Dear Colleagues, 

We are happy to announce the Renaissance Workshop’s Autumn 2024 schedule, which can be found in full below. The workshop meets on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise specified. Should you like to join a meeting via Zoom, please email either Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu) or Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) for accommodation. In the event that the meeting switches to a virtual setting, we will notify you in the announcement a week in advance of the event. 

Materials for the workshop, as well as the schedule and any updates, are available on our website. The Renaissance Workshop is free and open to the public, and we encourage those new to the workshop to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday, October 7th when Kelsey Comfort (MAPH student at the University of Chicago) will present the paper “An Examination of Forms of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Modern Period.”

PLEASE NOTE: at the bottom of the schedule below, we want to promote a couple events at two other workshops this quarter that would be of interest to our Renshop community. One of our faculty advisors Timothy Harrison will be presenting work at the History and Philosophy of Science Workshop (Friday, October 25th) and, with Yale Professor Jane Mikkelson, at the Literature and Philosophy Workshop (Thursday, November 7th).

Best, 

Alyssa and Andrés 

AUTUMN 2024 

October 7th | Kelsey Comfort

Graduate Student, The Master of Arts Program in the Humanities

University of Chicago

“An Examination of Forms of Reproductive Autonomy in the Early Modern Period”

October 28th | Ben Jeffery 

Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor

University of Chicago

“Beginner’s Magic: The Organization of Reality in The Tempest”

November 18th | Sarah-Gray Lesley

Teaching Fellow, Department of English

University of Chicago 

“Falstaff’s Fat Suit” 

December 9th | Andrés Irigoyen 

PhD Candidate, Department of English

University of Chicago 

“Sick and ‘Tyr’d’: Cymbeline‘s Theatre of Fatigue”

Affiliated Events at Other Workshops

October 25th (FRIDAY) | Timothy Harrison

at the History and Philosophy of Science Workshop

Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago

presenting the paper

“Privation and Incapacity in the Anthropology of John Milton”

Friday at 12:00pm, Location TBA

November 7th (THURSDAY) | Timothy Harrison & Jane Mikkelson

at the Literature and Philosophy Workshop

Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago

Jane Mikkelson is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Classical Persian at Yale University

They will be presenting the paper

“Philosophy, Poetry, and Concepts of Mind: Apprehension Across Early Modern Eurasia“

Thursday at 5:00pm, in Foster 505

Dear Colleagues,

We hope you are all having a wonderful break after the Winter. We know many of you are taking this time to rest and recover as much as possible for the Spring Quarter, but because The Renaissance Workshop has two events to announce for Week One of Spring, we wanted to get some dates on your calendar sooner rather than later.

We are happy to announce the Renaissance Workshop’s Spring 2024 schedule, which can be found in full below. The workshop meets on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise specified. Should you like to join a meeting via Zoom, please email either Alyssa Mulé (amule@uchicago.edu) or Andrés Irigoyen (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) for accommodation. In the event that the meeting switches to a virtual setting, we will notify you in the announcement a week in advance of the event.

Materials for the workshop, as well as the schedule and any updates, are available on our website. The Renaissance Workshop is free and open to the public, and we encourage those new to the workshop to attend.

We look forward to seeing you on TUESDAY, March 19th when we collaborate with the Medieval Workshop in hosting Jenny Tan (Acquisitions Editor in Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies) for a Workshop and Q&A on Publication! The location is TBA for this event.

Please also note, the very next day (WEDNESDAY, March 20th), we are excited to announce that Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English at Oxford University and author of Circumstantial Shakespeare, will be presenting a chapter from her most recent book, England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland. The chapter is titled “How England Became an Island.” This event is in Rosenwald 405, and you will not want to miss it!

Best,

Andrés and Alyssa

Spring 2024 

TUESDAY, March 19th | Jenny Tan

Acquisitions Editor in Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies

Publication Workshop and Q&A (Location TBA)

This event is co-sponsored by the Medieval Workshop​

WEDNESDAY, March 20th | Lorna Hutson

Merton Professor of English Literature

University of Oxford

“How England Became an Island” from England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

This event is co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies

Monday, April 15th | Sarah Kunjummen

Assistant Instructional Professor, Master of the Arts Program in the Humanities

University of Chicago, Department of English

“Blackness in Circulation: George Herbert’s ‘Aethiopissa’ in 17th-Century Context”

Monday, April 29th | Zoom Event!

Adam Zucker (co-editor at ELR) and Joe Campana (editor at SEL for 12 Years)

Journal Submission and Writing Workshop and Q&A Zoom Event

Monday, May 13th | Alyssa Mulé

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

Title TBD