Please join the Renaissance Workshop

MONDAY, April 19^th, when

Ryan Campagna

PhD Candidate, English

University of Chicago

presents the paper

“‘I smell the blood of a British man’: Folklore, the Scent of Race, and the Precarious ‘Nothing’ of Whiteness in King Lear”

MONDAY, April 19^th

5:00-6:30pm

*note the adjusted time for Spring Quarter

Zoom Information:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96451886240?pwd=aVZkVFVoSGU2eDM4T2YxVEVlaitaUT09

Meeting ID: 964 5188 6240

Passcode: 862610

This paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website with the password “scent”.

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: “Act Three Scene Four of King Lear,” John Yunge Bateman (from Curwen Press Edition of King Lear), 1930.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

MONDAY, March 8^th, when

Beatrice Fazio

PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures

University of Chicago

presents the paper:

“Redrawing Perspective: Literary Representation of Cartographic Rationale in Machiavelli’s Prince” 

MONDAY, March 8^th

4:30-6:00pm  

(co-sponsored with the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop)

Zoom:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91653111944?pwd=OCticnNyQUtHRTk5eUdlYjFlWUpJdz09

Password: 037397

This paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website with the password “prince”.

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: Leonardo Da Vinci, “Plan of Imola”, 1502.

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, February 1^st, when

William West

Associate Professor of English, Classics, and Comparative Literary Studies

Northwestern University

presents the paper:

“The Renaissances We Merit: Afterlives of the Renaissance”

MONDAY, February 1^st

4:30-6:00pm

Zoom:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94645115623?pwd=TXpUY3lRTHVsOGdZVEVuN1daOVdkQT09

Password: 545168

The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and will be available on our website.

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).

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, November 16th, when

Joseph Gamble

Assistant Professor, English

University of Toledo

presents the paper:

 “How to Do the History of Homoeroticism”
MONDAY, November 16th
4:30-6:00pm

(Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality)

Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94926561656?pwd=N1hKSDVVRmRHdG9DeXR2dDQ3VGJlZz09

Password: 292698

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: “Three Graces” from Emblemata Amatoria (1620).

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, October 5^th when

Michal Zechariah

PhD Candidate, English

University of Chicago

presents the paper:

“Emotional Obduracy in The Merchant of Venice”

MONDAY, October 5^th

4:30-6:00pm

(Co-Sponsored with Affect and Emotions Workshop)

Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/97699176666?pwd=bTEyNzRhTlFTb21uTmcxSCs2ODhzdz09

Password: 177074

This paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list and is available on our website with the password “obduracy”.

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: Richard Westall, Shylock Rebuffing Antonio. 1795.