Aesthetics as East Ethics: Norman Manea between Romanian Culture, Biopics and World Literature
Wednesday 05 April, 2017
12 - 1:30pm, $0
Columbia University, International Affairs
420 West 118 Street, Room 1201
Please join the East Central European Center, the Romanian Cultural Institute, and the Harriman Institute for a talk about writer Norman Manea, presented by Claudiu Turcu? (Babe?-Bolyai University).
Claudiu Turcu? is Assistant Professor of Literary and Film studies at Babe?-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He obtained his PhD in Humanities (2011) at Babe?-Bolyai University after a fellowship research at Bard College, New York. His research focuses on East-Central European Literature and Culture, Cinema and Criticism. Turcu? has published widely on topics such as the cultural memory of Socialism, the representation of Post-communist transition, intellectual history and the ideology of New Romanian Cinema. His book, Norman Manea. Aesthetics as East Ethics (Frakfurt-New York: Peter Lang, 2016) is the very first monograph on the life and work of this important Romanian-American writer, nominated for Nobel Prize two times.