FALL QUARTER
Friday, Sept. 30, 1 pm – Rosenwald 405
Close-reading: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138
Lead by Michael Hansen (Graduate student in English, the University of Chicago)
Suggested secondary reading: Edward A. Snow, “Loves of Comfort and Despair: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138,” ELH 47 (1980): 462-483. Available on Jstor or by emailing lkolb@uchicago.edu or pgoldfarb@uchicago.edu
co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop, the Literature and Philosophy Workshop, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW)
***For copies of Sonnet 138 and/or the suggested reading, please contact lkolb@uchicago.edu or pgoldfarb@uchicago.edu***
***Note the unusual day and time***
***Lunch will be served***
Monday, October 3, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Katharine Eisaman Maus (James Branch Cabell Professor of English Literature, Department of English, University of Virginia)
“The Properties of Friendship in the Merchant of Venice” from Being and Having in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (forthcoming, OUP)
co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Law, Culture, and Society Workshop
Monday, October 17, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Megan Heffernan (Graduate Student in English, University of Chicago)
“Benson’s ‘sequent toile’: A Chronology of Shakespeare’s Book”
co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Monday, October 31, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Adam Rzepka (PhD, English, University of Chicago)
“‘Of the Force of the Imagination’: Staging the Image in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Willis’s Art of Memory”
co-sponsored by the Theater and Performance Studies Workshop
Thursday, November 10 (4:30 pm/Tea Room) and Friday, November 11 (1 pm/Rosenwald 405)
Leonard Barkan (Class of 1943 Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
LECTURE – “Michelangelo: Scribbles, Doodles, Poetry.” November 10, 4:30 pm, Social Sciences Tea Room (201). Reception to follow.
WORKSHOP – Selections from Unswept Floor: Food Culture and High Culture, Antiquity and Renaissance. November 11, 1 pm, Rosenwald 405. Lunch will be provided.
co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics, Western Mediterranean, and Rhetoric and Poetics workshops; the Nicholson Center for British Studies; and the History and Forms of Lyric lecture series
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Monday, November 14, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
David Bevington (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago)
“Editorial Problems and Issues in Editing the Forthcoming (in early 2012) The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson”
***Note that there will be no pre-circulated paper for this talk***
Monday, November 21, 5 pm – Pick Hall, Room 319
Kelli Wood (Graduate Student in Art History, University of Chicago)
“Playing Games: The Art of Strategy in Early Modern Italy”
co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop
***Note the unusual day and location***
Monday, November 28, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Edward Holberton (Faculty of English, Girton College, Cambridge)
“Geography, Prophecy and Transatlantic Exchange in Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Contemplations'”
WINTER QUARTER
Monday, Jan 9, 5 pm – Special Collections Reading Room
Ann Blair (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University)
Lecture: “Forms of Collaboration in Early Humanist Works.” Reception to follow.
This event celebrates the re-opening of the Special Collections Research Center. It has been organized and sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
***Note the unusual location***
Friday, Jan 20, 12-1:30 pm, Wieboldt 207
Felipe Rojas (Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
“Las mujeres sin hombre (1613-1618): A Metaphor of Habsburg Dynastic Marriages.”
co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Workshop
***Note the unusual day, time, and location***
Wednesday, Feb 1, 4:30-6:30 pm, Rosenwald 405
Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Department of English)
Bradin Cormack (Associate Professor, Department of English)
Joint workshop: Law and Shakespeare
***Note the unusual day and time***
Monday, Feb 6, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Rachel Eisendrath (Graduate Student in English, University of Chicago)
“What It Feels Like to Be a Thing: Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece”
co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Monday, Feb 20, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405
Laura Kolb (Graduate student in English, University of Chicago)
“Jewel, Purse, Trash: Orders of Value in Othello”
Wednesday, March 7, 5 pm – Special Collections Research Center
Randall McLeod (Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto)
Lecture: “Sortes Vergilianæ.” Reception to Follow.
This event celebrates the re-opening of the Special Collections Research Center. It is sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
***Note the unusual location, day, and time***
SPRING QUARTER
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”
sponsored by 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 event. Details TBA.