Programme

International Symposium on Hispanic Poetry

¿Adónde el paraíso, / sombra, tú que has estado?”: Representations of paradise in medieval, modern and contemporary Hispanic poetry

Figuraciones del paraíso en la poesía hispánica medieval, moderna y contemporánea

Representacions del paradís a la poesia hispànica medieval, moderna i contemporània

29-30 June 2023

Conference organisers: Jordi Larios, PJ Lennon, Javier Letrán
Department of Spanish, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews

With the collaboration of Instituto Cervantes Manchester, Institut Ramon Llull, Consejería de Cultura de la Embajada de España en el Reino Unido, Consulado General de España en Edimburgo, Cátedra Cervantes


[The symposium will take place in rooms 30 and School VI, both on the first floor of United College, St Salvator’s Quadrangle; for directions please go to town and University map, building no. 45, grid reference K2]

Thursday 29 June

10.30-11.15: Welcome & Coffee (Venue: Quad 30; introductory words by Prof. Jordi Larios, Dept. of Spanish, University of St Andrews, and Prof. Alexis Grohmann, Cátedra Cervantes / University of Edinburgh)

11.15am-1pm: Session 1 (Venue: School VI; Chair: P J Lennon)

Jean Andrews (Nottingham), ‘Paradise Lost and Found: Sextet for the End of Time’ 

Louise Haywood (Cambridge), ‘The Sensual World: Luxury, Solace and the Scholarly Appeal to the Senses in the Mester Poetry’ 

Montserrat Lunati (Cardiff & St Andrews), ‘«The artist’s work is a protest against loss» (Hilary Mantel): The Mourning Poetry of Luis García Montero’ 

1pm-2pm: Lunch (Venue: Quad 30)

2pm-3.30pm: Session 2 (Venue: School VI; Chair: Jordi Larios)

Anne Holloway (QUB), ‘Paraíso cerrado para muchos? Returning to the Poetry of Pedro Soto de Rojas’ 

Dominic Keown (Cambridge), ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of the locus amoenus in modern Catalan verse’ 

Martín Veiga (Cork), ‘El tema del edén en la poesía de Antonio Colinas’ 

3.30pm-4pm: Coffee break (Venue: Quad 30)

4pm-5.30pm: Session 3 (Venue: School VI; Chair: P J Lennon)

Xon de Ros (Oxford), ‘Poetics of Paradise in Poeta en Nueva York’  

Pilar Molina Taracena (TU Dublin), ‘Entre el paraíso y el no paraíso en la poesía de Ángela Figuera Aymerich’ 

6pm-7.30pm: Vino de honor (Venue: Wardlaw Museum, Learning Loft)

8pm: Symposium Dinner (Venue: Tailend Restaurant, Market Street)


 

Friday 30 June

10am-11.30am: Session 4 (Venue: School VI; Chair: Javier Letrán)

P J Lennon (St Andrews), ‘Happiness in António Ferreira’s Matrimonial Canzoniere’ 

Jordi Larios (St Andrews), ‘Luis Cernuda: The Ground Zero of Desire’ 

11.30am-12noon: Coffee break (Venue: Quad 30)

12.00-1.30pm: Session 5 (Venue: School VI; Chair: Jordi Larios)

Pilar Cáceres (Lancaster), ‘El paraíso soñado: Imágenes poéticas en la transmutación surrealista del paisaje de Lanzarote en Lancelot, 28°-7°, de Agustín Espinosa’ 

Elisenda Marcer (Birmingham), ‘Broken Paradises in Contemporary Catalan Poetry’ 

Javier Letrán (St Andrews), ‘Hógar, Wyoming, Cotobade: iteraciones del paraíso en la poesía de Miguel d’Ors’ 

1.30pm-2.30pm: Lunch (Venue: Quad 30)

2.30pm-4.30pm: Session 6 (Venue: School VI; Chair: Javier Letrán)

“Two Poets in Paradise” (Reading by Invited Poets followed by Q&A):

Ignacio Cartagena Núñez

Amalia Bautista

Closing remarks (Javier Letrán, Department of Spanish, University of St Andrews)

END OF SYMPOSIUM