Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:00:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Seventh Annual Cervantes Symposium
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Seventh Annual Cervantes Symposium

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes de Chicago, the University of Chicago, DePaul University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois State University, the University of Kentucky, and Miami University.

Organized by:
Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University 

Keynote Speaker:
Jacques Lezra (Professor of English and Spanish) University of Wisconsin

2007 Schedule
 
8:30am — Continental Breakfast

9:00am — Bruce R. Burningham,, Illinois State University

Opening Remarks

Morning Session
Chair: TBA

9:30am — Horacio Chiong Rivero, Swarthmore College

“Of Promontories, Protrusions, and Other Protractions: Cervantes’ Serendipitous Encounters in the Viaje del Parnaso”

10:00am — Ellen C. Frye, William Paterson University
“Publish or Parish: Cervantes and the Comedia”


10:30am — Coffee Break

11:00am — John Beusterien, Texas Tech University
“When the Dog is Just a Dog: Ignoring the Human in El coloquio de los perros”

11:30am — Antonio Carreño-RodrĂ­guez, George Mason University
“Paradigmatic Pairs and Postmodernist Poetics in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Seinfeld”

12:00pm-2:00pm — Lunch

Afternoon Session

Chair: TBA

2:00pm — DarĂ­o Fernández-Morera, Northwestern University
“Don Quijote as Nouveau Roman and as Roman Existentiel”

2:30pm — Michael J. McGrath, Georgia Southern University
“The Influence and Reception of Modern Translations of Don Quijote in Britain”

3:00pm — William Worden, University of Alabama
“The First Narrator of Don Quixote”

3:30pm — Final Discussion

Keynote Address
The Instituto Cervantes – John Hancock Toweer, 29th floor, 875 N. Michigan Avenue

5:00 — Jacques Lezra, Universsity of Wisconsin
“The Disciplining of Don Quijote and the Discipline of Literary Studies”  

6:00 — Closing Reception

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