… to watch or listen to:
História de livros com a jornalista Ana Daniela Soares. 2021-ongoing
TV series, RTP. [Multiple seasons / Language: Portuguese]
Talk held to inaugurate Ali Kazma’s exhibition at the Galeria Francisco Fino in Lisbon, with artist Ali Kazma, curator Maurizio Bortolotti, and writer Alberto Manguel, moderated by Grazia Quaroni, Director of the Collections Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
The exhibition focuses on Kazma’s exploration of the artistic processes of Orhan Pamuk and Alberto Manguel.
February 6th, 2025
Video. Talk moderated by Grazia Quaroni [1:04:08 / Language: English]
We become human through language. We come into the world recognizing the stories that surround us and trying to put these stories into words. But language is a weak tool and rarely manages to communicate what it is we want to say. What are the obstacles to making ourselves understood, and how can we overcome them in a society in which the intellectual act holds no prestige?
In partnership with the Society for Graduate Students at Western and the London Public Library.
Video. Words Festival on Youtube [1:16:06 / Language: English]
Maïmonide a marqué de sa présence emblématique les trois cultures, arabes, juives et chrétiennes, qui ont cohabité en al‑Andalus il y a près d’un millénaire. Tout au long d’une vie d’exil forcé, il a étendu l’influence de son intellect dans les domaines du droit, de la philosophie et de la médecine. […]
February 6th, 2025
Video. Discussion hosted by Frédéric Encel [56:50 / Language: French]
Translation as a form of reading, of writing and of thinking. The translator is the secret sharer in the creation of a text, providing the original with what Borges called ‘a draft in another language’. Translation allows a text to come of age, generation after generation, and to enter a culture different from that of the original creator.
Sebald Lecture on Literary Translation, presented by the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) in association with the National Centre for Writing and the British Library.
March 23rd, 2023
Video on Youtube. [01:33:01/ Language: English]
«Nemo crede nell’immaginazione e nella curiosità dell’essere umano, ha a cuore la propria libertà, ma ne detesta la sua tirannide e avidità.» In fondo, per Manguel il protagonista di “Ventimila leghe sotto i mari” è un emblema del nostro tempo.
November 18th, 2023
Video. Lecture at the Università Cattolica [45:16/ Language: Italian]
Lectures given at the Collège de France as “chaire annuelle L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures” 2021/2022.
Video collection. Multiple lectures available. [Language: French]
Excerpt from the French television programme “La Grande Librairie” hosted by François Busnel. March 20th, 2014
Video on Youtube. [06:51 / Language: French]
The Teagle Fund Working Group, “What is a Reader?” sponsored a day of events at the University of California, Santa Cruz on January 26th, 2012
Video. IHR on Vimeo [37:02 / Language: English]
Der Schriftsteller Alberto Manguel war als Jugendlicher Vorleser vom erblindenden Jorge Luis Borges. In dessen Werk lernte Manguel das Dunkel der Existenz kennen. Abgründig und unheimlich ist denn auch seine Neuerscheinung «Zwei Liebhaber des Schattens»...
SRF Player [55:22 / Language: German]
2010 Finzi-Contini Lectures at Yale Universitys Whitney Humanities Center.
YaleUniversity [01:05:11 / Language: English]
L’altra metà del libro – il festival di quelli che leggono – dedica tre giorni a “la lettura e il sogno” per parlare di libri, di autori e di lettori.”Il libro ha bisogno del lettore per venire alla luce. Con David Albahari, …
[43:44 / Language: Italian]
Why has reading survived? The fascinating history of the written word from prehistory to the future.
Four part television series with Alberto Manguel, Sydney Kuhne, Travis Kuhne.
Video. Four Episodes on TVO. [52 minutes each. / Language: English]
Alberto Manguel fue lector de Borges debido a la ceguera del autor argentino. Pero durante ese tiempo también descubrió el lector que había en Borges y el lector que Borges quería encontrar en todas las personas…
casamerica [16:43 / Language: Spanish]
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