Plenary lectures

- Prof. António Maria de Castro Feijó (U. of Lisbon) "Muscular inkhorns: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Part I" [abstract]
- Prof. John Drakakis (U. of Stirling) "Jews, bastards and black rams: The 'strange' outsiders in The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and Othello" [abstract]
- Prof. Francisco Fernández (U. of Valencia) "W. Dumbar's lament for the Makaris: Some relevant features of 16th century Northern English" [abstract]
- Prof. Terttu Nevalainen (U. of Helsinki) "Sociolinguistic perspectives on Tudor English" [abstract]
- Prof. Jacqueline Pearson (U. of Manchester) "Female bodies and feminine spaces" [abstract]
 

Paper and poster sessions

Linguistics
Rosa María Álvarez Cougil & Ana González Cruz (U. of Santiago de Compostela) "On the development of deverbal conjunctions. A case-study on the grammaticalization of provided (that) in early Modern English" [abstract]
Bjørg Bækken (U. of Bergen ) "Yet this follie doth many times assault the brauest minds: Affirmative declarative do in 17th century English" [abstract]
Beth Browning Jacobs (U. of Illinois at Chicago) "The linguistic English Renaissance?" [abstract]
Maria José Esteve Ramos (U. Jaume I) "Medical treatises in the Renaissance: Discoursive features in Richard Banister's Treatise of One Hvndred and Thirteene Diseases of the Eyes, and Eye-liddes" [abstract]
Juan Carlos García Lorenzo (U. of Santiago de Compostela) "Why that that is not there. Overt and nonovert complementizers in early Modern English" [abstract]
Fuencisla García-Bermejo Giner (U. of Salamanca) "Early sixteenth century evidence for [i, ia] > OE long a in the North?" [abstract]
Victorina González Diaz (U. of Manchester / U. of Vigo) "English adjective comparison in the Renaissance period" [abstract]
Jane Griffiths (U. of Oxford, Magdalene College) "The matter of invention: Coinage and semantic change in Early Renaissance England" [abstract]
Paloma Nuñez Pertejo (U. of Santiago de Compostela) "Adjectival participles or present participles? On the classification of some dubious examples from the Helsinki Corpus" [abstract]
Elvira Pérez (U. of Salamanca) "The spread of non-European commercial and scientific loanwords in 16th c. English" [abstract]
Gudelia Rodríguez Sánchez (U. of Salamanca) "Noah's Flood: Chester and Townley" [abstract]
Pilar Sánchez García (U. of Salamanca) "Early Modern English literary dialect in Brome's The Northern Lass and Late Lancashire Witches" [abstract]

Shakespeare
Clara Calvo, Keith Gregor & Angel Luis Pujante (U. of Murcia) "Shakespeare in Spain in the framework of European culture" [round table; abstract]
Laura Campillo Arnaz (U. of Murcia / U. Basel) "Spanish translations of culture-bound elements in The First Part of Henry IV: A historical perspective" [abstract]
Marta Cerezo (U. Autónoma de Madrid / UNED) "See, see, what showers arise,/Blown with windy tempests of my heart: Personal and political tempests in Shakespeare's history plays" [abstract]
Maria de Jesús Crespo Candeias Velez Relvas (U. Aberta) "The literary construction of a monstruous portrait: King Richard III, by Thomas More and William Shakespeare" [abstract]
Lloyd Davis (U. of Queensland) "All's Well that Ends Well and the civilizing process" [abstract]
Janet Dawson (U. of Sevilla) "The rhetorical figure of the siege in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece" [abstract]
M. Gomes da Torre (U. of Porto) "Discussing the sex of fairies: A problem in the translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream into Portuguese" [abstract]
Gary Harrington (Salisbury U.) "Division and doubling in The Tempest" [abstract]
José María Rodríguez García (U. of Santiago de Compostela) "Shakespeare, the 'Classic' and William Carlos Williams" [abstract]
Paula Rodríguez Gómez (U. of Valladolid) "Juliet's mirror. A study on characters' symmetry in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Measure for Measure" [abstract]

