Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Miguel Martínez and Rocco Rubini, it is our pleasure to announce the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop schedule for the spring quarter 2013. All meetings will be held in Wieboldt 207 at the time indicated on the schedule.

Tuesday April 16th at 4:30 PM--Neringa Pukelis, Ph.D Candidate in Spanish presents a chapter from “Modes of Creation: Mimesis, Inventio, and the Chronicling of History in La saga/fuga de J.B.  

Thursday April 25th at 4:30 PM in Harper 103–Bruce Burningham, Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of Hispanic Studies and Theatre at Illinois State University presents: “Intertextuality and Ekphrasis in Los Barracos de Federico’s Caballero de Olmedo.

Friday May 10th at 12:00 PM–David Allison Orsbon, Ph. D Student in Comparative Literature presents, “‘The Universe as Book: Dante’s Commedia as an Imprint of the Divine Mind.’”

Friday May 17th at 12:00 PM--Armando Maggi, Professor of Italian Literature and the Committee on the History of Culture, presents an overview on his current book project, “For a History of Renaissance Love Treatises: From Ficino to Tasso and Cervantes”

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!

Best Regards,

James Nemiroff and David Reher

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

PS: Those requiring assistance to attend these events should contact the Graduate Student Coordinator David Reher at dmreher@uchicago.edu. or James Nemiroff at jnemiroff@uchicago.edu.

2:00 PM, Friday the 25th at WB #207

(Please note that, rather than pre-circulating the paper, Roni will present his work in full on Friday)

The demystification of literature leads Calvino to reconsider its potential, its role as a major tool of the human being, because in fact it should be considered as a tool like others in his possession. The literature is one of those “re-representative” techniques (to borrow a term from Daniel Dennett) that intervene effectively on the perception of man. The peculiarity of Calvino’s prose consists in not hiding at all the nature of literature as a model of the possible models. Literature is the means by which man “experiences” the possibilities of the world, or, in other words, is the means by which the world and its possibilities reach the man. Calvino’s singular effort is to be found especially in this multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary representation of a world to be considered far and wide, in micro and macro, in the history and in the possibilities. Two, three are the new major coordinates that Calvino by means of a project was willing to give to his literary discourse, as is clear from the various interventions: a cosmic speech in which to keep in mind the fate of the species accompanied by a detailed map to describe the labyrinthine context that the man happened to live in. How to transform this vertiginous content in literature on one side and through it to investigate the human condition on the other, this is the extreme ambition that, according to “Six memos…” by Calvino, only writers can and should have. This view of literature is peculiar to Italy and to the West after the fifties. We have, on the one hand, a real explosion of knowledge of all the fields at the provision as ever before of a cultural elite, and on the other the Italian masses to educate, to whom to provide a new vision of the world, either from the scientific point of view, or from the point of view of a new and unified national consciousness..

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Miguel Martínez and Rocco Rubini, it is our pleasure to announce the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop schedule for the winter quarter 2012. All meetings will be held in Wieboldt 207 at 1:30 PM unless otherwise indicated on the schedule.

Friday January 25 at 2:00

Roni Kubati, PH. D Candidate in Italian will present. Title TBA

Friday February 8 at 2:30 PM

Maggie Fitz-Morkin, PH.D Candidate in Italian will present and discuss, “Obscenity and Pedagogy in Petrarch’s Invective Contra Medicum.”

Respondent: Lawrence Hooper

Friday February 15 at 2:00 PM

Juan Camilo Acevedo, Ph. D Candidate in Spanish will present and discuss, “Cut, Copy and Paste: Publishing and Authorship in the Spanish Golden Age”

Respondent: Jose Estrada

Friday March 1 at 12:00 PM

Hosted in CWAC Room 152. Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California Santa Cruz will present and discuss, “Re-orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo.” This talk is co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop.

Friday March 15 at 2:00 PM

Jeffrey Kwesi Coleman, Ph. D Candidate in Spanish will present and discuss a chapter of his dissertation, TBA

Respondent: Susana Perez

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!

Best Regards,

James Nemiroff and David Reher

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

PS: Those requiring assistance to attend these events should contact the Graduate Student Coordinator David Reher at dmreher@uchicago.edu.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Miguel Martínez and Rocco Rubini, it is my pleasure to announce the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop schedule for the fall quarter 2012. All meetings will be held in Wieboldt 207 unless otherwise indicated on the schedule.

October 12-13 2012 8 AM-6 PM

En Route: Journeys of the Body and the Soul in Iberian and Latin American Literatures, a graduate student conference sponsored by the Spanish Graduate Students Committee, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Division of the Humanities, the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, the Department of English, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the University of Chicago Student Government and the Medieval Workshop.

Panels for the conference will be held in either the Franke Institute for the Humanities or inside the Regenstein Library.

For more information about the SGSC conference please visit the conference blog which includes information about the conference keynote speakers, the call for papers and the conference program.

http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sgsc/

Monday October 22 at 4:3o PM

Javier Moscoso, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Spanish National Research Council will present and discuss a book chapter from his latest book entitled: “Pain: A Cultural History”.

Wednesday November 21 at 4:30 PM

Chiara Montanari, Ph.D Candidate in Italian Title TBD.

Wednesday December 5 at 4:30 PM

Javier Irigoyen García, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign will present and discuss a paper entitled: “Moors dressed as Moors: On the Sartorial Revival of Moorish Culture during the rising of the Alpujarras.”

Friday December 7 at noon

Mary Channen Caldwell, Ph.D Candidate in Music History and Theory will present and discuss a paper entitled: “Sing, Dance, Rejoice: Genre, Poetry and Performance in the Latin Refrain Song”.  This talk is co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop.

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!

Best Regards,

James Nemiroff

Graduate Student Coordinator

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

PS: Those requiring assistance to attend these events should contact the Graduate Student Coordinator James Nemiroff at jnemiroff@uchicago.edu.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Ryan Giles and Niall Atkinson, it is my pleasure to invite you all to the next meeting of the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop.  On Monday May 14 at 5 PM in Rosenwald 405, Gregory Baum, Ph.D Candidate in Comparative Literature, will present and discuss a paper entitled: “Greater Thieves than Caucus: Tracing Fidelity in Thomas Shelton”.

A copy of Greg´s paper can be found here.

This event is co-sponsored by the Renaissance Workshop`.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best Regards,

Diana Aramburu and James Nemiroff

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop