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
W. Martin Bloomer and Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame
Directed by Michael Kuczynski, Tulane University
We are no longer accepting enrollment for this event. It is now filled to capacity with an extensive wait list.
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.
What Is So New about Dante’s Vita nova?
W. Martin Bloomer and Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame
An Icon for Peter the Great: Linking Imperial Cartography and Sacred Topography
Workshop on Paratexts
Becoming a Knight: Visual Evidence in Medieval Books
W. Martin Bloomer and Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.
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 will meet at the Newberry Library every other year.
The Prophet Muhammad in Late Medieval Christian Manuscripts
Debra Higgs Strickland, University of Glasgow
Milton and the Idea of the North
An introduction to the renowned collections of the Newberry Library and the resources available for the study of early modern women.
Application deadline: March 1, 2012
Directed by Marc Smith, École Nationale des Chartes, Paris
Held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
Application deadline: Friday, March 9
Application deadline: March 1, 2012
Directed by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
Annual meeting for the representatives of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions, by invitation only.
Questions? Contact renaissance@newberry.org.
Law and the French Atlantic
Organized by Allan Greer, McGill University, and Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
Title to be announced
Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A description of the paper will be posted later.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
Title to be announced
Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
A description of the paper will be posted later.
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
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, a