MONDAY, February 15th, Liza Blake, “‘A philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex’: Abraham Cowley, Asexuality, and the Metaphysics of Metaphysical Poetry”

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Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, February 15th when
Liza Blake
Associate Professor, English
University of Toronto
presents the paper
“‘A philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex’: Abraham Cowley, Asexuality, and the Metaphysics of Metaphysical Poetry”
MONDAY, February 15th
4:30-6:00pm
The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list.
Zoom Meeting Information:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94431294990?pwd=b1c3YmRnU3ljdE0wK0hBMDYyNzdHQT09
Meeting ID: 944 3129 4990
Passcode: 338383
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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu). 
Image: Portrait of young Abraham Cowley, Mary Beale (Photo Credit: Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive of the University of Virginia).

MONDAY, January 11th: Brandy Williams, “Cultivating the Essential Body: Formations of Race and Sex in Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus'”


Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, January 11th when

Brandy Williams
PhD Student, English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“Cultivating the Essential Body: Formations of Race and Sex in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

MONDAY, January 11th
4:30-6:00pm

(Co-Sponsored with The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Working Group)

Zoom Meeting Information:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/92565351564?pwd=TmRBeHdsYTA5Tkg2Y2VWQk1SSWZYdz09
Meeting ID: 925 6535 1564 Passcode: 466738

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website  under the password “cultivate.”

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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu).

Image: “‘Titus Andronicus, Act IV, Scene 2, Aaron the Moor, Demetrius, and a Nurse and Child,”  Thomas Kirk, 1796 (Photo Credit: Royal Shakespeare Company Collection).

MONDAY October 19th: Megan Heffernan, “Inventories and Invention: Making Genre in Englands Helicon” 

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, October 19th, when

Megan Heffernan
Assistant Professor, English
Depaul University
presents the paper:

“Inventories and Invention: Making Genre in Englands Helicon.”
MONDAY, October 19th
4:30-6:00pm

Zoom Meeting Information:

Password: 680220

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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Sarah-Gray Lesley (sglesley@uchicago.edu). 

MONDAY, May 11th: Timothy Harrison, “Fictions of Human Nature in Early Modern Poetry and Philosophy”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, May 11th, when

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

John Donne’s Physics (Chapter One of Book MS)
MONDAY, May 11th
4:30-6:00pm
https://uchicagostudents.zoom.us/j/95653137498

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website with a password in the post above.

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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

 

Image: title page of the 1634 edition of the John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. Engraved by William Marshall.

MONDAY, April 13th: Sarah-Gray Lesley, “”How to Read a Woman-Hater: Marginalia and Joseph Swetnam’s Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward and vnconstant women (1615)”

File:The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women ...Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, April 13th, when

Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD student, English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

“How to Read a Woman-Hater: Marginalia and Joseph Swetnam’s Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward and vnconstant women (1615)”
MONDAY, April 13th
4:30-6:00pm
(Zoom Meeting Information Below)

The paper, to be read in advance, has been distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website with the password in the post above.

Zoom Meeting Information:
Meeting ID: 617 031 251
Password: 071655

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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Cover page of the 1615 edition of Joseph Swetnam’s The Araignment of Lewde, idle, forward and vnconstant women. 

WEDNESDAY, March 11th, Ryan Campagna on “John Donne and the ‘Affectio’ of Dying”


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Wednesday, March 11th, when

Ryan Campagna
PhD student, English
University of Chicago
presents the paper:

 “John Donne and the ‘Affectio’ of Dying”
WEDNESDAY, March 11th
4:30-6:00pm
Cobb 203*

*please note the unusual day and room number

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.

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 Ryan Campagna (rcampagna@uchicago.edu) or Michal Zechariah (michalz@uchicago.edu).

Image: Portrait of Donne, frontispiece to Deaths Duell, engraved by Martin Droeshout, London, 1631.