Date/Time
Date(s) - 21 Apr 2016
1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Special Collections Center
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To mark the 400th anniversaries of the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare, the Penn Libraries invite you to attend a one-day conference and accompanying exhibitions:
Spain and England in the Age of Cervantes and Shakespeare: Connected Histories?
Thursday, April 21, 1:00-7:30 PM
Class of ’78 Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th floor
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free and open to the public.
Full program and registration:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cervantes_shakespeare.html
Accompanying exhibitions:
The Stage and All the World: Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
1-day exhibition of Spanish Golden Age and English Renaissance collections, Lea Library
The conference and exhibitions will explore literary and cultural intersections and highlight the Kislak Center’s collections of Spanish Golden Age and English Renaissance literature. The conference concludes with a performance by Penn’s Underground Shakespeare Company
<http://www.undergroundshakespeare.com/>.
Participants include Marina Brownlee (Princeton), Rebecca Bushnell (Penn), Roger Chartier (Penn), Steve Dolph (Penn), Georgina Dopico-Black (NYU), Antonio Feros (Penn), Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins), Zachary Lesser (Penn), Carmen Peraita (Villanova), Melissa Sanchez (Penn), Michael Solomon (Penn), Peter Stallybrass (Penn), Jorge Tellez (Penn), Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley), and Kathryn Swanton (CUNY).
<http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cervantes_shakespeare.html>
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History, English, and Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Questions and further information:
John Pollack
[email protected]