Spring 2011 Events

9 April 2011, 8:30 am - 5 pm, Pugh 210 and Smathers 1A

Adrienne Martin (UC Davis)

Florida Cervantes Symposium: "The Beast in the Book: Animals in Cervantes"

On Saturday April 9, 2011, the University of Florida will host the sixth annual Florida Cervantes Symposium. The daylong event brings together Cervantes scholars from around the state to engage with Cervantes’s world and works from many different disciplinary directions including digital technologies, performance studies, foreign language pedagogy, circum-Atlantic studies, military history, women’s studies, and Renaissance economic theory. This year the Symposium  keynote speaker is Dr. Adrienne Martín, Vice President of the Cervantes Society of America  and Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis. Sessions are generally conducted in Spanish, but the Keynote address will be in English.

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The  program follows:

8:30-9:15    Light breakfast and Welcome
                         [Pugh 210]

9:15-10:30       Session 1                     The Case of the Emparedadas in Early Modern Spain     
                        [Pugh 210]                           Anne Cruz, University of Miami   
                                                            Representaciones literarias de la Florida en tiempos de Cervantes             
                                                                     Yolanda Gamboa, Florida Atlantic University   

                                                           

               Conversation and coffee

 

10:30-11:45     Session 2                      Profecía, razón y sueño: Donde viven los monstruos de Cervantes.                

                        [Pugh 210]                           Eduardo Olid, Muhlenberg College 

                                                               El cura del lugar, la guerra moderna y el comienzo del Tirant lo Blanc
                                                                     Ricardo Castells, Florida International University

11:45-1               Lunch

                      [Dauer 240 A]

 

1-2:15              Graduate                      Tres perspectivas sobre Don Quijote

                        Student Panel               Stephanie Gates, moderator

                        [Pugh 210]                   Carrie Bramlet, Roberto Weiss, David Vásquez

 

              Conversation and Coffee

 

2:15-3:30         Session 3                      Libro abierto: Lectura, enseñanza y aprendizaje de la obra cervantina
                        [Pugh 210]                            Martha García, University of Central Florida
                                                              Pedro Menéndez de Avilés y la empresa de la Florida  
                                                                       Alberto Prieto-Calixto, Rollins College

3:45-4:30         Book Exhibit               The Beast and the Book, Smathers Rare Books and Manuscripts
                         Poster Exhibit              Itinerarios cervantinos, Students of SPW 4604 Don Quixote
                            Reading                    El coloquio de los perros, by Miguel de Cervantes.
                         [Smathers 1A]             Read by Francesc Morales and Antonio-Sajid López

4:30-5:30      Keynote Address            Cervantes and Animal Studies
                        [Smathers 1A]                  Adrienne Martín, The University of California, Davis

5:45-7              Reception                     Early Iberian Music by The Alachua Consort
                     [Friends of Music]

• All sessions are free and open to the public.
• Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department of Spanish and Portugese Studies, and the Cervantes Society of America
• For more information, contact Shifra Armon: sarmon@ufl.edu

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