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.
Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
Warwick-Newberry Collaborative Programs
Past Renaissance Programs — Other Seminars, Lectures, Symposia, Conferences, and Summer Programs
Upcoming Programs
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.
Sponsored by Purdue University and organized by Kristina Bross, Purdue University, and Marjorie Rubright, University of Toronto.
Directed by Peter Garino.
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
By Thomas Heywood
“Oh God, Oh God! That it were possible to undo things done; to call back yesterday!”
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.”
Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and organized by Thomas M.
By William Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
“But that your lips were sacred, my lord/You would profane the holy name of love.”