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The Hemingway Review 25.1 (2005) 159-165


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Hemingway In Andalusia 2006 International Conference

Carl Eby

University of South Carolina

Diane Buck

Pepperdine University

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Hemingway with Antonio Ordóñez and Bill and Annie Davis, La Consula, 1959 bullring 1923.

The Hemingway Society will hold its 12th Biennial International Conference, 25–30 June 2006, in the beautiful Andalusian cities of Málaga and Ronda.

Conference Program

The response to our call for papers has been overwhelming. The abstracts promise broad international representation and a vibrant mix of established [End Page 159] scholars, younger scholars, and graduate students. We expect a full program of outstanding quality.

We are currently organizing proposals into panels, with a strong Iberian focus. Given the rich ties between our host cities and many of Hemingway's major texts, you can expect panels devoted to The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Death in the Afternoon, and The Dangerous Summer. You can also expect panels devoted to bullfighting and the Spanish Civil War. Other papers will explore such topics as The Fifth Column, the short stories, Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's friendship with Dos Passos, Hemingway's reception in Spain, Hemingway's relation to Spanish writers and artists, problems of translation, Spain as a symbol in American modernist literature, and the influence of Spanish cultural concepts on Hemingway's work. However, our focus on things Spanish is not exclusive, and other papers will address all aspects of Hemingway's life and work, including the recently published Under Kilimanjaro. At least one panel will be devoted to teaching Hemingway, and we are planning a panel—aimed at graduate students, but sure to be of much wider interest—to be titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask."

In addition to the scholarly sessions, which will occupy our mornings and early afternoons, we are planning many special events, from an opening reception at Málaga's Picasso Museum to the closing banquet in Ronda on the night of June 30. Conferees will eat lunch at La Consula, where they will tour the house and gardens and hear Nena Davis, daughter of Hemingway's 1959 and 1960 hosts, Bill and Annie Davis, reminisce about Hemingway, her parents, and her childhood home. In Ronda, we will officially be welcomed by the mayor, Antonio Marin Lara, a long-time admirer of Hemingway's work, who has provided invaluable personal and institutional support and encouragement for the conference. Conferees will be able to tour Ronda's famous bullring and its excellent taurine museum and will enjoy hours of just walking around this beautiful city. We hope to arrange a photo exhibit featuring the work of Hemingway's friend, the great taurine photographer, Francisco Cano, who has expressed his enthusiasm to join us. We also hope to screen vintage films of the great 1959 Málaga mano a mano between Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín, immortalized by Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer.

This corrida, which Hemingway called "one of the very greatest [he had] ever seen" (DS 168), will be the subject of a remarkable taurine panel. One of Spain's leading bullfighters, Francisco Rivera Ordóñez—grandson of [End Page 160] Antonio, great-nephew of Dominguín, and great-grandson of Cayetano, model for Pedro Romero in The Sun Also Rises—hopes to join us, barring those contingencies affecting working matadors. Borja Domecq Solis, one of the best known and most prestigious ranchers in Spain, has graciously accepted our invitation to be a part of the panel and to share a rancher's perspective on the "bullfight of the century," at which he was present and which featured bulls from the ranch of his father, Juan Pedro Domecq. Victor Mendes, one of the world's top-ranked bullfighters throughout the 1980s, has agreed to anchor the panel. Mendes was acquainted with both Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín. Additional panel members will be noted journalist, aficionada, and taurine writer...

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