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CALENDAR (tentative)


Plenary Speakers


Matthew Bailey
"Oral Composition as Context for the Narrative Tradition of the Cid"
U. Texas – Austin (Thursday 28 February 2008)

Samuel Armistead
“The Cid and the Epic: Critical Theory and Poetic Reality.”
U. California – Davis (Friday 29 February 2008)


Wednesday, 27 February 2008


Introduction and Welcome
8:50, 3rd Floor Ortega Hall

Reading of the Poema de mio Cid
9:00 - 12:00 and 1:00 to 4:00, 3rd Floor Ortega Hall

Showing Anthony Mann’s El Cid
4:30 - 6:00, 153 Ortega Hall

Thursday, 28 February 2008

8:00-8:30 Conference Check-In, Coffee and pastries

8:30-9:45 Session I
Moderator:Sonia Balasch, U. New Mexico

Adriano Duque, Rider U.
"The Kissing of the Hand : Body and Ritual in Spanish Epics."

Mercedes Vaquero, Brown U.
“Tradicionalidad épica de los Infantes de Carrión.”

Marcos Romero, Aquinas College
“Treacherous Dogs and a Tongue-tied Man: The Role of Villains and a Flawed Hero in the Cantar de mio Cid.”
9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-11:15 Session II
Moderator: Leila Lehnen U. New Mexico
Mary B. Quinn, U. New Mexico
“The Morisco: Narrative’s Hero.”

Victor Grovas Hajj, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
“El encuentro con el otro en dos épocas y géneros de la literatura española: moros en el Cantar de mio Cid y en el teatro de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.”

Charles Patterson, U. Texas– Austin
“The Complication of the Villainous Other in Alarcón’s Quien mal anda en mal acaba.”
11:15-11:30 Welcome: Felipe Gonzales, Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, U. New Mexico

11:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00 -2:00 Plenary I
Presenter: Susan D. Rivera, U. New Mexico

Matthew Bailey, U. Texas – Austin
“Oral Composition as Context for the Narrative Tradition of the Cid.”


2:00 - 3:15 Session III
Moderator: Alena Johnson, U. New Mexico

Michael Harney, U. Texas– Austin
“Status and Contract in the Cantar de Mio Cid.”

James S. Dyer, U. Iowa
"Stiffing the Jewish Loan Sharks: the Legalities Behind Why the Cid Conned Rachel y Vidas."

Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno, U. New Mexico
     “The Cid in Best-Seller Mode.”
3:15 - 3:30 Break

3:30- 4:30 Session IV
Moderator: Héctor Contreras, U. New Mexico

Julio F. Hernando, Indiana U. – South Bend
“The Hero Must Die: The Waning of el Cid.”

Michelle M. Hamilton, U. California – Irvine
“Castilian Conflict and Epic Arabs.”
4:30 – 5:00 Library Session

Presenter: Jeremy Lehnen, U. New Mexico

Sean Knowlton, Tulane U.
“Searching for a Hero: Researching the Cid in the Internet Age.”

Friday, 29 February 2008

8:00-8:30 Conference Check-In, Coffee and pastries

8:30-9:45 Session V
Moderator: Kathleen Kish, San Diego SU

Julio Baena, U. Colorado
“Cómo no ser Garcilaso: el obligado desequilibrio del Licenciado Vidriera.”

J. Javier Puerto Benito, U. Kentucky
“Ovid’s Classical Heroines in the General Estoria: A speculum principis for the Education of Young Duennas.”

Nancy J. Dyer, Texas A&M
“The Cid as a Private Hero in the Epic and in Alphonsine Historiography.”
9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-11:15 Session VI
Moderator: Kathryn McKnight, U. New Mexico

Elena Rodríguez-Guridi. LeMoyne College
“Apropiaciones lingüísticas de una antiheroína heroica..”

Yonsoo Kim, Purdue U.
“Honor y prejuicio de las mujeres del Cid.”

Don Socha, U. Wisconsin– La Crosse
“Semantics and Etymology in the Poema de mío Cid: Heroism’s Ambiguous Roots.”
11:15-1:00 Lunch

1:00 -2:00 Session VII
Moderator: Olga Ríos-Soria, U. New Mexico

Mike Levy, Albuquerque Academy
“El Cid: Campeador or contador"

Enrique Lamadrid, U. New Mexico
“Picaresca nuevomexicana: The Anti-Hero in New Mexico.”
2:00 - 2:15 Break

2:15 - 3:15 Session VIII
Moderator: Vanessa de Veritch Woodside, U. New Mexico

F. Gago Jover, College of the Holy Cross
“El Cid contado a los niños: Aventuras y desventuras de un viejo poema épico.”

Julie Redekopp, U. New Mexico
“A Hero Then and Now: El Cid and Zorro.”
3:30- 4:30 Plenary II
Presenter: Enrique Lamadrid, U. New Mexico

Samuel Armistead, U. California – Davis
“The Cid and the Epic: Critical Theory and Poetic Reality.”

For questions please contact:

Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno

at: spanconf@unm.edu