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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/you-imagine-me-and-i-exist/
SUMMARY:“You Imagine Me and I Exist”: The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés
  de la Cruz (1648–1695)
DESCRIPTION:A two-day symposium and dramatic prequel to the world premiere 
 of the new opera Juana\n\nFriday\, November 22\, 2019\, 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.
 m.\nSaturday\, November 23\, 2019\, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.\n\nUCLA Royce Hal
 l\, Room 314\n\nCo-sponsored by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\; UCLA Co
 llege of Letters and Science\, Division of Humanities\; UCLA Center for 17
 th- &amp\; 18th-Century Studies\; UCLA Center for Musical Humanities\; UCL
 A Division of Social Science\; UCLA LGBTQ Studies\; UCLA Cesar Chavez Depa
 rtment of Chicana and Chicano Studies\; UCLA Chicano Studies Research Cent
 er\n\nVisit the symposium’s website to register\, view the full schedule
 \, and purchase tickets for Juana: [https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/resourc
 es/center-for-musical-humanities/you-imagine-me-and-i-exist-the-afterlives
 -of-sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz/]\n\nAlthough Sor Juana is not well known in
  the United States\, she is hailed in Europe and Latin America as the Lati
 na “Tenth Muse” and the “first feminist of the Americas.” Sor Juan
 a is legendary today for her passionate defense of a woman’s right to be
  a scholar and to publish her work. In her lifetime\, Sor Juana was relent
 lessly persecuted for her genius and her defiance of the Catholic Church
 ’s dictates regarding the female sex. Because she refused to abide by th
 ese limitations\, and because she had the support and backing of the Vicer
 egal court\, at least until 1688\, Juana’s celebrity flourished\, and sh
 e saw two volumes of her collected works published in Spain. In 1694\, to 
 mark her 25th anniversary as a “bride of Christ\,” Sor Juana renounced
  her scholarly life\, her extensive library\, and her correspondence with 
 the world and renewed her vows to the Hieronymite order in a document she 
 signed in her own blood. She died a year later\, in 1695\, while caring fo
 r her fellow nuns during an epidemic. What happened to this most accomplis
 hed and rebellious of colonial women\, this most enlightened mind of the S
 panish Golden Age? Why did she forsake everything that had given meaning t
 o her cloistered life?\n\nThis two-day symposium is a dramatic prequel to 
 the opera Juana that explores the multiple “afterlives” of Sor Juana\,
  i.e.\, the many ways in which the famous/infamous nun has been represente
 d–from 17th- and 18th-century visual and literary portraits to 20th- and
  21st-century historical novels\, poetry\, plays\, films\, musical perform
 ances\, visual arts\, and even a Netflix mini-series. The title of the sym
 posium\, “You Imagine Me\, and I Exist\,” comes from the English trans
 lation of an unfinished poem that was found in Sor Juana’s cell after he
 r death in 1695 (proving that she never stopped writing). It was addressed
  to her supporters in Spain\, and she was thanking them for “breathing a
 nother spirit into [her]\,” that is\, giving her work new life by repres
 enting her\, not as she was–a nun struggling (as she put it) to “learn
  more [and] be ignorant about less”–but as they wanted to imagine her:
  a great intellectual\, a sublime poet\, a phoenix rising from the ashes.\
 n\nThis symposium will provide the campus community at large\, as well as 
 the broader Los Angeles community\, an opportunity to learn about the life
 \, history\, and culture of Sor Juana\, the enigmatic subject of the opera
 \, and to listen to the music produced in colonial Mexican convents.
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LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, C
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