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. Participants from a wide variety of disciplines find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Each year since 2007, selected papers have been published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings.
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We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. We also hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend.
Anupam Basu, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lizzie Black, French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Bozio, English, University of Michigan
Glen Doris, History, University of Aberdeen
David Hitchcock, History, University of Warwick
Matthew Maletz, History, University of Northern Illinois
Brad Mollman, History, Tulane University
Renee Poulin, Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Walters, English, Indiana University
All conference sessions will be held in Ruggles Hall or Towner Fellows Lounge (no basement classrooms this year).
9:00-10:30 Concurrent sessions 1/2
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Concurrent sessions 3/4
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Concurrent sessions 5/6
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Concurrent sessions 7/8
9:00-10:30 Concurrent sessions 9/10
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Concurrent sessions 11/12
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Concurrent sessions 13/14
3:45-4:20 Library tours/Orientation session in Towner Fellows Lounge
4:25-5:00 Library tours/Orientation session in Towner Fellows Lounge
5:30 Performance by the early music chamber ensemble The Newberry Consort/Dinner, both in Ruggles Hall
9:00-10:30 Concurrent sessions 15/16
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Concurrent sessions 17/18
1:00-3:30 Organizer lunch/editorial meeting
This conference will include a continental breakfast each day. While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514 or e-mailing renaissance [at] newberry.org. Please specify which days you plan to attend.
Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend this program. Contact your Representative Council member or the Center for Renaissance Studies.
If you are traveling to this conference from out of town, see the Newberry's Neighborhood Accommodations and Restaurants web page. For information on public transportation, parking, and doing research at the Newberry, see this link.
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