Past Graduate Programs

Past Programs

Monday, March 19, 2012

Held at the Newberry Library. The overall theme of this year’s workshops was “Reading Publics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Europe.”

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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 e

Friday, January 27, 2012

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 e

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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 e

Thursday, January 27, 2011 to Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 21, 2010 to Saturday, January 23, 2010

The 2010 conference featured a keynote address by Jean Howard of Columbia University.

See the complete program and the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind

Friday, January 25, 2008

Mapping the Premodern

Friday, June 8, 2007

See also the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.

Panel 1: Unstable Self

Chair: Vickie Larsen, University of Iowa

Friday, June 9, 2006 to Saturday, June 10, 2006

Friday, June 9

Panel 1: Contextual Experience in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Jane K. Wickersham, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library

Friday, June 10, 2005 to Saturday, June 11, 2005

Friday, June 10

Session 1: Representations of Ideals: From the Material to the Immaterial

Chair: Sif Rikhardsdottir, Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, June 11, 2004 to Saturday, June 12, 2004

Friday, June 11

Session 1: Voices from the Courtroom: Interpreting the Early Modern Witchcraft Trial

Chair: Frances Mitilineos, Loyola University Chicago

Friday, June 13, 2003 to Saturday, June 14, 2003

Friday, June 13

Session 1

Chair: Megan Geigner, Illinois State University

Friday, June 7, 2002 to Saturday, June 8, 2002

Friday, June 7

Session 1: Rethinking Classical and Renaissance Gender Roles

Chair: Lea Guenther, Northwestern University

Thursday, June 7, 2001 to Friday, June 8, 2001

Thursday, June 7

Session 1: Intersections of Sacred and Profane

Chair: Stephanie Witham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Friday, June 9, 2000 to Saturday, June 10, 2000

Friday, June 9

Session 1: Reading and Reception

Chair: Jim Benedict, Washington University in Saint Louis

Friday, June 12, 1998 to Saturday, June 13, 1998

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 14, 1996 to Saturday, June 15, 1996

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 9, 1995 to Saturday, June 10, 1995

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 10, 1994 to Saturday, June 11, 1994

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 11, 1993 to Saturday, June 12, 1993

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 12, 1992 to Saturday, June 13, 1992

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 14, 1991 to Saturday, June 15, 1991

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 8, 1990 to Saturday, June 9, 1990

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 9, 1989 to Saturday, June 10, 1989

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 10, 1988 to Saturday, June 11, 1988

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 19, 1987 to Saturday, June 20, 1987

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, January 10, 1986 to Saturday, January 11, 1986

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 14, 1985 to Saturday, June 15, 1985

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.

Friday, June 15, 1984 to Saturday, June 16, 1984

Organized and run by graduate students, the Center for Renaissance Studies graduate student conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers were invited in any area of medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.