PROGRAMME

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THURSDAY 20th JANUARY 2022

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3pm: Keynote Talk 

 Professor Jonathan Thacker

(University of Oxford)

‘From Enacting to Acting: the Evolution of Female Agency in Early Modern Spanish Drama'

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4pm: Panel I- Transgression and Rebellion

Chair: Roy Norton (University of Oxford)

Harrison Meadows

(University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Of Text and Textile: The Unraveling of Threadbare Ideology in Figueroa y Códroba’s La sirena de Trinacria (1678)

Richard Huddleson

(UCLA/UCD)

Mere Merry Plays with Mischievous Mallorcan Muses? An Exploration of the Women in Cuckoldry Plays from Early Modern Mallorca

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Jacobo de Camps Mora

(University of Oxford)

Male Anxiety and the Women as a Figure of the Devil in Calderón’s La dama duende

5:30pm: Panel II- Femininity on Stage

Chair: Glenda Nieto (Ohio Wesleyan University)

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Marta Albalá Pelegrín

(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) 

Loud and Quiet Voices: Translating The Lieutenant Nun

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Eduardo Paredes Ocampo

(University of Oxford) 

‘Lo que la voz yerra/ tal vez el acción explica’: An Allegorical Approach to the Acting of Female Roles in the Comedia

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FRIDAY 21st JANUARY 2022

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3:00pm: Panel III- Blurring Boundaries

Chair: Susan Paun de García (Denison University)

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Alexander Samson

(University College London)

Intersections of Race and Gender on EM Stage

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Katie McErlain

(Independent Scholar)

 Subverting convention and empowering women: Calderón’s creative manipulation of the veil transforms self-effacement into self-determination

4pm: Panel IV- Representing Female Voices

 Chair: Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Margaret Boyle

(Bowdoin College)

Feminist approaches to comedia: past and futures

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Katherine Smith

(University of Oxford)

Performing and Legitimising Female Wisdom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Marian Villancicos

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Lucía Uncal

(Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Coming up stage: women’s tactics in the development of Professional Spanish Drama (1570-1610)

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5:30pm: Panel V- Translating, Adapting, Performing

Chair: Kathleen Jeffs (Gonzaga University)

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Robin Kello and Rhonda Sharrah (Diversifying the Classics)

(University of California, Los Angeles) 

Performing and Translating Amor es más laberinto

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Image: Museo Nacional del Teatro

Figurines para El villano en su rincón, “Lisarda”. Carlos y Vicente Viudes.
Acuarela, tinta, lápiz / cartulina. 1950
Donación de César Oliva el 21-9.2018