Thursday, February 20, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Observatorio Cervantes at Harvard (2 Arrow St, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA)
This in-person event will be conducted in Spanish. Click here to RSVP.
Next Thursday, February 20, the Observatorio will welcome the writers Pablo Maurette, Julia Kornberg, and Pablo Martín Ruiz for another edition of "Conversaciones en el Observatorio". This time, the discussion will revolve around the theme "Más acá y más allá de la literatura argentina: escribir y traducir en estos Estados Unidos" . The conversation will be moderated by Mariano Siskind, professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Pablo Maurette was born in Buenos Aires and divides his time between Italy and the United States. He studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, late antique and Byzantine studies at the University of London (Royal Holloway College), and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a professor at Florida State University, where he teaches Renaissance comparative literature with a focus on the intersections of science, intellectual history, and classical traditions. His books include the essay collections La carne viva (Mardulce), El sentido olvidado. Ensayos sobre el tacto (Mardulce), ¿Por qué creemos en las historias? (Capital Intelectual), and Atlas ilustrado del cuerpo humano (Clave Intelectual), as well as the novels Migración (Mardulce) and La niña de oro (Anagrama). He is also a screenwriter, and his film Quizás hoy (directed by Sergio Corach) competed at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) in 2017.
Julia Kornberg was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in New York. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Sarah Lawrence College, and Princeton University, where she is completing her Ph.D. She is the author of the chapbook Los infiernos analógicos (María Susana Editora) and the novel Atomizado Berlín (published by Club Hem in Argentina and Scaraboquio in Mexico). At the end of 2024, Astra Publishing House released Berlin Atomized, her self-translation and reworking of her first novel. Along with Paula Puebla, she co-authored Diario de un tiempo mesiánico, a chronicle of Argentina’s miraculous month at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. She regularly contributes essays, fiction, and criticism to The New York Review of Books, The Jewish Review of Books, The Drift, Bookforum, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Baffler, and other publications.
Pablo Martín Ruiz was born in San Francisco, California, grew up in Buenos Aires, and now lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. He studied music composition, mathematics, and physics before shifting his focus to literature and linguistics at the University of Buenos Aires and later to comparative literature at Princeton University. He is a professor of Latin American literature at Tufts University in Boston. His works include the essay Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature Leading Mostly to Borges and Oulipo (Dalkey Archive) and Caja continua de voces I (Tenemos las máquinas), a collection of poems, short stories, essays, lists, travel narratives, palindromes, images, and notes. This year, he is set to publish the second volume of Caja continua de voces. Alongside Claudia Fontes and Paula Fleisner, he co-founded La Intermundial Holobiente (https://holobiente.org), a platform for art, philosophy, and literature. Through this initiative, they developed El libro de las diez mil cosas for the contemporary art exhibition Documenta Fifteen in Kassel; a dual edition of the book is forthcoming from Steidl. He is also a founding member of Outranspo ("Ouvroir de translation potencial"), an experimental translation collective of scholars, writers, and translators from different countries dedicated to creative and innovative approaches to translation. The group has published a dossier in English in Drunken Boat and in French in remue.net.