Center for Renaissance Studies

Compositione di meser Vincenzo Capirola, gentil homo bresano, c. 1517, Newberry Case MS minus VM 140 .C25

Calendar for 2010-2011

Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are free and open to the public. However, due to space restrictions registration in advance is required for most Center for Renaissance Studies programs. See individual listings for registration instructions. Faculty and graduate students from consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend these programs; contact your faculty representative for details.

September

   
Friday, 9/10   History of the Book Lecture: Michael Allen, University of Chicago
Saturday, 9/11   Center for Renaissance Studies Representative Council Meeting: 11:00 a.m. coffee; noon lunch; 1:00 p.m. business meeting
     

October

   
Friday, 10/1   History of the Book Lecture: François Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles, Florida State University

Friday, 10/1 to
  Sunday, 10/3

 

Newberry Consort performances. Rule Britannia! Celebrating the Tercentenary of Thomas Arne, 1710-1778

Saturday, 10/9   Eighteenth-Century Seminar: Robert Markley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, 10/15

 

Paper proposals due for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, 10/16   Measure for Measure, staged reading by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Friday, 10/29   Lecture in Medieval History: Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State Universita, emerita
Saturday, 10/30   Milton Seminar: Dennis Danielson, University of British Columbia
     

November

   
Monday, 11/1  

Applications due for Workshop on Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Encounters: Literature, Culture, History  

Friday, 11/5  

Warwick-Newberry Workshop at the Newberry: The Glorious Revolution as a Transatlantic Problem Reconsidered limited enrollment

Saturday, 11/6

 

2011 Graduate Student Conference organizers meeting

   

Newberry Consort recital. David Douglass: My Favorite Things

Saturday, 11/13   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
Friday, 11/19   Lecture in Early Modern History: Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota. Held at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago 
     

December

   
Saturday, 12/4   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
     

 January

   
Thursday, 1/6   Graduate Seminar: Disability and Marginality in Medieval England and France, Prof. Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago - weekly to March 10)
Friday, 1/7   Graduate Seminar: The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Masculinity and the Anglo Saxons, Prof. Allen Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago - weekly to March 11
Monday, 1/10   Applications due for the École Nationale des Chartes fellowship

Friday, 1/14

 

Proposals due to teach 2011-12 Center for Renaissance Studies graduate courses

Saturday, 1/15   Mary Stuart, by Friedrich Schiller, staged reading by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Sunday, 1/23

 

Newberry Consort performance. Emerging Artists: Wayward Sisters

Thursday, 1/27
  to Saturday,
  1/29
  2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, 1/29   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
     

February

   
Friday, 2/11  

Workshop on Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Encounters: Literature, Culture, History limited enrollment

Saturday 2/12   Eighteenth-Century Seminar: Heather Keenleyside, University of Chicago

Sunday, 2/13

 

Newberry Consort performance. Voice and Viols: Something Old, Something New:

Friday, 2/25   Symposium on Mechanisms of Exchange in Monumental and Portable Arts, 1000 to 1500
Saturday, 2/26   Merry Wives of Windsor, staged reading by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Saturday, 2/26   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
     

March

 

  

Tuesday, 3/1   Applications due for the 2011 Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography at the Newberry Library

Friday, 3/4 to
  Sunday, 3/6

  Newberry Consort performances: Melody and Miracles, Cantigas de Santa Maria 
Friday, 3/11   Applications due for the 2011 Warwick-Newberry Summer Seminar at the Newberry Library
     

April

   

Saturday, 4/2

 

Newberry Consort performance. Encore Performance: Venere Lute Quartet

Friday, 4/8   Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

Friday, 4/8 to
  Sunday, 4/10

 

Newberry Consort performances: Musica Secreta, Passion and Virtuosity at Court

Saturday, 4/9   Eighteenth-Century Seminar: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan

Thursday, 4/21

 

History of the Book Lecture: Christine Ferdinand, Magdalen College Library, Oxford

Friday, 4/29   Dante Lecture: Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
Saturday, 4/30   The Tempest, staged reading by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago
     

May

   
Saturday, 5/21   Milton Seminar: Thomas Luxon, Dartmouth College
     

July and August

Monday, 7/11 to
  Friday, 7/22 

 

Warwick-Newberry Summer Seminar: The Glorious Revolution as a Transatlantic Problem Reconsidered limited enrollment 

Dates TBA

 

Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography limited enrollment


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