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MONDAY, April 19th, Ryan Campagna, “‘I smell the blood of a British man’: Folklore, the Scent of Race, and the Precarious ‘Nothing’ of Whiteness in King Lear”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

MONDAY, April 19th, 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 19th

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.

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MONDAY, March 29th, Sarah-Gray Lesley, “Curing Eden: Reproductive Futures, Potentiality, and Eve’s Body in Paradise Lost”


Please join the Renaissance Workshop
Monday, March 29th when
Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD student, English
University of Chicago

presents the paper

“Curing Eden: Reproductive Futures, Potentiality, and Eve’s Body in Paradise Lost“
MONDAY, March 29th
5:00-6:30pm*
*note the adjusted time for Spring Quarter
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 “futures”
Zooming Meeting Information:


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: “Eve’s Reflection” from The Paradise Lost of Milton, with illustrations designed and engraved by John Martin, John Martin (courtesy of the British Library).
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MONDAY March 8th: Beatrice Fazio on “Redrawing Perspective: Literary Representation of Cartographic Rationale in Machiavelli’s Prince”

 

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

MONDAY, March 8th, 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 8th

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.

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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).
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MONDAY, February 1st: William West (Northwestern) on “The Renaissances We Merit: Afterlives of the Renaissance”

Please join the Renaissance Workshop

Monday, February 1st, 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 1st

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).