Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and The Leslie Center for Humanities.

The presence of Spain and the Hispanic world is a constant in the work of the great American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). His trip to Spain in 1923 to attend the bullfights began a "romance” with a country which, in the words of the writer himself, "I loved more than any other except my own". Some of his most prominent early short stories had already announced the impact of tauromachy and of Spanish life and culture in The Sun Also Rises. This novel, published by Scribner’s of New York in 1926, also known as Fiesta, placed him at the forefront of American fiction. This conference will mainly focus, but not exclusively, on examining the significance of The Sun Also Rises and its relevance at the time of its publication and how it still resonates in the present. The legacy of Hemingway’s work on members of his family, scholars, and artists will also be at the center of the symposium.

View the full program here. Visit the Department of Spanish & Portuguese for the webpage announcement here.