<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">REMINDER: </span></i></b></p><span class="im"><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Don Quijote and the </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Mediterranean World<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">October 18-20, 2015</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The University of Texas at Austin<u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p></span><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><b>Deadline for Proposals: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">May 1, 2015</span></span></b></p><span class="im"><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">In commemoration of the 400^th anniversary of the publication of Part Two of <i>Don Quijote</i>, The University of Texas at Austin announces a multi-day conference that crosses traditional fields of inquiry to examine the <i>Quijote</i> 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 <i>Quijote</i> and African, Arabic, and/or Sephardic Readers; and other cross-disciplinary investigations. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri">Keynote Speakers<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri">María Antonia Garcés</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cornell University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Author of <i>Cervantes in Algiers</i> and <i>An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri">Ramón Mayrata<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Spanish Poet, Novelist, Journalist<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Author of <i>El imperio desierto</i> and <i>El mago manco</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri">The conference committee is now accepting abstracts for 20-minute papers and proposals for three- or four-person panels. Papers may be presented in either Spanish or English. Please submit a 250-word abstract, along with your name, academic affiliation, mailing address and email address to: </span><a href="mailto:utquijote@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:purple" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=utquijote@gmail.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri">utquijote@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div class=""><div id=":3nv" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div class=""><span class="im"><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:17px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri">Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">May 1, 2015</span></span></span></b></p></span></div></div>
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