Primo Levi et la chimie des mots
Mercredi 30 novembre 2011, Forum da Vinci 6, bd. Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, Luxembourg
09:30 Introduction, S.E. Raffaele de Lutio Ambassadeur d’Italie et Pr Rolf Tarrach Recteur de l’Université du Luxembourg
09:45 Fabio Levi Centro Primo Levi, Il Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi
10:00 Mario Barenghi Université de Milan Bicocca, Tre morti. Primo Levi e il senso della testimonianza
11:15 Sibilla Cuoghi Université du Luxembourg, L’etica del lavoro ne La chiave a stella di Primo Levi
12:00 Claudio Cicotti Université du Luxembourg, Autobiografie ed antifascismo in Lussemburgo
14:30 Oreste Sacchelli Nancy Université
Le roman La Trêve dans sa transposition cinématographique
15:30 Jean-Philippe Bareil Université de Lille 3, L’apport de la chimie dans les oeuvres littéraires de Primo Levi
17:30 Nimrod Moiseyev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi as seen through the eyes of a chemist
Entrée, café et buffet-déjeuner libre Traduction simultanée de l’italien vers le français
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GRANDE CONFÉRENCE 29, DANS LE CADRE DU SYMPOSIUM INTERNATIONAL PRIMO LEVI ET DE L’ANNÉE INTERNATIONALE DE LA CHIMIE

“The Periodic Table” by Primo Levi as seen through the eyes of a chemist »

Nimrod Moiseyev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

The periodic table is a tabular display organizing the 118 known chemical elements by selected properties of their atomic structure. Since all matter in our world is made of atoms, the periodic table is used by chemists as a guide for the study and understanding of the organization and structure of matter. Primo Levi used in his book the properties of different elements to describe the structure and the dynamical processes in our society, viewed, in particular, from his Jewish perspective.

Nimrod Moiseyev has studied chemistry at Bar-Ilan University and at the Weizmann Institute of Science and received his PhD from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He held a post-doc position at the University of Wisconsin in Madison before returning to Technion where he has been a professor of chemistry since 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Madison, Kaiserslautern, Orsay, Los Angeles, Harvard and Dresden. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Humboldt Prize, the Marie Curie Prize, the Landau Award and the CMOA medal for his “major contribution to the development of the non-Hermitian theory of quantum mechanics”.
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