The Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Department of Languages at Flinders University and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Australian National University cordially invite you to the Symposium:
‘Miguel Delibes in Australia on the 60th Anniversary of the Publication of his First Novel’
Date: Saturday, 20 September 2008
Time: 9.15 – 3.00
Venue: Flinders University, Humanities Building, Room 101 (next to Matthew Flinders Theatre)
RSVP: by 12 September to Maureen Taylor (8201 2385 or maureen.taylor@flinders.edu.au)
All sessions will be in Spanish; notes in English will be available
Free parking available in Car Park 5
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Program
9:15 Reception
9:45 Welcome
10:00 Keynote Address: Dr. Ramón García Domínguez “Miguel Delibes: Fifty years writing novels (1948: La sombra del ciprés es alargada – 1998: El hereje)”
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Dr María Luz Long: “Miguel Delibes and his engagement with his times”
12:15 Readings from Delibes’ novels
12.30 Lunch
1.30 “Miguel Delibes and the cinema”. Round table discussion.
3.00 Closing remarks
