The Modern Language Department invites you to attend
"CERVANTES AFTER 400 YEARS: WHY WE SHOULD READ DON
QUIXOTE TODAY?"
Cervantes, who died in 1616, is universally regarded as the supreme exemplar
of literary achievement in Spanish and one of the central figure of the Western
canon along Dante and Shakespeare. In celebration of the 400th anniversary
of Cervantes’s death, the Modern Language Department has programmed a
series of activities to highlight the enduring fascination Cervantes’s Don
Quijote have exerted on readers, writers and artists.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Program:
Tuesday, November 1st, 9:30 to 11:00 am. Founders Hall, CCSU.
9:25. Opening ceremony
9:30- 10:40. David Burochoff, Mc-Gill University: "Inventing the Novel: Don
Quixote, According to Cervantes." (In English)
Prof. David A. Boruchoff has also taught at Harvard and Yale Universities, the
University of Michigan, and Brown University. He specializes in the literature,
historiography, and intellectual history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century
Spain and Latin America, as well as the broader Atlantic world. In relation to
early modern Spain, his research addresses a diverse range of topics, including
Humanism, the invention of the novel, and the writings of Miguel de Cervantes.
Professor Boruchoff serves on the editorial boards of Anuario de Estudios
Cervantinos, Latin American Research Review, and eHumanista/Cervantes, and
is a member of the executive councils of the Cervantes Society of America and
the Renaissance Society of America. He is a contributing correspondent of
Anuario Bibliográfico Cervantino and Cervantes International Bibliography.
Tuesday, November 1st, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Founders Hall, CCSU.
10: 50- 1:00. Public reading of Don Quixote (multilingual): Calling all CCSU
Spanish culture friends to read a fragment in the language of your choice. For
more information, contact: [email protected]
Tuesday, November 1st, 5:00 to 6:30 pm, Vance 105.
5:00-6:30 Panel discussion: Cervantes’s Don Quixote after 400: its Literary
Influence and Universal Values ( in Spanish).
5:00-5:20. “Cervantes y la tolerancia: la identidad religiosa en el Quijote”.
Ángela Morales (Modern Language Department).
5:20-5:40. “Don Quijote y la opinion pública”.José Carlos del Ama (Department
of Communication).
5:40-6:00. “La huella de Don Quijote en la poesía de León Felipe”. Paloma
Lapuerta (Modern Language Department).
6:00-6:20 “Cervantes en la literatura latinoamericana.” Antonio García-Lozada
(Modern Language Department).
The Organizing Committee would like to thanks for their generous support to:
The Carol A. Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, the Modern
Language Department, and the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Center at
CCSU. Thanks.
Ángela Morales
Lourdes Casas
José Carlos del Ama
Antonio García-Lozada