Re-creating Renaissance
and Baroque Spectacle
The University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK) is organizing a conference this 6th and 7th of July 2010. The organisers seek contributions related to any aspect of Early Modern European festivals and are especially interested in proposals which relate to the festivals of the Hispanic Habsburg dynasty. The deadline for proposals is April 1st, 2010
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Identities on the Line:
From Today to the Baroque
The Hispanic Baroque is pleased to announce the Congress of Master and Doctoral Students, Identities on the Line: From Today to the Baroque, that will take place on April 23, 2010 a McGill University in Montreal. The deadline to submit a proposal is March 15, 2010.
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I Congreso Ibero-Asiático
de Hispanistas Siglo de Oro
The Hispanic Baroque is pleased to announce the first Ibero-Asian Congress of Hispanists Golden Age that will be taking place in Delhi, India from November 9-12, 2010. A transnational event organized by the University of Dehli, the “Siglo de Oro” research group (GRISO) of the University of Navarra, and the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language for which the Hispanic Baroque (University of Western Ontario) among other institutions collaborates.
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The Baroque: A Lifestyle
The Faculty of Education of the University of Francisco Marroquin (UFM) in Guatemala, is organizing a course entitled, The Baroque: A Lifestyle, lectured by Salvador Aguado a distinguished linguist and a culture and academic excellence lover. From February 3rd to March 24, 2010.
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Lecture on
Digital Humanities
The Hispanic Baroque cordially invites everyone to attend a lecture on Digital Humanities "Networks, Complexity, and Agent Based Modeling in Ancient History"
by Shawn Graham on December 8th from 5:30 to 7:00pm at the University of Western Ontario, University College room 207.
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Second Call for Papers
Religion in the Hispanic Baroque:
The First Atlantic Culture and Its Legacy
We are now looking for proposals on the migration of baroque religious ideas and expressions – understood in the widest sense and in their manifold manifestations in the arts and society - across cultures, space and time. We expressly welcome comparative and interdisciplinary approaches - including e.g. theology, human geography, computer sciences, media and cultural studies, comparative literature and philosophy. We are particularly interested in papers prepared to tackle the legacy, influence, and assimilation of baroque religious ideas, discourses, styles, and practices on contemporary art, epistemology, and society – for instance in terms of an investigation of the nature and expression of the neo-baroque.
More information on the conference, programme, accommodation and travel to Liverpool will be available at http://www.liv.ac.uk/iberianatlantic/2010conference.htm
The Hispanic Baroque
The project, “The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the first Atlantic culture”, is the fruit of efforts of a group of 35 researchers from universities in different countries (Canada, Spain, Mexico, Australia, England, Bolivia and the United States) from different disciplines (Literary Studies, History, Sociology, Fine Art, Music & Musicology, Anthropology, Geography, Computer Science, Architecture & Mathematics). Over the next seven years, the team will study the origin, evolution, transmission and effectiveness of the baroque patterns of behaviour and representation in the Hispanic world. The project is financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, by way of a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives grant totaling $2.5 million. With the contributions of the partners, the budget approaches $4 million.
The objectives of the project are: to describe the most common, resistant baroque patterns in different environments; to establish its relationship with processes of social identity and organization; to analyze the technologies of culture that have made this adaptability of the baroque possible; to determine its effectiveness based on the reappearance in Neo-baroque phenomena of the contemporary world; with the participation of other disciplines, to create new tools that fortify investigation methods in the humanities. This project covers three fundamental dimensions: research, student training, and the diffusion of created knowledge.
