1968-2008: The work of Ramón Menéndez Pidal forty years after his death
A one-day colloquium to be held at the Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar
Magdalen College
Summer Common Room
May 30, 2008
Morning Session
10.30-11.00. — Coffee and refreshments
11.00. — Opening Remarks — Juan Carlos Conde (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
11.10. — Alan Deyermond (Queen Mary, University of London): “Menéndez Pidal and the Epic”
11.50. — Geraldine Coates (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford): “Vida latente, literatura viviente: Menéndez Pidal and the Romancero, Forty Years on”
12.30. — Discussion
12.50. — End of the Morning Session
Afternoon Session
2.30. — David Pattison (Magdalen College, University of Oxford): “Menéndez Pidal and Alphonsine Historiography”
3.10. — Simon Barton (University of Exeter): “Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Historian”
3.50. — Discussion and Tea
4.15. — Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): “Menéndez Pidal y la fundación de la dialectología hispánica: revisión crítica con un siglo de distancia”
4.55. — Roger Wright (University of Liverpool): “Menéndez Pidal and the History of Spanish Language”
5.35. — Discussion. Closing Remarks
6.00. — End of the conference
