CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sarah Finley | Professor David Lee Garrison

The Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (SRBHP) invites proposals for individual presentations, complete panels, and round tables for its sixteenth biennial conference. Under the presidency of Felipe Valencia (Utah State University) and organized by Rosilie Hernández (University of Illinois Chicago) and Anne J. Cruz (University of Miami), the conference will take place from 27-29 September 2023 on the campus of the University of Illinois, Chicago.

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, 10 June 2023. Confirmations of acceptance will be emailed by early July 2023. The conference will be in-person only. All participants must join the Society as members at the time of conference registration; membership includes subscription to its premier journal, Calíope.

Conference Theme

The Poetic Function, Then and Now:
Versions and Inversions of Early Modern Hispanic Poetry

The theme for the conference is the societal and aesthetic functions of poetry, from the new structures and forms created during the early modern period, through their evolution to contemporary movements across Spain and the Americas.

The following themes are suggested for papers, panels, and round tables. Other themes on poetry and poetics in Spain and the Americas will also be considered:

• Epic Reinventions
• Modern Mythologies
• Poetic Function, Social Poetry
• Materialities and Immaterialities
• Performance Poetics
• Senses and Emotions
• Feminist Inversions of Golden Age Poetry
• Imitation versus Confession
• Graphic Poems
• Poetics of Race
• Discourses of Sexualities

SUBMISSIONS

SRBHP members are invited to submit proposals for individual presentations, panels, or roundtables

Languages for the conference are English and Spanish.

Papers should not exceed 20 minutes; panels and round tables with four participants must limit each participant to 15 minutes maximum presentation.

Individual presenters and organizers of panels and round tables will submit proposals through the google form links provided below for each category.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS:

Name // Brief CV (100 words) // Title // Abstract (250 words maximum).

PANELS:

Panel Title
For each paper presenter (3-4 maximum):
Name of presenter // Brief CV (100 words maximum per CV) // Title // Abstract (250 words maximum).

ROUND TABLES

Title // Roundtable Summative Abstract (150 words maximum
For each paper presenter (3-4 maximum):
Names of participant // Brief CV (100 words maximum per CV) // Title // Abstract (150 words maximum).

SUBMISSION LINK

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

To be posted after submissions are reviewed.

AWARDS

The Society is pleased to announce it will grant several awards to graduate students and assistant professors. The Society aims to encourage young scholars in the field of poetry and poetics and to aid them in attending its conferences. Materials presented for awards should be original and unpublished.

The Founders Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper comes with an award of $200.
The Society will also offer three (3) Travel Awards of $500.00 each to graduate students and assistant professors to help cover conference registration and hotel expenses.

FOUNDERS PRIZE – BEST GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER

Graduate students accepted for individual presentations (see above) will be eligible to compete for the “Founders Prize”. They must submit their full papers by no later than Tuesday, August 15, 2023, to the conference email address: srbhp2023.uichicago@gmail.com.
The subject line for your email should read: “Entry for Founders Prize.”

The Prize Committee will announce the winner at the conference.

Questions about the conference should be directed to the following conference email address:

srbhp2023.uichicago@gmail.com