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News Archives

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Baroque Magazine
(La Revista Barroco)

The Baroque Magazine is pleased to announce its first 2010 volume with two articles of great interest for the Hispanic Baroque studies:
“Lo neobarroco como técnica de imagen y comercialización en el siglo XXI,” de Catalina Castellón, Lamar University and “La leyenda de Bernardo del Carpio vista por el dramaturgo aúreo Alvaro Cubillo de Aragón,” de María Isabel López-Martínez, Universidad de Rioja.
(click to read more)

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Call for Participants
Power Moves

New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Fencing, Dancing, & Connections to Shakespeare. Now casting for teams of scholars & practitioners to reconstruct physical interpretations for world-class performance texts, bridging gaps in production history which currently inhibit teaching, staging, & critiquing plays from the Siglo de Oro.
( click to read more)

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Call For Papers

La Habana Elegante
Sueños de la Razón: Monstruos, aberraciones y quimeras del Barroco a la Illustración
(click to read more)

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Barroquisimo 2010
Festival of the capital of Puebla

From April 16 to May 5, 2010 the second edition of Barroquisimo will take place in Puebla Mexico. For 18 days participants from all over the world will gather to celebrate culture and art. Barroquisimo encourages dialogue among local and international artists and has become a very important celebration for the people of Puebla.
(click to read more)

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Musica Figurata

Don't miss out on April 25th at 5pm the Récital José Afonso: Filipe Batista and the collection of "Musica Figurata".
(click to read more)

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The Deadline for the Re-creating Renaissance
and Baroque Spectacle has been extended to April 15

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 new deadline for proposals is April 15th, 2010.
(click to read more)

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Chaire sur la Culture Portugaise

This sunday, April 11th 2010 at 12pm Luis de Moura Sobral will be giving a conference on "O Retábulo de Santa Catarina de Josefa de Óbidos (1661) na Igreja de Santa Maria em Óbidos. Pintura religiosa ou pintura política?"
(click to read more)

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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.
(click to read more)

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Workshop on APIs for
the Digital Humanities

This October 15th, 16th and 17th a Workshop on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Digital Humanities will be held in Mississauga at the Delta Meadowvale hotel, from 8:00am to 5:00pm.
(click to read more)

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Musica Figurata

On October 4th the Department of Portuguese Culture of the Université de Montréal will be having a concert on Portuguese and Brazilian music from the 18th century, with musical direction by Robson Bessa at 7:00pm followed by a lecture by M. Luis de Moura, at the Place des Arts, 175 Sainte-Catherine West. Admission is $15
(click to read more)

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Biblioteca Digital de Libros de Oro

On September 30th, the Humanities Coordinator, Dr. Estela Morales, will inaugurate an online digital library of choir books of the Mexican cathedral and the catalog of the Estrada collection with the digitization of the most antique manuscripts of the cathedral’s musical archive, included in this collection.
(click to read more)

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Lope de Vega's Play: La Dama Boba

Rafael Rodriguez who is currently working on the production of this play invites Hispanic Baroque readers to reflect on the play and help him with thoughts, ideas, reflections, comments, studies, etc. that would guide him in the creation of the dramaturgical vision of this play.
(click to read more)

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L'art de L'azulejo au Portugal

The first part of the seminar on portuguese Azulejo would be taking place on September 22nd at 7:00pm in the Université de Montréal with invited expert, João Pedro Monteiro. This seminar is open to the public
(click to read more)

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Are Golden Age Studies Obsolete?

The Hispanic Baroque website is proud to present John Beverley's publication, "Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America"
(click to read more)

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Fuente Ovejuna

The classic drama version of Fuente Ovejuna directed and translated by Laurence Boswell for the Stratford production is now available at nickhernbooks.co.uk and amazon.com.
(click to read more)

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Azulejo Seminar

The Université de Montréal will be having a Museology and Art History Seminar on Portuguese tilt by three invited experts from the National Tilt Museum from Lisbon, Portugal on September, October and November 2009.
(click to read more )

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Cicatrices de la Fe

Our team member Clara Bargellini is the curator of an exciting exhibition "Cicatrices de la Fe. El arte de las misiones del norte de la Nueva España, 1600-1821", running from April 16th to Aug. 16th in México.
(click to read more)

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NHCC Exhibition

The National Hispanic Cultural Center in New Mexico will be holding an exhibition Meso-Americhanics (Maneuvering Mestizaje) de la Torre Brothers and Border Baroque from Sept. 12, 2008 until Aug. 16, 2009.
(click to read more)

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Don Gil of the Green Britches

Dave Dalton's adaptation of Tirso de Molina's Don Gil of the Green Britches will be at the Wild Project venue in New York on June 22nd at 7:30 and it's free of charge.
(click to read more)

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Conference

La Paz, Bolivia:
V Encuentro Internacional sobre Barroco: Entre Cielos e Infiernos
June 17 - 20, 2009
(click to read more)

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Baroque in Bolivia

The exhibition V Encuentro Internacional sobre Barroco: Entre cielos e infiernos will be held in La Paz, Bolivia from June 17th to 20th.
(click to read more)

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Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London (England) is hosting an exhibition Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence this summer from April 4th to July 19.
(click to read more)

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Boswell to direct in Madrid

After a highly successful season of Fuente Ovejuna at the Stratford Festival, director Laurence Boswell will be directing a Spanish version of Fuente Ovejuna in Madrid for the new season.
(click to read more)

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Musical Workshops

Lima, Peru:
Musical Baroque in Lima;
April 26 - May 7, 2009
(click to read more)

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Exhibition

Canary Islands, Spain:
El bodegón español en el Prado: The Spanish Still Life
The Museo Nacional del Prado;
Mar. 30 - May 31, 2009
(click to read more)

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Exhibition

Madrid, Spain:
Settecento Veneziano. From Baroque to Neoclassicism;
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando;
Mar. 26 - June 7, 2009
(click to read more)

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Exhibition

Madrid, Spain:
The Precolumbian Caribbean. Fray Ramón Pané and the Taíno Universe;
Feb. 19 - June 28, 2009
(click to read more)

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Barroquísimo

Multidisciplinary festival from April 16th to May 5th celebrates artistic expressions of the Baroque in Puebla, México.
(click to read more)

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MLA 2009 Call for Papers

The annual MLA meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in December 2009. The Call for Papers is now available at the link below. Abstracts will be due Mar. 15, 2009 & should be send to Don Larson.
(click for Call for Papers)

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Scott E. Page on Complexity

The New York Times article in conversation with Dr. Scott E. Page, entitled "In Professor's Model, Diversity = Productivity"
(click to read more).

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