Please join the Renaissance Workshop
TUESDAY, October 29th, when
Benjamin Jeffery
Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago
will present the paper
“Beginner’s Magic: The Organization of Reality in The Tempest”
 
TUESDAY, October 29th
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 405
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website under the password “magic.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu).
Image: “Miranda – The Tempest,” oil on canvas, signed b.r.: J.W. Waterhouse / 1916

MONDAY, October 7th, Kelsey Comfort, “An Examination of Forms of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Modern Period”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
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”
 
MONDAY, October 7th
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 405
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website under the password “autonomy.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu).

Renaissance Workshop Autumn 2024 Schedule

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

MONDAY, May 13th, Alyssa Mulé, “Ghosts and Mirrors, Hecuba and Hamlet”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, April 13th, when
Alyssa Mulé
UChicago PhD Student in English Literature
presents the paper
“Ghosts and Mirrors, Hecuba and Hamlet”
with a response from
 
Ryan Campagna, UChicago PhD Candidate in English Literature
 
MONDAY, May 13th
 
5:00-6:30pm
 
Rosenwald 405
 
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website under the password “catharsis.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu)

MONDAY, April 15th, Sarah Kunjummen, “Blackness in Circulation: George Herbert’s ‘Aethiopissa’ in 17th-Century Context”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, April 15th, when
Sarah Kunjummen
Assistant Instructional Professor, Master of the Arts Program in the Humanities
presents the paper
“Blackness in Circulation: George Herbert’s ‘Aethiopissa’ in 17th-Century Context”
with a response from
University of Chicago English PhD Candidate, Sarah-Gray Lesley
Monday, April 15th
5:00-6:30pm
Rosenwald 405
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website under the password “circulation.” Light refreshments will be served.
If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu)