Renaissance Workshop

Monday, January 14, 5pm  - Rosenwald 405

Monday, January 28, 5pm – Rosenwald 405

Monday, February 11, 5pm – Rosenwald 405

Monday, February 25, 3 pm – Logan Arts Center 801

Monday, February 25, 5pm – Rosenwald 405

Monday, March 11, 5pm – Foster 305

Thursday, October 4, 4pm  - Rosenwald 405

Kathy H. Eden  (Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics, Columbia University)

“Cicero Redivivus, Renaissance Style and the Old Historicism”

co-sponsored by the Rhetoric and Poetics workshop

***Please note the unusual day and time***

Monday, October 22, 5pm – Rosenwald 405

Megan Heffernan (Graduate Student in English, University of Chicago)

“The Death of the Editor, the Rise of the Poet: Spenser and Miscellaneity”

Monday, November 5, 5pm – Rosenwald 405

David Bevington  (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago)

“On Editing Christopher Marlowe in the Early Twenty-first Century”

***Please note that there will be no pre-circulated paper for this workshop***

Monday, December 3, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Julia Reinhard Lupton (Professor of English, University of California – Irvine)

“Shakespeare Dwelling: Pericles and the Affordances of Action”

co-sponsored by the Theater and Performance Studies Workshop

Thursday, December 6, 4:30pm – Foster 305

Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago)

“The Struggle Against Symbolism: Successes and Failures in Stanley Cavell’s Readings of Shakespeare”

co-sponsored by the Literature and Philosophy Workshop

***Please note the unusual day, time, and place***

The Renaissance workshop will be returning for the 2012-13 school year, with a schedule soon to be forthcoming. Please join us for our first workshop, a joint workshop with Rhetoric and Poetics featuring Kathy Eden of Columbia University, Thursday, October 4, at 4pm in Rosenwald 405.

Monday, April 2, 5pm – Rosenwald 405 

Jonathan Goldberg (Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of English, Emory University)

“Painting Marks”

co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies

Tuesday, April 10, 5pm – Walker 403

William H. Sherman (Professor of English, University of York)

“Early Modern Punctuation and Modern Editions: Shakespeare’s Serial Colon”

co-sponsored by the TAPS Workshop and the Nicholson Center for British Studies

***please note the unusual day and location***

Weds-Thurs, April 18 and 19 – Rosenwald 405

Lorna Hutson (Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews)

Lecture: “Circumstances Unnecessary to His Main Design.”  Wednesday, April 18, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

Workshop, “Forensic Rhetoric and Tragic Feeling in Macbeth.”  Thursday, April 19, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

These events are organized and sponsored by the Department of English.  We strongly encourage members of the Renaissance Workshop to attend.

***Note the unusual days and times***

Monday, April 30, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Josh Scodel (Helen A. Regenstein Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

“Making Literary History: Metrical Allusions and Distinctions in Ben Jonson’s Epigrams and Forest”

co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop

Mon-Tues, May 7-8 – Rosenwald 405

Lena Cowen Orlin (Professor of English, Georgetown University)

Lecture: “The Private Life of William Shakespeare.”  Monday, May 7, 5 p.m., Rosenwald 405

Workshop: ”Making Public the Private.”  Tuesday, May 8, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

These events are organized and sponsored by the Department of English.  We strongly encourage members of the Renaissance Workshop to attend.

***Note the unusual days and times***

Monday, May 14, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Greg Baum (Graduate Student in Comparative Literature, the University of Chicago)

“‘Greater Thieves Than Cacus’: Tracing Fidelity in Thomas Shelton”

co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Workshop

Monday, June 4, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Renaissance workshop/MAPH thesis panel.  Details TBA.