Carlos Mata, researcher and secretary of group de research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the School de Philosophy y Letras, has visited the universities of Los Andes and Chile to participate in various academic activities.

On March 16, he gave at the Universidad de los Andes (Santiago de Chile) the seminar "Introduction to the Spanish lyric poetry of the Renaissance", directed to the students of the 3rd year of the licentiate degree in Literature. On the same day, a lunch was held at work with professors Braulio Fernández Biggs, Paula Baldwin Lind and Miguel Donoso Rodríguez, in which some initiatives that will be developed soon at partnership between the Literature Institute of the University of the Andes and GRISO were discussed. Among these activities, the Internationalcongress "The Scene in the Golden Age and Elizabethan Theater", which will take place in Santiago de Chile next October, stands out.

Presented by Professor Miguel Donoso, on the 17th he gave the lecture "Valor y valores del Quijote de Cervantes en el nuevo milenio" (Value and values of Cervantes' Don Quixote in the new millennium) at the high school de Literatura. The event was attended by José Luis Widow, Dean of the School of Philosophy and Humanities of the Universidad de los Andes, and by various professors and students.

On the 23rd, Professor Mata attended the University of Chile to give at his School of Philosophy and Humanities a seminar on "The reception of Don Quixote (from 1605 to our days)". The activity, framed in the elective course on Don Quixote by Professor Jéssica Castro, from the department of Literature, was aimed at 3rd and 4th year students of the licentiate degree in Linguistics and Literature.

Carlos Mata at the University of Chile, together with Jéssica Castro, from the department de Literatura