From My Cold Dead Hand: Cervantes and the Public Humanities

9:00             Welcome

9:15               Julio Baena, University of Colorado at Boulder

“The Fetish Speaks (Drowning Cervantes’ Text in a Loud Silence)”

10:30            William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University

“Twilight of the Idyll: How Cervantes Pulled Fiction Out of the Grave of Pastoral”

11:45            Moisés Castillo, University of Kentucky

“Humanistic Lessons from Cervantes’s Theatricality”

1:00               Lunch

2:00               David Castillo, The University at Buffalo

“Cervantes and Media Literacy in the New Humanities Classroom”

3:15               Brad Nelson and Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia

“Spectacles of Hate Speech: An Exemplary Approach to Transgressions in Black Metal”