cervantes & shakespeare: 400 years
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28-29 enero 2016: Simposio anglohispano en la Universidad de Oxford, organizado para conmemorar y explorar la vida y trabajo de dos de los autores más destacados de los siglos XVI y XVII, que murieron hace 400 años con días de diferencia ---------- 28-29 January 2016: An Anglo–Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford, held to commemorate and explore the lives and works of two of the most outstanding auhtors of the XVI-XVII century, who died 400 years ago within days of each otherTRANSCRIPT
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An Anglo–Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford to commemorate their deaths in 1616
Thursday 28th to Friday 29th January 2016Weston Library & Exeter College
Organized byFaculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford;
Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain; Instituto Cervantes LondonAll papers will be delivered in English
CervantesShakespeare
400 years
Cervantes and Shakespeare: 400 years An Anglo–Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford28th – 29th January 2016
Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died within eleven days of each other in 1616, are universally regarded as the supreme exemplars of literary achievement in their respective languages. Thissymposium brings together six British scholars of Cervantes and six Spanish Shakespeare scholars to explore the literary worlds of these two iconic authors, whose works convey the turbulent spirit of the restless age in which they lived.
Speakers will cover a broad range of topics, such as the ‘lost’ play by Shakespeare, inspired by a story from Cervantes’ Don Quixote; the extraordinary influence of Don Quixote; similarities and differences in form, style, and theme in their works; issues of interpretation; and the enduring fascination both writers have exerted on readers, writers and artists in modern times. All papers will be delivered in English, and there will be plenty of scope for discussion by speakers and audience.
Speakers:
Michael Bell (Warwick)Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary, London)Barry Ife (Kings College London)Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh)Isabel Torres (Queen’s, Belfast)Edwin Williamson (Oxford)
Clara Calvo (Murcia)José Ramón Díaz-Fernández (Málaga)Zenón Luis-Martínez (Huelva)Salvador Oliva (Gerona)Ángel-Luis Pujante (Murcia)Jesús Tronch (Valencia)
Keynote Lecture:
Brean Hammond (Nottingham)
ProgrammeThursday, 28th January 2016
Weston Library9:30 – Opening Remarks H.E. Federico Trillo-Figueroa, Ambassador of SpainThe Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Prof. Louise Richardson
10.00 – 11:15 Keynote Lecture Brean Hammond (Professor of English Literature, University of Nottingham), Cervantes’ Bones: Or What We Can Learn From Shakespeare’s ‘Lost Play’
11:40 – 12:20 Ángel-Luis Pujante, The Link Cervantes-Shakespeare: Some Spanish Observations
12:20 – 13:00 Edwin Williamson, The Influence and Power of ‘Don Quixote’
Exeter College14:30 – 15:10 Trevor J. Dadson, The Multicultural World of Don Quixote
15:10 – 15:50 Michael Bell, The ‘Exploded Psyche’ in Cervantes, Shakespeare and Dickens
16:10 – 16:50 Zenón Luis-Martínez, ‘Limbs are his Instruments’: The Logic of Division in ‘Troilus and Cressida’
16:50 – 17:30 Salvador Oliva, The Problem of Evil in Studies of ‘Macbeth’
17:30 – 18:45 Reception
Friday, 29th January 2016
Exeter College 9:30 – 10:10 Jesús Tronch, Imagined Manuscripts in Shakespeare and Cervantes: Behind the Editorial Practice of their Plays 10:10 – 10:50 Barry Ife, Plays, Texts and the Novel as Drama 11:05 – 11:45 Isabel Torres, Poet Come Lately? The Poetics and Politics of Irony in Cervantes’s ‘Viaje del Parnaso’
11:45 – 12:25 Jeremy Robbins, Journeys and Destinations in Cervantes’s ‘Persiles y Sigismunda’ 15.30 – 16.10 José Ramón Díaz Fernández, Authority, Power and Social Order in Grigori Kozintsev’sShakespearean Adaptations
16:10 – 16:50 Clara Calvo, Curating Shakespeare
Concluding session17:00 – 17:30 General discussion and summing-up
Closing remarksIlmo. Sr. D. José María Lassalle, Spanish Secretary of State for CultureProfessor Sir Rick Trainor, Rector of Exeter College
Weston LibraryBroad St. Oxford, OX1 3BG
Exeter CollegeTurl St, Oxford OX1 3DP
The event is free and open to all but please register here:[email protected]