[Comedias] 2011 Cervantes Symposium

[Vidler, Laura L CIV USA USMA]

Dear Colleagues,



I am pleased to present the program for the 2011 Cervantes Symposium. This year's event will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 29, 2011 at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago. Below please find the Symposium website which contains the program and information related to accommodations and other details. I am also including below the schedule.  The keynote speaker for this year symposium is Prof. James A. Parr (U of California, Riverside).



The Symposium is organized by Julia Domínguez from Iowa State University and sponsored by DePaul University, Iowa State University, and the Instituto Cervantes, with support from Glen Carman (DePaul University) and the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. It is free and open to the public but advanced registration is required. Please visit the website for more details and forward to your colleagues: www.cervantessymposium.com<http://www.cervantessymposium.com/>



Best,

Julia Domínguez

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8:00-9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Welcome

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Session I
William Clamurro
Emporia State University
"Who is Berganza? - Sniffing out the Conundrums of the Coloquio"

Edward H. Friedman
Vanderbilt University
"Lost In La Mancha?: Don Quijote, from The Outside"

Howard Mancing
Purdue University
"Story vs. Analysis in Cervantes and Alemán"

10:30-10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 p.m.
Session II
David Castillo
SUNY at Buffalo
"Don Quixote and Road Movies"

Charles Victor Ganelin
Miami University
"Don Quijote as Museum"

Chad M. Gasta
Iowa State University
"Writing to be Heard: Performing Music in Don Quijote"

12:15-1:45 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:45-3:15 p.m.
Session III
Rosilie Hernández
University of Illinois at Chicago
"What is us? Cervantes and Early Modern Alternative Discourses on National Identity"

Michael J. McGrath
Georgia Southern University
"From La Mancha to Manresa: Sancho Panza's Incarnational Spirituality"

Steven Wagschal
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Cervantes' Don Quixote, Descartes' Demon, and the Reader's Reasons"

3:15-4:00 p.m.
Reception

4:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
James A. Parr
University of California, Riverside
"On Don Quixote: Selected Facets of a Multifaceted Work



Julia Domínguez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
3118D Pearson Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011

Phone 515-294-8749
Fax 515-294-9914

domingue at iastate.edu<mailto:domingue at iastate.edu>
http://www.language.iastate.edu/dominguez/



What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles.

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