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Monday, February 23, 2015

THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

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XX THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES
HUMAN RIGHTS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES / HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEATER
A TRIBUTE TO REVISTA CONJUNTO: CASA DE LAS AMERICAS 50 + 1

University of Minnesota and College of St. Benedict /St. John's University
March 12-14, 2015


Providing a forum for interdiscursive theoretical discussions and dialogue, The State of Iberoamerican Studies Series, at the Spanish and Portuguese Department, supports a number of critical symposia that bring together not only the monologues of traditional scholarly disciplines, but also the powerful, struggling and often unarticulated voices, postures and assumptions of contemporary non-canonical, grassroots cultural discourses. Organized by Luis Ramos-García, Nelsy Echávez-Solano, and Alberto Justiniano in collaboration with the College of St. Benedict / St. John's University; Teatro del Pueblo; and other interdepartmental, intercollegiate, and international organizations, this symposium on Human Rights as well as Art and Theater festival; celebrating its twentieth version, dedicates its program to the 50 years (+1) anniversary of the Revista Conjunto: Casa de las Américas (La Habana-Cuba), and to the recent release of Una montaña en el horizonte: Los Audaces. Cuarenta y cinco años de teatro arequipeño.
Sponsored by the Imagine Funds; Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Human Rights Program; Global Studies; Department of French and Italian; College of St. Benedict / St. John's University; Teatro del Pueblo; McKnight Foundation; Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Teatro La Candelaria; Colombian Government; Boynton Health Service & Voice to Vision Project.
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Unraveling the Secret of Basilio's Code and its Intellectual Consequences

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​Center for Early Modern History
Presents
"Unraveling the Secret of Basilio's Code and its Intellectual Consequences"


a lecture by
Luis Anchondo
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Friday, February 6, 2015
12:15pm
1210 Heller Hall



This talk disentangles the mystery of the secret code of Basil in the Spanish translation of a German edition of Aesop's Fables. Basil's code found in the prologue instructs fledgling Christians how to best profit spiritually by studying the content and meaning of pagan literature. In time, however, Basil's code became the principal source for and the ultimate symbol of the German secret society of the Rose Cross whose members were important precursors of a new scientific method of inquiry in pre-modern Europe. This lecture explores how an early medieval text that inculcates Christian morality through the interpretation of pagan literature was later transformed into a convincing scientific methodology in sixteenth century Germany.