Please join the Renaissance Workshop

TUESDAY, May 23^rd, when

Justin Shaw 

Assistant Professor of English

Clark University

presents

“The Complexion of the Church”: Witnessing Whiteness and Melancholy in Donne’s Sonnets and Sermons

TUESDAY, May 23^rd

(note the day change) 

5:00-6:30pm 

Rosenwald 301 

*This event is co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center and the Black Baroque Project.*

The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and will be available on our website here under the password “melancholy.” Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen  (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu). 

Image: John Donne’s effigy in St. Paul’s London, taken by Justin Shaw.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, February 27^th, when

Alyssa Mule 
PhD Student, University of Chicago
presents the paper

“Rewriting Humanism and Proto-Feminism in the Middle English Translation of De mulieribus claris”
MONDAY, February 27^th 

5:00-6:30pm 

Rosenwald 301
*please note the room change*

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website here under the password “mulieribus.” Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen  (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu)

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, January 23rd, when

Sarah-Gray Lesley 
PhD Student, University of Chicago
presents the paper

MONDAY, January 23rd 

5:00-6:30pm 

Rosenwald 301 (Note the room change)

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website here under the password “invidia.” Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and concerns should be directed to Andrés Irigoyen  (airigoyen@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu).

Image: Jacques Callot. Invidia (1619), etching/engraving. Providence, RI: RISD Museum.

Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year! We are happy to announce the Renaissance Workshop’s Winter 2023 schedule, which can be found in full below. The workshop will be held on Mondays from 5:00-6:30pm, BUT PLEASE NOTE that our meeting room is Rosenwald 301. Our usual room, Rosenwald 405, is booked for a class during our workshop time this Winter. Should you like to join a meeting via Zoom, please email either Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@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 Monday, January 9th when Timothy Harrison (Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago) and Jane Mikkelson (Lecturer & Associate Research Scholar of Classical Persian at Yale University) will present the paper “‘Worlds Together Shined’: Bidel, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison.”

Best,

Sarah-Gray and Andrés

WINTER 2023 

January 9th | Jane Mikkelson

Lecturer & Associate Research Scholar of Classical Persian at Yale University

and Timothy Harrison

Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago

present the paper

“‘Worlds Together Shined’: Bidel, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison”

*This event is co-sponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop*

January 23rd | Sarah-Gray Lesley 

PhD Student, University of Chicago

“Spenser’s ‘Monsterous Dyeats’: Allegorical Bodies and Borders in The Legend of Justice”

February 13th | Alexa Herlands 

PhD Student, University of Chicago

Title TBD

February 27th | Alyssa Mule 

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

“Rewriting Humanism and Proto-Feminism in the Middle English Translation of De mulieribus claris”

*This event is co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop*