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Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, February 29th, when

David A. Orsbon
PhD Student, Classics and Comparative Literature
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“Malbecco’s Psychological Symmetry: The Birth of a Personification in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
MONDAY 28 March
5:00 PM
Rosenwald 405

The paper, to be read in advance, will be circulated 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 e-mail list, you can do so here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, or concerns may be directed to Katia Fowler (kfowler@uchicago.edu) or Sarah Kunjummen(kunjummen@uchicago.edu).

Image: Illustration of Paridell and Hellenore, from Walter Crane’s edition of The Faerie Queene, 1895.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
THIS Monday, March 14th, when

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, February 29th, when

Nicholas Bellinson
PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

Cordelia: Playing the Fool
MONDAY 29 February
5:00 PM
Rosenwald 405

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

If you would like to join our e-mail list, you can do so here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, or concerns may be directed to Katia Fowler (kfowler@uchicago.edu) or Sarah Kunjummen(kunjummen@uchicago.edu).

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, February 22nd, when

Hilary Barker
PhD Student, Art History
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“Inscriptions on Paper : Contemporary Annotations in Jacopo Mazzocchi’s Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (1521)”
MONDAY 22 February
5:00 PM
Rosenwald 432

Please note the unusual location. There is no precirculated paper for this workshop.

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If you would like to join our e-mail list, you can do so here. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions, requests, or concerns may be directed to Katia Fowler (kfowler@uchicago.edu) or Sarah Kunjummen(kunjummen@uchicago.edu).

Image source: Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis [Romae: in aedib. Iacboi Mazochii Romanae acad. bibliopolae, MDXXI], copy at The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University, folio 149v.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
THIS Tuesday, January 12, when

WINTER 2016

The Renaissance workshop meets alternate Mondays, 5-6:30 pm, Rosenwald 405, unless otherwise noted.

Tue., Jan. 12 | Lisa Schwab
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Goettingen
“Bridging Past and Present Via Virgil in Humanist Descriptions of Rome”
3:30 pm, Classics 21
Sponsored by the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop

January 19 and 20 | Gerard Passannante
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Lecture, Tue., January 19, 4:30 pm
Workshop, Wed., January 20, 10:30 am
Locations TBA

February 1 | Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Title TBA

February 15 | Hilary Barker
Ph.D. Student, Art History, University of Chicago
“Inscriptions on Paper: Contemporary Annotations in Jacopo Mazzocchi’s Epigrammata antiquae urbis (1521)”

February 29 | Nicholas Bellinson
Ph.D. Student, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Cordelia”

March 14 | Sharon Achinstein
Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
“Human Conditions in Milton”