Seventh Annual Cervantes Symposium

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes de Chicago, the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois State University, the University of Kentucky, and Miami University.

Organized by:
Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University 

Keynote Speaker:
Jacques Lezra (Professor of English and Spanish) University of Wisconsin

2007 Schedule
 
8:30am — Continental Breakfast

9:00am — Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University

Opening Remarks

 

Morning Session
Chair: TBA 

 

9:30am — Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College

“Of Promontories, Protrusions, and Other Protractions: Cervantes’ Serendipitous Encounters in the Viaje del Parnaso”

 

10:00am — Ellen C. Frye, William Paterson University
“Publish or Parish: Cervantes and the Comedia


10:30am — Coffee Break

 

11:00am — John Beusterien, Texas Tech University
“When the Dog is Just a Dog: Ignoring the Human in El coloquio de los perros

 

11:30am — Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez, George Mason University
“Paradigmatic Pairs and Postmodernist Poetics in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Seinfeld

 

12:00pm-2:00pm — Lunch

 

Afternoon Session

Chair: TBA

 

2:00pm — Darío Fernández-Morera, Northwestern University
Don Quijote as Nouveau Roman and as Roman Existentiel”

 

2:30pm — Michael J. McGrath, Georgia Southern University
“The Influence and Reception of Modern Translations of Don Quijote in Britain”

 

3:00pm — William Worden, University of Alabama
“The First Narrator of Don Quixote

 

3:30pm — Final Discussion

 

Keynote Address
The Instituto Cervantes – John Hancock Tower, 29th floor, 875 N. Michigan Avenue 

5:00 — Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin
“The Disciplining of Don Quijote and the Discipline of Literary Studies”  

6:00 — Closing Reception 

 


Registration

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 may be 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 2006 Cervantes Symposium

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