UC3M celebrates Cervantes
Events scheduled from April 18 to April 22 during the Semana del Libro (Book Week)
4/15/16
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) joins the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Miguel Cervantes’s death with an array of activities and exhibits about the author of Don Quixote. The University is also celebrating Book Week, dedicated this year to the “Golden Century”.
On April 20, dramatized readings will be performed on the Colmenarejo Campus, while debuting on the Getafe Campus will be a new version of the play “La confesión del Quijote”, written by UC3M Professor Lola Blasco, and performed by Juan Codina under the stage direction of Rubén Cano. In the afternoon, also on the Getafe Campus, a colloquium on contemporary theater and Don Quixote will take place.
In addition, five exhibits will be displayed in the UC3m Libraries. In its Cervantes feature, the Carmen Martín Gaite Library on the Getafe Campus, will display different editions of Cervantes’s work, together with an audiovisual installation of readings of Don Quixote by diverse members of the University Community.
Other exhibits, organized on the Colmenarejo and Leganés campuses will revolve around the political ideas from the writer’s era; the science and technique of Don Quixote; “Duelos y quebrantos” (a term used in Don Quixote to refer to a type of food dish whose literal meaning is “sorrows and broken bones”), as well as offering a photo exhibit #400Cervantes.
Book Week
UC3M will also be celebrating its 7th edition of Book Week from April 18 to 22, with activities focusing on the “Golden Century”, a period of flourishing of the arts and letters in Spain, which extended approximately from the publication of Antonio de Nebrija’s grammar on the Castilian language in 1492 to the death of Calderón de la Barca in 1681.
During these five days more than a dozen activities will take place, including conferences, university theater, a cineforum, workshopd on directing and writing…targeting students in order to celebrate International Book Day. Prizes will be awarded in contests for poetry, short story and Twitter micro-stories, in addition to literary competitions aimed at secondary schools.
Twitter hashtag to follow the week’s events:
#CervantesUC3M
#semanadellibrouc3m
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