From: Julian Olivares [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:02 PM To: Lauer, A Robert Subject: FW: FW: Coloquio Cervantes Lecturas en Guantánamo Querido Roberto: Te paso un mensaje de mi colega Maria Elena Soliño. ________________________________ From: Maria Solino [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: FW: Coloquio Cervantes Lecturas en Guantánamo PS I just remembered that my old prof, Manuel Durán, used to go teach Cervantes to prisoners in New Haven. I still think that it would be so great if you and I could team up to team-teach a course in which the students read Cervantes in the first half, and modern authors that use El Quijote in the second half. With so much reading I don't see how one could do it in one semester. I guess I'm dreaming the impossible dream. ----- Original Message ----- From: Julian Olivares <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:39 am Subject: FW: Coloquio Cervantes Lecturas en Guantánamo To: [log in to unmask] > Dear Maria Elena: > > There is a controversy among Golden Age associations that courses are being cancelled, eliminated. What was the reason for making Spanish 4311 irrelevant? > ________________________________ > From: Coloquio Cervantes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Olympia Gonzalez > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:44 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Coloquio Cervantes Lecturas en Guantánamo > > Me alegra saber que tantas personas desean encerrarse para leer el Quijote, los poemas de Quevedo y la poesía del Siglo de Oro. Desgraciadamente, en muchas de nuestras universidades hay personas que quieren suspender esos cursos, sacarlos del currículo. Es algo increíble, pero yo lo estoy viviendo en mi propia universidad y en mi programa graduado, como si los estudiantes no pudieran aprender de las locuras de un idealista, o de las reflexiones de un individuo ante la naturaleza. Ellos prefieren que los chicos tomen cursos en antropología en vez de rastrear los pasos de Alonso Quijano. Me pregunto si tendremos que refugiarnos en una prisión para leer sobre sus aventuras o en la soledad de nuestros hogares, pero no con los estudiantes. > > > Olympia B. González, Ph.D. > Graduate Program Director > Modern Languages and Literatures Department > Loyola University Chicago > 1032 W. Sheridan Rd > Chicago IL 60660 > > Phone #: (773) 508-2872 > Fax #: (773) 508-2893 > > [log in to unmask] > http://www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang<http://www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang> Dr. María Elena Soliño Associate Professor of Spanish Department of Hispanic Studies 420 Agnes Arnold Hall (713) 743-3052