INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“The Romanian Avant-garde between Bucharest, Paris and Tel-Aviv”
Jerusalem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus, 12-14 Dec. 2010
PROGRAM
Sunday, December 12, Beth Mayersdorf
17.00 Opening Session
Greetings
Moshe Idel, Moshe Taube, Gina Pană, Ditza Goshen
Opening session
17.00 – 19.00
Ion Pop: L’avangarde roumaine: tendences, évolutions, posterité
Moshe Idel: Kabbala and Avant-garde: Some preliminary remarks
Cocktail
Monday, December 13, Rabin Building (3rd floor, room 3001)
Session One
9.30 – 11. 00
Chair: Augustin Ioan
Ovidiu Morar: The cosmopolitan aspects of the Romanian Avant-garde
Camelia Crăciun: “Marginal rebels versus mainstream critics: the dilemma
of the Emancipation generation”.
Cosana Nicolae Eram: Isidore Isou’s Long Journey towards Himself
Session Two (in French)
11.30 -13.00
Chair: Cyril Aslanov
Petre Răileanu: Gherasim Luca, un nom et un égarement
Marilena Braester: Ilarie Voronca – poète du parfait bonheur (autour de “Petit manuel
du parfait bonheur”)
Discussant: Ion Pop
Lunch
Session Three
15.00-16.30
Chair: Paul Cernat
Cyril Aslanov: Paul Celan from Avant-gardism to Post-modernism
Michael Finkenthal : Benjamin Fondane, Sesto Pals: interferences with the Avant-garde
On Sesto Pals – an interview with Lucy Metsch-Sestopali (short documentary, in
Romanian, presented by Costel Safirman)
Session Four
17.00-19.00
Marcel Janco: The Avant-garde architecture
Augustin Ioan: Actuality of Marcel Iancu’s unbuilt architectural work
Simona Or-Munteanu and Iris Aravot (Adviser): Was the Interbellum Modernism of
Romanian Jewish architects a quest for Avant-garde?
Marcel Janco – the last image (Israeli documentary presented by Costel Safirman)
Reception
Tuesday, December 14
Session Five
9.30 – 13.00
Chair: Leon Volovici
Jewish artists and writers in Romanian Avant-garde
Paul Cernat : The Jews in Romanian Avant-garde: between the consciousness
of periphery and internationalization
Radu Stern: Why so many Jews?
Vlad Solomon: Jewish identity and Zionism: Marcel Janco
Milly Heyd: Between universalism and particularism: Tristan Tzara and Marcel Ianco
Special Lecture:
Tom Sandquist: Aspects of Jewish influence on Central and Eastern European
Modernism: Synthatism Versus Stylistic Purity
Lunch
16.00
Concluding Round-table: The Romanian avant-garde: Periphery and Center
Michael Finkenthal (moderator), Paul Cernat, Ovidiu Morar, Ion Pop, Petre Răileanu, Leon Volovici
