20 March 2020, 2.00pm – 6.00pm
Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
In the month of International Women’s Day, this panel showcases the inspiring work and experiences of women in early modern Spain and the New World who challenged the norms and traditions of their times. These women have not been fully recognised and, in the case of the writers, very few of their works translated into English. The panel also discusses how Golden Age women have been represented and their works received, in the past and today. Featuring specialists in the field who are also bravely breaking scholarly boundaries in their research, this event is funded by the Instituto Cervantes and the IMLR.
14:00 Welcome
Chair: Ignacio Peyró (Instituto Cervantes)
14:15 Elena Carrera (QMUL): ‘Women’s Shame in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America’
14:45 Catherine Maguire (QMUL): ‘Representing mothers and maternal hope in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish shrine books’
15:15 Break
Chair: Catherine Davies (IMLR, London)
15:30 Anne Holloway (QUB): ‘”When Amarilis was here”: late pastoral (and early modern fan fiction) in the poetry of Lope de Vega’
16:00 Isabel Torres (QUB): ‘“Getting past the ending” – Rethinking the female subject in the Baroque comedia: Reflections on Ana Caro’s El conde Partinuplés and Calderón’s El Alcalde de Zalamea’
16:30 Catherine Boyle (KCL): ‘A Feminist Translates the Women of the Spanish Golden Age’.
17:00 Discussion
17:15 Reception
Generously supported by the Instituto Cervantes and the IMLR
All are welcome to attend this free event but please register in advance at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22220 (orhttp://bit.ly/CervantesIMLRWoman)
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