Today starts the 2026 edition of the Festival Celestina. La España de Rojas. Besides the traditional staging of Celestina at 22:15 on Saturday (29th of August) and the many performances (see the full programme), there are a few extra activities of celestinesque interest:
Congreso Celestinesco (Friday 21st of August, 19:00, Museo La Celestina), in which Ángela Celis (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) and Engel de la Cruz (public historian) will be talking about “La Celestina y el universo literario de Fernando de Rojas”.
Book presentation (Monday 24th of August, 20:00, Museo La Celestina), in which Isa Guerra will be presenting her latest publication “La Celestina” e il suo collegamento con la realtá (Edizioni Universum, Trento).
“Los siete idiomas antiguos de La Celestina” (Tuesday 25th of August, 20:00, Museo La Celestina), where Jesús Durán (collector) will be discussing early modern editions of Celestina, in translation.
The provisional programmes for the 14th International Congress of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (AISO), to take place 20th-24th July in Buenos Aires, and the 10th International Congress of the Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (SEMYR), to take place 2nd-4th September in Alicante, have been circulated and are full of celestinesque papers.
Carmen Barros Serodio (Universidad de Salamanca), “La leyenda negra en dos reescrituras celestinescas modernas: recepción de Las conversiones (1981), de José Martín Recuerda, y Tragedia fantástica de la gitana Celestina (1982), de Alfonso Sastre” (miércoles 22 de julio, 10:30-12:00, AULA B302, MESA 16)
Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora (Universidad de Guadalajara), “Aportaciones y descubrimientos en la obra de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, y cinco lustros del hallazgo de La segunda Celestina, su comedia perdida” (miércoles 22 de julio, 15:00-16:30, AULA B303, MESA 20)
Juan Bris García (independiente), “La resonancia y recapitulación de los mitos de la Comedia de Calisto y Melibea en los parlamentos finales de Pleberio (Panel CELPYC: Lo que la picaresca y la celestinesca esconden, miércoles 2 de septiembre, 12:00-13:30, Aula GE/0-02P)
Irati Calvo Martínez (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) y Soledad Castaño Santos (Universität Basel), “Evolución y reescritura fraseológica en una selección de obras del género celestinesco” (Panel CELPYC: Lo que la picaresca y la celestinesca esconden, miércoles 2 de septiembre, 12:00-13:30, Aula GE/0-02P).
Amaranta Saguar García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “El grabado de portada de la edición de Valencia: Juan Jofré, 1514 de la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: otra deuda para con la edición de las Comoediae terencianas de Estrasburgo: Johannes Grüninger, 1496″ (Panel ITINERARIOS TEXTUALES EN LA EUROPA MEDIEVAL Y MODERNA, miércoles 2 de septiembre, 17:30-19:00, Aula GE/1-07S)
Issue 49 of Celestinesca is out! With articles by Patrizia Di Patre (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador), José R. Dominicci-Buzó (Washington and Lee University), François-Xavier Guerry (Université Clermont Auvergne), Eduardo Villalobos (Wilfrid Laurier University), Irati Calvo Martínez (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), Luis M. Esteban Martín (independent researcher) and Florencia Juárez González (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). It includes the usual bibliographical supplement and a book review.
A Zenodo community “Celestina y literatura celestinesca” has been created for Celestina scholars to share their publications, posters, datasets, etc. It is open to all kind of materials and research stages, but submissions are subject to approval by the community managers.
Zenodo is an academic open repository supported by the European Union that allows researchers to comply with the European open science deposit requirements, but can be used by anyone, European or not. It also serves as an alternative for institutional repositories for scholars that change jobs very often. Unlike many other academic or institutional repositories, it provides uploads with a DOI and accepts a wide variety of materials and formats.
