2:00-3:30 pm The Death of Concepts
NOELIA CIRNIGLIARO, The University of Michigan, Trompe-l oeil en Tirso: su comedia madrileña y la muerte de un paradigma doméstico
TED E. MCVAY, JR., Auburn University, The Baroque Moment as a Memento mori for Visual Epistemology
DR. JUAN PABLO GIL-OSLÉ, University of Michigan, The Death of Friendship, and Cannibalization in Death
3:45-5:15 pm Death and The Jesuits
LAUREN KILROY, UCLA, A Burning Heart Can Save Your Soul: José de Páez Sacred Heart of Jesus with Jesuit Saints Aloysius Gonzaga and Ignatius of Loyola
FRÉDÉRIC CONROD, Creighton University, The Meditation on Hell in Loyola s Spiritual Exercises: A Dantesque and Minimalist Spiritual Prescription for the New World
CHRISTOPHER LUND, Brigham Young University, "Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate: Dying Well and the Death of Mr. Badman."
5:30 pm Keynote Address
DANA LEIBSOHN, Smith College
6:30 pm Keynote Address
EUGENE RODRIGUEZ and Opening Night Reception in Landmark Gallery
8:30-10:30 am The Death of Literary and Clasiccal Characters
BENJAMIN J. NELSON, The University of South Carolina, Death and the Shepherd(ess): The Suicidal Shepherd and Shepherdess in the Spanish Pastoral Novel
HARRY VÉLEZ-QUIÑONES, The University of Puget Sound, Sueño del caballero de Olmedo: Muerte de un galán en Lope, Pereda y Camprobín
JASON MCCLOSKEY, Bucknell University, Uncovering the Face of Jealousy: Iphigenia s Death in Juan Boscán s Capítulo
SIDNEY DONNELL, Lafayette College, Death Becomes Her/Him: Gender Ambiguity and the Early Modern Stage
10:45-11:45 am Unique Approaches to Death
COSTICA BRADATAN, Texas Tech University, Dying as Self-Expression
ELISA C. MANDELL, California State University Fullerton, Pathways of Continuity and Change: Posthumous Portraits of Children in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:15-3:15 pm Death and Places, Death and Dogs
MICHAEL SCHREFFLER, Virginia Commonwealth University, To Live in This City is to Die : Death and the Ethnicity of Architecture in Colonial Cuzco, Peru
ANA RODRÍGUEZ, University of Iowa, El espectáculo de la tortura y la muerte en la Topographia e historia general de Argel
LORI BOORNAZIAN DIEL, Texas Christian University, Manuscrito del Aperreamiento: A Justified Killing of an Indigenous Priest?
JOHN BEUSTERIEN, Texas Tech University, As Death Approaches: The Turn to the Dog in Velázquez and Cervantes
3:30-5:00 pm Death in Literary Motifs
JOHN SLATER, Flora and Zephyr: Literary and Material Dissemination in Early Modern Spain, University of Colorado at Boulder
PATRICIA W. MANNING, The University of Kansas, A Boat Ride to Death: A Variations on Death Motifs in the Initial Images of La pícara Justina
JULIO BAENA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Death-carrying Images in Cervantes Prologues
5:30 6:30 pm Keynote Address
JOHN BEVERLEY, University of Pittsburgh
9:30-10:30 am The Death of Historical Figures
PATRICK HAJOVSKY, Southwestern University, "Christian Death: The First, Last, and Ongoing Rites of Moctezuma"
MARIANA C. ZINNI, Queens College (CUNY), La muerte ejemplar de Lope de Aguirre y la restauración de las coordenadas modernas en América
10:45-12:15 pm Figures of Afterline
MARK J. MASCIA, Sacred Heart University, The (Im)Permanence of Death: Lope de Vega s Rimas humanas, Artistic Creation, and Worldly Existence
NICOLÁS M. VIVALDA, Vassar College, El piélago de la inmortalidad y las potencias de la fama: insularidad y negación de la muerte en El Criticón de Baltasar Gracián
CARMEN PEREIRA-MURO, Texas Tech University, Muerte y postrimerías en imágenes y palabras: la obra del Bosco y los Sueños de Quevedo.
1:30-3:00 pm Death in Images and Texts
MARÍA M. CARRIÓN, Emory University, "Burying the Center. Image and Illusion of Death in El Greco and San Juan de la Cruz"
FREDERICK DE ARMAS, University of Chicago, Viewing St. Bartholomew's Martyrdom: Michelangelo, Alemán and Cervantes
STEVEN WAGSCHAL, Indiana University Bloomington, Dreaming the Sleep of Death: Hypnos, Thanatos and Morpheus in Early Modern Poetry and Art
4:00 pm Keynote Address
CAROLYN DEAN, University of California, Santa Cruz