Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, June 1, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 for our last meeting of the quarter.

Felipe Rojas (PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper titled “Representing An-‘Other’ Ganymede: The Multi-Religious Character of Ismael in Tirso de Molina’s La prudencia en la mujer.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, May 25, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 for our next meeting.

Gregory Baum (PhD Student, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper titled “Transvestite Translations: Disrobing Don Quixote in 17th-century England.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, May 18, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 for our next meeting.

Diana Aramburu (PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper titled “Unpacking the Chest of Memory in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the Western Mediterranean and Renaissance Workshops for our joint meeting on Wednesday, May 4, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207.

Katie Chenoweth (Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago) will present a paper titled “From Letters to Law: Instituting the Language of François.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, April 20, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 to welcome our first guest speaker of the quarter.

Michelle Hamilton (Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota) will present a paper titled “Dying in the Mediterranean: An Arabized Vernacular Dance of Death in Hebrew Romance.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, April 13, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 for our first meeting of the quarter.

Eduardo Ruiz (2010 Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago) will present a paper titled “ ‘How does the Moon Die?’ The Negotiation between Western Science and Native Voice in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the Western Mediterranean and Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Workshops for our joint meeting on next Wednesday, March 2, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207.

Mohamad Ballan (MA in Social Sciences, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper titled “Between Castilian Reconquista and Ottoman Jihad: A Reconsideration of the 1501 Hispano-Muslim Qasida to Sultan Bayezid II.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us on Wednesday, February 23, at 4:30pm in Wieboldt 207 for our next regular meeting.

Prof. Karla Mallette (Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled “Lingua franca in the Mediterranean.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a joint meeting co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Social Thought, and the Medieval Studies Workshop on Monday, February 21, at 4:30 in WB207.

Lecture by Giacomo Todeschini (Professor of Medieval History, University of Trieste) on “Judas and the Christian common people: infidelity and economic inaptitude in the Middle Ages.”

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!