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

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Organized by Glen Carman, DePaul University.

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Keynote lecture by Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt University

3:15 pm, Newberry Library

"Poetics at Play:  Don Quixote and the Illusions of Theory"

Ninth Annual Cervantes Symposium

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 24, 2009

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Program:

9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Welcome

       Glen Carman, DePaul University

9:30 am: Session

Javier Irogoyen-García, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"'La música ha sido hereje':  Pastoral Performances and Cultural Hybridity in Los baños de Argel"

Carmela Mattza, The University of Chicago
"Écfrasis discursiva y metateatro: La figura de Rodamonte en el 'Entremés del viejo celoso'"

10:30 am: Coffee Break

10:45 am: Session II

  Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, University of Notre Dame
  "Viejas y dueñas en Cervantes: Nuevas consideraciones"

  Jorge Abril Sánchez, The University of Chicago
"El escudero Sancho Panza y las órdenes de caballeros medievales"

 Rosilie Hernández Pecoraro, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Don Quijote and the Moralist Tradition: Where Have the Good Men Gone?"

12:15 pm: Lunch Break

2:00 pm: Session III

 Steven Wagschal, Indiana University
"The Humor of Madness: Looking for Melancholia in All the Wrong Places"

 Charles Presberg, University of Missouri
 "'Perdió el juicio': Don Quixote and the Insanity of Books"

3:15 pm: Keynote Lecture, Edward Friedman, Vanderbilt University

"Poetics at Play: Don Quixote and the Illusions of Theory"

One of the most fascinating aspects of Don Quixote is what could be termed its bidirectional trajectory. Cervantes incorporates into his narrative a vast array of literary traditions, more often than not with changes of style, focus, and perspective. At the same time, Don Quixote contains a template of sorts for the modern novel, in its multiple forms. This talk will examine ways in which Cervantes, in his masterwork, writes and comments on writing, and how he simultaneously acknowledges and anticipates questions that have engaged theorists, past and present.

Edward H. Friedman is Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is currently serving as director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Since 1999, he has been editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes, and from 2001 to 2004 he was president of the Cervantes Society of America. Professor Friedman is the author of numerous books and essays on early modern Spanish literature, with special emphasis on Cervantes, the picaresque, and the Comedia. His most recent book is Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel (2006). He has received awards for excellence in teaching at Arizona State University, Indiana University, and Vanderbilt University.

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Registration

This conference will include a continental breakfast. While there is no fee to attend this event, participants must 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 2008 Cervantes Symposium
Program for the 2007 Cervantes Symposium