April 13 | Cosette Bruhns
Ph.D. Student, Italian Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“Love’s Failed Vision in Boccaccio’s Amorosa Visione.” 10:00 AM in Rosenwald 405

***Please note unusual time***

 

April 17 | The Symposium “Renaissance Poetry and the Material Turn.” Participans: Miguel Martínez (University of Chicago), Ana María Gómez-Bravo (University of Washington), Albert Lloret (UMass, Amherst), and Spain” by Andrew Cashner (University of Chicago), Richard Strier (University of Chicago).

Classics 110, University of Chicago, 1050 E 59th St. 9am – 4:45pm

Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Program of Catalan Studies, the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop, the Poetry and Poetics Workshop, and the Early Modern Workshop. symposium poster

***Please note unusual date, time, and location***

 

April 24/25 | an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as A Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature.  Multiple Locations.

Co-sponsored by: The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Waite Harris Fund, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Art History, the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Western Mediterranean Workshop, the Lumen Christi Institute.

***Please note unusual date, time, and location***

 

May 4 | Katrina Powers
Ph.D. Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Title TBA

May 18 | Basile Baudez
Histoire de l’art et Archéologie Department, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Title TBA

May 18 | Ingrid Greenfield
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Chicago
Title TBA
Co-sponsored with the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

June 1 | Mayte Green-Mercado
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Title TBA

All events happen on Mondays at 12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405, unless otherwise noted.

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are pleased to announce the 15th Annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium.

 

Friday, April 10, 2015

8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

 

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago

31 W. Ohio Street

Chicago, Illinois

 

This year the Chicago Cervantes Symposium is hosted by the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago and sponsored by The Cervantes Society of America, The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, and DePaul University. The symposium program is attached.

 

Keynote address: “Don Quixote as Alexander the Great: Captured and Foreshadowed” by Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

 

This event is free and open to the public, but registration in advance is requested. To register, please contact Glen Carman, DePaul University (gcarman@depaul.edu).2015 Chicago Cervantes Symposium Program