Past Symposia
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.
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Shepherds: Providence and the Pastoral
David Boruchoff, McGill University
“La música ha sido hereje”: Pastoral Performances and Cultural Hybridity in Los baños de Argel
Javier Irogoyen-García, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Viewing St. Bartholomew: Michelangelo, Guzmán de Alfarache II.2.2, and Don Quijote I.4
Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago
Of Promontories, Protrusions, and Other Protractions: Cervantes’ Serendipitous Encounters in the Viaje del Parnaso
Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College
Making Real What History Forgot: Don Quixote, Part 2
Nina Davis, Washington University in St. Louis
Dissing the Duchess: Don Quixote and the Crisis of the Aristocracy
Anne Cruz, University of Miami
El Quixote: un arte de sentir y gustar
Dominique de Courcelles, Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris
The Presence of Leone Ebreo’s Philosophy of Love in Cervantes
Armando Maggi, University of Chicago
Cervantes’ Errant Legacy
Nina Cox Davis, Washington University in St. Louis
And the Band Played On: Queering Marriage in El entremés del juez de los divoricios
Maria Mercedes Carrión, Emory University
The Primacy of Toledo: Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas and the Chapel of Our Lady of the Sagrario
Steven N. Orso, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
Anne Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago
La canalla trovadora: poética y polìtica en El viaje del Parnaso
Julio Vélez-Sainz, University of Chicago
(now at Complutense University of Madrid)