The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside, has organized annual Encuentros/Encounters since 2005.
These conferences and concerts are devoted to particular aspects of the Ibero-American musical heritage, including Spain, Latin America, the Philippines, and California. Previous Encounters have focused on the Mexican son, Peruvian music and politics, race and music in colonial Brazil, Goya and Granados, music of colonial Philippines, flamenco, Argentine tango, and music under the Franco dictatorship, among others.