Past Programs
This workshop will focus on approaches to Don Quixote and implications for the study of narrative in general.
Enrollment deadline: February 22, 2013
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 early modern studies.
Reading the Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Translation
This special seminar is devoted to creating a broad-based community of graduate students who are at the beginning stages of working on their dissertations in medieval or Renaissance history. Students working in any geographical area are eligible. The goal will be to provide comments and criticisms from a larger group of specialists than would be available on any single campus.
The Psalms in Public and in Private
The annual Center for Renaissance Studies 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 early modern studies.
See the complete program and the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
Graduate student organizers:
The 2010 conference featured a keynote address by Jean Howard of Columbia University.
See the complete program and the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind
Mapping the Premodern
See also the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.
Panel 1: Unstable Self
Chair: Vickie Larsen, University of Iowa
Widow of Fortune: Vittoria della Tolfa, Sixteenth-Century Patron of Architecture
Christina Weber, McGill University
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
Session 1: Representations of Ideals: From the Material to the Immaterial
Chair: Sif Rikhardsdottir, Washington University in St. Louis
Friday, June 11
Session 1: Voices from the Courtroom: Interpreting the Early Modern Witchcraft Trial
Chair: Frances Mitilineos, Loyola University Chicago
Friday, June 13
Session 1
Chair: Megan Geigner, Illinois State University
Going Ganymede: Ben Johnson’s Sejanus, Epicoene and Sexual Ambiguity
Tara Hayes, Wayne State University
Friday, June 7
Session 1: Rethinking Classical and Renaissance Gender Roles
Chair: Lea Guenther, Northwestern University
Transgressing Boundaries: the Witch and the Indian Woman in Early Modern England
Amy L. Murre, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thursday, June 7
Session 1: Intersections of Sacred and Profane
Chair: Stephanie Witham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Jewish Woman: Power and Relationship in Medieval England
Frances Howard Mitilineos, Loyola University Chicago
Friday, June 9
Session 1: Reading and Reception
Chair: Jim Benedict, Washington University in Saint Louis
Creative Reading: Indexing as Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century England
Nathanial Smith, Indiana University
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.
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.
Learn more about Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Programs.