Business School, All Saints Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University, M15 6BH

This Symposium brings together Spanish Golden Age specialists from Britain, Spain and the United States to explore new approaches to teaching classic authors such as Cervantes, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Calderón and Góngora, as well as the culture(s) that influenced their writing.

It responds to the increasingly pressing need to present such authors and their texts in creative and attractive forms in the light of the current context of higher education.

The Symposium aims to provide a discussion forum and platform for future collaborations and/or developments through the sharing of good practice and academic expertise.

Programme/Programa

9.15 Coffee and Registration

9.30 Welcome and Keynote speaker

• Jeremy Lawrance, Professor of Golden Age/Early Modern Hispanic Studies, University of Nottingham: ‘Why Golden Age?’

10.15-11.45 Session 1: Context and Approaches

• The Golden Age in the Hispanic Studies classroom: the changing shape of what we teach our undergraduates in the UK, Stuart Davis, Girton College, University of Cambridge
• Teaching literature and language using a multiliteracies framework: exploring intercultutal skills with Cervantes’s La española inglesa, Idoya Puig, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Translational activity as an approach to teaching Spanish Golden-Age literature, Jules Whicker, University of Birmingham

11.45-12.00 Coffee

12.00-1.30 Session 2: Poetry 

• Meaningful parallels for students: Golden Age poetic production as examples of talent shows and celebrity spats, Karl McLaughlin, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Teaching Spanish Golden Age Poetry through Creative Writing: Extemporaneous, Imitative, Collaborative Ballads in the Classroom, Tyler Fisher, University College London
• La poesía de los siglos de oro a través de canciones actuales en la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera, Rubén Cristóbal Hornillos, Universidad de Zaragoza

12.00-1.30 Session 2: Cervantes

• Cervantes in the Americas: a Transatlantic Approach on Teaching Don Quixote, Medardo Gabriel Rosario, The University of Chicago
• The Next Best Thing?: Introducing Don Quijote as a Graphic Novel, Collin McKinney, Bucknell University
• The Science of Don Quixote: Cervantes as First-Year Seminar, Margaret Marek, Illinois College

1.30 – 2.15 Buffet Lunch

2.15-4.15 Session 3: New Approaches

• The Works of Luis García Jambrina: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Golden Age Spain, Shannon M. Polchow, University of South Carolina Upstate
• El proyecto de innovación docente TAAULA. El teatro áureo en el aula de Filología, Sara Sánchez Hernández, Aroa Algaba Granero, Universidad de Salamanca
• La mujer como personaje dramático en el Siglo de Oro: escenas para el aula de E/LE en la Educación superior, Gema Cienfuegos Antelo, Universidad de Valladolid

2.15-4.15 Session 3: Multimedia

• Golden Age Diss Tracks: Parody, Satire and Baroque Polemics Through Contemporary Musical Rivalries, Antonio-Carreño Rodríguez, George Mason University
• El estudio del mundo literario de la España del siglo XVII desde la ficción televisiva del siglo XXI: autores, obras y contexto presentes en “El Ministerio del Tiempo”, Almudena García González, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• What 50 Cent Can Teach Us About Quevedo: The Case for Using Analogy and Video Clips, Dr Ted L L Bergman, University of St Andrews
• Esbozando a nuestros genios áureos a través de una enseñanza interdisciplinar: las grandes biografías frente a la visión del cine, la televisión y la publicidad, Alberto Gutiérrez Gil, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

4.15- Drinks reception

5.00 Close