- Title: Session 1 - Poetics, Friendship, and Fortune
- Speaker/s: Moderator: Chad M. Gasta (Iowa State University)
- Further info: Symposium Schedule
Friday, April 29, Newberry Library
9-9:15 am Reception
9:20-9:30 am Inauguration and Presentation of the Symposium
Laura McEnaney (Newberry Library)
9:30-10:50 am Session 1 – Poetics, Friendship, and Fortune
Moderator: Chad M. Gasta (Iowa State University)
Michael Armstrong-Roche (Wesleyan University): “The Argument(s) of Comedy: Twists and Turns of the Marriage Plot in the 1615 Collection”
Marsha Collins (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): “Friends Have all Things in Common? The Case of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza”
Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary): “Is Fortune a Blind, Capricious Force or an Instrument of Divine (or Authorial) Will in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda?”
10:50-11 am Break
11 am-12:20 pm Session 2 – Phantasms, Memory, and Folly
Moderator: Glen Carman (DePaul University)
Marina S. Brownlee (Princeton University): “Elusive Boundaries: Imagination and Reality in Some Cervantine Examples”
Julia Domínguez (Iowa State University): “Writing to Rescue from Oblivion: The Phantasms of Captivity in Cervantes’ Theater”
Carmen Hsu (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): “Cervantes’s Rhetorical Device of Criticizing with Folly in El laberinto de amor”
12:20-3 pm Lunch Break
3-4:50 pm Session 3 – Infinite Cervantine Loop, Race, Counterfactual, and Humor
Moderator: Keith Budner (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Steven Wagschal (Indiana University-Bloomington): “What Might Have Happened? Cervantes’ Use of Counterfactuals in Don Quixote”
Steven Hutchinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Dark Humor and Social Taboo in the Interludes”
John Beusterien (Texas Tech University): “‘The Gawkers’ on Stage? Laughing at 400-Year-Old Jokes and the Question of Race”
Bruce R. Burningham (Illinois State University): “Don Quixote as Möbius Strip: Terry Gilliam, Salman Rushdie, and the Infinite Loop of Cervantine Variation”
Saturday, April 30, Instituto Cervantes in Chicago
9-10:20 am Session 4 – Género, Escritura e Imaginación Pictórica
Moderator: Rosilie Hernandez-Pecoraro (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Isabel Lozano-Renieblas (Dartmouth College): “Rusticalia en Cervantes”
Mercedes Alcalá (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “El retablo de las maravillas y la imaginación pictórica”
Carmela Mattza (Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge): “Don Quijote: Imagen y Mito de las modernidades americanas”
10:20-10:30 am Break
10:30 am-11:30 am The Nancy F. Marino Keynote Lecture
Frederick A. de Armas (University of Chicago): “Towers of Terror, Domains of Delight, and Sites of Ascension: Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Longinus’ On the Sublime”
Presenters: Carmen Hsu and Carmela Mattza
11:30 am Closing Remarks
Anastasio Sánchez Zamorano (Director, Instituto Cervantes-Chicago)
- Title: “The Argument(s) of Comedy: Twists and Turns of the Marriage Plot in the 1615 Collection”
- Speaker/s: Michael Armstrong-Roche (Wesleyan University)
- Further info:
- Title: “Friends Have all Things in Common? The Case of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza”
- Speaker/s: Marsha Collins (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- Further info:
- Title: “Is Fortune a Blind, Capricious Force or an Instrument of Divine (or Authorial) Will in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda?”
- Speaker/s: Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary)
- Further info:
- Title: Session 2 – Phantasms, Memory, and Folly
- Speaker/s: Moderator: Glen Carman (DePaul University)
- Further info:
- Title: “Cervantes’s Rhetorical Device of Criticizing with Folly in El laberinto de amor”
- Speaker/s: Carmen Hsu (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- Further info: