UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

(Neo)baroque ideologies

A seminar with prof. William Egginton

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

April 2-3, 2013

Schedule:

Tuesday, April 2 (6-9 pm, Lecture room, Taft House)

Cascardi, Anthony J. “Cervantes and Descartes on the Dream Argument.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 4.2 (1984):109-22. Online. http://tinyurl.com/cascardi-cervantes

Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy [excerpts]. Trans. Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 1993. 7-24.

Egginton, William. “The Baroque as a Problem of Thought.” PMLA 124.1 (2009): 143-49.

Wednesday, April 3 (1-3 pm, room TBA)

Deleuze, Gilles. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque [excerpts]. Trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. 3-26.

Sarduy, Severo. “The Baroque and the Neobaroque.”Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterquest. Eds. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2010. 270-91.

Wednesday, April 3 (7-9 pm, informal dinner at Olives, 342 Ludlow Ave)

Attendants will offer informal oral recaps of the topics discussed in the workshop.

For more details on the seminar, and to obtain pdf copies of the texts, contact prof. Andrés Pérez-Simón, Assistant Professor of Spanish, at perezsas@uc.edu.