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Programs and Events

The Newberry offers programming in the humanities for scholars, teachers, and the general public. Unless otherwise noted, events are free, and no reservations are required. Many of our programs are recorded, and you can listen to them on our website.

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Friday, October 5, 2018 – Friday, April 26, 2019
2018 Dissertation Seminar for Scholars of the History of the Book in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
This seminar will examine the material text in Europe, from the later Middle Ages through the early modern period (1300–1700). We will consider the production and circulation of manuscripts and early printed books, with a broad focus: we will range across descriptive bibliography (i.e.
Friday, January 11, 2019 – Friday, March 15, 2019
Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and Its Afterlife
Ten-Week Graduate Seminar
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
The Consolation of Philosophy, written early in the sixth century by the Roman philosopher and statesman Boethius, was among the most influential works of literature in medieval Europe.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Tiffany Jo Worth, University of California-Davis
Once upon a time were we ever premodern?
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Katherine Cox, 2018-2019 NEH Long-Term Fellow at The Huntington Library
Acoustics, Magic, and Milton’s A Masque
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Amit S.Yahav, University of Minnesota
A Defense of Leisure Reading
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Don Quixote and Its Contexts
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
This workshop will be open to first-year graduate students in literature and any of the humanities areas. The focus will be on approaches to Don Quixote and implications for the study of narrative in general.
Friday, April 26, 2019
Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri-Columbia
European Christianity in the Age of Paper
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Paul Kelleher, Emory University
Where are the Animals in the History of Sexuality?
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Manuscripts and Their Stories: Decoding the Materiality of Medieval Books
Research Methods Workshop for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
The goal of the workshop is to introduce graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty to research methodologies involved in studying the codicology of European manuscripts - the material aspects of books made by hand between 1200 and 1500.
Thursday, May 2, 2019 – Friday, May 3, 2019
Nova Reperta: Invention and Globalization in the Renaissance
What was new in the renaissance? What were some of the catalysts for change? How did globalization affect technology in the early modern period?
Saturday, May 11, 2019
The Roaring Girl, by Thomas Middleton
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; registration recommended.
That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice. A theatrical reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by Peter Garino.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Ryan Netzley, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Unlearning Value: Praise, Risk, and Repetition in Paradise Lost