2024-08-22 11:00:00
August 19th to 24th, sky Borges 2024 In honor of the 125th anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest writers: Jorge Luis Borges. The following August 24th is Readers’ Day, so this week is called “Readers Week”.
Conferences, screenings, guided tours, roundtables, reading workshops and poetry gatherings Different events will be held in different locations in the city of Buenos Aires, with the participation of writers, artists and experts on Borges’s work.
This memorial service is organized by Borges International Foundation, UBAcyT Team “Borges and the Bible” (FFyL,UBA), Municipal Library, Borges Cultural Center and National Library, All activities are free and open to the public (advanced registration is required to participate in the seminar).
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The full schedule for this Wednesday is below, for more information please write to [email protected].
Thursday 22
Borges Cultural Center – Viamonte 525
17:30. Meeting Borges’s course in Mar del Plata (1966). Mariela Blanco (University of Mar del Plata-CONICET).
19. Meetings Tour the Cakchikel Indians. About Jorge Luis Borges’s The Writing of God. Enrique Foffani (University of Buenos Aires-Universidad Nacional de La Plata).
Friday the 23rd
Borges Cultural Center – Viamonte 525
17. Reading Workshop: “The theme of traitors and heroes. Between the Bible and The Simpsons”. Coordinator: UBACyT research group “Borges and the Bible” (UBA Faculty of Philosophy and Literature). Must read: “The Theme of Traitors and Heroes” (novel). Additional reading: “The Sign of the Broken Sword” (GK Chesterton, Father Brown’s Frankness), “Lisa, the Iconoclast” (The Simpsons episode) Season 7, Episode 16.
19. Meetings Baroque Borges. Carlos Gamero (University of Buenos Aires)
Saturday 24
Miguel Cane Library – Carlos Calvo 4318 (CABA)
12. Young Readers Award
14. Borges’ Library/1. Guided tour of the Miguel Canet Library. Coordinator: Germán Álvarez (Director, BNMM Borgian Research Center).
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Former National Library – Mexico 564 (CABA)
15:30. Borges’ Library/2. Guided tour of the National Library’s historic headquarters
Coordinator: Laura Rosato (Director, BNMM Borgian Research Center).
Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation. Ankrena 1660
17:30. A poetic gathering. They read and commented on the poetry of Borges: Germán Álvarez, Andrea Bonelli, Sebastián de Caro, Rom Freschi, Eleonora González Capria, Alejandra Laera, Facundo Oviedo, Hernán Ronsino, Laura Rosato and Francisco Ruiz Barlett.
19. Closing Ceremony. María Victoria Kodama (President, Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation) and Fernando Flores Maio (Vice President, Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation).
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