Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, October 17, when

Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of English and Divinity School
presents the paper:

“The Judgment of the Critics that Makes us Tremble: ‘Distributing Complicities’ in Recent Criticism of King Lear”
MONDAY 17 October
5:00 PM
Rosenwald 405

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available with password in the post above. Light refreshments will be served.

If you would like to join our email list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

Image: Richard Earlom and Henry Fuseli. From A Collection of Prints, from Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, by John Boydell, 1803.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, October 3, when

Jo Nixon
Ph.D. Student, English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“‘Which some think dead’: Uniting Flint and Flesh in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans”
MONDAY 3 OCTOBER
5:30-7 PM
Rosenwald 405

*Please note the unusual time.*

There is no precirculated paper for this workshop. Light refreshments will be served.

Please join us before the workshop at 4:30 pm for a discussion with Jessica Smith and Annie Janusch from UChicagoGRAD. See below for more information. Both events are cosponsored by the Early Modern Workshop.

If you would like to join our email list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

 Image Source: Vaughan, Henry. Silex Scintillans: or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. London, 1650. Early English Books Online.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, October 3, for a discussion
on fellowships and funding opportunities with

Jessica Smith
Associate Director, Fellowships
UChicagoGRAD

and

Annie Janusch
Fellowships & Writing Coordinator
UChicagoGRAD

MONDAY 3 OCTOBER
4:30-5:15 PM
Rosenwald 405

*Please note the change in time*

Jessica Smith and Annie Janusch will highlight fellowships and other funding opportunities that are of particular interest to graduate students pursuing early modern studies. In addition, this presentation will go over planning and processes involved in applying to both internal and external sources of funding. Students from across departments are encouraged to attend. We ask that those planning to do so fill out this short survey.

Please join us after the discussion for our first workshop of the quarter with a presentation from Jo Nixon. See above for more information. Both events are cosponsored by the Early Modern Workshop.

If you would like to join our email list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu).

The Renaissance Workshop invites proposals for the 2016-17 academic year. The workshop brings together those interested in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies to discuss the work of graduate students and faculty. Joshua Scodel from the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature and Timothy Harrison from the Department of English are its faculty sponsors, and students and faculty attend from departments throughout the University, including but not limited to Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, English Literature, Germanic Studies, History, and Romance Languages. This year we continue to encourage presentations from across the humanities and aim to foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. In the past, scholars have circulated work on topics such as early modern poetry, prose, and drama; the intersection of epic and lyric; the depiction of women in portrait books; attention and theological practice; and ecological catastrophe in the early modern world. Papers submitted for presentation may be in the category of a range of academic genres, i.e., a dissertation chapter, article draft, or conference presentation.

If you have a work in progress that you would like to present for discussion and feedback at this year’s workshop, please submit a proposal to Beatrice Bradley (bbradley@uchicago.edu) or Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) by September 1st. We ask that proposals be no more than 250 words. The Renaissance Workshop meets on alternating Mondays from 5 to 6:30 pm in Rosenwald 405. Please join us for our first meeting of the 2016-17 academic year on October 3rd.