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"Reading Don Quixote today,"

ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ ECHEVARRÍA Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature
September 30th, 2015 – 6:30 PM
MEREDITH COLLEGE – RALEIGH NC
DOORS OPEN AT 6:00 PM

   Press Release – Meredith Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

ROBERTO GONZALEZ ECHEVARRIA. Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University. B.A. University of South Florida (1964), MA, Indiana University (1966), MPh. Yale (1968), Ph.D.Yale (1970); Honorary Doctorates: Colgate (1987); U. of South Florida (2000); Columbia (2002). In 1999 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Symposium in Honor of RGE, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo, November 21-23, 2002. Issue in Honor of RGE: Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana (Madrid),  no. 33 (2004). Presidential Honor: National Humanities Medal, 2010.  Taught at Yale (1970-71) Cornell (1971-77), where he one of first editors of Diacritics; since 1977 at Yale, where he was awarded the first endowed chair in Spanish (R.Selden Rose). In 1991 named Bass Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, and in 1995 Sterling Professor, the highest ranking university chair at Yale.  He chaired Spanish and Portuguese (16 years) and also chaired Latin American Studies. RGE has lectured throughout the US, Europe, and Latin America, and was first Hispanist at the School for Criticism and Theory. In 2001 he spoke at Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, and UCLA. In 2002 he delivered the DeVane Lectures, Yale's most prestigious series. In 2003 seminars at Columbia. Cervantes Lecture at MLA 2004. Since 2005 Boston U., Wisconsin, Salamanca, Alcalá de Henares, Rome, Munich, Universidad Católica de Chile, Colegio de México, Heidelberg, Oxford, etc. 

A speaker of Spanish, English, French and Italian, RGE is interested in Spanish, Latin American, French, and Italian literatures. Has been active in critical theory.  He is on the board of  The Yale Review. Currently or formerly on the boards of Hispanic Review, Hispania, Revista Iberoamericana, and other journals in the US and abroad. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Senior NEH Fellowship. His Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge, 1990) won awards from the Modern Language Association of America and the Latin American Studies Association. His C-D Rom Miguel de Cervantes received a prize from Choice. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball (Oxford, 1999) won the first Dave Moore Award (Most Important Book on Baseball, 2000). In 2014 he was awarded the National Award for Criticism by the Instituto Cubano del Libro for Lecturas y relecturas.  Other books: Relecturas (1976), Calderón and la crítica (1976), Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home (1977), Isla a su vuelo fugitiva: ensayos críticos sobre literatura hispanoamericana (1983), The voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature (1985), La ruta de Severo Sarduy (1986) and Celestina's Brood (1993). Co-edited three-volume Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (1996) and edited Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997). In 1999 Almar (Salamanca) published En un lugar de La Mancha: estudios cervantinos en honor de Manuel Durán, co-edited with Georgina Dopico-Black. Mexico's Fondo de Cultura Económica published a Spanish version of Myth and Archive, and Colibrí in Madrid one of Celestina's Brood. In 2002 Fondo de Cultura brought out Crítica práctica/Práctica, a collection of essays on Latin American Literature. In 2005 Yale Press published Love and the Law in Cervantes and Oxford Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote: 
A Casebook.  In 2008 Renacimiento, in Seville, brought out Oye mi son: testimonios y ensayos sobre literatura hispanoamericana, Verbum in Madrid Cartas de Carpentier, and Gredos Amor y ley en Cervantes.  In 2009 Yale published Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina, ed. RGE,  tr. Margaret Sayers Peden.  Yale published Cuban Fiestas in 2010 and a new translation of Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna with an introduction by RGE.  In 2014 the University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, published Monstros e archivos, a collection of his essays in Portuguese translation.  

In 2014 the Yale University Press published his Cervantes' Don Quixote, derived from the on-line course. 

Author of over one hundred and fifty articles and reviews in American, Latin American, and European journals, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Review of Books and other national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The Nation, and USA Today.  His work has appeared in Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Persian, and soon Chinese. 

Videotaped in the fall of 2009, SPAN 300, RGE’s lecture course on Cervantes’s Don Quijote is available on the web through Yale Open Courses. 

RGE has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, among others, grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

RGE is a private pilot with an instrument rating.

 The Third Literary Gathering is scheduled for February 17, 2016 7pm.

As part of the El Quixote Festival, Queens University of Charlotte in collaboration with ArtSí and LaCa Projects invite you to the third Tertulia Literaria – Literary Gathering.
 

  LaCa Projects – LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ART
1429 BRYANT STREET, CHARLOTTE, NC 28208

The Second Tertulia Literaria – Literary Gathering took place at the Cameron Village Library Raleigh NC

Featuring: DR. Joan Francisco Valdez Santos, Valerie Nieman, Miriam Garcia, Susan La Serna, Cristel Orrand, DR. Astrid Billat, Kenneth McLeod, Wendy Parker, Nancy Werking Poling, Special Musical Presentation: Los Tepuyeros, and Art Exhibit: Pati Reis

PATI REIS: "More Than Words" ART AT CAMERON VILLAGE REGIONAL LIBRARY

"I am a native of Brazil, and now I live in Raleigh where I am happily immersed in my career as a tactile artist and business owner. The inspiration for my creations and process come from all over: I picked up needlepoint from my Brazilian grandmother and American patchwork from my aunts. I learned to hand-bind books from a professional bookbinder and developed a passion for re-using materials and found objects at North Carolina State University.  Re-used materials—like newspapers in foreign languages—bring a deeper layer of meaning to my work. 

Since my early life I realized that visual translation is also culture translation. Consequently, I spent most of my time understanding culture expressions." 

The First Literary Gathering is scheduled for Oct 12, 2015
(Discovery Day – Dia del Descubrimiento de America) – 6-9pm.
John Hope Franklin Center for International Studies.

​2204 Erwin Road Durham, NC 27708
Duke University. Room 240.

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• Literary Gatherings
• Featured Authors, Poets, Writers
• Open Book Readings
• Out loud readings at (Universities, Libraries, Café’s)
• Open Mic
• Book Signings

El Quixote Festival Concert: NOVEMBER 22, 2015 – 7:00PM

In the Triangle Youth Philharmonic’s concert in Meymandi Concert Hall on November 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm, the orchestra will present opera and ballet music inspired by Don Quixote. Works by: Telemann, Minkus & The World Premiere performance of Tilting at Windmills by Dr. Bill Robinson.

Tickets at the door: Adults $12, Seniors, $10, Children $5 
GET TICKETS HERE.

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Telemann Don Quixote Suite
Bill Robinson Tilting At Windmills
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Hugh Partridge, Conductor
Rashad Hayward, Assistant Conductor

Margaret Partridge Executive Director of Triangle Youth Philharmonic and Composer DR. Bill Robinson interview on The Classic Station

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 The Philharmonic Association

KIDZNOTES WINTER CONCERT – DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Envisioned as an educational and community enrichment program based on the El Sistema model and adapted to the local realities of the communities we serve, Kidznotes provides instruction free-of-charge to interested children in the lowest-income neighborhoods of Durham and Raleigh. Like El Sistema, the teaching approach of Kidznotes is that everyone can learn music, and that love of the children comes first, the music second. To instill self-esteem in the children, teachers emphasize the value of each child.

VISION

Kidznotes vision is to be a catalyst for change that uses music to build a thriving network of children, families and partners in which the passion for music unleashes the human potential to transform lives and communities. The foundation of their vision is their commitment to embrace and value diversity, excellence and collaboration in our daily lives.

Collaborator's Spotlight

Artist Studio Project sits down with Kim Demery – Director of Programming at Kidznotes to learn a little more about their amazing organization inspired by El Sistema, Founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu. Kidznotes was founded by Lucia Powe, Kathie Morrison and Katie Wyatt, in 2010 with 60 students at 3 Title-1 Schools in Durham. Now in its fifth year, the program serves more than 300 students in five Durham elementary schools and Raleigh. Kidznotes joins a diverse list of organizations, artists, and educational institutions collaborating to celebrate the 400 years of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's literary Masterpiece "El Quijote".

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Kidznotes program is based on the El Sistema model of youth orchestras, which started in Venezuela and has now spread worldwide. They provide 10 hours of music instruction a week free of charge to all participants. Currently the students range in grades from K-7th.

www.kidznotes.org

Renowned Vanderbilt scholar to speak at Meredith College as part of statewide Quixote Festival

Free public lecture
Tuesday February 9, 2016 – 6:30 pm
Carswell Concert Hall – (View Map)  MEREDITH COLLEGE
3800 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607

Press-Release Edward Friedman pdf

Comunicado De Prensa Edward Friedman PDF

Edward H. Friedman – Don Quixote and the Poetics of Reality

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish
Professor of Comparative Literature and European Studies, Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Edward H. Friedman is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Professor of Comparative Literature and European Studies, and Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes since 1999 and is a past president of the Cervantes Society of America. His research has centered on early modern Spanish literature, with special emphasis on Cervantes, picaresque narrative, and the Comedia. Friedman has explored how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts play against tradition and, at the same time, establish directions for future creation, by anticipating forms of contemporary fiction and drama, as well as the preoccupations of contemporary theory. As they establish new modes of fiction, Cervantes and the authors of picaresque narratives find access to social and ideological centers from the margins. While these writers point the way toward narrative realism, they also mirror—paradoxically and precociously—modernist and postmodernist responses to realism. Golden Age drama and poetry create their own, and equally engaging, dialectics of politics and rhetoric, centers and margins. Friedman’s most recent monograph examines questions of realism from the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) to Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla(1914), and he is working on a project that focuses on the British critic and historian Gerald Brenan. Friedman has published adaptations for the stage of Lope de Vega’s La dama boba and Unamuno’s Niebla, and a translation of Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s El sí de las niñas. Wit’s End, adapted from Lope’s play, was performed as part of Vanderbilt University Theatre’s 2006-2007 season. He received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006 and the College of Arts and Science Graduate Mentoring Award in 2007, and a Fulbright grant to Spain in 2010.

The lecture is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Kenan Charitable Trust, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Meredith College, and Artist Studio Project.

• Penguin translation of the Quixote with an intro by Edward Friedman
• Crossing the Line: A Quixotic Adventure in Two Acts (original play inspired by El Quixote)
• The Labyrinth of Love (original play inspired by Cervantes's El laberinto de amor)
• The Unifying Concept: Approaches to the Structure of Cervantes' Comedias
•  Quixotic Haiku: Poems and Notes

Edward H. Friedman – Don Quixote and the Poetics of Reality

Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel from Lazarillo de Tormes to Niebla (Juan de La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. Series Documentacion)