Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Biogenetics and Autobiography: Extracting Sephardic DNA from Cervantes’ Works – Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary)

Yiddish humor is well-known. But Professor Kenneth Brown researches the “DNA” of Sephardic humor to the most unlikely of places: Cervantes’s famous novel of 1605, Don Quixote of La Mancha. […]

Ingenium/Ingenio as a Form of Knowing and Thinking in Early-Modern Spain and the Americas – Rachel Schmidt

Join Professor Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) for the keynote address of the XII Florida Cervantes Symposium at the University of Florida, titled “Ingenium: Ingenuity, Ingeniousness and Engineering in Cervantes,” October […]