Meeting annually from 2001 to 2010, the Cervantes Symposium has provided leading scholars from throughout the United States a forum to share and discuss emerging research in the field. Beginning in 2012, the Symposium will meet at the Newberry Library every other year.

Organized by Steven Wagschal, Indiana University.

Sponsored by the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Miami University, Ohio.

Schedule

9:30 a.m. Continental breakfast and welcome

10:00 a.m. Session 1

Of Exile, Cruelty and Censorship: Don Quixote and Tristia
Frederick A. De Armas, University of Chicago

Morisco Questions in Don Quixote, I, 1605
William Childers, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

11:15 a.m. Session 2

Tilting at Rebels: Don Quixote and the American Civil War
Bruce Burningham, Illinois State University 

Carrizales, Panoptes, y las trampas del celo
Ana Laguna, Rutgers–Camden

2:45 p.m. Session 3

Ana Félix y la poética de lo exótico en Cervantes
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

The Many Don Quixotes of 1615
William Worden, University of Alabama

Alemán vs. Cervantes
Howard Mancing, Purdue University

4:15 p.m. Wine and cheese reception

Please note that the Newberry Library closes at 5:00 p.m. on Fridays and the building must be vacated at that time.

6:00 p.m. Keynote Address
at the Instituto Cervantes, 31 West Ohio Street (at Dearborn)

Quixotic Animals
Adrienne Martin, University of California, Davis

This program is free and open to the public, but registration in advance is required. Register online here. 

Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions may be eligible to apply for travel funds to attend CRS programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Each member university sets its own policies and deadlines; contact your Representative Council member in advance for details.

Learn more about the Center for Renaissance Studies’ Cervantes Symposium.