Retirement Celebration for Mary Gaylord - May 4th - 5th (Fri and Sat)

Date: 

Friday, May 4, 2018 (All day) to Saturday, May 5, 2018 (All day)

Location: 

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard - 26 Trowbridge St, Cambridge

 

Program of the
Tribute to Mary M. Gaylord, Sosland Family Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University

(Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, May 4-5, 2018)
Organizers: Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia; and Felipe Valencia, Utah State University

FRIDAY, MAY 4
1:30-2:00 p.m.
Opening reception

2:00-3:30 p.m.
1st Panel: Cervantes
Charles D. Presberg, University of Missouri: “Cervantes and the Art of Madness”
Obed Lira, Bucknell University: “Don Quixote and the Spectres of Colonial Violence”
Goretti González, IE University: “Cervantes and early modern hybrid identities”
Dian Fox, Brandeis University: “The Sons of King Sebastian”

4:00-5:30 p.m.
2nd Panel: Colonial I
Glen Carman, DePaul University: “Erasmus, Sepúlveda, and the ‘Turkish Threat’”
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “From Transatlantic to Transpacific”
Fátima Monteiro, EMAC-Macaronesia Institute and CLEPUL-FLUL, University of Lisbon: “A ilhas da Macaronésia—Açores, Madeira, Canárias e Cabo Verde— e o processo de globalização”

SATURDAY, MAY 5
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Breakfast at the Real Colegio Complutense

9:00-10:30 a.m.
3rd Panel: Colonial II
Karina Galperin, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella: “La cueva de Fitón: guerra y república de las letras en La Araucana de Ercilla”
Ernesto Guerra, Roxbury Latin: “From Ercilla’s La Araucana to children’s literature and back”
Nicole Legnani, Princeton University: “Fabulous Fabulists: Batty Sisterhood in Sor Juana’s Primero sueño”
Francisco Ramírez Santacruz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla: “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y su retrato de artista”

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
4th Panel: Voices
Gabriela Basterra, New York University: “The Other’s Voice”
Simone Pinet, Cornell University: “On Debt(s)”
Felipe Valencia, Utah State University: “Voiceful Apollo and voiceless Daphne: The Poetics of Melancholy and Masculinist Lyric in Garcilaso’s sonnet XIII”
Antonio Arraiza Rivera, Wellesley College: “‘Un papagayo os dejaré, señora’: voices and verses displaced in a Góngora sonnet”

12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch at the Real Colegio Complutense

2:00-3:45 p.m.
5th Panel: Translationes
Gabriela Carrión, Regis University: “Translating the Renaissance: Antonio de Guevara”
José Cartagena-Calderón, Pomona College: “Carne divina: San Sebastián en el imaginario homoerótico hispano”
Michael Armstrong-Roche, Wesleyan University: “Master Mistresses on the 17th-Century Spanish and English Stage: Actresses, Boy Actors, and the Proto-History of Screwball Comedy”
Laura Bass, Brown University: “‘Hijos de Madrid:’ Literature and Local Belonging in the Seventeenth-Century Court Capital”
Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College: “What Glasses are you Wearing When You Read Early Modern Texts?”


4:15-5:15 p.m.
Closing
Final remarks by Mary M. Gaylord
 

 

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