[Comedias] Conference: Don Quijote and the Mediterranean World

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*Don Quijote and the **Mediterranean World*

October 18-20, 2015

The University of Texas at Austin



In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Part
Two of *Don
Quijote*, The University of Texas at Austin announces a multi-day
conference that crosses traditional fields of inquiry to examine the
*Quijote* in the context of the Mediterranean world, from the author’s time
to the present. Scholarly presentations will analyze migration and cultural
contact in the Mediterranean world; race, ethnicity and religious identity;
the Mediterranean and Transatlantic slave trade; Spain and the
Mediterranean as geographic and cultural borderlands; commercial and
intellectual networks and exchanges; the *Quijote* and African, Arabic,
and/or Sephardic Readers; and other cross-disciplinary investigations. We
welcome papers and panels that contextualize Cervantes’s work within
widening geopolitical and chronological parameters, to reconsider our
knowledge of European modernity from the perspective of Cervantes’s
masterpiece.



*Keynote Speakers*



*María Antonia Garcés*

Cornell University

Author of *Cervantes in Algiers* and *An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam*



*Ramón Mayrata*

Spanish Poet, Novelist, Journalist

Author of *El imperio desierto* and *El mago manco*





The conference committee is now accepting abstracts for 20-minute papers
and proposals for three- or four-person panels. Papers may be in English or
Spanish. Please submit a 250-word abstract, along with your name, academic
affiliation, mailing address and email address to: utquijote at gmail.com

*Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: May 1, 2015*
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