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Dated 20 February 2023. Compare all listings in PDF with the online program to ensure accuracy. The online program will continue to be updated, but not the PDF.

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RSA Awards Ceremony

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in San Gerónimo Ballroom B

Join us to meet and applaud the recipients of some of the RSA awards and prizes, such at the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award and the Digital Innovation Awards.

The Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in San Gerónimo Ballroom B

Rolena Adorno, Sterling Professor Emerita of Spanish at Yale University, will deliver,

"Cervantes and Don Quijote at Home and Abroad."

Professional Development Mixer

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. in the Caribe Hilton Beach Area

Join colleagues for a cash bar beach reception. This casual gathering is a way to mark the opening of the conference while enjoying the surf and sand at the Caribe Hilton. New to the RSA or hoping to warm up your social skills? Look for signs pointing out RSA Board members and Renaissance Quarterly editors, who look forward to chatting with you!

Traditional Music of Puerto Rico: Plena and Bomba

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in San Gerónimo Ballroom B

Presentation and performance by Taller Conjunto Paracumbé. The repertoire to be performed is a mixture of original and traditional plena and bomba songs. Paracumbé uses traditional and contemporary musical instruments. The bomba dance is to be portrayed. Listen to Paracumbé's album Tambó now:

Renaissance Trivia Night

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in Las Olas

Join trivia master Horacio Sierra for the return of Renaissance Trivia, first held at RSA Dublin 2022.

RSA San Juan 2023 Closing Reception

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Caribe Hilton Beach Area

Join us for a beer, wine, and soft drink reception on the beach to mark the conclusion of RSA San Juan 2023.

You can edit your affiliation by logging in to your rsa.org account and then updating the Organization field in your member bio. The affiliation will push to the online program after a few days. The RSA no longer prints affiliations on badges, so no worries about missing a printing deadline.

A recording of our information session, "Looking forward to RSA San Juan 2023" is now available. Registrants for RSA San Juan 2023 were invited to attend a Zoom session that highlighted some ways to make the most out of the upcoming conference in Puerto Rico. How can prep work, pacing yourself during the conference, and follow-up afterward help you to develop, consider, and meet your professional objectives, such as acquiring new knowledge or skills, finding external mentorship and peer communities, meeting topic experts, disseminating your findings, and developing cross-institutional collaborations and Renaissance studies?

Puerto Rico currently observes Atlantic Standard Time (AST) all year. Daylight Saving Time is no longer in use and clocks do not change in Puerto Rico. During the conference, San Juan will be one hour ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time.

When scheduling virtual meetings during San Juan 2023, we recommend using a time zone converter; here's the converter we use.

Countries including Canada, Mexico, and the United States will start observing Daylight Saving Time ("spring forward") on Sunday, March 12 this year. For many San Juan 2023 attendees, that is a travel day.

If you are a noncitizen nonimmigrant and are fully vaccinated, make sure your vaccine and proof of vaccination are acceptable to board a flight to the United States.

As required by United States federal law, all airlines or other aircraft operators will provide and collect the passenger attestation on behalf of the U.S. Government prior to boarding. Please check with the airline or aircraft operator for your flight to learn how the airline or aircraft operator will collect your attestation. A sample attestation can be found here.

U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, and those traveling to the United States on an immigrant visa do not need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter Puerto Rico.

San Juan, Puerto Rico is located in the United States, so many conference participants who don't need a visa to visit the U.S. will still need to apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). Be sure to use the official U.S. government site to apply for your ESTA; the cost should be $21 and the website bears the label "Official Website of the Department of Homeland Security."

U.S. citizens do not need an ESTA or passport to travel to Puerto Rico.

A special opportunity for RSA members who have earned the PhD or terminal degree in their field.

We are seeking volunteer chairs for panels. A list of open panels with links to the online program can be found at this page.

All session rooms at RSA 2023 San Juan will have a digital projector. Panelists must supply their own laptop computers in order to display slides during their session.

To prepare for a smooth start to your presentation, we recommend bringing a laptop with an HDMI output and saving your presentation on a USB drive. Mac laptop users should bring an adapter that allows them to connect to HDMI. Every year the RSA staff buy more adapters than the year before. Every year we run out. Please come prepared!

There will be tech support on-site at the San Juan conference to assist with any A/V issues that unexpectedly arise.

The book exhibit is back at San Juan 2023. The exhibit will take place at the following times in the San Cristobal Foyer A at the Caribe Hilton:

Thursday, 9 March 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Friday, 10 March 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Saturday, 11 March 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

As the conference approaches, remember to send your paper to your chair and respondent, if applicable, early. How early? That's up to them. We recommend two weeks in advance as a general guideline. For more on academic etiquette as well as the practices of the RSA conference, check out our guidelines for Annual Meeting participants.

Rip currents pose a very real threat in San Juan at certain times of the day. Read more, including rip current forecasts, here.

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