History and Cultural Studies
Francisco J. Borge (U. of Oviedo) "Richard Hakluyt and the promotion of the New World: the English nation in the making" [abstract]
Maurizio Calbi (U. of Salerno) "Monstering bodies: Race, erotism and gaze in Early Modern literature and Culture" [abstract]
Pilar Cuder Domínguez (U. of Huelva) "The islamisation of Spain in William Rowley and Mary Pix" [abstract]
Jesús Isaías Gómez López & José Carlos Redondo Olmedilla (U. of Almeria) "The Elizabethan pamphlet that foretold the end of the world" [abstract]
Isabel Karreman (Ludwig-Maximilians U. München) "One and one is two, three is potency" [abstract]
Luz María Santamarta Lozano (U. of Oviedo) "When did it all begin? Origins of the Anglo-Spanish conflict in the 16th Century?" [abstract]
Marcia Tiburi (U. of Unisinos-Unilasalle) "The Saturn's body: Melancholy and method in the Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy" [abstract]

Prose, Poetry & Theatre
Rui Carvalho Homem (U. of Porto) "Portuguese amazons, extravagant voyagers: Perplexities of travel and desire in Fletcher's The Sea Voyage (1622) and Brome's The Antipodes" [abstract]
Jorge Casanova (U. of Huelva) "Between The Complete Gentelman (1622) and The Complete Angler (1653): Incisions in the poetry of Richard Lovelace" [abstract]
Rosa Flotats (freelance researcher, Vic) "Censoring and censors: Aeropagitica in the 21st Century" [abstract]
Carlos Gómez (U. of A Coruña) "Farcical innocuousness versus morality and satire in the comedies of Thomas Durfey" [abstract]
Francisco González García (U. of Salamanca) "Love might make me leave loving: The variety of meanings of 'Love' in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets" [abstract]
Sonia Hernández Santano (U. of Huelva) "Marlowe's Hero and Leander: From tragedy to farce" [abstract]
Zenon Luis Martínez, Leticia Álvarez Recio & Alberto Zambrana (U. of Huelva & U. of Sevilla) "Drama and the Restoration crisis reassessed (1678-1682): The performance of the civil conflict in Nahum Tate's Richard II (1689), Elkanah Settle's The Female Prelate (1680) and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved (1682)" [round table; abstract]
Nuno Manuel Dias Pinto Ribeiro (U. of Porto) "The second coming. Prophecy and utopian thought in John Milton (1608-1674) and Antonio Vieira (1608-1697)" [abstract]
Rafael Portillo (U. of Sevilla) "Vizards, gallants, wenches and wits: Playgoing in Early Restoration London" [abstract]
Nancy Rosenfeld (U. of Haifa) "Mid way (it seemes) twix't heaven and hell": The Earl of Rochester meets Milton and Bunyan" [abstract]
Maria Salomé Machado (U. of Lisbon) "Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam" [abstract]
Coleen Shea (Queen's U. Kingston) "Ben Jonson's verse epistles and the construction of the ideal patron" [abstract]
Rafael Velez Núñez (U. of Cadiz) "Melancholic sounds: Singing madness in Restoration drama" [abstract]
Sonia Villegas López (U. of Huelva) "Narrative Levels in The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) by Mary Pix" [abstract]

Comparative Studies
Elena Domínguez Romero (U. of Huelva) "Thomas Morley's First Book of Madrigals to Four Voices and the Elizabethan sonnet cycles" [abstract]
Maria Jesús Pando Canteli (U. of Deusto) "'... and often Absences Wiithdrew our Soules and made us Carcasses': The destructive power of the female figure in Donne's Nocturnall and Quevedo's Love Poetry" [abstract]
Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez (U. of Santiago de Compostela) "The French influence on David Rowland's translation of El Lazarillo de Tormes (1586)" [abstract]