The new quarter is here, and the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop is gearing up for an exciting roster of presentations and workshop events. Below is the schedule for this fall, 2009.
Friday, October 9 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)
Katie Chenoweth, Harper and Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities at The University of Chicago, will be presenting her work on “The Definition of Montaigne’s Language.”
Friday, October 16 (CWAC 156, 12:00-1:20pm)
Lina Bolzoni, Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and Professor of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, will be presenting on “A Window into the Heart: Double-sided Portraits and Literary Models.” This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Art History.
Monday, October 19 (WB 207, 4:30-6:00pm)
María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Oviedo, will speak on “Don Quixote’s Voyage to Perfidious Albion: The Translation of Humour and Satire in 18th-Century English Versions of Cervantes’s Masterpiece.”
Friday, November 6 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)
David Arbesú, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Augustana College, will present on his work in a talk titled “Towards a Reconstruction of Spain’s Lost Epic Poems,” on the identification and reconstruction of the lost poems in the Estoria de Espanna.
Friday, November 20 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at The University of Chicago, will workshop a chapter from her dissertaion, “Andreuccio at the Well,” on Boccaccio’s Decameron, excrement, and early-modern water politics.