| Beyond Books
and Borders:
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Florida Frontier
An interdisciplinary symposium at The City College and The Graduate
Center,
City University of New York (CUNY)
All sessions are free and open to the public
(For information please call: 1212.650.6731; or1212.817.8410)
Thursday, 13 November 2003
at The City College, Convent Ave. at 138th St.
(# 1 train, 137th St. and Broadway stop; walk 2 blocks East to Amsterdam
Ave.). Session held at the Rifkind Room (6/316, North Academic Complex
[NAC], adjacent to the English Dept.)
3:15 pm:
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Welcome by James Watts |
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Dean, Division of Humanities and
Art, CCNY |
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Session
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3:30-5:00 pm. |
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3:30-5:00
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The Representation of
Florida: Cartography, History and Literature
Moderator and discussant, Juan Carlos Mercado, Chairperson,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, CCNY |
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3:30-4:00:
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“Mapping the Florida of the
Inca,” Mitchell A. Codding,
Director, The Hispanic Society of America; |
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4:00-4:30: |
“El Inca Garcilaso, Writer
of De Soto, Reader of Cabeza de Vaca,” Rolena Adorno,
Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish Literature, Yale University; |
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4:30-5:00:
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“The Précis of the
“Relación” of Fray Sebastián de Cañete:
Its Content, Comparison with other De Soto Narratives, and Possible
Origin,” Eugene Lyon, Professor Emeritus, University of
Florida at Gainesville. |
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5:30-7:30: |
Opening of the exhibition:
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Florida Frontier,
co-curated by Mitchell A. Codding and John O’Neill, The
Hispanic Society of America, 613 West at Broadway and
155th St. (#1 Train, 157th St. stop). |
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Reception to follow |
Friday, 14 November 2003 at
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave (between 34th and 35th Sts.)
All Sessions held at Room C197
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Welcome by Distinguished Professor Lía
Schwartz,
Executive Officer, Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center, CUNY. |
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| 3:30-5:00 pm |
Florida Tales and Textual Ideologies
Moderator: Alexandra Sununu
Discussant: Karl Kohut, Katholische Universität Eichstätt
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| 3:30-4:00 |
“A Requiem for Lesser Conquerors: Honor
and Oblivion in a ‘Land of Living War’,”
Amy Bushnell, The John Carter Brown Library-Brown University; |
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“La Florida as Immutable Mobile: Mapping
Poetic Distance onto Real People and Places,”
Patricia Galloway, University of Texas at Austin; |
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| 4:30-5:00: |
"Los Diálogos, la cábala
y la doble mirada: un acercamiento transatlántico al
Garcilaso inicial,"
José Antonio Mazzotti, Harvard University. |
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| 5:00-5:15 pm: |
Recess |
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| Session III: |
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| 5:15-6:45 pm |
La Florida del Inca: Its Publication
and Editions
Moderator: Nidia Pullés-Linares, Borough of Manhattan
C. College, CUNY
Discussant: Karl Kohut, Katholische Universität Eichstätt |
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| 5:15-5:45: |
“La publicación de La Florida
y su contexto histórico: problemas y perspectivas de
investigación,”
Pedro Guibovich, Pontificia Universidad Católica del
Perú- Princeton University; |
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| 5:45-6:15: |
“En torno a las ediciones de La Florida
del Inca,”
Carmen de Mora, Universidad de Sevilla; |
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| 6:15-6:45: |
“El regreso del Inca: sobre una edición
anotada de dos obras de Garcilaso,”
Mercedes López Baralt, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras. |
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| 6:45-8:30: |
Reception, Dining Commons,
8th Floor, Graduate Center.
Hosted by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean &
Latino Studies,
Graduate Center, CUNY. |
Sponsored by:
The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Lits. and Languages,
Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, CCNY; with the collaboration
of:
The Hispanic Society of America, Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York,
Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies, CUNY,
Colonial Latin American Review,
and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities at The City College.
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