Timothy Harrison on “Natality and Empiricism”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
FRIDAY, June 7, when

Timothy Harrison
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

Natality and Empiricism
FRIDAY, 7 June
10:00-11:30
Location TBD

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

Please note the unusual time and place.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Du Coudray, Abrégé de l’art des accouchements dans lequel on donne les préceptes nécessaires pour le mettre heureusement en pratique, 1777.

Rana Choi on “Style in Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, May 6, when

Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“Style in Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus”
MONDAY, 6 May
5:00-6:30
Rosenwald 405

There is no pre-circulated paper for this workshop. 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/or concerns should be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Belgium. c. 1558.

Joe Moshenska on “Iconoclasm as Child’s Play”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, April 15, when

Joe Moshenska
Assistant Professor and Beaverbrook and Bouverie Tutorial Fellow
English
University College, University of Oxford
presents the paper:

“Iconoclasm as Child’s Play: Spenser’s Toys”
MONDAY, 15 April
5:00-6:30
Cobb 409

Please note the unusual week and location.

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

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: “Holy Family at Work” from The Hours of Catherine of Cleaves. c. 1440.
Via The Morgan Library and Museum

Owen Joyce-Coughlan on Itineraries of Divine Love

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, March 11, when

Owen Joyce-Coughlan
PhD Student
Divinity
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

Itineraries of Divine Love in Marsilio Ficino’s On Love and Giordano Bruno’s On the Heroic Frenzies
MONDAY, March 11

5:00-6:30
Rosenwald 405

The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available with a password in the post below. 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/or concerns should be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Jean Mignon, The Transformation of Actaeon.

Danielle Charette on “Petrarch’s Poetic Imperium”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, February 11, when

Danielle Charette
PhD Candidate
Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

Petrarch’s Poetic Imperium: Augustus Caesar in Petrarch’s Literary Corpus
MONDAY, February 11
5:00-6:30
Rosenwald 405

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

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns should be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Girolamo Masini, Cola di Rienzo. 1877. Rome.

Sarah-Gray Lesley on “Practicing Epicurean Materialism, Pacifism, and Idealism in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
MONDAY, January 14, when

Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD Student
Department of English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“Playing the Epicure: Practicing Epicurean Materialism, Pacifism, and Idealism in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”
MONDAY, 14 January
5:00-6:30
Rosenwald 405

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

If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to all persons. Questions, requests, and/or concerns may be directed to Jo Nixon (ejnixon@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Michael Burghers, “Engraving of the Poet Lucretius.” 1682.