In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Part Two of Don Quijote, The University of Texas at Austin announces a multi-day conference that crosses traditional fields of inquiry to examine the Quijote in the context of the Mediterranean world, from the author’s time to the present. Scholarly presentations will analyze migration and cultural contact in the Mediterranean world; race, ethnicity and religious identity; the Mediterranean and Transatlantic slave trade; Spain and the Mediterranean as geographic and cultural borderlands; commercial and intellectual networks and exchanges; the Quijote and African, Arabic, and/or Sephardic Readers; and other cross-disciplinary investigations. We welcome papers and panels that contextualize Cervantes’s work within widening geopolitical and chronological parameters, to reconsider our knowledge of European modernity from the perspective of Cervantes’s masterpiece.
Keynote Speakers

María Antonia Garcés
Cornell University

Ramón Mayrata
Spanish Poet, Novelist, Journalist