Thursday, October 22:
Senate Chambers, Old Capitol Museum
3:30-4:00pm University of Iowa Museum of Art tours
Caprice and Influence: Achepohl, Chagoya, Goya, Piranesi, Tiepolo, Black Box Theatre, IMU
Ingenious Gentlemen: Depictions of Don Quixote and Chivalry, UIMA@IMU Visual Classroom
Guide: Kimberly Datchuk, University of Iowa Museum of Art
4:00-5:30pm Keynote Lecture
Jenaro Taléns, Universitat de Valéncia; University of Geneva; Ida Beam Visiting Professor, University of Iowa
“Deconstructing Narrativity on the Screen. Re-reading Don Quixote in Albert Serra’s Honor de Cavalleria”
Professor Taléns will talk about topic of adaptation in general, focusing on the surrealistic film Honor de cavalleria (Albert Serra, 2006) [screening on Friday, Oct. 16, 3:30 pm in E105 AJB] as one of the more transgressive and radical interpretations of Cervantes’s novel.
5:30-7:00pm Reception on 1st floor of Old Capitol
Friday, October 23:
2520D UCC
9:00-10:30am DigitalQuixotes: A Roundtable
John Peters, Communication Studies,University of Iowa
Susana Díaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pablo Rodríguez-Balbontín, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45am Welcome & Introductions
Teresa Mangum, Obermann Center of Advanced Studies
Kelly Kadera, International Programs
Mercedes Niño Murcia, Spanish & Portuguese
11:00-12:30pm Keynote Lecture
Eduardo Urbina, Texas A&M
“From text to hypertext: Editorial history and visual readings of Don Quixote (1615)”
Professor Urbina’s presentation will explain the different components of his Cervantes Project, based in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University, including the Cervantes International Bibliography Online, the Cervantes Digital Library, and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images.
12:30-2:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00-3:30pm Keynote Lecture
Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
“Quixotic Obscenities: Sexual Knowledge in the Age of Cervantes”
Professor Velasco will analyze sexuality in Don Quixote as an example of what was known about sexual relationships in Early Modern Spain. A specialist in gender studies, queer theory, and visual cultural studies, she will raise awareness of this sometimes neglected aspect of Cervantes’ novel.
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-5:00pm The Latest Quixote–A Spanish language reading of new fiction
Ana Merino, Spanish & Portuguese/Director, MFA Spanish Creative Writing Program, University of Iowa
Manuel Vilas, Writer
7:30pm (Main Lounge, Iowa Memorial Union) Terry Gilliam, filmmaker, co-creator of Monty Python, hosted by the University of Iowa Lecture Committee in partnership with FilmScene
Saturday, October 24:
2520D UCC
Barbara Fuchs, University of California-Los Angeles
“The Afterlives of Cardenio”
Professor Fuchs will talk about the many reincarnations of Cardenio, a character in Part I of Don Quixote. Analyzing a variety of texts, from the lost Cardenio (ca. 1613) to subsequent (re)creations up to the 21st century, she will show the problematic English use of Spanish materials, revealing a tradition of disciplinary imbalance in scholarship on Anglo-Iberian relationships.
Moderator: Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa
Marcela Ochoa-Shivapour, Spanish, Cornell College
Claire Fox, Spanish & Portuguese / English, University of Iowa
Mónica Fuertes-Arboix, Spanish, Coe College
Paul Chilsen, Communication and Digital Media, Middle Tennessee State University
Matt Borden, Modern Languages, Carthage CollegeProfessors from different institutions in the American Midwest discuss their approaches to teaching Cervantes’ novel as well as other works that respond to Don Quixote, share experiences from the classroom, and explore the relevance of Don Quixote, Spanish culture, and literature in general.
1:00-2:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00-3:30pm Keynote Lecture
David Castillo, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York “Cervantes and Media Literacy in the Age of the Digital Baroque”
Cervantes’s works reflect on the new media of his time, from chivalric, pastoral, and Christian romances, to exemplary and picaresque novels, to theater and the arts. Professor Castillo will use Don Quixote and other Cervantine works to discuss the need for enhanced media literacy in our culture of the screen.
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-5:00pm Don Quixote’s Journeys: From the University of Iowa to the World
Moderator: Christi Garst-Santos, Modern Languages & Global Studies, South Dakota State University
Alumni and current students who have studied Don Quixote at the University of Iowa will share their impressions of this book, discuss how its reading transformed their studies and their lives, and offer advice about how Spanish studies enhance students’ lives personally and professionally.
7:30pm Man of la Mancha (Riverside Recital Hall)
Josh Sazon, director
