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    Samuel G. Armistead

    Samuel G. Armistead

    Professional Publications and Lectures

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    Professional Papers Presented at Learned Congresses

    • "Hispanic Balladry among the Sephardic Jews," California Folklore Society, Riverside, 1958.
    • "Judeo-Spanish Balladry," Modern Language Association of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1959.
    • "The Survival of Archaic Themes in the Sephardic Romancero," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, 1961.
    • "El romancero judeo-español en los Estados Unidos," Primer Simposio Internacional de Estudios Sefardíes, Madrid, 1964.
    • "Judeo-Spanish Transcription Systems," MLA Convention, New York, 1968.
    • "The Importance of Hispanic Balladry to International Ballad Research," 3. Arbeitstagung über Fragen des Typenindex der europäischen Volksballaden, Stavanger, Norway, 1970.
    • "Los romances judeo-españoles del Archivo Menéndez Pidal," I. Coloquio Internacional sobre el Romancero en la Tradición Oral, Madrid, 1971.
    • "¿Existió un romancero tradicional entre los moriscos?", Coloquio sobre Literatura Aljamiado-Morisca, Oviedo, Spain, 1972.
    • "Balkan Elements in the Sephardic Romancero," The Second Sephardic Symposium, University of California, San Diego, 1975.
    • "The Portuguese Romanceiro and Pan-European Balladry," Conference on Portuguese and Brazilian Oral Traditions, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, May, 1975.
    • "Recent Developments in Judeo-Spanish Ballad Research," Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, 1977.
    • "The Menéndez Pidal Collection of Judeo-Spanish Ballads and its Importance for Pan-European Ballad Research," International Conference on Nordic and Anglo-American Ballad Research, Seattle, Washington, 1977.
    • "Hispanic Traditional Poetry in Louisiana," Second International Colloquium on the Spanish Ballad in Oral Tradition, Davis, California, 1977.
    • "Recent Field Work on the Hispanic Ballad in Oral Tradition," Second International Colloquium on the Spanish Ballad in Oral Tradition, Davis, California, 1977.
    • "The Mocedades de Rodrigo and Neo-Individualist Theory," MLA Convention, Chicago, 1977.
    • "New Perspectives in Judeo-Spanish Ballad Research," First International Symposium for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry, Jerusalem, 1978.
    • "The Romancero among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Holland," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December, 1979.
    • "Epic and Ballad: A Traditionalist Perspective," MLA Convention, New York, December, 1981.
    • "Hispanic Folk Literature in Louisiana," Second Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Language and Literatures, Tulane University, New Orleans, February 26-28, 1981.
    • "Epica y Romancero ante la crítica individualista," Tercer Coloquio Internacional sobre el Romancero y otras formas poéticas, Madrid, December, 1982.
    • "Hispanic and Balkan Elements in Sephardic Folklore," Conference on Jewish-American Folklife, West Orange, New Jersey, April 17, 1983.
    • "Current Trends in Hispanic Ballad Research," MLA Convention, New York, December 28, 1983.
    • "Romancero e historia: La pérdida de don Sebastián," Romancero y Cancionero Español: An International Symposium, Los Angeles, November 9, 1984.
    • "A Brief History of Kharja Studies," MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1984.
    • "Américo Castro in Morocco: The Origins of a Theory?" Américo Castro Symposium, Princeton University, October 18, 1985.
    • "Celestina's Muslim Sisters: The Theme of the Old Woman Go-Between in The Thousand and One Nights," MLA Convention, Chicago, December 30, 1985.
    • "Cantares de gesta y crónicas alfonsíes," IX Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Berlin, August 19, 1986.
    • "Trabajos actuales sobre el Romancero," IX Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Berlin, August 20, 1986.
    • "Modern Ballads and Medieval Epics: Some Recent Hispanic Discoveries," MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 30, 1989."Three Spanish Dialects in Louisiana," Convention of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, New Orleans, March 23, 1991.
    • "La poesía oral improvisada en la tradición hispánica," Simposio Internacional de Estudiosos de la Décima, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, December 17, 1992.
    • "Melisenda and the chansons de geste," MLA Convention, New York, December 29, 1992.
    • "Judeo-Spanish and Pan-Hispanic Balladry: Some Recent Discoveries," Ninth British Conference of Judeo-Spanish Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, July 2-4, 1995.
