Center for Renaissance Studies

2009-2010 Calendar

Please note: due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required for all Center for Renaissance Studies programs, unless otherwise indicated. See individual listings for registration instructions.

September

Thursday, 9/24   Graduate Seminar: Introduction to the Troubadours, Prof. William Paden - weekly to 12/10 (except Thanksgiving)
Friday, 9/25       Graduate Seminar: Emotions in History, c. 600-c. 1700, Prof. Barbara Rosenwein - weekly to 12/11 (except Thanksgiving)
Saturday, 9/26   Representative Council Meeting. Coffee at 9:30; meeting 10:00 a.m. to noon; lunch noon to 2:00 p.m.

October

Friday, 10/2       History of the Book Lecture: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Notre Dame
Saturday, 10/3   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
Saturday, 10/17 Milton Seminar: Tobias Gregory, Catholic University of America   
Saturday, 10/24 Eighteenth-Century Seminar: Kristina Straub, Carnegie-Mellon
 
Saturday, 10/31 Shakespeare Project of Chicago performance: Henry VIII

November

Thursday, 11/5   History of the Book Lecture: David Stern, University of Pennsylvania  
Saturday, 11/14 Graduate Student Conference Organizers planning meeting, 9:00 a.m.

 December

NOTE: The Medieval Intellectual History Seminar for December has been canceled

January

Thursday, 1/7    Graduate Seminar: Princes and Their Cities, Prof. James Murray and Prof. James Palmitessa - weekly to 3/11
Thursday, 1/7    Graduate Seminar: Anglo-Saxon Law and Literature, Prof. Jana Schulman - weekly to 3/11
Monday, 1/11    Applications due for École Nationale des Chartes fellowship
Thursday – Saturday,
  1/21 – 1/23      Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, 1/23   Shakespeare Project of Chicago performance: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday, 1/30   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar

February

Tuesday, 2/16    "400 Years of Shakespeare on Stage" Spotlight Exhibition opens (through May 1)
Saturday, 2/20   Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, 2/27   Medieval Intellectual History Seminar

March

Monday, 3/1      Applications due for the 2010 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography
Saturday, 3/6    Eighteenth-Century Seminar Works-in-Progress Session
Friday, 3/12      Applications due for the 2010 Warwick-in-Venice Summer Seminar
Friday, 3/12      Lecture in Early Modern History: Ethan Shagan, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, 3/26      History of the Book Lecture: J. Paul Hunter, University of Virginia

April

Saturday, 4/17  Eighteenth-Century Seminar Works-in-Progress Session
Thursday, 4/22  Newberry Library Dante Lecture: Rachel Jacoff, Wellesley College
Friday, 4/23      Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal
Saturday, 4/24  Shakespeare Project of Chicago performance: Antony and Cleopatra
Friday, 4/30      Cervantes Symposium. Keynote Address: Anne Cruz, University of Miami

May

Monday, 5/3     "King Henri IV of France" Spotlight Exhibition opens (through July 15)
Saturday, 5/15  Milton Seminar: Judith Anderson, Indiana University

June and July

6/21 – 7/15      Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography


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