>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:08:58 -0400 >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Cervantes and the New World >X-Originating-IP: 66.31.247.18 >To: "A. Robert Lauer" <[log in to unmask]> >Cc: [log in to unmask] >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 138.110.1.80 >X-Authentication-warning: mist.mtholyoke.edu: httpd set sender to > [log in to unmask] using -f >User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >Dear Robert, > >Would you announce the following symposium? Maybe some >people will be interested in attending it. Included is also the poster of the >conference. > >Thank You, >Nieves Romero-Diaz >Associate Prof. >Mount Holyoke College > >********************************************* >“Cervantes /in/on/and the New World” Conference > >On October 8-9, UMAss-Amherst, Amherst and Mount Holyoke will host a >conference >on Cervantes and the New World. This conference will celebrate the 400th >anniversary of the publication of the first part of Miguel de Cervantes' >foundational novel, Don Quixote. The conference will focus on aspects of the >Quixote itself and the text’s ongoing influence and reception in the >Americas. > >The conference will have as keynote speakers: Prof. Diana de Armas Wilson >(Denver Univ.), Tom Lathrop (Delaware Univ.) and Ilan Stavans (Amherst >College). >Other participants are, for example, James Iffland (Boston University), >Daniel >Eisenberg (Excelsior College), Mary Gaylord (Harvard University) and Alberto >Sandoval (Mount Holyoke College). The presentations will deal with topics >such >as teaching Don Quijote in the US, Don Quijote in Spanglish, Don Quijote in >Broadway and the influence of Cervantes’s writings in contemporary writers of >the Americas. The symposium will close with a performance based on Don >Quijote, >by the theatre group The Double Edge Ensemble, entitled The UnPossesed. > >The conference is open to the public. The performance will be at the Double >Edge’s Farm—a bus will be leaving from Willitts Hallowell (MHC) at 6:30 on >Sunday 9 (space available for 25 people). For more information about the >conference, go to: >http://www.people.umass.edu/arbesufe/cervantes/cervantes.htm > > >------------------------------------------------- >This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/