"LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES". Konferanse organisert av Universitetet i Bergen

Konferansen "Literature and chemistry: elective affinities" er organisert av Institutt for fremmedspråk ved Universitetet i Bergen og finner sted 27. og 28. oktober 2011. Foredragsholderne kommer både fra universitetene i Ferrara, Firenze, Cambridge, Oxford, Warzawa og Salford i tillegg til Universitetet i Bergen.
Tema for konferansen er:
Chemistry is the art of separating, weighing, and distinguishing: these are three useful exercises also for the person who sets out to describe events or give body to his own imagination. Moreover, there is an immense treasure of metaphors that the writer can take from the chemistry of today and yesterday, which those who have not frequented the laboratory and factory know only approximately. […] Even a layman knows what to filter, crystallize, and distil means, but he knows it only at second hand: he does not know “the passion infused by them”, he does not know the emotions that are tied to these gestures, has not perceived the symbolic shadow they cast. These are the words of the Italian novelist and essayist Primo Levi (1919-1987), chemist and survivor of Auschwitz, who wrote extensively on chemistry.
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"Ordmagi på laboratoriet" - les intervju med Margareth Hagen, ansvarlige for konferansen