Saturday, April 23, 2005
Sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes de Chicago, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Kentucky, and Miami University.
Organized by:
Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago
Program
Session I
The Newberry Library
Chair: Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago
9:30 | Coffee and other refreshments
10:00-10:30
"El Quijote: un arte de sentir y gustar"
Dominique de Courcelles, Collège Internationale de Philosophie (Paris)
10:30-11:00
"The Presence of Leone Ebreo's Philosophy of Love in Cervantes"
Armando Maggi, University of Chicago
11:00-11:15 | Coffee break
11:15-11:45
"Queen Caroline's Merlin Grotto and the 1738 Lord Carteret edition of Don Quixote"
Amanda S. Meixell, Susquehanna University
11:45-12:30
"Performing Identities in Don Quijote and Being John Malkovich"
Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University
12:30-2:00 | Lunch break
Session II
The Newberry Library
Chair: Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University
2:00-2:30
"Tweaking the Saints' Tales in Don Quijote"
Patricia Grieve, Columbia University
2:30-3:00
"Women and poverty in Don Quixote: The case of Aldonza Lorezo and Teresa Panza"
Rosie Hernández Pecoraro, University of Illinois, Chicago
3:00-3:30
"Desperate Shepherdesses: Cervantes'La Galatea and the Portrayal of (Desperate) Women in the Pastoral"
Benjamin J. Nelson, University of Chicago
3:30-4:00
"The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Barber's Basin"
Sherry Velasco, University of Kentucky
4:00-4:30
"Labyrinthine Fictions: The Madness and Folly of Imitation in Sierra Morena"
Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College
Session III
The Instituto Cervantes - The John Hancock Tower, 875 N. Michigan Avenue, 29th floor
5:00Keynote lecture
"El Quijote traducido"
Carlos Alvar, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid)
Preceding the Cervantes Symposium on Friday, April 22, 2005, there will be a Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago entitled "Quixotic Repercussions and Impacts: The Publication of Don Quixote." For more information, please see http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/romance/events/callforpapers.html.
While there is no fee to attend this event, participants should register in advance. To register please call the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.
Funds are available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Cervantes Symposium. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.
Program for the 2004 Cervantes Symposium