Other Renaissance Programs

Christine de Pisan, 1537, Case MS 5326
Christine de Pisan, Book of Prayers and Moral Lessons, 1537. Case MS 5326.

The Center for Renaissance Studies hosts a wide variety of afternoon or evening lectures and seminars, full-day symposia, multi-day conferences, and multi-week summer seminars and institutes.

Some programs are open to all, while some have limited enrollment. Please check the individual program listings below for registration information.

Cervantes Symposium

Dante Lecture

Seminar in Art History

Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

Warwick-Newberry Collaborative Programs


Past Renaissance Programs — Other Seminars, Lectures, Symposia, Conferences, and Summer Programs 

Upcoming Programs

Thursday, September 20, 2012

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.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Directed by Peter Garino.

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”

Saturday, January 19, 2013

By Thomas Heywood

“Oh God, Oh God! That it were possible to undo things done; to call back yesterday!”

Friday, February 15, 2013 to Saturday, February 16, 2013

Theme and schedule to be announced

See the Illinois Medieval Association website for details and registration information.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

Thursday, March 21, 2013 to Saturday, March 23, 2013

Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and organized by Thomas M.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

By William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd

“But that your lips were sacred, my lord/You would profane the holy name of love.”