Professor Sonia Velázquez, together with Patricia C. Ingham, affiliate faculty of Religious Studies, participated in a round table, “Whose Renaissance?: ‘Heritage,’ Scholarship and the Politics of the Past Today,” organized by the Renaissance Studies Program, in partnership with Victorian Studies and the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Prof. Ingham’s presentation, “Reading Chaucer in Precarious Times,” reminded the audience that heritage is always a question of learning to live with the awareness that “time is out of joint.” In her remarks, “Sancho Panza's Renaissance,” Prof. Velázquez took as her model Don Quixote’s humble squire to propose a playful, curious, caring, yet occasionally irreverent take of the past.
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