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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 clicking on this link.
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.
The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Please note that all programs require pre-registration through the Center for Renaissance Studies either by email 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 we look forward to seeing you at The Newberry.
2011-2012 Calendar
Winter/Spring 2012 Programs
Tuesday, 12/12, Application deadline for Ecole des Chartes fellowship
10 a.m., Saturday, 1/21, Shakespeare Project of Chicago: The Duchess of Malfi
Thursday, 1/26 - 1/28, Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
1 p.m, Saturday, 1/28, Medieval Intellectual History Seminar (speakers to be announced)
2 p.m., Saturday, 2/4, 18th Century Seminar, Wolfram Schmidgen, Washington University in St. Louis
1 p.m., Saturday, 2/18, Medieval Intellectual History Seminar
10 a.m., Saturday, 2/25, Shakespeare Project of Chicago: The Taming of the Shrew
Thursday, 3/1, Application deadline for 2012 French Paleography
2 p.m., Friday, 3/2, Dante Lecture, Zygmunt Baranski, University of Cambridge
2 p.m., Saturday, 3/3, 18th Century Seminar, Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University
2 p.m., Friday, 3/9, Art History Seminar: Early Modern European Maps as Art, Elena Boeck, DePaul University
9. a.m., Monday, 3/19, Warwick-Newberry Workshop: Reading Publics in 15th and 16th Century Renaissance Europe, Directed by Simon Gilson, David Lines, and Maude VanHaelen, all University of Warwick and Paul F. Gehl, The Newberry Library (limited enrollment, by application)
5:30 p.m., Wednesday, 3/28, History of the Book, Julia Walworth, Merton College, University of Oxford
1 p.m., Saturday, 4/14, History of the Book, Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
10 a.m. Saturday, 4/21, Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Troilus and Cressida
9 a.m., Friday, 4/27, Cervantes Symposium, Organized by Steven Wagschal, Indiana University, Adrienne Martin, University of California, Davis, Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bruce Burningham, Illinois State University, William Childers, CUNY, Frederick A. De Armas, University of Chicago, Ana Laguna, Rutgers University, Howard Mancing, Purdue University, and William Worden, The University of Alabama
11:30 a.m., Saturday, 5/12, Milton Seminar, Alvin Snider, University of Iowa
1 p.m., Wednesday, 6/20, Workshop on Sources for the Study of Early Modern Women (in conjunction with the 2012 Attending to Women conference, to be held June 21 – 23 at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Find links to detailed Web pages for each of these programs at: http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-programs. The Center’s main web site is http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies.
