Give to Cal

Give directly to Spanish & Portuguese by clicking here.

Loading

News: Events Archive

Schedule of Events 2008-2009

Cervantes & Romance, October 2008
*******


Cervantes & Romance, October 2008

California Cervantes Conference, 2008

U.C. Berkeley
October 17th, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
October 18th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Keynote Address

Marina Brownlee
Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish, Princeton University

"Ethnographic Inscription and the Novel Object: Torquemada and Cervantes."
October 18, 11 a.m.

All Sessions at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Sponsored by:

The Townsend Center for the Humanities
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese
The Division of Arts & Humanities
The Center for Spanish Studies

and

The Cervantes Society of America

Conference Organizers: Emilie Bergmann, Anthony J. Cascardi, Ignacio Navarrete

FULL PROGRAM

Friday
1:00-2:30p.m. Cultural History

  1. Donald Gilbert-Santamaría, University of Washington. "Refiguring Friendship in Don Quijote"
  2. Christina Lee, Princeton University."Cervantes y las hermandades penitenciales de la edad moderna"
  3. José Cartagena-Calderón, Pomona College. "No soy hermoso”: el Quijote y la historia de la fealdad"

2:30-3:00p.m. Break

3:00-5:00p.m. New Literary Approaches

  1. Eduardo Olid-Guerrero, University of California,Davis. "El cautiverio público de Preciosa, gitana y actriz callejera"
  2. Iulia Sprînceana, University of California, Berkeley. "The Exemplarity of Space: Narrative and Geographical Exchange in Cervantes: El casamiento engañoso y El coloquio de los perros"
  3. Jesús-David Jérez-Gómez, California State University San Bernardino. "La voz del soldado y la vida parodiada en el Viaje del Parnaso"
  4. Leah Middlebrook, University of Oregon. "Cervantes, Romances and Romance"

5:00p.m. Reception

Saturday

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastries

9-10:30 Cervantes and Romance I

  1. Luis Murillo, University of California, Berkeley. "Narrative Time in DQ, from Parody to Paradigm"
  2. Mary Quinn, University of New Mexico. "Romance Interrupted: The Case of Sansón Carrasco"
  3. Bergman, Ted, California State University, Fresno. "Under Cover of Darkness: Olaus Magnus’s Romance and Cervantes’s Miscellany".

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30

Keynote Address.
Marina Brownlee, Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish, Princeton University.
"Ethnographic Inscription and the Novel Object: Torquemada and Cervantes."

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Cervantes and Romance II

  1. María Mercedes Carrión, Emory University. "Don Quijote’s Romance of Purgatory (I, 19-20 and II, 22-24)"
  2. Stacey Triplette, Union College. "Don Quijote’s Prospective Marriage to Princess Micomicona: Citations of Romance Convention and Hints of Imperialism"
  3. Álvaro Llosa Sanz, University of California, Davis. "Los soportes de la ficción y la interactividad lectora: El Quijote y la novela ante el mundo digital."

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Cultural Hybridity

  1. Mariscal, George University of California, San Diego. "Was Cervantes a Goth?--Rethinking Spanish Humanism and Empire"
  2. Álvaro Ramírez, St. Mary’s College. “Merging and Emerging Worlds: Identity and Cultural Hybridity in Don Quixote de la Mancha
  3. Harry Vélez-Quiñones, University of Puget Sound. "Deportment, Reading and Passing: La española inglesa and the Three Virtuous Isabellas"

To be followed by dinner.