FALL QUARTER 2007

A joint session with:

Bradin Cormack department of English, University of Chicago, “Tender distance: Latinity and Desire in
Shakespeare’s Sonnets”

Richard Strier department of English, University of Chicago,”The Refusal to be Judged in Petrarch
and Shakespeare”

John Kerrigan department of English, University of Cambridge, “Devolving Interdisciplinarity, 1603-1707”

Heather Dubrow, department of English, University of Wisconsin (Madison), “‘I take pleasure in singing
sir’: Towards and Interpretation of Shakespearean Song”

Lisa Everett, department of Art History, University of Chicago “A tangled web: Valazquez’s Las Hilanderas

Daniel Gullo, department of History, University of Chicago “The Problem of Benedictine Obserevance at
Montserrat”

WINTER QUARTER 2008

Elizabeth Hutcheon, department of English, University of Chicago, “Defusing the Feminine: Rhetoric and
Gender in the Renaissance Classroom”

Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, “Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn
of the Global World”

Christopher Warren, Harper Fellow, University of Chicago, “Romance and the Law of Nations: Philip Sidney
Alberico Gentili, and ‘Intercourse Among Enemies'”

Jeffrey Rufo, department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, “‘The Three Corners of the
World in Arms’: Robert Persons and the French Politics of Shakespeare’s King John

SPRING QUARTER 2008

Tuesday, April 1

Stanley Wells CBE, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust:
“The Limitations of the First Folio”

4:30 in Rosenwald 405

**Please note the unusual date and time**

Monday, April 7

Billy Junker department of English and committee on Social
Thought, The University of Chicago: “Phaedran Readers: Erotic Emulation and Heroic Genre in
Sidney’s Defence of Poesy”

5:00-6:30 in Rosenwald 405

Friday, April 11

Joe Blackmore department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Toronto:
“Reading the World in Renaissance Portugal”

12:00 in Wieboldt 207

**Please note the unusual date, time, and location**

Monday, April 28

David Hahn department of English, The University of Chicago:
“Sidney’s Literature of Philosophy: The ‘Right Poets’ in the Defence of Poesy”

5:00-6:30 in Rosenwald 405

Monday, May 19th 2008

Rayna Kalas department of English, Cornell University:
“Renaissance Prose and the Tragicomedy of Humanism in Thomas More’s Utopia
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

*Dinner with Professor Kalas following the workshop*

Monday, June 2nd 2008

Stephanie Murray department of English, The University of Chicago: paper TBA

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405