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Philip Goldfarb at the Renaissance Workshop 1/21

Please join the Renaissance Workshop and the Early Modern Workshop 
next TUESDAY, January 21, when
 
PHILIP GOLDFARB 
Graduate Student in English at the University of Chicago
 
presents his paper titled
‘SONS, KINSMEN, THANES’: 
MACBETH AND SCOTTISH FEUDALISM
 
TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 
5PM
Rosenwald 405
**Please note the unusual day**
 
 
The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to 
the Renaissance Workshop and Early Modern Workshop mailing lists. 
It is also available for download above.
 
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Winter Quarter Schedule

Tuesday 21 January 
[**Please note the unusual day**]
PHILIP GOLDFARB 
Department of English, University of Chicago
‘SONS, KINSMEN AND THANES’: 
MACBETH AND SCOTTISH FEUDALISM
**Cosponsored with the Early Modern Workshop** 
 
 
Monday 3 February
CHRISTOPHER WILD 
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, 
Theater & Performance Studies
ENTRANCES AND EXITS IN THE THEATRUM MUNDI
**Cosponsored with the Theater & Performance Studies Workshop**
 
 
Wednesday 6 February  
[**Please note the unusual day**]
SARAH SPENCE
Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia
PROPHESIES OF POWER: THE LATIN POETRY OF LEPANTO
**Cosponsored with the Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop**
 
 
Monday 17 February
PABLO MAURETTE 
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago
TO KISS BY THE BOOK: SHAKESPEARE AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY KISS POETRY
 
 
Monday 3 March  
PAULA MCQUADE 
Associate Professor, DuPaul University
MATERNAL CATECHISMS AND WOMEN’S WRITING IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
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Laurie Shannon at the Workshop on Wednesday, 4 December

 

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Please join the Renaissance Workshop this Wednesday, December 4, when
LAURIE SHANNON
 
Professor of English at Northwestern University
presents two pieces of work for discussion: a Modern Philology article on gender categorizations,
“Nature’s Bias: Renaissance Homonormativity and Elizabethan Comic Likeness,”
and a shorter piece in progress on the interactions of gender and species in period concepts of “kind,”
“Early Modern Perfection in Kind: Animal Happiness, Female Nonhumanity.”
WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 
5PM
Rosenwald 405
 
The papers, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list.
 To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).
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Professor Shannon will  also be giving a lecture,
“‘The Fabrick of the Wing,’ circa 1600:
Minute Bodies and Human Defect at the Rise of the Microscope”
 
TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER
4:30
Rosenwald 405
 
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Please join us for both exciting events!
**Persons needing assistance in order to attend the 12/4  workshop, please contact Abigail (agmarcus@uchicago).**

 

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Laura Kolb at the Workshop on Monday 25 November

Please join us NEXT WEEK, Monday, November 25, when
LAURA KOLB

Graduate Student in English at the University of Chicago

presents her paper, titled “‘WHAT DO YOU LACK?’: INVENTION AND DESIRE IN VOLPONE AND THE MAGNETIC LADY”
ROSENWALD 405
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Also, a reminder for THIS WEEK:
  RICHARD RAMBUSS
Professor of English at Brown University will present his paper
“SATISFYING MILTON” 
THURSDAY, November 21, at 5PM
405 Rosenwald
Both papers, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list. To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).
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Richard Rambuss at the Workshop on Thursday 21 November

Please join us Thursday, November 21, when
RICHARD RAMBUSS
Professor of English at Brown University

presents his paper, titled “SATISFYING MILTON”

THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 5PM
ROSENWALD 405
*Please note the unusual day*

The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list. To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).

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David Diamond at the Workshop on Monday 28 October

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Please join us NEXT WEEK, Monday, October 28, when
DAVID DIAMOND

Graduate Student in English at the University of Chicago

presents his paper, titled “‘COUNTERFEIT PILGRIMS’: THE DISCOVERY OF GRACE AND THE ENDS OF ALLEGORY IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS”
ROSENWALD 405

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list. To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).

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Richard Strier at the Workshop on Thursday, October 17th

99 authorship problems

Please join us for our first event of the year at 5 pm next Thursday, October 17, when

RICHARD STRIER

Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Chicago presents his paper, titled

“SCRIPTS, TEXTS, POEMS: THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP PROBLEM”

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 5PM
ROSENWALD 405
*Please note the unusual day*

The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list. To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).

This is a joint event, co-sponsored by the Theater and Performance Studies Workshop and the Poetry & Poetics Workshop.

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Autumn 2013

The workshop convenes on Mondays in odd weeks, at 5PM in Rosenwald 405, with noted exceptions due to presenters’ schedules.
Thursday, October 17, 2013  [**Please note change of date**]
Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English, University of Chicago)
“Scripts, Texts, Poems: The Shakespeare Authorship Problem”
Co-sponsored with the Poetry & Poetics and TAPS Workshops

 

Monday, October 28, 2013
David Mark Diamond (Department of English, University of Chicago)
“‘Counterfeit Pilgrims’: The Discovery of Grace and the Ends of Allegory in The Pilgrim’s Progress”

 

Monday, November 11, 2013 – CANCELLED
Thursday, November 21, 2013  [**Please note change of date**]
Richard Rambuss (Professor of English, Brown University)
“Satisfying Milton”

 

Monday, November 25, 2013
Laura Kolb (Department of English, University of Chicago)
Paper title TBA

 

*** Wine and refreshments always served***