CONFERENCES
PRESENTATION
Since the establishment of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, the biennial conference has been the key event in our calendar. First held in 1993, it usually takes place in the Autumn and in different locations, hosted by members of the Society. There are normally two or three keynote lectures.
The conference offers an exciting range of academic presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities in a warm and welcoming environment. The members celebrate an assembly at each biennial conference. Social events in the past have included concerts and recitals, visits to galleries, monuments, archives, and exhibitions, and a banquet.
Submissions are welcome from faculty, independent scholars, post-doctoral faculty and graduate students. Membership in the SRBHP is required for participation. The fostering of next-generation thinkers is at the heart of our mission, and therefore since the 14th biennial conference (2019) we award the SRBHP Founders’ Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper.
In addition to our biennial conference, the SRBHP organizes sessions at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (since 2014) and at the triennial conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (since 2017).
PAST CONFERENCES
This page offers an archive of the past biennial conferences of the SRBHP. The programs available for download here do not necessarily provide an accurate record of the papers delivered at each conference: they show the scheduled contents but may not have taken last-minute changes or absences into account.
Luis Milán, Libro de música de vihuela de mano, intitulado El Maestro (1536; BNE R/14752). Image on the cover of the program of our 1st Biennial Conference (Texas Tech University, 1993).
Programs for past conferences are available by clicking on the links below:
- 1st Biennial conference at Texas Tech University, November 11-13, 1993
Organized by Ted E. McVay, Jr.
Keynote Speakers: Anne J. Cruz (then University of California, Irvine; now University of Miami) and Elias L. Rivers (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
- 2nd Biennial conference at the University of Houston, November 16-18, 1995
Organized by Julián Olivares
Keynote Speakers: Alan S. Trueblood (Brown University) and Mary E. Barnard (Pennsylvania State University)
- 3rd Biennial conference at the University of Rochester, October 16-18, 1997
Organized by Robert ter Horst
Keynote Speaker: Georgina Sabat de Rivers (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
- 4th Biennial conference at the University of California, Davis, October 28-30, 1999
Organized by Adrienne L. Martín
Keynote Speaker: Francisco Márquez Villanueva (Harvard University)
- 5th Biennial conference at The Ohio State University, October 18-20, 2001
Organized by Elizabeth B. Davis
Keynote Speakers: Trinidad Barrera (Universidad de Sevilla) and Geoffrey Parker (The Ohio State University)
- 6th Biennial conference at Boston University, October 9-11, 2003
Organized by James Iffland and Pedro Lasarte
Keynote Speakers: Mary M. Gaylord (Harvard University), Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Juan Montero (Universidad de Sevilla)
- 7th Biennial conference at the University of Miami, November 10-12, 2005
Organized by Anne J. Cruz
Keynote Speakers: Amanda Powell (University of Oregon) and Antonio Carreño (Brown University)
- 8th Biennial conference at the Universidad de Córdoba, October 17-20, 2007
Organized by Pedro Ruiz Pérez, Ángel Estévez Molinero, Ignacio García Aguilar, Elena Cano Turrión and Francisco Javier Álvarez Amo
Keynote Speakers: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Luis Avilés (University of California, Irvine), Antonio Gargano (Università Federico II di Napoli) and Sagrario López Poza (Universidade de A Coruña)
- 9th Biennial conference at the University of Oregon, November 5-7, 2009
Organized by Leah Middlebrook and Amanda Powell
Keynote Speakers: Andrew Schulz (University of Oregon) and Stephanie Merrim (Brown University)
- 10th Biennial conference at Queen’s University, Belfast, September 5-7, 2011
Organized by Isabel Torres
Keynote Speakers: Aurora Egido (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Trevor J. Dadson (Queen Mary University of London)
- 11th Biennial conference at the University of Virginia, October 10-13, 2013
Organized by Ricardo Padrón and Alison P. Weber
Keynote Speakers: Gordon Braden (University of Virginia) and Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon)
- 12th Biennial conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Holyoke College, September 24-26, 2015
Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Nieves Romero-Díaz (Mount Holyoke College)
Keynote Speakers: William Egginton (Johns Hopkins University) and Stephanie Kirk (Washington University in Saint Louis)
- 13th Biennial conference at the Universidad de Sevilla, October 18-20, 2017
Organized by Juan Montero
Keynote Speakers: Rolena Adorno (Yale University), Rodrigo Cacho Casal (Clare College, University of Cambridge) and Begoña López Bueno (Universidad de Sevilla)
- 14th Biennial conference at the University of California, Irvine, October 17-19, 2019
Organized by Luis Avilés and Ivette N. Hernández-Torres
Keynote Speakers: Ignacio Arellano (Universidad de Navarra) and Anna More (Universidade de Brasília)
- 15th Biennial conference at Clare College, University of Cambridge, 22–24 March, 2022
Organized by by Rodrigo Cacho Casal
Keynote Speakers: Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Université) and Roland Greene (Stanford University)
SESSIONS SPONSORED AT RSA
As an associate organization of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), since 2014 the SRBHP has organized two or three sessions at each of the annual meetings, except in 2020, when the meeting was cancelled.
Programs for the SRBHP-sponsored sessions at the annual meeting of the RSA since 2014 are available by clicking on the links below:
- New York, March 27-29, 2014
SRBHP panels organized by Ignacio Navarrete (University of California, Berkeley); and Elizabeth Pettinaroli (Rhodes College)
- Berlin, March 26-28, 2015
SRBHP panels organized by Elizabeth B. Davis (The Ohio State University); and Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) and Felipe Valencia (Swarthmore College)
- Boston, March 31-April 2, 2016
SRBHP panels organized by Elizabeth B. Davis (The Ohio State University), Maya Feile Tomes (University of Cambridge) and Miguel Martínez (University of Chicago)
- Chicago, March 30-April 1, 2017
SRBHP panels organized by Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) and Felipe Valencia (Utah State University); Juan Vitulli (University of Notre Dame); Elizabeth B. Davis (The Ohio State University) and Lorena Uribe Bracho (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York); and Elizabeth B. Davis (The Ohio State University) and Leticia Mercado (Boston College)
- New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018
SRBHP panels organized by Elizabeth B. Davis (The Ohio State University); Nicole D. Legnani (Princeton University) and Felipe Valencia (Utah State University); and Anna More (Universidade de Brasília) and Juan Vitulli (University of Notre Dame)
- Toronto, March 17-19, 2019
SRBHP panels organized by Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) and Jenny Forsyth (University of California, Los Angeles); and Felipe Valencia (Utah State University) and Juan Vitulli (University of Notre Dame)
- Virtual, April 13-15 and 20-22, 2021
SRBHP panels organized by Mary E. Barnard (Pennsylvania State University) and Víctor Sierra Matute (New York University)
- Dublin, March 30–April 2, 2022
SRBHP panels organized by Leah Middlebrook (University of Oregon) and Isabel Torres (Queen’s University Belfast)
SESSIONS SPONSORED AT AISO
As an associate organization of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (AISO), since 2017 the SRBHP has organized from one to three sessions at each of the triennial conferences.
Programs for the SRBHP-sponsored sessions at the triennial conference of the AISO since 2017 are available by clicking on the links below:
- 11th Triennial conference at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, July 10-14, 2017
SRBHP panels organized by Ignacio García Aguilar (Universidad de Córdoba); Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla (Hobart and William Smith Colleges); and Juan Vitulli (University of Notre Dame)
- 12th Triennial conference at the Université de Neuchâtel, November 2-6, 2020
SRBHP panel organized by Víctor Sierra Matute (New York University)