FALL QUARTER
Oct 4
Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Divinity School, University of Chicago)
“Back to Burckhardt (Plus the Reformations)”
Oct 18
Jeffrey Knapp (Chancellor’s Professor of English, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley)
“Mass Entertainment and Renaissance Drama”
Nov 1
Joshua Scodel (Helen A. Regenstein Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and English, University of Chicago)
“Shame, Love, Fear and Pride in Lucrece“
WINTER QUARTER
Jan 10
*Megan Heffernan (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago)
“‘This second imprinting so turquened and turned’: George Gascoigne’s Editorial Invention.”
*Co-sponsored with the Poetry and Poetics Workshop
Jan 24
*Kathryn Swanton (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
Fore-giving: The place of witness in King Lear and Los comendadores de Córdoba
*Co-sponsored with the Western Mediterranean Workshop
Feb 7
Caryn O’Connell (PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago)
“Henry Vaughan and Vegetal Life: Sense, Physic, Sweetness”
Feb 14
Special Event: Roundtable jointly sponsored by the Early Modern, Western Mediterranean, and Renaissance Workshops*
Julius Kirshner (Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance History, University of Chicago)
“Jews as Citizens in Renaissance Italy”
David Nirenberg (Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of History)
“Massacre or Miracle? Sovereign Indecision and the Forced Conversion of the Jews in 1391”
Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Respondent
*Held in Classics 110
Feb 18 Joint Workshop*
Rita Copeland (Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania)
“Naming, Knowing, and the Object of Language in Alexander Neckam’s Grammar Curriculum”
David Wallace (Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
“Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645”
*This event is sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, and is co-sponsored with the Medieval and Western Mediterranean Workshops. Please note the unusual date, time, and location: Friday, Feb 18, 12:30 pm, Classics 110.
Feb 21
Philip Goldfarb (Graduate Student, Department of English, University of Chicago)
“‘The Duke Cannot Deny the Course of Law’: The Merchant of Venice and the Duke of Venice”
Mar 7
Arthur F. Marotti (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Wayne State University)
“‘Rolling Archetypes’: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England”
SPRING QUARTER
April 15th
*Nabil Matar (Presidential Professor, Departments of English and History, the Religious Studies Program, University of Minnesota)
“Henry Stubbe and the first use of Christian Arabic sources about Muhammad”
*Co-sponsored by the Middle East History and Theory Workshop. Please note the day and time. Pick 016.
May 4
*Katie Chenoweth (Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago)
“From Letters to Law: Instituting the Language of François“
*Co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Workshop. Please note this workshop meets at 4:30 on a Wednesday in Wieboldt 207.
May 12 & May 13: Lecture and Workshop
*David Schalkwyk (Professor of English, University of Capetown; Director of Research, Folger Library, Washington, D.C.)
Thursday, May 12: Lecture: The Robben Island Shakespeare, 4:30pm, Classics 110, Reception to follow
Friday, May 13: Workshop: “Shakespeare and Skepticism: Uncertainty, Suspicion, Disbelief, Reservation, or Doubt?”, 1:00pm, Rosenwald 405
*This event is sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. Please note the unusual dates and times.
May 16
*Alan Stewart (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
“Francis Bacon in Collaboration”
*Co-sponsored by the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science Workshop. Sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies.
May 31*
Laura Aydelotte (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago)
“The Soul of Masque: Verbal and Visual Architecture in the Collaboration of Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones”
*Please note this workshop takes place on a Tuesday.
June 6
Elizabeth Hutcheon (PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago)
“Embodying Humanism: Sententiae, Narrative, and Dramatization in Pericles”