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Announcing the Center for Renaissance Studies' new online calendar. We invite you to explore this calendar to learn about Center programming. The application is available through "Google Calendar" and can be accessed by visiting the following site:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=newberrycrs%40gmail.com.

The Newberry Library once again hosts the Mellon Institutes in Vernacular Paleography for 2009-2012. 2009: Spanish, Italian, English; 2010: French; 2011 Spanish, Italian; 2012 English, French.

For information, visit the Newberry webpage: www.newberry.org/ renaissance.

The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies

Please note that all programs require pre-registration through the Center for Renaissance Studies either by email at renaissance@newberry.org, or by phone at 312.255.3514. Click on the individual program links for detailed information. All programs are subject to change. Thank you, and look forward to seeing you at The Newberry.

Spring 2010 Programs

Newberry Library-Ecole Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship
Application deadline: Monday, January 11

January 21 – 23
28th Annual Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Address: The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Late Elizabethan Stage
Jean Howard, Columbia University

10 am Saturday, January 23
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1 – 4 pm Saturday, January 30
Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
For information, contact Raymond Clemens at Illinois State University (rclemens@ilstu.edu) or John Van Engen at Notre Dame University (vanengen.1@nd.edu).

9 am - early evening, Saturday, February 20
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1 – 4 pm Saturday, February 27
Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
For information, contact Raymond Clemens at Illinois State University (rclemens@ilstu.edu) or John Van Engen at Notre Dame University (vanengen.1@nd.edu).

2 pm Friday, March 12
Lecture in Early Modern History
Ethan Shagan, University of California, Berkeley

Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography 
Application deadline: Monday, March 15
For summer 2010 the Newberry Library will host an institute in French paleography

2 pm Friday, March 26
The History of the Book Lecture
J. Paul Hunter, University of Virginia

5:30 pm Thursday, April 22
The Dante Lecture
Rachel Jacoff, Wellesley College

9 am – 5 pm Friday, April 23
Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism in the Early Modern Atlantic

10 am Saturday, April 24
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Staged reading of Antony and Cleopatra

9 am – 5 pm Friday, April 30
Tenth Annual Cervantes Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Anne Cruz, University of Miami

1 pm Saturday, May 15
The Newberry Library Milton Seminar
Judith Anderson, Indiana University

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Spring 2010 Graduate Seminars

2 – 5 pm Thursdays, January 7 – March 11
Princes and Their Cities in Burgundian and Habsburg Europe, 1400–1648
James Murray and James Palmitessa, Western Michigan University

2 – 5 pm Thursdays, January 7 – March 11
The Anglo-Saxon Seminar: Law and Literature
Jana Schulman, Western Michigan University