Medieval & Golden Age Peninsular Studies
INVITED LECTURES
November 6th, 2009. "Identification and Reconstruction of the Lost Spanish Epic Poems in the Estoria de España". Invitation by the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop. The U of Chicago
October 18th, 2009. Special session. "De Pelayo a Belay: La batalla de Covadonga según la historiografía árabe". Invitation by the Spanish Graduate Students Comittee. Asturias & the Asturians throughout History: Past, Present and Future. The U of Chicago
Presented by Frederick deArmas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
in the Humanities, for the special keynote session "De Pelayo a
Belay: La batalla de Covadonga según la historiografía árabe".
Asturias & The Asturians Throughout History; the U of Chicago.
October 18th, 2009. Special session. "De Pelayo a Belay: La batalla de Covadonga según la historiografía árabe". Invitation by the Spanish Graduate Students Comittee. Asturias & the Asturians throughout History: Past, Present and Future. The U of Chicago
Presented by Frederick deArmas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
in the Humanities, for the special keynote session "De Pelayo a
Belay: La batalla de Covadonga según la historiografía árabe".
Asturias & The Asturians Throughout History; the U of Chicago.
PANEL ORGANIZER - CHAIR
May 16th, 2010. Organizer & Chair. Iberian Book Culture in Transition. Society for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS). 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
May 14th, 2010. Organizer & Chair. Translation and Identity in Medieval Iberia. Iberomedieval Association of North America (IMANA). 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
October 8th, 2005. Chair. Cervantes on the New World. Cervantes and/on/in the New World. UMass Amherst.
April 30th, 2005. Chair. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies. UMass Amherst.
April 23-24th, 2004. Director & Co-organizer. International Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures: Visiones Literarias del Viejo y Nuevo Mundo. UMass Amherst.
LECTURES (OTHER THAN INVITED)
Speaking at NYU 2003
October 15th, 2010. "History as Myth: Divine Interventions in the Spanish Reconquista". Quest and Conquest: Spiritual Symbols and Myths in the Indo-Mediterranean and European Worlds. 39th Annual Medieval Workshop. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada.
September 18th, 2010. "History or Fiction? Of Medieval Kingdoms and Their Forged Identities?" From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700. Nanovic Institute for European Studies. U of Notre Dame, IN.
April 2nd 2010. "El valle del Río Grande: La historiografía de Rolando Hinojosa a la luz de la literatura medieval". Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference. Saint Louis, MO.
October 17th, 2009. "Marginal Discourses: Medieval Iconography & Its Meaning". Reflections in the Margins: Representations of the Marginalized in Iberian & Latin American Literatures. The U of Chicago - Chicago, IL.
May 8th, 2009. "El linaje de los godos: La forja de una identidad nacional en el scriptorium regio". Nations & Borders in Medieval Iberia. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
December 30th, 2008. "From Roncesvalles to Reconstruction: Textual Considerations on the Lost Spanish Epic of Mainete." Spanish Medieval Languages and Literatures Division. Modern Language Association - San Francisco, CA.
October 31st, 2008. "Ficciones ideológicas de la nación: El mito del rey Pelayo
y los orígenes de España". Myth and Mythmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures. The U of Chicago, IL.
April 30th, 2005. "Sor Juana y el diablo: El cetro de José y la teología natural". Our Research Matters: New Dialogues on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA.
April 22nd, 2005. "El debate dialogado y la herencia medieval de 'El curioso impertinente'".
Repercusiones e impactos quijotescos: La publicación del Quijote 1ª parte. The U of Chicago - Chicago, IL.
September 10th, 2004. "Reading Medieval Iconography: The Story Behind the Image." American Association of Teachers of Portuguese 10th Biennial Conference. Yale University - New Haven, CT.
April 1st, 2004. "Early Chaucer Editions: Printing The Works in the Renaissance". Renaissance Society of America. New York, NY.
October 3rd, 2003. "Las Casas' Brief Account and the English Printing Press: European Responses to the Discovery of the New World." New England Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of Hartford - Hartford, CT.
May 15th, 2003. "The Legend of Peter Stubb: Werewolves in Print". Graduate Students' Conference. University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA.
April 12th, 2003. "Nación e identidad: Flores y Blancaflor en la Estoria de España". Ante la ley: 13th Annual Conference at Columbia / NYU. King Juan Carlos I Center for Spanish Studies. New York University - New York, NY.
March 15th, 2002. "El humor en tiempos de guerra." IX Congreso Internacional Sobre el Discurso Artístico: El humor en todas las épocas y culturas. Universidad de Oviedo - Asturias (Spain).