Cervantes in China in his 400th Anniversary

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing
20th floor, Culture Plaza
No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street
Haidian District Beijing 100872

The two-day Symposium focused on the 400th anniversary of Spain´s best-known writer: Cervantes

Sponsors

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

Arizona State University Office of the Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dean George Justice

School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University

Joe Cutter, Unit Director

Chasqui: revista de litertura latinoamericana

David William Foster, Editor

EMIT: Early Modern Image and Text Society.

Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, President

Laberinto Journal

Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Editor

Instituto Cervantes, Beijing

Inma González Puy, Director

Program

June 21, Tuesday

9:30                            

Registration

10:00

Inagural Session

Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University

Inma González Puy, Cervantes Institute

Beth Bader, University of Chicago Center in Beijing

10:30- 12:00             

Session I  Chair: Juan Pablo Gil-Osle

Yang Hengda, Renmin University

Don Quijote in China

Frederick de Armas, University of Chicago

Cervantes Melancholia: in the Shadow of Success

Vicente Pérez de Leon, University of Melburne

Cosmovision and Dehumanization in Don Quixote II

12:00-13:30              

Lunch

13:30-14:40               

Session II  Chair: Frederick de Armas

Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University

Hyperreality and Cevantine Cultural Encounters in Beijing 2016

(Tang Xianzu, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Borges)

Christina H. Lee, University of Princeton

The Forgotten Chinese Experience in the Early Modern Hispanic World and Why it Matters

14:40-14:45               

Break

14:45-16:00               

Session III  Chair: Rogelio Miñana

Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University

“ . . . And things that go bump in the night”: Reading the Ghostly and the Uncanny in Don Quijote

Daniel Holcombe, Arizona State Universtiy

Salvador Dalí’s Pictorial Fanfare for the Common Man: Marketing Surrealistic Renaissance Classicism through Mid-Twentieth Century Don Quixote Illustrations

June 22, Wednesday

10:00-12:00               

Session IV  Chair: Christina H. Lee

Rogelio Miñana, Drexel University

21st-Century Quixotes: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Classrooms

Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University

Arizona State University’s Exchanges with China

Wei Nisi, Renmin University

La enseñanza del español en China

Zhang Jingting, Universidad de Estudios Internacionales de Shanghái                    

La enseñanza y la aceptación de las obras de Cervantes en China desde métodos multidisciplinarios

12:00-13:30               

Lunch

13:30-15:00               

Session V  Chair: Christopher Weimer

Margaret Marek, Illinois College

Mammoth Woolly Migrations: Transhumance, Extinction and the Cervantine Shepherd

Maria José Domínguez, Arizona State Unviersity

“Yo sé quien soy”: La “quijotización” de Dulcinea y la “dulcinización” de DonQuijote en una película de Vicente Escrivá.

Matthew Powell, Arizona State University

On Ah Gan’s Don Quixote (魔俠傳之唐吉德, 2010): Successes and Endings of a Movie