Sponsored by the University of Chicago Paris Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago
Symposium Coordinator Frederick A. de Armas Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at University of Chicago
SESSION I: KEYNOTE LECTURE
CHAIR: Frederick A. de Armas
4:00 El sentimiento religioso entre arte y literatura en el Siglo de Oro español, Pierre Civil, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
5:30 RECEPTION
SESSION II: Ekphrasis from Antiquity to the 19th Century
CHAIR: John Slater
9:30. Simple Magic: Ekphrasis from Antiquity to the Age of Cervantes, Frederick A. de Armas, University of Chicago.
10:00. Ekphrastic Themes in Salviati s Roman Paintings, Deborah Cibelli, Nicholls State University.
10:30."Self-portrait and Meta-narrative Discourse. Ekphrasis and Automimetic Techniques in Early Modern Aesthetics" Cristina Mueller, University Massachusetts, Amherst.
11:00. Ekphrasis in Flaubert s Three Tales, Rossina Neginsky, University of Illinois, Springfield.
SESSION III: Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes I
CHAIR: Kerry Wilks
11:30 Ekphrasis and History: The Charles V Paintings in Villalón s El Crotalón, Kathleen Bollard, University of Colorado at Denver
12:00 History as pintura viva : Ekphrasis, Ephemera and Exempla in Lorenzo Vander Hammen s Don Juan de Austria, John Slater, Indiana University
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:15-3:15 pm Death and Places, Death and Dogs
12:30 Painting a Pastoral: Lope de Vega s La Arcadia as Dramatic Ekphrasis, Benjamin J. Nelson, University of Chicago
SESSION IV: Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes II
CHAIR: Eric Graf
2:30 Cyclopean Challenge: Góngora s Polifemo and Programmatic Art, Steven Wagschal, Indiana University.
3:00 Ekphrasis and Enchantment: Images of Circe in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance, Kerry Wilks, Wichita State University.
SESSION V: Cervantes and the Visual Arts
CHAIR: Steven Wagschal
4:00 El duelo entre Don Quijote y el vizcaíno: écfrasis y narradores en el Orlando Innamorato y el Quijote, Juan Pablo Gil, University of Chicago.
4:30 Sancho Defecates on Saint Martin of Tours: Visualizing the Evacuation of Morality in Don Quijote 1.20, Eric Graf, University of Illinois.
5:00 "Through the Bonfires of Petrarchism: Flemish Aesthetic and Italian Desertion in El coloquio de los perros," Ana Gómez Laguna, Rutgers University at Camden.
5:30 El Poder de la sangre at the Altarpiece of Redemption. Ignacio López Alemany, Duke University.
8:00 BANQUET
WORKSHOPS:
10:00 Ekphrasis in the Classical World: Definitions and Examples Polly Hoover, Wilbur Wright College
11:00 Word Creates Image in the Prose of Cervantes, William Worden, University of Alabama.
Afternoon: Visit to the Louvre Museum.