Registration and Information for the 2008
SSPHS
Conference
The 39th annual meeting of the Society
for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies will be held at the Hilton Hotel in
All panel sessions will be held on-site in the hotel’s conference facilities. Rooms are available to conference participants each night of the meeting (April 3, 4, and 5) at the rate of $150 for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made before March 13, 2008, to guarantee this rate. You may make your reservations by calling the Hilton directly at (817) 870-2100 or the Hilton Toll Free Reservations number 800-HILTONS. Individuals must identify themselves as being with the SSPHS Meeting at the time the reservation is made in order to receive the special group rate. You may also make your reservations online by using the conference’s dedicated web link. (Please note: the link currently only lets you choose rooms with one king bed. The hotel offers other options, and they have promised to correct the link soon to reflect these.)
We are honored to welcome as our plenary speaker María Jesús Pablos, Executive Director of the U.S.-Spain. Fulbright Commission. The Commission celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2008, and we are pleased to use this occasion to recognize its extraordinary influence in supporting historical scholarship and cultural exchange between the U.S. and Spain over the past five decades. The speech will accompany the banquet, to be held on Saturday night, April 5, in the Hilton Hotel; entrance to the banquet is covered by the conference registration fee.
As part of this year’s program, conference
registrants will
also have the opportunity to visit Southern Methodist University’s Meadows
Museum on Friday morning (no sessions will be scheduled
opposite
this event). The Meadows houses one of the largest and most
comprehensive
collections of Spanish art outside of
The conference registration fee is $45 for those who pre-register by mail before March 7, 2008, and $50 for those who register after March 7 or at the conference itself. The registration fee includes the banquet on Saturday evening at the Fort Worth Hilton, as well as a reception on Thursday evening. A separate fee of $10 will cover the optional Meadows museum trip, including transportation and lunch. (For those of you who plan to register on-site, please email Jodi Campbell at j.campbell@tcu.edu if you would like to reserve a spot for the Meadows trip, so that we have an accurate count in advance.) Registration forms will be mailed out shortly, or you may send in the following information:
Name (as you wish it to appear on name tag)
Institutional Affiliation (as you wish it to appear on name tag)
Mailing Address
E-mail Address
Conference pre-registration (before March 7, 2008) $45
OR
Conference registration (after March 7, 2008, and on-site) $50
Optional Meadows trip on Friday morning (includes lunch) $10
Please send this information along with a check in U.S. dollars (made out to SSPHS) to:
Department of History
TCU
Additional requests:
· Presenters, please be in touch with the chair of your session a few weeks before the conference to see when they would like to receive your paper.
· Dan Crews asks participants to please send abstracts of their presentations to him (crews@ucmo.edu) no later than September 1, 2008, for inclusion in the fall SSPHS Bulletin.