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SCHEDULE 2008-2009
FALL WINTER SPRINGFALL QUARTER 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Janel Mueller Department of English Literature, The University of Chicago:
"Prospecting for Common Ground in Devotion: Queen Katherine Parr's Personal Prayerbook"
5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405
**Please note the unusual date**
Thursday, October 23rd
Kathy Eden Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Classics Columbia University:
"Familiaritas in Erasmian Rhetoric and Hermeneutics"
4:00-5:30 Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
**Please note the unusual date and time**
Monday, November 17th
Megan Heffernan Department of English, The University of Chicago:
“'A willing minde, eche part togeather sought':Poetic Environments in the Early Modern Miscellany"
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Monday, December 1st
Rana Choi Divinity School, University of Chicago presenting two short essays:
"The Aesthetics of Iris Murdoch and the Literary Criticism of Erich Auerbach" and "An Attempt at an Auerbachian Reading of Hamlet"
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
WINTER QUARTER 2009
Thursday, January 15th
A mock-job talk by Jeffrey Rufo Department of Comparative Literature:
"'The mightiest kings have had their minions': Christopher Marlowe's Sodomitical Politics"
4:30-6:00 Classics 113
**Note the unusual date, time and place!**
Tuesday, January 20th **Note Change of Date**
Clark Gilpin Divinity School, University of Chicago:
"The Experience of Defeat: English Political Prisoners, 1649-1662"
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Presented in Cooperation with the Nicholson Center and the Early Modern Workshop
Monday, February 2nd
Elizabeth Hutcheon Department of English, University of Chicago:
"From Shrew to Subject: The Humanist Pedagogy of Petruchio's 'Taming-School' in The Taming of the Shrew"
5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop
**Friday, February 20th** NOTE NEW ADDITION TO SCHEDULE!
Holly Pickett Department of English, Washington and Lee University:
"Motion Rhetoric in Serial Conversion Narratives: Religion and Change in Early Modern England"
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
**All are invited to attend a dinner at Cedars with Prof. Pickett following the workshop**
Monday, March 2nd
Eric Rasmussen Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno:
Paper TBA
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Monday, March 16th
Chriscinda Henry Department of Art History, University of Chicago:
"Courtesan 'Portraiture' and Illicit Amorous Narratives"
5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405
SPRING QUARTER 2009
Monday, April 6th
Eirik Steinhoff Department of English, University of Chicago:
"Christopher Marlowe's 'ambiguous terms'"
5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with The Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Monday, April 27th
Patricia Fumerton
Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara:
"Moving Violations of Broadside Ballads: 'The Lady and the Blackamoor,' Black and More"
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
**All are invited to attend a dinner at Cedars with Prof. Fumerton following the workshop**
Monday, May 4th
Rivi Handler-Spitz Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago:
"Judgment and the Creation of Participatory Readers in the Sixteenth Century: Li Zhi and Montaigne."
2:30-4:00, Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with the Literature & Cultural History of Pre-Modern East Asia
Workshop
Monday, May 18th
Constance Jordan
Department of English, Clarement Graduate University
Paper TBA
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Monday, June 1st
Laura Aydelotte
Department of English, University of Chicago:
Building the House of Fame:
Poetry, Memory and Architectural Ekphrasis in Chaucer's Dream
5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405
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SCHEDULE 2007-2008
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
FALL QUARTER 2007
A joint session with:
Bradin Cormack department of English, University of Chicago, "Tender distance: Latinity and Desire in
Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Richard Strier department of English, University of Chicago,"The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch
and Shakespeare"
John Kerrigan department of English, University of Cambridge, "Devolving Interdisciplinarity, 1603-1707"
Heather Dubrow, department of English, University of Wisconsin (Madison), "'I take pleasure in singing
sir': Towards and Interpretation of Shakespearean Song"
Lisa Everett, department of Art History, University of Chicago "A tangled web: Valazquez's Las Hilanderas
Daniel Gullo, department of History, University of Chicago "The Problem of Benedictine Obserevance at
Montserrat"
WINTER QUARTER 2008
