PLEASE NOTE: All sessions meet in Wieboldt 207 on alternate Wednesdays at 4:30 pm unless otherwise indicated.
Wednesday, April 13.
Eduardo Ruiz (2010 Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago); on “’How does the Moon Die?’ The Negotiation between Western Science and Native Voice in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.”
Wednesday, April 20.
Michelle Hamilton (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota);on “Dying in the Mediterranean: An Arabized Vernacular Dance of Death in Hebrew Romance.”
Wednesday, May 4.
Katie Chenoweth (Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago); on “From Letters to Law: Instituting the Language of François.”
Event co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop.
Wednesday, May 18.
Diana Aramburu (PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago); on “Unpacking the Chest of Memory in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache.”
Wednesday, May 25.
Gregory Baum (PhD Student, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago); on “Transvestite Translations: Disrobing Don Quixote in 17th-century England.”
Wednesday, June 1.
Felipe Rojas (PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago); on “Representing An-‘Other’ Ganymede: The Multi-Religious Character of Ismael in Tirso de Molina’s La prudencia en la mujer.”
