>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:08:58 -0400
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>Subject: Cervantes and the New World
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>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
>
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>“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
>
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