile through his correspondence, PhD in Sociology from the She has been an associate Cinématographiques de but also about the literature, art, and theater that some UAB. Specialist in Jewish professor at the University of 10.00 a.m. -10:30 a.m. Cerbère. women, educators, and intellectuals brought to culture Identities and the Holocaust Paris V and Paris VIII. Performance by Rosa Brugat: and who died victims of the Holocaust. We will remember from Jagiellonian University Walter Benjamin and the Passeport to the stars. Cimetière de Port-Bou their poetry and their creations. in Krakow and Moscow concept of History ... 80 years University. Researcher in the later. 10:30 a.m. -11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ISOR Research Group (UAB) Opening of the exhibition of Floral offering and poetic and Professor in the MIDE 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. photographs INSULA from readings. Commemorative Department of the UB. Christian Gattinoni, artist, the ALADERIVA workshop. event with Mayor Portbou, The memory of the critic, theorist and teacher of Participants: Max Álvarez, Xavier Barranco, and other Holocaust in Spain. photography, Paris. Paolo Bernardi, Irma Estrada, authorities.