VI Jornades Marçalianes "Dolor de ser i no ser tu: desig"

The VI Jornades Marçalianes, entitled "Dolor de ser i no ser tu: desig", will take place throughout the month of November. The program combines a symposium, which will be held at Cambridge, and several cultural activities in Barcelona. The symposium, coordinated by Marta Segarra (CNRS / Universitat de Barcelona), Brad Epps and Natasha Tana (University of Cambridge), will tackle the issues of sexuality, desire, eroticism and corporal dissidence in Marçal’s work. Participants will include Marta Font and Helena González (ADHUC), Maria Sevilla (Universitat de Barcelona), Elisenda Marcer (University of Birmingham), Dominic Keown (University of Cambridge), Helena Buffery (University College Cork) and Heura Marçal (Fundació Maria-Mercè Marçal). The cultural programme has been coordinated by Mireia Calafell, Marta Font and Heura Marçal and includes: an exhibition of the works by seven young artists, such as Ruth Cepedano, Andrea Torres Balaguer and Mateu Targa; a concert by Meritxell Gené; and a poetry reading in which fifteen poets will read Marçal's work in dialogue with their own (some of the poets will be Míriam Cano, Eduard Escoffet, Sònia Moll, Josep Pedrals and Blanca Llum Vidal). Furthermore, there will be two book presentations: of a diary, by Josefa Contijoch; and of a poetic anthology with Marçal's poems translated into Spanish by Neus Aguado.  

The symposium in Cambridge is free to attend and open to all, but registration is required: https://jornadesmarcalianes.eventbrite.com