Conference organized by Jordi Aladro, Professor of Literature

Wednesday 18th
7:00pm – Welcome for participants with a “vino español” (a generous donation from Instituto Cervantes, New York)

Thursday 19th
University of California, Santa Cruz. Humanities 1, Room 202

9:45am
Introduction: Jordi Aladro
Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

10:15am
“The Indefinite Garden: Ovid’s Metaphors and Metamorphoses in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale”
Edward Milowicki
Emeritus Professor, Mills College

10:45am
“La traducción del hexámetro latino de Petrarca en castellano”
Alejandro Higashi
Área de Semiología Literaria, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa

11:15am
“La lengua de la Descripción de Esmeraldas”
Eva Mendieta
Chair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages, Indiana University Northwest

11:45am
“Las ilustraciones de trasgos y estantiguas en el Compendio de Manila”
Marisa García Verdugo
Chair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages, Purdue University

12:15pm
“Borges, Alicia y las maravillas”
Graciela Taquini
Profesora en Historia de las Artes, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires

12:45 – 2:00pm
Break

2:00pm
“‘Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos’: poema de destierro”
Montserrat Mochón
Saint Mary’s College

2:30pm
“Representación de la heroína indígena en El Arauco domado de Lope de Vega”
Luzmila Camacho
Ohio State University at Marion

3:00pm
“Revalorización de la primera comedia de Salazar y Torres en la preceptiva de la época”
Esther Murillo
Associate Professor of Spanish, Foreign Language Department The College of Saint Rose

3:30pm
“Noticias sobre el primer Quijote y la imprenta”
Enrique Rodríguez Cepeda
Emeritus Professor University of California, Los Angeles

4:00pm
“Luis Monguió, un exiliado leal”
Álvaro Romero
University of California, Santa Cruz

4:30pm
Book presentation: “Homenaje a Alicia de Colombí-Monguió”
Eva Mendieta and Marisa García Verdugo

5:00pm – Closing Remarks by Alicia de Colombí-Monguió

Co-Sponsored by:
Instituto Cervantes, New York
Department of Literature
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
Spanish Studies
Cowell Provost
Institute for Humanities Research