Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to announce the Renaissance Workshop’s Autumn 2024 schedule, which can be found in full below. The workshop meets on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise specified. Should you like to join a meeting via Zoom, please email either Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu) or Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) for accommodation. In the event that the meeting switches to a virtual setting, we will notify you in the announcement a week in advance of the event.
Materials for the workshop, as well as the schedule and any updates, are available on our website. The Renaissance Workshop is free and open to the public, and we encourage those new to the workshop to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you on Monday, October 7th when Kelsey Comfort (MAPH student at the University of Chicago) will present the paper “An Examination of Forms of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Modern Period.”
PLEASE NOTE: at the bottom of the schedule below, we want to promote a couple events at two other workshops this quarter that would be of interest to our Renshop community. One of our faculty advisors Timothy Harrison will be presenting work at the History and Philosophy of Science Workshop (Friday, October 25th) and, with Yale Professor Jane Mikkelson, at the Literature and Philosophy Workshop (Thursday, November 7th).
Best,
Alyssa and Andrés
AUTUMN 2024
October 7th | Kelsey Comfort
Graduate Student, The Master of Arts Program in the Humanities
University of Chicago
“An Examination of Forms of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Modern Period”
October 28th | Ben Jeffery
Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
“Beginner’s Magic: The Organization of Reality in The Tempest”
November 18th | Sarah-Gray Lesley
Teaching Fellow, Department of English
University of Chicago
“Falstaff’s Fat Suit”
December 9th | Andrés Irigoyen
PhD Candidate, Department of English
University of Chicago
“Sick and ‘Tyr’d’: Cymbeline‘s Theatre of Fatigue”
Affiliated Events at Other Workshops
October 25th (FRIDAY) | Timothy Harrison
at the History and Philosophy of Science Workshop
Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago
presenting the paper
“Privation and Incapacity in the Anthropology of John Milton”
Friday at 12:00pm, Location TBA
November 7th (THURSDAY) | Timothy Harrison & Jane Mikkelson
at the Literature and Philosophy Workshop
Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Jane Mikkelson is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Classical Persian at Yale University
They will be presenting the paper
“Philosophy, Poetry, and Concepts of Mind: Apprehension Across Early Modern Eurasia“
Thursday at 5:00pm, in Foster 505
