Monday, October 5th
Brad Gregory Department of History, University of Notre Dame
EVENT CANCELLED
Professor Gregory will reschedule this workshop later in the year.
Tuesday, October 20th
Elizabeth Hutcheon Department of English, University of Chicago
“Haunted by Medea: Negotiations of Gender, Rhetoric, and Maternity in Shakespeare”
4:30-6:00, Center for Gender Studies, first floor, 5733 S. University Ave.
Presented jointly with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop
**Please Note the Unusual Date, Time and Place!**
Friday, October 30th
James Simpson Department of English, Harvard University
12:00-1:30 Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with the Nicholson Center, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Theology Workshop
**Please Note the Unusual Date and Time. There will be a lunch with Prof. Simpson at the workshop.**
Monday, November 16th
Janel Mueller and Megan Heffernan Department of English, University of Chicago
Joint Presentation on the Circulation of Donne in the 17th century
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
WINTER QUARTER 2010
Monday, January 11th
Billy Junker Department of English and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Spenser’s Disarmed Cupid and the Experience of the 1590 Faerie Queene”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Presented jointly with the Poetry & Poetics Workshop
Thursday, January 28th
Kathryn Swanton Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“The Economy of Forgiveness: Cause, Value, and the Unspeakable in Othello and ‘El curioso impertinente'”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
5:00-6:30 Walker 403
**Please note the unusual date and room!**
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Monday February 8th
David Bevington
Department of English, University of Chicago:
Paper: TBA
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Monday February 22nd
Lee Palmer Wandel
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
“Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
**All are invited to attend a dinner with Prof. Wandel following the workshop**
Monday March 8th
Special Close Reading Session
All are welcome to join the Renaissance and Poetry and Poetics workshops in a group close reading of an elegy attributed
to both John Donne and Ben Jonson often called the “expostulation” (starting line: “To make the doubt clear that no woman’s true”).
The text of the poem is available here:
“Expostulation” Elegy
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
SPRING QUARTER 2010
Monday, April 5th
Margreta de Grazia Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
“King Lear in the Time Before Merlin”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
**All are invited to attend a dinner with Prof. de Grazia following the workshop**
Monday, April 19th
Laura Kolb Department of English, University of Chicago
“Milton’s Prospero”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
May 7th and 8th
Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe, 1500-1660: Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences
An interdisciplinary conference featuring guest speakers:
Denis Crouzet Professor of History, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
and
Peter N. Miller Professor of History and Antiquarianism, Bard Graduate Center
Click here or on link to the right to go to the full schedule at the conference site.
With support from: The France Chicago Center,
The Franke Institute for the Humanities,
The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Council on Advanced Studies, and
the French Fund in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.
Monday, May 17th
Michael Murrin Department of English, University of Chicago
“Marlowe, Spenser, and the English Search for Asian Silk”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
Tuesday, June 1st ***NOTE UNUSUAL DATE!***
Laura Aydelotte Department of English, University of Chicago
“Columns, Crocodiles and Monumental Visions: Spenser, du Bellay and the Literary Architecture of Antiquity and Ambiguity”
5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405