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
Directed by Diana Robin, scholar-in-residence, The Newberry Library, and professor emerita, University of New Mexico; Karen Christianson, Newberry Center for Renaissan
Directed by Marc Smith, École Nationale des Chartes, Paris
The application deadline for this program has passed.
The application deadline for this program has now passed.
Held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. The overall theme of this year’s workshops was “Reading Publics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Europe.”
Directed by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library
The application deadline for this program has passed.
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
Poetry of the Stars, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Piero Boitani, Sapienza Università di Roma
A description of the paper will be added soon.
Annual meeting for the representatives of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions, by invitation only.
Questions? Contact renaissance@newberry.org.
Instructor: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University
Instructor: Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago
The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Translation
Directed by Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University
Enrollment deadline: September 7, 2012
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
Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Traditionally, the histories of the Columbian Exchange and the Reformation have been told separately. How do the stories change, if we bring the two together?
Economic and Sentimental Reasons: Financial Instruments and Personal Attachments in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago
Sponsored by Purdue University and organized by Kristina Bross, Purdue University, and Marjorie Rubright, University of Toronto.
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
Title to be announced
Lesley Smith, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
A description of the lecture will be posted soon.
The Beginning of Now: John Milton in the Early Modern Social Network
Directed by Peter Garino.
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
Dante and the Project of Translation
Application deadline: April 15, 2012
Directed by Edward Muir, Northwestern University, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
By Thomas Heywood
“Oh God, Oh God! That it were possible to undo things done; to call back yesterday!”
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
Theme and schedule to be announced
See the Illinois Medieval Association website for details and registration information.
Title and description to be announced
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Title to be announced
Jesse Molesworth, Indiana University
A paper description will be posted later.
Enrollment deadline: February 22, 2013
Directed by Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma and Peter Barker, University of Oklahoma
Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and organized by Thomas M.
Enrollment deadline: March 22, 2013
Title to be announced
Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director, Folger Institute
A paper description will be posted later.
By William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
“But that your lips were sacred, my lord/You would profane the holy name of love.”
Title to be announced
Title to be announced
Joanna Picciotto, University of California, Berkeley
Coffee and refreshments will be served before the seminar.
Title to be announced
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University
A lecture description will be posted later.
A reception will follow the lecture.
Sponsored by Northwestern University.