Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to remind you of an upcoming event.

Monday, May 4, 12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405 | Katrina Powers
Ph.D. Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago,
“Susanna’s Bath: Blaming the Blameless in Francisco de la Torre’s La justicia y la verdad.” Respondent: James Nemiroff. The paper will be pre-circulated (accessible on our blog).

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we would like to invite you to attend our next Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop meeting co-sponsored with the Katz Center for Mexican Studies. On Monday, November 24, Martha Lilia Tenorio, Professor at the Colegio de México and Visiting Professor at The University of Chicago, presents “Una versión original de la Poética de Boileau: la traducción del Padre Alegre.” Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish at The University of Chicago will be our respondent. The meeting will be held in Rosenwald 405 at 12:00 PM. Please, find the link to the paper below. Notice that the text as well as the meeting are in Spanish. We hope to see you there.

 Martha Lilia Tenorio_EST_Prel

Best regards,

Graduate Student Coordinators
Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop
University of Chicago

  

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we would like to invite you to attend our next Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop meeting. On Monday, November 10th, Medardo Rosario and José Estrada, PhD students in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, will present: “Exemplary Paths: Spatial Reflections on Two Secondary Itineraries in Cervantes’ ‘La ilustre fregona.'” James Nemiroff, PhD Candidate from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will be the respondent for this presentation. The meeting will be held in Rosenwald 405 from 12:00 to 1:20 PM. We hope to see you there.

Best regards,

José Estrada and Medardo Rosario
Graduate Student Coordinators
Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop
University of Chicago

Monday October 13, 2014 at 12:00 in Rosenwald 405— Chris Zappella, PhD student in Medieval and Early Modern Art, presents “Sembran della Sepultura: Dissension and Contention in the Crucible of the Early Accademia del Disegno” (note: not pre-circulated)

Respondent: Madison Dickinson, PhD student in Italian.

Friday June 6th at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207–Ana Sanchez-Rojo, Ph D. candidate in Music History, presents “Madrid, 1787: music for the theater and public opinion.

Excerpt:

In this dissertation I will argue that performance and criticism of theater music in Madrid  formed a vital part of the boom in what Jürgen Habermas has defined as the “sphere” of public opinion in the last two decades of the eighteenth century.

Friday June 6th in Wieboldt 207–Ana Sanchez-Rojo, Ph D. candidate in Music History, presents TBA.  Details pending.