2023-2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Performance in Theory in Early Modern Iberia and Beyond
Álvaro Díaz, Universidad Autónomo de Baja California
Sound Presentation with Natalia Pérez: “Iberian Farsa in the Age of Technological Reproduction”
Esther Fernández, Rice University, Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures
Puppet Performance with Jason E. Yancey: “Transgressive Revelations: Performance Entremeses with Shadow Puppets in Theory and Practice”
Bernard Gordillo Brockman, UCLA
“Indigenous Knowing, Mission Myths, and Performance of California Mission Music”
Javier Irigoyen-García, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
“Gone with the Wind: Morisco Popular Music in Early Modern Spain”
Elizabeth Neary, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
“Dance and Devotion: Performance Aspects of Inquisitorial Trials”
Dianna C. Niebylski, University of Illinois, Chicago, Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies
“Contesting Performance Theory with Ailing Bodies in Transit: Diamela Eltit’s Protest Repertoire in Sumar”
Manuel Olmedo Gobante, University of Arkansas, World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
“Knowledge and Habit: Recovering Corporeal Techniques from Early Modern Spanish Martial Arts Treatises”
Jason E. Yancey, Grand Valley State University, Modern Languages and Literatures
Puppet Performance with Esther Fernández: “Transgressive Revelations: Performance Entremeses with Shadow Puppets in Theory and Practice”
2021-2022
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Bodies, Discourse, and Motion in the Age of Cervantes
Lizette Arellano, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
“Gardens of Gendered Joy in Tirso de Molina’s El vergonzoso en palacio”
Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin College, Romance Languages and Literatures
“Shattering Glass: Cervantes between diagnosis and disability”
Adam Bregman, USC, Thornton School of Music
“Music of the Spheres and the Cosmic Dance”
María José Domínguez, Arizona State University, School of International Letters and Cultures
“A Disembodied Fantasy in Motion: Dulcinea’s Visual Representations over Time, Space, and Genres of Art”
Adam Gilbert, USC, Thornton School of Music
“Grounds, Airs, and Cross-Currents in Iberian (and Latin American) Music”
Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA, School of Music
“Playing with Galatea”
Huntington Library
2020-2021
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Sound Politics: Somatics and Semantics in the Early Modern World
Sir Barry Ife, Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Cervantes Professor Emeritus, King’s College London
“When Don Quixote starts to sing, what are we supposed to hear?”
Tess Knighton, Research Professor, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona
“Black African Musicians: Sounding Status in Early Modern Spain and Portugal”
Sarah Finley, Assistant Professor, Dept of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University
“Listening to Race in Sor Juana’s villancicos de negros: Urban Soundscapes and the Auditory Imagination?”
Kate van Orden, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music Historical Musicology, Department of Music, Harvard University
“France and Spain in Rome circa 1580: National Churches and the Performance of Corporate Identity “
Online
2019-2020
February 15, 2020
Capturing Others and Shifting Perspectives in the Spanish Empire
Sherry Velasco, USC
“Captivating Music, Memory, and Emotions in Cervantes’ Los baños de Argel”
Mary Quinn, University of New Mexico
“Sonic Peripheries and Olfactory Borders: Sensorial Celebrations for Prince Felipe Próspero in Naples and Manila”
Natalia Pérez, USC
“Marian Spatiality and the Auto Sacramental”
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin
“Visuality in Popular Culture of Early Modern Spain: The Role of Art Collections”
Steven Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin
“Early Modern Genealogies of Algiers”
Closing Roundtable: Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA, Marta Albalá Pelegrín, Cal Poly Pomona, Bruce Smith, USC, Javier Patiño Loira, UCLA
Huntington Library
2018-2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Marta Vicente, University of Kansas
“Transgender Identities in Early Modern Europe”
Friday, May 3, 2019
Early Modern Iberian Voices Colloquium
“Cultures of Resistance in Early Modernity”
Nasser Meerkhan, University of California, Berkeley
Vincent Barletta, Stanford University
Nicholas Jones, Bucknell University
David Souto Alcalde, Trinity College
Georgina Dopico, New York University
María M. Carrión, Emory University
Sonia Velázquez, Indiana University, Bloomington
Huntington Library
2017-2018
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
“Peasant Rulers on the Stage in Early Modern Spain”
University of Southern California
Friday, November 17, 2017
Georgina Dopico, New York University
“Tolerance?: Blood Purity and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain”
University of Southern California
Friday, February 16, 2018
Between Habsburg and Ottoman Empires: Sovereign Forms in Migration
Zeynep Çelik, Columbia University
“The Past and the Present Among Ruins”
Selim Kuru, University of Washington
“In the Realm of Darkness: Memoirs of a Muslim Ottoman Captive in Habsburg Lands”
Noémie Ndiaye, Carnegie Mellon University
“‘Todo en mundanzas consiste’: Gypsies and the Crisis of Sovereignty in El Arenal de Sevilla”
Natalia Pérez, USC
“Rebecca’s Ear: Dramatic Space in Diego Sánchez de Badajoz’s Farsa de Ysaac”
Leyla Rouhi, Williams College
“A Radical Re-Assessment of Miguel de Cervantes’ La gran sultana”
Kaya Sahin, Indiana University
“Staging an Empire: Cultural Performances at an Ottoman Circumcision Ceremony (1530)”
Veli N. Yashin, USC
“Disorienting Figures: The Sovereign and the Author in the Ottoman Nineteenth Century”
Huntington Library
2016-2017
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Marta V. Vicente, University of Kansas
“Trans-Confessions: Gender Narratives in the Early Modern World”
University of Southern California
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
“Medicine, Imagination, and the Myth of Healing Monarchs in Early Modern Europe”
University of Southern California
Friday, April 14, 2017
Sound Travels: From the Early Modern Stage to the Cinematic Spectacle
Huntington Library
Roberto Diaz, Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, USC
“Calderón in Lima; or, Soundings of the Neo-Baroque”
Adam Gilbert, Thornton School of Music, USC
“Early Modern Marriages of Image, Text, and Music”
Dianna Niebylski, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Between Mystics and Otolaryngologists: Desiring Women and Sonic Interference in Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl”
Natalia Pérez, Spanish and Portuguese, USC
“Voice, Gender, and Citizenship on the Early Modern Iberian Stage”
Laura Serna, Cinematic Arts, USC
“Listening for La Raza in Government Sponsored Film: Voice of La Raza (1971)”
Sherry Velasco, Spanish and Portuguese, Gender Studies, USC
“Listening to Algiers with Captive Ears in Early Modern Spain”
Monday, April 17, 2017
Lee Skinner, Claremont McKenna College
“Discourses on Modernity and Women’s Education in Latin America, 1850-1880”
University of Southern California
2015-2016
Thursday-Saturday, February 11-13, 2016
“Happy in the Life to come”: 400 Years of Cervantine Afterlives
Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago
“Islands Adrift: Don Quixote, Amadis, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest“
Marina Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
“Cervantine Afterlives on the English Stage”
Jacques Lezra, New York University
“Canalla: Involuntary Autonomy in ‘El Retablo de las Maravillas’”
Leyla Rouhi, Williams College
“Persian Translations of Don Quijote”
Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania
“Unbearable Immediacy: Albert Serra’s Honor de Cavalleria, Diagram, and Don Quixote”
Sonia Velázquez, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Towards a Quiescent Modernity: Cervantes and The Staging of Sainthood”
Adrienne Martín, UC Davis
José Cartagena-Caldéron, Pomona College
Luis Avilés, UC Irvine
USC, University Park Campus
Roundtable Discussion: “Still Trending After 400 Years: Developments in Cervantine Studies”
