Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
50/50 Lecture Series
PSRL and Purdue University Press joined in celebration this year with two 50/50 lectures commemorating PSRL’s 50-volume collaboration with Purdue University Press and the Press’s 50-year anniversary. Refreshments and conversation were available after each lecture.
Sarah Gordon
“Mind Your Medieval Table Manners”
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 4:30 PM, SC G040
Sarah Gordon, Utah State University, explored medieval table manners in literature and French food culture. As she spoke, we could often see where our modern-day table manners came from. Not speaking at table was considered a severe breach of etiquette. Drawings in old manuscripts of the medieval table show people with their arms in the air, which is explained as a sign that they were talking.
Professor Gordon is the author of PSRL Vol. ?37, Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature. She has taught at the Sorbonne and was a restaurant critic in Paris. Her publications focus on medieval literature.
Richard Gordon
“Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism”
Friday, April 8, 2011, 4:30 PM, SC G039Richard Gordon, Ohio State University, addressed the intersections of cinema, slavery, and nationalism in Brazil. To illustrate his talk, he showed a series of film clips of Brazilian movies. Characters in the films endured discrimination and demonstrated the effect this had on their sense of loyalty to the Brazilian nation.
Professor Gordon is the author of PSRL Vol. 45, Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil. He works in the areas of Hispanic and Portuguese-language literatures and cultures, film studies, and comparative studies, as well as colonial and post-colonial studies.
Daniela Flesler
“Performing the Past: Jewish and Muslim Spain in the Twenty-First Century”
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 PM, SC G039Daniela Flesler, State University of New York—Stony Brook, spoke on accomodations in Spain today to its Muslim and Jewish past. Her talk was illustrated with numerous slides showing the festivals of Christians and Moors and a reconstruction of a Jewish quarter and the festival staged by modern-day residents of the town.
Professor Flesler is the author of PSRL Vol. 43, The Return of the Moor: Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan Immigration. She specializes in contemporary Spanish literary and cultural studies, with a focus on transnationalism, immigration, and the construction of national identities. She has published essays in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Studies in
Hispanic Cinemas, Dieciocho, and Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Paul Dixon, guest, and speaker Sarah Gordon
Speaker Richard Gordon
Reception in Staaks Lounge
Refreshments
Poster and publicity materials
for the Flesler talk.Reception for Daniela Flesler
in Staaks lounge.Photos courtesy of Susan Y. Clawson.
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