Cervantes & Shakespeare Transnational Conversation
To commemorate the lives of Cervantes and Shakespeare, two towering figures of European literature, on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of their shared death date in April 1616, the Center for Renaissance Studies will host a three-day public symposium to spotlight their achievements and examine the parallels and intersections of their work.
Thursday, April 14
3 to 4:45 pm Session 1: The Worlds of Cervantes and Shakespeare
Chair: Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
Partial list of speakers:
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Steven Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
James Knapp, Loyola University Chicago
Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University
4:45 to 5:45 pm Reception
6 to 7:30 pm Session 2: Dialog on Cervantes and Shakespeare
Moderator: Liesl Olson
Speakers:
William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University
James Shapiro, Columbia University
Friday, April 15
10 am to noon Session 3: Selections from Cervantes’ Eight Interludes
Introduction: Bruce Burningham, Illinois State University
Dramatic reading by The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Directed by David Skidmore
Noon to 2 pm Lunch Break
2 to 3:30 pm Session 4: Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Performance, A Roundtable Discussion
Partial list of speakers:
Rosilie Hernández, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Skidmore, The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Will West, Northwestern University
Saturday, April 16
See the related program: The Shakespeare Project of Chicago will perform a staged reading of the play Cardenio, by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt, inspired by a lost play of Shakespeare’s that was based on a story from Don Quixote. The performance begins at 10 am, with an introductory talk fifteen minutes beforehand.
About the Cervantes Symposium:
The Newberry has hosted Cervantes Symposia since 2001. This year’s symposium is organized by Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami, and Carla Zecher, Renaissance Society of America, and cosponsored with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at DePaul University and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago.
Cost and Registration Information
This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration in advance is required.Register online here. Registrations will be processed through 10 am Wednesday, April 13, 2016.
