Programme
THURSDAY, 19th November
9.00am // Registration and Welcome
9.30-11.00 Session I: Satire and Burlesque Poetry in New Spain
Andrew Laird (University of Warwick/Brown University)
'Radical Visions of Post-Conquest Mexico: Humanism and Experience in the Poetry of Fray Cristóbal Cabrera'
Raquel Barragán Aroche (Universidad Autónoma de México)
‘Laughter between Spain and New Spain: The Burlesque Poetry of Agustín de Salazar y Torres’
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.40 The Norman MacColl Lecture 2015
Rolena Adorno (Yale University)
‘Poetry’s Place in Civic Spectacle: the Aztec Lords and Christian Princes of New Spain’
14.40-16.10 Session II: The Politics of Religious Poetry
Arantza Mayo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘“Government is a Hidden Cross”: Diego de Hojeda's Epic and the Reformulation of Colonial Rule’
Alice Brooke (University of Oxford)
‘“La soberana doctora de las escuelas divinas”: Sor Juana's Mariology in her villancicos on the Feast of the Assumption’
16.10-16.40 Tea and Coffee
16.40-18.10 Session III: Poetry, Music and Balladry
Miguel Martínez (University of Chicago)
‘The Other Poets of the New World: Popular Balladry in Colonial America’
Lorena Uribe Bracho (City University of New York)
‘“Cítaras de cristal de Aganipe”: Imagery of Music in Viceregal Poetry’
FRIDAY, 20th November
9.30-11.00 Session I: Epic, Exploration and Desire
Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas)
‘Leviathan and Behemoth in the Caribbean: Land and Sea in Juan de Castellanos’s Discurso del Capitán Francisco Draque’
Imogen Choi (University of Cambridge)
‘Os Lusíadas and Armas antárticas: Eros, Eris and the Art of Imitation in Colonial Epic’
11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee
11.30-12.40 Keynote speaker: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (City University of New York)
‘Luis Jerónimo de Oré (1554-1630): Poetry and Proselytism in the Andes’
14.40-16.10 Session II: Borderlands and New Frontiers
Paul Firbas (Stony Brook University)
‘Borderlands in Colonial Spanish-American Epic Imagination’
Rodrigo Cacho (University of Cambridge)
'Unexplored Frontiers: Bernardo de la Vega and the Lost Poets of the New World'
16.10-16.40 Tea and coffee
16.40-17.10
Closing Remarks
