Twelfth Annual South-Central
Renaissance Conference

A Report

The South-Central Renaissance Conference met at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, March 15, 16, 1963. The Friday morning session, presided over by J. Gordon Eaker (University of Houston), heard the following papers : Frank Halstead (University of Mississippi), "Rojas' La Celestina: Medieval or Renaissance?"; Robert G. Collmer (Wayland Baptist College), "The Function of Death in Certain Metaphysical Poets"; Patrick G. Hogan (Mississippi State University), "Spenser's Leda (F.Q. 111. xi. 32) : 'A grace beyond the reach of art"'; John P. Cutts (University of Oklahoma), "Lear's 'Learned Theban' "; Ariel Bar-Sela, M.D. (Baylor University College of Medicine), "The Medical Renaissance." The Luncheon session, presided over by President W. C. Richardson (Louisiana State University), heard an address by R. A. Tsanoff (Rice University), "On the Philosophy of the Renaissance."

The Friday afternoon session, presided over by Carroll Camden (Rice University), heard these papers: Albert Alhadeff (University of Texas), "The Renaissance Influence in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture : Michelangelo and Rodin" ; W. G. Baroody (Arizona State University), "The Holy Sonnets and John Donne's Struggle for Religious Assurance" ; Archibald Henderson, Jr. (University of Houston), "Coriolanus and the Grief of Shakespeare." After the dinner address by Paul Murray Kendall (Ohio University), "The Impulse toward Biography and Autobiography in the Renaissance," the Conference was entertained by Renaissance music and a dramatic production "The Two Arlecchinos," a Commedia del'Arte.

The Saturday morning session, presided over by Archibald R. Lewis (University of Texas), heard these papers: Amy Turner (University of Houston), "A Revaluation of Inigo Jones"; A. L. Bennett (Texas A. and M. College), "Prince Henry of Monmouth"; Marian B. Davis (University of Texas), "Mannerism in Late Fifteenth-Century Painting''; Ruth Stickney (University of Houston), "Two Phases of Renaissance Æsthetics : Language and Response."

The new officers for the Conference are : President Lorraine Sherley (Texas Christian University), Vice-President Frank Halstead (University of Mississippi), Executive-Secretary-Treasurer Helen S. Thomas (University of Houston). New members of the Executive Council are Stanford E. Lehmberg (University of Texas), Panos Paul Morphos (Tulane University), and Calvin Huckabay (William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi). Continuing members of the Executive Council are: Willis H. Bowen (University of Oklahoma), Robert G. Collmer (Wayland Baptist College), and Robert Pascal (Louisiana State University).

The South-Central Renaissance Conference will meet at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, in the Spring of 1964, and at Texas A. and M. College, College Station, Texas, in 1965.

HELEN S. THOMAS

Executive-Secretary-Treasurer
South-Central Renaissance Conference