Conference: Trans-Poetic Exchange: Around Blanco & Campos de Paz
The “Trans-Poetic Exchange: Around Blanco & Campos de Paz Colloquium” proposed by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature was awarded a 2009-10 Arts Events & Programs Grant from the ý Institute for Creativity & the Arts (SICA).
The event will be coordinated by Professor Marilia Librandi Rocha, Professor Joan Ramon Resina and Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
The “Trans-Poetic Exchange” will be a two-day art event and colloquium around the poetic and intellectual world created by Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003), where video poems, poetry readings, and scholarly debates are dedicated to the poem "Blanco" and its transcreation by the poet of "Galaxies" in a multiversal comparative perspective. The event will host internationally renowned poets and scholars from Brazil (André Vallias and Antonio Cícero), Catalonia (Frederic Amat), Japan (Keijiro Suga), and the United States (Jerome Rothenberg, Marjorie Perloff, Enrico Mario Santí).
For more information about the event please visit: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/cgi-bin/web/node/1071