Upcoming Center for Renaissance Studies Events

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Sep 08, 2025–May 31, 2026

At the Newberry

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Gender, Power, Culture

Led by Linda Austern (Northwestern University) and Carole Levin (University of Nebraska).

Sep 26, 2025–Apr 17, 2026

9:30am–12:30pm

Hybrid

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds

Organized by Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California-Davis), Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library), Katie Boyce-Jacino (Adler Planetarium) and Jane Kanter (Adler Planetarium)

Apr 17, 2026

9:30am–4:30pm

At the Newberry – The Adler Planetarium and the Newberry Library

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Premodern Fragments: Remnants and Recovery

Organized by Elizabeth Hebbard (Indiana University) and Megan Heffernan (DePaul University)

Apr 23–Apr 24, 2026

At the Newberry

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Mayra A. Cortes, University of California, Los Angeles & Raphael Magarik, University of Illinois, Chicago

Lieb Newberry Milton Seminar

May 29, 2026

10:00am–3:15pm

At the Newberry

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

2026 Summer Institute in Italian Paleography

Directed by Maddalena Signorini, The Armando Petrucci and Franca Petrucci Nardelli Professor of Paleography at the Newberry Library

Jun 15–Jun 26, 2026

At the Newberry – Newberry Library

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Recovering Hidden Histories in Archival Collections

Directed by Lia Markey (Newberry Library) and Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library). 

Aug 10–Aug 14, 2026

At the Newberry

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Nahua World

Led by Edward Anthony Polanco (Virginia Tech)

Sep 24–Dec 03, 2026

1:00pm–3:50pm

Hybrid

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Early Modern Trans Studies

Led by Simone Chess (Wayne State University), Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College), and Sawyer Kemp (Queens College CUNY)

Sep 25, 2026–May 07, 2027

9:30am–12:30pm

Hybrid

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Mid-Career Writers’ Workshop

Facilitated by Jean E. Howard, Emerita (Columbia University) and Valerie Traub, Emerita (University of Michigan)

Oct 02–Dec 04, 2026

Hybrid

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Ecologies of Premodern Books

Led by Elizabeth Hebbard (Indiana University)

Oct 09, 2026

9:30am–4:30pm

At the Newberry

Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Bringing Premodern Studies to K-12 Classrooms: Reflecting on America 250

Led by Bradley Phillis (Appalachian State University)

Oct 23, 2026

9:30am–4:30pm

At the Newberry