Eventos enero 2016 / Events January 2016
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LITERATURE Robin Chapman: The Spanish Trilogy Reading: Timothy West Moderator: Harry Chapman Tue 12, 6:30 pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN We start the celebrations of the fourth centenary of Cervantes’s death with the launch of this volume, published by Book Now, which brings together for the first time Robin Chapman’s three novels inspired by Don Quixote. The Duchess’s Diary tells how Maria Isabel de Echauri, Duchess of Caparroso, comes to believe that she has been misportrayed in fiction, thus approaching one of Cervantes’s favorite themes, the dialogue between reality and fiction. Sancho’s Golden Age relates how Sancho Panza, after Don Quixote’s death, tries to create an ideal pastoral existence such as they had envisaged on their final journey home. Pasamonte’s life extends a rogue’s auto biography already in progress but left in pawn when Don Quixote releases him from a chain-gang. Robin Chapman is a novelist, playwright and screen- writer. He is married to the painter Jill Booty. His most recent book, Shakespeare’s Don Quixote, Book Now 2011, is a novel in dialogue which reconstructs Cardenio, a lost Shakespearean play based on Don Quixote. He imagines it performed in a fringe theatre in front of the talkative spirits of Cervantes and Shakespeare. They find they have much in common. He is at present working on That Red Young Man, a literary portrait of J.B. Trend, the first Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University and friend of Lorca and Falla. In English – Free entry RSVP [email protected] SOCIETY Diego López Garrido: The Ice Age. Bailing Out the Welfare State in the Era of Austerity Thu 21, 6:30 pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN The Great Crisis that is still castigating western democracies is, according to the author, not a simple parenthesis in the economic growth. It has inaugurated a new era, cold and hard like the Ice Age, that brings with it profound changes, especially in the south of Europe. Society has found itself devastated by unemployment and underemployment, by the increase in poverty and inequality, and by a notable increment in xenophobia. The State has been weakened, stripped of its tributary power by the enormous fiscal evasions and circumventions of the great fortunes and multinationals, and a hegemonic financial power has become consolidated to which can be traced the origins of the Ice Age. Faced with the new panorama, the United States has reacted in a more innovative way than the European Union, which is still torn between failed austerity measures and the loss of social rights, and the proposal to rescue the welfare state with an intelligent Europeanism and solidarity without borders. This second position is that which is defended by Diego López Garrido in this clearheaded book, which looks to add to the already intense debate surrounding the new Europe that we need to build. Diego López Garrido is a Spanish politician, university professor and former Secretary of State for the European Union. In Spanish with simultaneous translation into English Free entry RSVP [email protected] LITERATURE Cervantes & Shakespeare: 400 years 28 –29 January Weston Library, Broad St. Oxford, OX1 3BG Exeter College, Turl St, Oxford OX1 3DP An Anglo–Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford to commemorate their deaths in 1616. Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died within eleven days of each other in 1616, are universally regarded as the supreme exemplars of literary achievement in their respective languages. This symposium brings together six British scholars of Cervantes and six Spanish Shakespeare scholars to explore the literary worlds of these two iconic authors, whose works convey the turbulent spirit of the restless age in which they both lived. Speakers: Michael Bell (Warwick) Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary, London) Brean Hammond (Nottingham) Barry Ife (Kings College London) Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh) Isabel Torres (Queen’s, Belfast) Edwin Williamson (Oxford) Clara Calvo (Murcia) José Ramón Díaz-Fernández (Málaga) Zenón Luis-Martínez (Huelva) Salvador Oliva (Gerona) Ángel-Luis Pujante (Murcia) Jesús Tronch (Valencia) Keynote Lecture: Brean Hammond (Nottingham) Organized by the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Oxford; theOffice for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain and the Instituto Cervantes In English – Free entry RSVP [email protected] Cultural Programme January 2016
