2021 Texas Cervantes Symposium
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The Texas Cervantes Symposium wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for European Studies, and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin; the Cervantes Society of America; and the Wizard Academy.
COVID-19 Protocol: In accordance with the policies of the University of Texas at Austin, symposium guests are strongly encouraged to wear masks while inside any university building, regardless of vaccination status. Speakers may remove masks when a distance of eight feet from other participants can be maintained.
2021 Program
Friday, October 1
The University of Texas at Austin
Benedict Hall, Rm 2.104
9:00 Coffee
9:20 Welcome
Carolyn A. Nadeau, President, Cervantes Society of America
9:30-10:30 Session 1: Cervantes and Contemporary Culture
Chair: Carolyn A. Nadeau (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Ana Laguna (Rutgers University)
“Cervantes, Cervantism, and the Cultural Wars of 20th-Century Spain”
Bradley Nelson (Concordia University, Montreal)
“From Critical Reading to Collective Action: A Progressive Reading of Castillo and Egginton’s Notion of Reality Literacy in Cervantes”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session 2: Cervantine Margins in Theater and Film
Chair: Marsha S. Collins (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Moisés Castillo (University of Kentucky)
“La ejemplar imagen del Otro en la novela La española inglesa (1613) y en la película homónima dirigida por Marco Castillo (2015)”
Cory A. Reed (University of Texas at Austin)
“Empathy and the Indigenous Other in Numancia”
John Beusterien (Texas Tech University)
“The Gawkers: Theater and the Unrepresentable”
12:30-2:00 Lunch for CSA Executive Council and symposium presenters
The Carillon
AT&T Conference Center
2:00-3:30 Session 3: Poetics of Writing, Singing, and Storytelling
Chair: Bruce R. Burningham (Illinois State University)
Sonia Velázquez (Indiana University)
“Novelar in the Republic: Revisiting Cervantes' Prologue of the Novelas ejemplares”
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“El sonido en la página: música cantada en Cervantes”
Marsha S. Collins (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“Storytelling and Forging Friendship, Don Quijote, Part 1”