Workshop Dialogues: Literature, Aesthetics and Theology (LET)
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UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA ARGENTINA
FACULTIES OF:
THEOLOGY
PHILOSOPHY AND LETTERS
1st Workshop: Dialogues between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology.
In order to create a place of interdisciplinary dialogue, the Department of Letters took the initiative of making the Working Days: Dialogues Between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology as a joint undertaking from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the Faculty of Theology and the Institute for Knowledge Integration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, which took place on May 30-31, 2002.
Dr. Cecilia Avenatti de Palumbo (Director) and Prof. Verónica Muñoz (Secretary) were in charge of the organization. The Working Days were structured around three subject matters and a specialist was in charge of each of them: Bible and Literature (Ba. Luis Rivas); Literature, Aesthetics and Theology: Speech analysis, interpretation and interrelationship (Dr. Carmen Balzer); The creating experience in the words of the artists (Dr. Héctor Mandrioni).
The Opening Act had the participation of the Deans of the Faculty of Theology, Dr. Ricardo Ferrara, and of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Dr. Héctor Delbosco, and also of the Director of the Letters’ Department, Dr. Sofía Carrizo Rueda and the Director of the Institute for Knowledge Integration, Dr. Fernando Ortega. Everybody agreed that the realization of these Working Days was special because it represented a sign of hope faced with the unheard-of crisis our society is going through.
The activities were developed in an atmosphere of dialogue and cordiality. Dr. Balzer took charge of the opening conference on The meaning of dialogue in Hans-Georg Gadamer. The same Thursday Ba. Rivas tackled the subject Bible and Literature, Genesis and development of an encounter, which concluded with the participation of UCA’s Choir. Dr. Mandrioni finished the cycle of conferences on Friday night with an exposition of Poetry and Creativity.
The input of the 45 speakers was very enriching and varied. They offered to the numerous attending audience (around 250 people were registered) a polychromatic range of papers, which merged in 7 groups that worked simultaneously.
The presence of poets in the academic event turned to be a peculiar touch. Poets Graciela Aráoz, Héctor Miguel Angeli, Dolores Etchecopar, Juan García Gayo and Mario Sampaolesi were invited and after reading their own works, they spoke with the audience and to the moderators, Dr. Mandrioni and Priest Navarro, about their creating experience.
It is worthwhile mentioning the participants’ diversity of origins in this first invitation to the dialogue between different disciplines. The records of the Working Days were published in CD and the papers and conferences are published in the online catalogue of the Universidad Católica
Link UCA’s Library
www.uca.edu.ar/index.php/site/index/es/universidad/biblioteca/catalogo-en-linea/
2nd Workshop: Dialogues between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology.
In continuation with the First Working Days, done on May 2002, the Second Working Days: Dialogues between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology carried out in
And why theatre today? In the first place, because its dialogical condition makes it a privileged place for the interdisciplinary exchange. And, in the second place, because as a mirror of life, theatre presents itself as a key for the interpretation of God and mankind’s action in history, opening a suitable field for asking fundamental questions about existence.
The areas in which the different works were presented were: Theatre and Theology (liturgy, religious plays, dramatic elements of the Bible, theodramatic); Theatre and Philosophy (philosophers as dramatic authors, theatre, mask and postmodernism, philosophy in the theatre); Theatre and Literature (perspective of dramatic texts’ analysis, plays, authors and theatrical expressions, text, author and representation); Theatre and Related Arts (sociology, psychology, education, popular culture, history).
The Opening Act was in charge of the Deans of the Faculty of Theology, Priest Dr. Carlos María Galli, and of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Dr. Héctor Delbosco. The days of the meeting were enriched with sixty-two papers and five plenary conferences, which tackled the dialogue between Theatre and Theology, Literature and Philosophy, and which were in change of: Priest Lucio Florio (Dionisio Hollywood o el Padre. Buscando al escritor del drama); Dr. Javier González (El teatro: miseria y plenitud del diálogo); Dr. Sofía Carrizo Rueda (El “Misterio” de Elche, patrimonio cultural de la humanidad); Ba. Jorge Dubatti (Hierofanías escénicas. Figuraciones del “teatro sagrado en el siglo XX) and Ba. Gabriela Rebok (Lo trágico en el pensar contemporáneo o qué hacer con “Las flores del mal”).