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Programa cultural del Instituto Cervantes de Londres en enero de 2016 - Cultural programme by the Instituto Cervantes in London on January 2016
Transcript of Eventos enero 2016 / Events January 2016
LITERATURE
Robin Chapman: The Spanish TrilogyReading: Timothy WestModerator: Harry Chapman Tue 12, 6:30 pmInstituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN We start the celebrations of the fourth centenary of Cervantes’s death with the launch of this volume, published by Book Now, which brings together for the first time Robin Chapman’s three novels inspired by Don Quixote. The Duchess’s Diary tells how Maria Isabel de Echauri, Duchess of Caparroso, comes to believe that she has been misportrayed in fiction, thus approaching one of Cervantes’s favorite themes, the dialogue between reality and fiction. Sancho’s Golden Age relates how Sancho Panza, after Don Quixote’s death, tries to create an ideal pastoral existence such as they had envisaged on their final journey home. Pasamonte’s life extends a rogue’s auto biography already in progress but left in pawn when Don Quixote releases him from a chain-gang. Robin Chapman is a novelist, playwright and screen-writer. He is married to the painter Jill Booty. His most recent book, Shakespeare’s Don Quixote, Book Now 2011, is a novel in dialogue which reconstructs Cardenio, a lost Shakespearean play based on Don Quixote. He imagines it performed in a fringe theatre in front of the talkative spirits of Cervantes and Shakespeare. They find they have much in common. He is at present working on That Red Young Man, a literary portrait of J.B. Trend, the first Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University and friend of Lorca and Falla.
In English – Free entryRSVP [email protected]
SOCIETY
Diego López Garrido: The Ice Age. Bailing Out the Welfare State in the Era of Austerity Thu 21, 6:30 pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square London, SW1W 9AN The Great Crisis that is still castigating western democracies is, according to the author, not a simple parenthesis in the economic growth. It hasinaugurated a new era, cold and hard like the Ice Age, that brings with it profound changes, especially in the south of Europe. Society has found itselfdevastated by unemployment and underemployment,by the increase in poverty and inequality, and by a notable increment in xenophobia. The State has been weakened, stripped of its tributary power by the enormous fiscal evasions and circumventions of the great fortunes and multinationals, and a hegemonic financial power has become consolidated to which can be traced the origins of the Ice Age. Faced with the new panorama, the United States has reacted in a more innovative way than the European Union, which is still torn between failed austerity measures and the loss of social rights, and the proposal torescue the welfare state with an intelligentEuropeanism and solidarity without borders. This second position is that which is defended by Diego López Garrido in this clearheaded book, which looks to add to the already intense debate surrounding the new Europe that we need to build.
Diego López Garrido is a Spanish politician, university professor and former Secretary of State for the European Union.
In Spanish with simultaneous translation into EnglishFree entryRSVP [email protected]
LITERATURE
Cervantes & Shakespeare:400 years 28 –29 JanuaryWeston Library, Broad St. Oxford, OX1 3BGExeter College, Turl St, Oxford OX1 3DP
An Anglo–Spanish Symposium at the University of Oxford to commemorate their deaths in 1616.
Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died within eleven days of each other in 1616, are universally regarded as the supreme exemplars of literary achievement in their respective languages. This symposium brings together six British scholars of Cervantes and six Spanish Shakespeare scholars to explore the literary worlds of these two iconic authors, whose works convey the turbulent spirit of the restless age in which they both lived.
Speakers:
Michael Bell (Warwick)Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary, London)Brean Hammond (Nottingham)Barry Ife (Kings College London)Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh)Isabel Torres (Queen’s, Belfast)Edwin Williamson (Oxford)
Clara Calvo (Murcia)José Ramón Díaz-Fernández (Málaga)Zenón Luis-Martínez (Huelva)Salvador Oliva (Gerona)Ángel-Luis Pujante (Murcia)Jesús Tronch (Valencia)
Keynote Lecture:Brean Hammond (Nottingham)
Organized by the Faculty of Modern Languages,University of Oxford; theOffice for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain and the Instituto Cervantes
In English – Free entryRSVP [email protected]
Cultural ProgrammeJanuary 2016
