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.

The conference committee is now accepting abstracts for 20-minute papers and proposals for three- or four-person panels. Please submit a 250-word abstract, along with your name, academic affiliation, mailing address and email address to: utquijote@gmail.com

Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: May 1, 2015

Cory A. Reed

Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
150 W. 21st Street, Stop B3700
Austin, TX 78712-1611

Office Location:
Benedict Hall 4.140
(512) 471-4936