Elizabeth Hutcheon, department of English, University of Chicago, "Defusing the Feminine: Rhetoric and
Gender in the Renaissance Classroom"
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, "Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn
of the Global World"
Christopher Warren, Harper Fellow, University of Chicago, "Romance and the Law of Nations: Philip Sidney
Alberico Gentili, and 'Intercourse Among Enemies'"
Jeffrey Rufo, department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, "'The Three Corners of the
World in Arms': Robert Persons and the French Politics of Shakespeare's King John
SPRING QUARTER 2008
Tuesday, April 1
Stanley Wells CBE, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust:
"The Limitations of the First Folio"
4:30 in Rosenwald 405
**Please note the unusual date and time**
Monday, April 7
Billy Junker department of English and committee on Social
Thought, The University of Chicago: "Phaedran Readers: Erotic Emulation and Heroic Genre in
Sidney's Defence of Poesy"
5:00-6:30 in Rosenwald 405
Friday, April 11
Joe Blackmore department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Toronto:
"Reading the World in Renaissance Portugal"
12:00 in Wieboldt 207
**Please note the unusual date, time, and location**
Monday, April 28
David Hahn department of English, The University of Chicago:
"Sidney's Literature of Philosophy: The 'Right Poets' in the Defence of Poesy"
5:00-6:30 in Rosenwald 405
Monday, May 19th 2008
Rayna Kalas department of English, Cornell University:
"Renaissance Prose and the Tragicomedy of Humanism in Thomas More's Utopia
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
*Dinner with Professor Kalas following the workshop*
Monday, June 2nd 2008
Stephanie Murray department of English, The University of Chicago: paper TBA
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
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SCHEDULE 2005-2006
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
FALL QUARTER 2005
Monday, October 3—Opening Reception
Monday, October 10—Chriscinda Henry, Art History graduate student, "Figuring Social and Sexual Identity in North Italian Genre Painting, 1515-1540"
Monday, October 31—Jason Yost, English graduate student, "Temperance, Equity, and Historical Allegory in Spenser's Faerie Queene"
Friday, November 11—Special Panel on Literature and Science: "Early Modern Systems and Cognitive Environments"
*William N. West, Northwestern University, "'Much throwing about of brains': Elizabethan Drama as Emergent System"
*Julian Yates, University of Delaware, "Yeasty History: Or, How to Keep Things Still in Renaissance England,"
*Henry S. Turner, University of Wisconsin, "The Corporation as System and Cognitive Environment: The Case of Richard Hakluyt"
Monday, December 5—Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University, "Editing Boys: Performance, Print, Gender, Eroticism"
WINTER QUARTER 2006
No Schedule Available
SPRING QUARTER2006
No Schedule Available
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SCHEDULE 2004-2005
FALL WINTER SPRING
FALL QUARTER2004
October 6—Interaction between the Arts: A Discussion of This Year's Theme, position papers by Rebecca
Zorach (Art History), Jason Yost (English graduate student), and Stephanie Murray (English graduate student)
October 11—Prof. Deborah Parker (Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia), on the
relationship between Michaelangelo's art and poetry.
October 20—Carla Zecher (Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library), "Sounding Objects:
Musical Instruments, Poetry, and Art in Renaissance France."
November 17—Prof. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton University), "Common Sense:
Greek, Arabic, Latin"
WINTER QUARTER 2005
January 26—Irene Backus (Art History graduate student) “The Text of 'Laura Battiferra'”
February 17—Prof. Wendy Olmsted (Cmte. Ancient Mediterranean World) and Prof. Richard Strier (English),
"Reading Bacon's Essays"
March 9— Prof. Maria Fusaro (History), "Merchants of Venice, Between Drama and History,"
SPRING QUARTER 2005
April 20—Marisa O'Connor (English graduate student), "James VI and I's Claim to a Union of the Kingdoms:
Reimagining Political Authority in England,"
May 4—Prof. Elizabeth Wright (Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Georgia), "Between Instrument and
Mirror of Evangelization: Three Spanish Dramas for a Mexican Mission"
May 18—Prof. Lowell Gallagher (Department of English, UCLA),"Remnants of Lot's Wife: The Structure of
Testimony in the Gemaltes Leben (Painted Life) of May Ward"
June 1—Christina Normore (Art History graduate student),"You are what you eat? Consumption, animation
and the 'entremet'"
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SCHEDULE 2001-2002
FALL WINTER SPRING
FALL QUARTER 2001
October 8 (Week 3): Allie Terry, "Giorgione, the Portrait and the Icon: Challenges to Sixteenth-Century Figuration in Venice" (Graduate Student, Art History).
