The Center for Renaissance Studies offers a wide range of programs in medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies at the graduate and postdoctoral levels: lecture series, multidisciplinary seminars, graduate seminars for which students may receive academic credit, workshops, conferences, symposia, and intensive training in the techniques essential for primary research in these fields, including paleography, bibliography, codicology, and textual editing. Additionally, the center provides a locus for a lively community of scholars who come from all over the world to use the Newberry’s collections of manuscripts and printed books from the Middle Ages to the Napoleonic period.
The Center for Renaissance Studies collaborates with the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C., itself a consortium of 41 institutions. By a reciprocal arrangement, faculty members and graduate students from either consortium are eligible to participate in programs offered by the other.
Faculty and graduate students at consortium schools may be eligible to apply for Travel Grants to participate in center programs or do research at the Newberry.
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Upcoming Programs
This talk will explore connections between Milton’s project in Paradise Lost and the efforts of seventeenth-century Baconians to erect a theodicy on the grounds of nature alone.
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
The institute will provide participants with practical training in reading and transcribing documents written in Spain and Spanish America from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Although the course sessions will be taught primarily in English, all of the documents will be in Spanish.
In this interdisciplinary summer institute our goal will be to listen—literally and metaphorically—to travel. College and university teachers from across the nation will come together to explore the intersections between the history of travel and the history of music in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas.
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Partial list of speakers (subject to change)
Tom Bartlett, University of Aberdeen
Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow
Jola Choińska-Mika, University of Warsaw
Annual meeting for the representatives of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions, by invitation only.
Questions? Contact renaissance@newberry.org.
Like all things human, emotions have a history, but it has not often been traced. Since we all have our own notions of “emotion,” early on participants will be introduced to current psychological theories and definitions. The group will then explore old and new narratives of emotions’ history.
This seminar aims to create a broad-based community of graduate students at the beginning stages of work on their dissertations in early modern literature.
The 2013 annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers, Regional Associations, and Programs will be held at the Newberry, cosponsored by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies.
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David Morris, University of Notre Dame, will speak on a new edition of the pseudo-Joachite “commentary on Isaiah,” properly titled Super prophetas, one of the most influential and interesting of the pseudo-Joachite texts from the mid-thirteenth century.
Title to be announced
A paper description will be posted soon.
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
Learn more about the speaker: Wendy Furman-Adams, Whittier College
The lecture title and description will be added soon.
Learn more about our speaker: Guy Raffa, University of Texas at Austin
A reception will follow the lecture.
Nostalgia at sea, sometimes called calenture, is a desire to return home so powerful that the victim is overwhelmed by hallucinations of pastoral landscapes into which s/he leaps, with fatal results.
Speaker information and paper titles and descriptions will be added later.
Organized by John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame.
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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.
A workshop description will be posted soon.
See the director’s web page: Dale Van Kley, Ohio State University
Learn more about the Newberry’s French pamphlet collection.
Speaker information and paper titles and descriptions will be added later.
Organized by John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame.
A paper description will be added later.
A reception will follow the seminar.
Learn more about our speaker: Tobias Menely, Miami University
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Barbara H. Rosenwein has been an animating presence in the Chicago medieval studies community for more than four decades.
A workshop description will be added soon.
Learn more about the director: Carla Zecher
A paper description will be added later.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Learn more about our speaker: Eyal Poleg, University of Oxford
Organized by Paul F. Gehl, The Newberry Library; Albert Rivero, Marquette University; and Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library.
A paper description will be added later.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Learn more about our speaker: Bruce T. Moran, University of Nevada, Reno
Organized by Paul F. Gehl, The Newberry Library; Albert Rivero, Marquette University; and Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library.
State trials were the quintessential media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted vast public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the governors and the governed.
A paper description will be added later.
A reception will follow the seminar.
Learn more about our speaker: Nina Dubin, University of Illinois at Chicago
Meeting annually from 2001 to 2010, the Cervantes Symposium has provided leading scholars from throughout the United States a forum to share and discuss emerging research in the field.
Beginning in 2012, the symposium meets at the Newberry Library during even-numbered years and at the Instituto Cervantes during odd-numbered years.
More details to follow.
The paper title and description will be posted later.
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
Learn more about the speaker: Joshua Scodel, University of Chicago
The Newberry Eighteenth Century Seminar will hold a symposium to mark its fifth year of meeting multiple times a year to discuss participants’ research and works-in-progress. Details will be posted later.