Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi-2nd February, at 6:30 pm

Thursday 2nd February, at 6:30 pm. Conference Room.Simultaneous translation into English. Conference: "Two Sanskrit jackals in medieval Spain: the influence of the Indian fable in Spanish literature;At first it may seem unlikely to affirm that the first example of prose in Spanish had its origins in ancient India. However, when we trace back the origin of the fables that are the starting point of Spanish literature we find there the unmistakable flavor of so many Sanskrit tales used throughout time to entertain and educate. In this conference we will present the links between Calila e Dimna, the first example of Spanish prose, with two classical works from Sanskrit literature: Pañcatantra and Hitopadesha. Wendy J. Phillips-Rodríguez obtained her BA (Hons) in Spanish at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her MLitt in Sanskrit Studies at the University of Edinburgh and her PhD in Sanskrit at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD dissertation was awarded the DK Award to the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis on Sanskrit by the International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference (Kyoto, Japan). Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philological Research and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM. Her main areas of interest are the Sanskrit epics, textual criticism and the transmission of texts. Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi 48, Hanuman Road Connaught Place 110 001 Nueva Delhi