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<\/a>The upper floor where Paco works in Madrid has a great view of the city. To the left, you can see the Tower of Madrid and the other large building (with yellow building-stuff hanging on it) that are on the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n
Tuesday night I went to a book presentation at one of the local museums. I had expected to see some of the Fulbright people there, at least the coordinators, but it turned out to just be me…and a room full of people I didn’t know. However, the gathering was for a book on Madrid’s Plaza Mayor by an American scholar (former Fulbrighter) Jes\u00fas Escobar. During the cocktails after the presentation, I introduced myself to historian James Amelang and later to Escobar (who introduced me to several other history professors). Amelang invited me to a monthly cultural history colloquium–with the first one of the academic year being the next day–Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
I went to the cultural history colloquium and heard a lecture on delincuency in Miguel de Cervantes’ prose. There were 7 of us there–representing the fields of history, literature and art history, and after the discussion, 5 of us went out for lunch together. It was a very positive experience, and I enjoyed getting to hear everyone’s opinions and having the opportunity to chat with them about what they were doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Puck is currently working hard at a tradeshow here in Madrid–from 9 AM until 7 PM, so he leaves the house at 8 and gets home around 8. The tradeshow ends this Saturday, so we’ll have a wee bit of time together before he flies home for 2 months. He’ll make it back just in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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