Wolfram Aichinger
Principal investigator
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

Sabrina Grohsebner
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
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.
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna

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

Karolina Kaniewska
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna

     › parish registers
     › age at death among children from the village of el Hornillo

Varvara Rytsk
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
a12138996@unet.univie.ac.at

     › parish registers

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
Department of Romance Studies, 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

Hannah Fischer
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
hannah.fischer-monzon@univie.ac.at 

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

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

Early Modern Basque and Spanish society and history:

Nina Kremmel
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
nina.kremmel@univie.ac.at 

     › Her dissertation is a new critical edition of the Spanish medical treatise "Ten Privileges for
       Pregnant Women" written by a physician in 1606.

     › Socio-cultural and medial-historic aspects surrounding pregnant woman

Kurt Kriz
Department of Romance Studies, 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)

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
Department of Romance Studies, 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»

Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla
Independent Researcher
giuspicas@gmail.com

     › Diplomatic History in the Early Modern period. Political and social interactions of the European diplomatic corps in the Ottoman Empire and its client states (mainly Balkans and Constantinople) between the second half of the 18th century and the early 19th century

     › Royal child births and maternal/paternal representations of the rulers in the 18th century

Walburga Plunger
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
walburga.plunger@univie.ac.at

     › representation of grandparents in parish registers

Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
fernando.sanz-lazaro@univie.ac.at 

     › Picaresque novel

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

     › Private letters of empress María Ana de Austria

Marie Stockinger
Department of Romance Studies, 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
Early 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

Katharina Webinger
Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
a01447693@unet.univie.ac.at

     ›  Records of maternity home of Madrid between 1860 and 1899
     ›  Seasonality of births, birth hour & circadian rhythmics
     ›  Twin births