On the last day of the meeting, a creation of Celina González del Solar and Berta Gagliano, entitled “Qué en el alma te llevo clavada” was put on stage, and a final panel: ¿Por qué el teatro hoy? (Why theatre today?), carried out with Dr. Eduardo Briancesco (Theology), Dr. Jorge Fernández (Philosophy), Ba. Jorge Dubatti (Letters), Mr. Ricardo Monti (dramatist), Mrs. Celina González del Solar (Theatre Director), Mrs. Berta Gagliano (actress) and Dr. Marcelo González as Moderator.
The General Direction of the Working Days was in charge of Dr. Cecilia Avenatti de Palumbo who counted on the help of Ba. Eduardo Ma. Adrogué, Prof. Silvina Astigueta de Auza, Prof. Silvia Campana, Prof. Gabriela Cargnel, Ba. Cecilia Cibeira, Ba. Ma. Clara Ibarzábal and Prof. Laura Mecías. The event was declared of Cultural Interest of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, declaration number 266/2004 on September 16, 2004.
The records of this edition of the Working Days were published in Cd, in 2007 with the occasion of the III Working Days. Every paper and conference can be found published in the Central Library of the Universidad Católica
Link UCA’s Library
www.uca.edu.ar/index.php/site/index/es/universidad/biblioteca/catalogo-en-linea/
3rd Workshop: Dialogues between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology: “Lenguajes de Dios para el siglo XXI” (“Languages of God for the XXI Century”).
On October 10 and 11, 2007 the III Working Days: Dialogues between Literature, Aesthetics and Theology carried out in
In this opportunity the subject was “Languages of God for the XXI Century” and, from an interdisciplinary perspective, we were invited to inquire ourselves the manners in which God speaks and we speak about God, with an intense and vital perception of the present.
In the words of Olegario González de Cardedal, the central question consisted in asking ourselves if “we are faced to the twilight of his immense light, in a silence or eclipse, or, if, on the contrary, his light emerges, new and innovated, from where we never thought it could dawn”.
The Working Days -which took place in the Auditorium Mons. Octavio N. Derisi from the building Santo Tomás Moro in Puerto Madero’s venue- had the presence of investigators from Latin America and from Spain, and were inaugurated with a panel integrated by the Deans of the convener faculties -Dr. Néstor Corona and D. Carlos Galli- and the director of the Letter’s Department, Dr. Javier González. After the first session of commissions, the audience participated in the conference «Un abismo llama al otro abismo. El diálogo entre literatura y teología desde esta ladera» where -through a virtual interview and a dissertation- the thoughts of Olegario González de Cardedal (Pontificia Universidad de Salamanca) and of Alberto Toutin (Pontificia ] Universidad Católica de Chile) were intertwined, respectively.
The meeting included, as well, a round table (“Languages of God in an interdisciplinary perspective”) and papers about a multiplicity of areas and crosses: Literary languages, biblical and theological languages, musical languages, philosophical languages, spiritual and pastoral languages, theatrical, plastic and audiovisual arts languages, and a space for Argentinean literature towards the Bicentenary.
Art made its presence with the performance «Escucha que dice. Poéticas
The Working Days were promoted by the Institute for Knowledge Integration, Universidad Católica Argentina’s publishing house and Fundación Cultura y Teología “Cardenal Antonio Quarracino”, entity responsible for negotiating the sponsorship of the following enterprises: Fundación Navarro Viola, Fundación Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Metanexus, Orfila, Lumen, Guadiana and Ágape.
In short, the III Working Days had 75 speakers, 90 assistants, 12 commissions that worked simultaneously in two groups of 6 speakers each, and 20 foreign participants among Brazilians, Chileans and Spanish.
In this occasion, the records of the second (2004) and third Working Days (2007) were published in Cd, ISBN 978-987-23885-0-7. The edition gathers the whole 140 works, between conferences and papers.
We enclose the Working Days program and the link of the Universidad Católica
Link UCA’s Library
www.uca.edu.ar/index.php/site/index/es/universidad/biblioteca/catalogo-en-linea/