Tuesday, February 4 2020, 5pm Gilbert Hall 115 Julio Premat Université Paris 8 Institute Universitaire de France Julio Premat (Université Paris 8 - Institute Universitaire de France) will be giving a lecture titled "La Utopía del Pasado en La Literatura Contemporánea" on Tuesday, February 4 at 5:00 pm in Gilbert Hall 115. The lecture will be in Spanish and the discussion will be in Spanish, French and English. Premat comes to UGA as a Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer. There will be coffee and refreshments in Gilbert 115 immediately before the talk (4:45 pm). About The Speaker Julio Premat is professor of Latin American Literatures at Paris 8 and senior researcher of the Institute de France. He is the author of La dicha de Saturno. Escritura y melancolía en la obra de Saer (Beatriz Viterbo, 2002), Héroes sin atributos. Figuras de autor en la literatura argentina (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009), Erase esta vez. Relatos de comienzo en la literatura latinoamericana (UTF, 2017), Non nova sed nove. Anacronismos, inactualidades y resistencias en la literatura contemporánea (Quodlibet Elements, 2018) and Borges (PUF Vincennes, 2018).