October 22 (Week 5): Paul Alpers, "Learning from the New Criticism: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets," (U.C. Berkeley, English).
November 5 (Week 7): Julio Velez, "Quevedo Resting on His Laurels: A (Topo)graphical Topos in El Parnasso espanol (1648)" (Graduate Student, Romance Languages).
November 19 (Week 9): Garth Bond, "John Donne's Cabinet-Court: Manuscript Circulation in the Verse Letters," (Graduate Student, English).
November 29 (Week 10): Stephen Campbell, "'New Shapes of Men': Rosso, Michelangelo and Anatomical Invention." (Asst. Professor of History of Art at Penn) (co-sponsored with the Art History Dept).
WINTER QUARTER 2002
January 7 (Week 2): Meredith Ray, "Epistolary Impersonation and the Critique of Humanism: Ortensio Lando's Lettere di molte valorose donne" (Graduate Student, Romance Languages).
January 11 (Week 2): Mock Job Talks:
Glenn Clark, "Shakespeare's Tavern in Eastcheap: Desperate Debts and Loving Fellowship" (Graduate Student, English).
Joshua Phillips: "Sidney and the Work of Shame"(Graduate Student, Comp Lit).
January 14 (Week 3): Laurie Shannon, "Likings/Likenings: Rhetorical Husbandries and Portia's 'True Conceit' of Friendship" (Assoc. Professor of English, Duke University)
January 21 (Week 4): Mock Job Talk: Aaron Kitch (Graduate Student, English)
February 4 (Week 6): Richard Strier, "Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert" (Professor, English) with the History and Social Sciences Workshop (HSCPE)
February 18 (Week 8): postponed
March 4 (Week 10): Mary Trull: "'Home-Bred Matters': Marriage and the Overheard Lament in Mary Wroth's Urania."
SPRING QUARTER 2002
April 1 (Week 2): Eirik Steinhoff, "'They also s[w]erve,' or, Chance in Paradise Lost."
April 8 (Week 3): Prospective Student Day
April 18 (Week 4): Peter Stallybrass, (University of Pennsylvania), "Hamlet's Tables: A Detective Story."
April 22 (Week 5): George Hoffman, "Incredulousness: the Archeology of a Mental Tool."
May 6 (Week 7): Carla Mazzio, "Accounting for Hamlet: Melancholy and the Emotional Life of Numbers in Renaissance Drama."
May 20 (Week 9):
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SCHEDULE 2000-2001
FALL WINTER SPRING
FALL QUARTER 2000
October 11: Professor Joshua Scodel, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago, "The Cowleyan Pindaric Ode and Sublime Diversions."
October 23: Garth Bond, graduate student in English, University of Chicago, "Sidney's Trewand Pen: Print in The Defense and Astrophil and Stella."
November 6: Ellen McClure, French Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Sovereignty and Mediation under Louis XIV."
November 20: Wendy Wall, Professor of English, Northwestern University, "Domestic Fantasies in Early Modern England."
December 4: Rebecca Ann Bach, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, "Othello in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the Colonial Origins of Heterosexuality."
WINTER QUARTER 2001
January 8: Joshua Phillips, graduate student in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, "Romance in the Factory."
January 23: Victoria Kirkham, Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, "Creative Partners: The Artful Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati."
February 5: A discussion of sermons by John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes, led by Dora Rice and Mary Trull.
February 19: Cindy Klestinec, graduate student, Comparative Literature, "Classicism, Comedy, and the Drama of Human Dissection: Domenico Campagnola's Hand in the De Fabrica's Frontispiece."
March 5: Mary Trull, graduate student, English, "Marvelous Pageboys and Redemptive Service in Early Stuart Drama."
Spring QUARTER 2001
April 9: Discussion of papers on the topic, "'Renaissance' Versus 'Early Modern,'" by Richard Helgerson (University of California, Santa Barbara), Randolph Starn (University of California, Berkeley) and Richard Strier (University of Chicago).
April 30: Valerie Traub, Professor of English, University of Michigan, "The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England."
May 15: David Gants, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, ""Emerging Technologies and the College Classroom."
May 28: Aaron Kitch, graduate student, English, "'Condycions Openly Declared': Medwall, Print, and the Emergence of Secular Drama in Early Tudor England."
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