The Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier opportunity for emerging scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies in Europe, the Americas, and the Mediterranean world. 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 and its resources.
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Conference Schedule
Schedule | Abstracts | Participant Handbook
THURSDAY, January 25
| 2 - 2:30 pm | Organizers' Meeting |
| 3 pm | Registration opens (Ruggles Hall) |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Collection presentation |
| 4:30 - 5:30 pm |
Plenary: "The Global Premodern World" |
| 5:30 - 7 pm | Opening reception |
FRIDAY, January 26
| 9 - 9:30 am | Coffee and continental breakfast |
| 9:30 - 11 am |
Session 1, Panels 1 - 4 |
| 11 - 11:30 am | Break |
| 11:30 am - 1 pm | Session 2, Panels 5 - 8 5.The Monstrous and Bodily Horror 6. New Takes on Old Drama 7. Religious Orientalism 8. Re-Contextualizing Emotions |
| 1 - 2 pm | Luncheon |
| 2 - 3 pm |
Collection presentation / |
| 3 - 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 5 pm | Session 3, Panels 9 - 12 9. Transforming Gender 10. Visualizing Nature, Religion, and Society 11. Early Modern Scientiae 12. Scripture in Practice |
SATURDAY, January 27
| 10 - 10:30 am | Coffee and continental breakfast |
| 10:30 am - 12 pm | Session 4, Panels 13 - 16 13. Reformation/Transformations 14. Philosophical and Historical Knowledge 15. Imagining the Senses 16. Birds, Bees, and Bestiaries |
| 12 - 1 pm |
Collection Presentation / |
Organizers
Anne Boemler, Northwestern University
Barbara Dietlinger, University of Chicago
Mimi Ensley, University of Notre Dame
Johannes Fröhlich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Megan Gallagher, Claremont Graduate University
Kader Hegedüs, University of Lausanne
Aubrey Johnson, Oklahoma State University
Jan Volek, University of Minnesota