    • "Sephardic Traditional Poetry: A Multicultural Legacy," Howard Gilman International Colloquium on Spanish-Jewish Cultural Interaction, Harvard University, December 1-3, 1995.
    • "Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Hispanic Romancero," Highlights of Arabic Literature: Classical, Colloquial and In-Between, University of California, Berkeley, April 27-28, 1996.
    • "The Significance of the Décima," Inauguration of the Isleño Cultural Exhibition, Cabildo Museum, New Orleans, March 6, 1997.
    • "Near Eastern and Balkan Elements in Sephardic Oral Literature," Tenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, June 29-July 4, 1997.
    • "La Crónica de Castilla y las Mocedades de Rodrigo," Seminario del Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles: «Alfonso el Sabio y las Crónicas de España», Centro Cultural Palacio de la Audiencia, Soria, Spain, July 7-11, 1997.
    • "Motivos cristianos y descristianización en el Romancero judeo-español," Howard Gilman International Colloquium on Spanish-Jewish Cultural Interaction, Tel-Aviv University, December 1-3, 1997.
    • "Américo Castro y la realidad histórica de España," Howard Gilman International Colloquium on Spanish-Jewish Cultural Interaction, Tel-Aviv University, December 1-3, 1997.
    • "Lost Castilian Epics in the Romancero," MLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, December 29, 1997.
    • "A Coleção de Literatura Oral Açoriana da Profesora Dra. Joanne B. Purcell," Museu de Angra do Heroismo, Ilha Terceira, Azores, Portugal, January 30, 1998.
    • "Menéndez Pidal, the Epic, and the Generation of '98," The Poesis of Politics and the Politics of Poesis: 1998 Symposium on Peninsular Spanish Literature and Language, University of Missouri-Columbia, March 20, 1998.
    • "The Corrido and International Balladry," Corridos sin Fronteras: Tercer Congreso Internacional del Corrido, UCLA, June 5, 1998.
    • "Migrations and Cultural Contacts of Sephardic Jews," U.C. Davis Humanities Institute, May 20, 1999.
    • "El Mostadí: History and Creativity in an 18th-Century Sephardic Romance," Eleventh British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, June 27-29, 1999.
    • "Aventuras del Romancero," Universidad de Salamanca, Acta de la presentación del «Premio Internacional Elio Antonio de Nebrija», July 5, 1999.
    • "La épica carolingia en España" (plenary lecture), Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval, Santander, September 22-26, 1999.
    • "A Multi-Media Digital Library of Folk Literature," Digital Library Initiative-2: All Projects Meeting (Cornell University), October 17-19, 1999 (with Bruce Rosenstock).
    • "La cabalgada de Peranzules: A Possible Epic Congener," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 4-7, 2000.
    • "Oralidad y escritura en el romancero judeo-español," Simposio sobre Oralidad y Escritura, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, December 4-5, 2000.
    • "Oral Poetry of the Hispanic World," Early Music Guild: Sephardic Culture: Yesterday and Today, Seattle, March 11, 2001.
    • "The Importance of Seattle for the Study of Sephardic Traditional Culture," Early Music Guild: Sephardic Culture: Yesterday and Today, Seattle, March 11, 2001.
    • "Expurgation and Bowdlerization in Hispanic Traditional Poetry," Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Poetry in Medieval Iberia, University of California, Berkeley, April 27-29, 2001.
    • "The Castilian Epic and Hispanic Ballad: The Medieval Origins of the Corrido," Folklore on the Borders: The Legacy of Américo Paredes, University of California, Los Angeles, June 8-9, 2001.
    • "Contamination and Reconstruction in the Sephardic Romancero," Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, University College, London, June 25-27, 2001.
    • "Antigüedades del romancero canario," Coloquio Internacional: El Romancero de La Gomera y el Romancero General a Comienzo del Tercer Milenio, Cabildo Insular de La Gomera, San Sebastián de La Gomera, July 20-24, 2001.
    • "A Previously Unknown Ballad Tradition from Morocco: Romances de Xauen," MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 28, 2001.
    • "The Problem of the Kharjas," Pacíficas Convivencias: Homenaje ofrecido al profesor Francisco Márquez Villanueva, UCLA, April 26-27, 2002.
    • "Kharjas and Villancicos," Entra mayo y sale abril: Studies in Spanish Popular Literature in Honor of Harriet Goldberg, 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2-5, 2002.
    • "Romance Kharjas and Arabic Kharjas," Los quilates de su Oriente, Conference in Honor of Francisco Márquez Villanueva, Harvard University, January 17-18, 2003.

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