Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, the symposium featured scholars from Colgate and other universities across New York State who debated the language, literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world.
Panels included:
Examining the Canon: Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón. (Moderator: Fernando Plata Parga)
"La prueba de los ingenios, de Lope de Vega, como muestrario de la alta cultura cortesana".
(Rafael Castillo Bejarano, Saint Lawrence University)
"Money and Labor in Cervantes’s Entremés del rufián viudo llamado Trampagos".
(Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester)
"Teaching Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna through a Social Justice Lens".
(Ana Méndez-Oliver, Syracuse University)
"Notas sueltas sobre Calderón en la cultura peruana contemporánea".
(Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Exploring Otherness: Portuguese, Mexica, Inka, Mulata Women. (Moderator: Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla)
"Francisca Montes and Her Fight for Freedom: Manumission, Power, and Legal
Ambivalence in 1585 Mexico City".
(Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez, Colgate University)
"La reina de los mares: Lisboa como ciudad imperial en Urbis Olisiponis Descriptio
(1554) de Damião de Gois".
(Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, City University of New York)
"Sixteenth-Century Accounts of Empires and Knowledges in Neplanta Worlds".
(Antonio Barrera, Colgate University)
On Language. (Moderator Ana Méndez-Oliver)
"Despojos: A Keyword".
(Montse Chenyun Li, Cornell University)
"Cognitive Linguistics Meets Early Modern Hispanic Texts".
(Natalya I. Stolova, Colgate University)
Keynote address:
"Comicidad y violencia en Estebanillo González".
Victoriano Roncero López, Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature,
Stony Brook University
Co-sponsors:
Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Division of Arts and Humanities
Medieval and Renaissance Studies program
Africana and Latin American Studies program
W. M. Keck Center for Language Study
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures