Wolfram Aichinger
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
wolfram.aichinger@univie.ac.at

     › birth stories in parish registers
     › the queen and the midwife: Mariana de Austria and Inés de Ayala

Sara Brankovic
sara.brankovic@univie.ac.at

     › infanticides in Spain between the 17th and 19th centuries

Hannah Fischer
hannah.fischer-monzon@univie.ac.at 

     › (female) rhythms and perception of time in Early Modern Spain
     › ancient mythology and childbirth and fertility

Sabrina Grohsebner
sabrina.grohsebner@univie.ac.at

     › Representation of midwives
     › Obstetric practices as a root of human sociability
     › The midwife’s hands as keys to her interpretation

Tamara H.

     › Superstitions related to parts of the afterbirth (placenta, umbilical cord, amniotic sac)

Kurt Kriz
University of Vienna
kurt.kriz@hotmail.com

     › Mal de madre
     › Cultural response of reproduction and contraception
     › The "Opiladas" in the Golden Age (women mentioned by different artists of the XVI and XVII
        centuries, who used clay as a dangerous, unhealthy medium for contraception and beauty)

Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
fernando.sanz-lazaro@univie.ac.at 

     › Picaresque novel

Walpurga Plunger
walpurga.plunger@univie.ac.at

     › representation of grandparents in parish registers

Sally Alexander
University of Vienna
BA in English Medieval History and Landscape Archaelogy at the University of East Anglia in the UK

     › editing and public relations
     › social media manager

Clara Bonet Ponce
Department of Spanish Philology, Universidad Católica de Valencia

     › violence surrounding childbirth (against pregnant women, infanticide, etc.) in theatrical plays
       as well as in other contemporary sources
     › Spanish Golden-Age drama
     › violence, rituals and religion
     › endangered pregnancy in Early Modern Spain

Alice-Viktoria Dulmovits
University of Vienna
alice-viktoria.dulmovits@univie.ac.at

     › Cultural and legal history of birth
     › Pregnant widows and posthumously born children
     › Notions of legitimacy, manifestations of mistrust regarding the pregnant Body
     › The impact of the birthing environment

Karin Fuchs
University of Vienna
karin.fuchs@hotmail.com

     › baptismal registers from various parishes in Spain between the 17th and 19th centuries

Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi
Universidad de Deusto
nere.intxaustegi@deusto.es

Early Modern Basque and Spanish society and history:

Simon Kroll 
University of Trier
simon.kroll@googlemail.com

     › the function of sonority in Spanish Golden Age theatre and Poetry
     › rhythm and rhyme

Rocío Martínez López
Department of Early Modern History of the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid
rocio.martinezl@uam.es

     › Succession crises of Early Modern Europe
     › Dynastic and diplomatic relationship between the Spanish and Austrian branches of the
       Habsburg dynasty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
     › Conflict and defense of royal women's succession rights in the Early Modern Age
     › Political and artistic representation regarding royal fertility, childbirth and their consequences

Hannah Mühlparzer
University of Vienna
hannah.muehlparzer@univie.ac.at 

     › birth as death and death as birth in the works of Calderón and El Greco
     › paternal and maternal love in literary birth scenes

Pilar Panero García
Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Valladolid
mariapilar.panero@uva.es

     › Patrimonio cultural
     › Religiosidad popular, especialmente la Semana Santa
     › La Literatura desde la antropología cultural, cuyo principal trabajo ha sido su tesis
       sobre la crónica de indias de fray Toribio «Motolinía»

Christian Standhartinger
Austrian State Archives, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Christian.Standhartinger@gmx.at

     › Private letters of empress María Ana de Austria

Marie Stockinger
University of Vienna
marie.stockinger@univie.ac.at 

     › children named after their deceased siblings

María Cristina Tabernero Sala
Philology Department, University of Navarra

     › the History of the Spanish language and in geographic and social variation
     › lexicon and sociopragmatic analysis
     › insults of the 16th and 17th centuries as an act of verbal discourtesy

Jesús M. Usunáriz
jusunariz@unav.es
Modern History in the Department of History, Art History and Geography, University of Navarra
GRISO, Grupo de Investigación del Siglo de Oro

     › Changing social and cultural aspects of the 16^th and 17^th centuries