Simón Villegas @simonvillegas

Simón Villegas

@simonvillegas.bsky.social

PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures at UMass Amherst | medieval & early modern Iberia | poetry, material culture, critical theory | 🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈

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Modernitats Medievals Program, June 12-15, Faber Residency, in Olot Catalonia

9:15 - Benvinguda de Noel Blanco Mourelle i Albert Lloret 9:20 - Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (University of California, Davis), “La política de la cuina: la creació de la cuina moderna al Llibre del Coch” 11:00 - Visita a l’Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa 16:00 - Paulina León (New York University), “Miquel Parets i la política de les cures a la Barcelona del segle XVII” 17:00 - Noel Blanco Mourelle (University of Chicago), “Ramon Llull: pensament en moviment”

Dissabte, 14 de juny 10:00 - Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Contra Pompeu Fabra: Miret i Sans i una celestina de la Barcelona del segle XV” 11:00 - Montserrat Piera (Temple University), “Les interpretacions de Tirant lo Blanc com a clàssic medieval: modernitat incipient o tirania del romanticisme aburgesat i anacrònic?” 12:15 - Simón A. Villegas (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Historitzar el personatge literari del moro: límits, problems i futurs de la maurofília als estudis ibèrics de la primera edat moderna” 16:00 - Visita al Monestir de Santa Maria de Ripoll Diumenge, 15 de juny 10:00 - Henry Berlin (University at Buffalo), “La ‘Cobla de dos senys’ de Corella: El plaer, el dol i la forma poética”” 11:00 - Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Espai, lírica i presència”

@mourelle.bsky.social and I have been busy organizing this three-day seminar, which will take place at the FaberLlull Residency in Olot (Catalonia), from June 12-15. If you happen to be nearby and would like to come listen to us or say hi, do let us know!

faberllull.cat/en/residenci...

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Foto del pont de Besalú com a pòrtic a les jornades ‘Modernitats medievals’.

No veig el dia ni el mes, l’estació ni el temps, l’hora ni el punt.

faberllull.cat/ca/residenci...

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The idea that higher ed’s job is to train people to meet the demands of “the market” is farcical. These demands are fickle and trendy. College takes four years and is built on slow moving foundational principles.

This is magical rhetoric to direct where the money goes.

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Pájaros literarios en Bogotá.

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Every scholar needs a pet.

BL Add 19776; the 'Coburg Pentateuch'; 1390 CE-1396 CE; Germany, Central (Coburg); f.54v

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