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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater
Symposium</span></b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">April 12</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">-</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">14, 2018,
Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TX<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">The <u>NEW
EXTENDED DEADLINE</u> for receipt of all submissions (abstracts and graduate
student papers) is October 1, 2017<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">The Association for
Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">2018 Symposium. The
conference dates coincide with the world</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">longest-running
Spanish Golden Age theater festival, the Siglo de Oro Drama<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Festival at the
Chamizal National Memorial, April 11-14, 2018. The<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Association
encourages studies on performance aspects of Siglo de Oro<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">plays, though
proposals for papers or special sessions on other topics<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">related to Spanish
Golden Age theater are welcome. For further details and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">to submit an abstract,
visit the conference webpage at<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/2018-el-paso/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times;color:black">http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/2018-el-paso/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black"> and click the link for the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Abstract Submission
Form.</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">”</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Dakin Matthews</span></b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">: Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, 2018 AHCT
Symposium,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Saturday, April 14,
2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Andak Stage Company,
California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Festival, and the
Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">from California State
University, East Bay. An award-winning Shakespearean<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">actor, he is a member
of both the Motion Picture and Television Academies,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">and has appeared in
over twenty-five films and two hundred fifty television<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">shows. In recent
years, he has acted in numerous Broadway productions.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Matthews is also a
director, playwright, dramaturge, teacher, and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">translator. He has
completed verse translations of Moreto</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s <i>Spite for<span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Spite</span></i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">, Tirso</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s <i>Don
Juan, the Trickster of Seville</i>, Ruiz de Alarcón</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s <i>The<span></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">Truth Can</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">t Be
Trusted</span></i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">, <i>The Proof of the Promise</i>, and <i>The Walls Have Ears</i>,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">and Lope de Vega</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s <i>The Capulets
and the Montagues</i>. Four of his comedia<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">translations have had
professional, award-winning productions. He is<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">currently translating
Calderón</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">’</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">s <i>La cisma
de Inglaterra</i> (1627) into<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">English. In his
plenary address at the 2018 AHCT Symposium, he will discuss<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">his most recent work
and share his insight and </span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black">experience as
a translator, director,
and actor of the Spanish comedia.<span></span></span></p>
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