Golden Age
Cork Golden Age Symposium 2012
Friday, 23 November
12.00 -14.00 REGISTRATION (First-Floor Social Area, O’Rahilly Building, Block B)
Session I Venue: ORB G.27
(Ground Floor of the ORB)
14.00-14.30 Sander Berg (London): ‘The Devil’s Last Laugh in Zayas’s El jardín engañoso.’
14.30-15.00 Alice Brooke (Oxford): ‘The Other Old World and the New: Challenging Epistemological Mentalities in Sor Juana’s auto, El cetro de José.’
15.00-15.30 Grace Magnier (Dublin): ‘Santiago, Baronius and Spain’s National Identity.’
15.30-16.00 Imogen Sutton (Cambridge): ‘“Que es una oculta cruz el buen govierno”: Epic, Power and Peace in Diego de Hojeda’s La Christiada.’
Afternoon Tea
Session II Venue: ORB G.27
16.30-17.00 Barbara Gaspar (London): ‘L’Incendio Hispanico: Philip III, the Immaculate Conception and “the Heresy of the Kingdom of England”.’
17.00-17.30 Paul Joseph Lennon (Cambridge): ‘Dialectical Love in Francisco de Aldana’s “Pues cabe tanto en vos del bien del cielo”.’
17.30-18.00 Laura Muñoz Pérez (Nottingham): ‘“Si cumplo con la lengua castellana...”: Lope de Vega and Catalina Clara Transgress the Boundaries of the Petrarchan Tradition.’
18.00-18.30 Stephen Boyd (Cork): ‘Velázquez’s Two-Faced Bacchus.’
Departmental Reception
Saturday, 24 November
Session III Venue: ORB G.27
09.00-09.30 Bob Oakley (Birmingham): ‘Don Quijote – Picaresque Novel?’
09.30-10.00 Brian Brewer (Dublin): ‘The Sterility of Abundance: Marcela and Grisóstomo in the Golden Age.
10.00-10.30 Aaron Kahn (Sussex): ‘¡No pasarán! Cervantes’s Numancia and the Fight against Imperialism in Crónicas romanas (1968) by Alfonso Sastre.’
10.30-11.00 Melanie Henry (Belfast): ‘Playing Lope in Cervantes’s Los baños de Argel.’
Coffee
Session IV Venue: ORB G.27
11.30-12.00 Isabel Torres (Belfast): ‘Looking to Excess: Eris and Envy in Góngora's Shorter Love Poems.’
12.00-12.30 Karine Durin (Nantes): ‘Quevedo y Fray Luis de León: influencia literaria y filosófica.’
12.30-13.00 Oliver Noble-Wood (Oxford): ‘¿Desgracias anulares?: Ringkomposition in Quevedo’s El Buscón.’
Lunch
Session V Venue: ORB G.27
14.00-14.30 Anne Holloway (Glasgow): ‘Fiercely Human? María Rosal and the Female Response to Góngora.’
14.30-15.00 Barry Taylor (British Library): ‘Two Polifemos: Góngora and Baía.’
15.00-15.30 Lindsay Kerr (Belfast): ‘Luis de Góngora’s Late Parody, La fábula de Píramo y Tisbe.’
15.30-16.00 Daniel Waissbein (Lucca): ‘Corrupta la letra: Góngora, First Solitude and the Panama Canal.’
Tea
followed by change of venue
Session VI Venue: West Wing WW9 (on the main Quadrangle)
16.45-17.15 Simon Kroll (Vienna): ‘El secreto a voces de Calderón de la Barca. Apuntes para una edición crítica.’
17.15-17.45 Elizabeth Drayson (Cambridge): ‘The Puzzling Case of Cervantes and the Lead Books of Granada.’
17.45-18.15 Jonathan Bradbury (Oxford): ‘Sitting on the Promontory or the Pier: Views of Spanish Naples in Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa’s Pusílipo (1629) and Giulio Cesare Capaccio’s Il Forastiero (1634).’
BREAK
Plenary Lecture Venue: West Wing WW9
18.30-19.15 Ron Truman (Oxford): 'Ideology and the Book in Siglo de Oro Spain: Purposes and Problems.’
20.30 Conference Dinner (Jacobs on the Mall: 30 South Mall, Cork)
Sunday, 25 November
Session VII Venue: ORB G.27
09.00-09.30 Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh): ‘Bending the Knee to Baal? Ignatius, Gracián and the Art of Jesuit Prudence.’
9.30-10.00 Trevor Dadson (London): ‘“Poesía que vive en variantes”: Another look at Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino via the Count of Salinas.’
10.00-10.30 Jonathan Thacker (Oxford): ‘“Para tiempos de veras / se ejercitan en las burlas”: Rehearsals on the Golden Age Stage.’
10.30-11.00 Don Cruickshank (Dublin): ‘Don Juan de Vera Tassis and Las cadenas del demonio.’
Conference close with coffee:
Café FRESCO (Ground Floor of the Glucksman Gallery, UCC)
Cover image: Francisco Ribalta, Ramon Llull, c.1620, Oil on canvas, 102 x 84.5 cm (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)