The Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier opportunity for maturing scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies.

Participants from a wide variety of disciplines find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Each year since 2007, selected papers have been published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings.

The 2014 conference will be expanded to accommodate more students, with eighteen sessions and a total of seventy-two presenters.

This year’s conference organizers will be announced soon.

Call for Papers

We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or PhD students from any discipline on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, anthropology, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, political science, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.

Eligibility: Proposals are accepted only from students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium. Students who presented a paper at the previous year’s conference are given lower priority, though they are still eligible to submit a proposal.

Proposals must be submitted online, by midnight Tuesday, October 15. Complete this submission form.

Printable PDF of the Call for Papers. Please post and circulate.

Schedule

Thursday January 23

1:30-3: Concurrent sessions 1, 2, and 3
3-3:30: Coffee break
3:30-5: Plenary session
5-6:30: Opening reception

Friday, January 25

9: Coffee and continental breakfast
9:30-11: Concurrent sessions 4, 5, and 6
11-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-1: Concurrent sessions 7, 8, and 9
1-2:30: Lunch break
2:30-4: Concurrent sessions 10, 11, and 12

Saturday, January 26

9: Coffee and continental breakfast
9:30-11: Concurrent sessions 13, 14, and 15
11-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-1: Concurrent sessions 16, 17, and 18
1:30: Organizer’s luncheon/editorial meeting

Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions may be eligible to apply for travel funds to attend CRS programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Each member university sets its own policies and deadlines and some may limit eligibility to certain colleges or departments. Be sure to contact your Representative Council member in advance, as early as possible, for details.