The Center for Renaissance Studies’ annual graduate student conference, organized and run by advanced doctoral students, has become a premier opportunity for emerging scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies in Europe, the Americas, and the Mediterranean world. Participants from a wide variety of disciplines find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry and its resources.
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Organizers
Sam Baudinette, University of Chicago
Kristen Coan Howard, University of Arizona
Caitlin Di Martino, Northwestern University
Silvia Veronica Escanilla-Huerta, University of Illinois
Ala Fink, University of Notre Dame
Sara Flores, Claremont Graduate College
Lorenzo Schiavetta, University of Minnesota
Courtney Whited, Oklahoma State University
Conference Schedule
Schedule PDF
Guidelines for Presenters
THURSDAY, January 24
| 2 - 2:30 pm | Organizers' Meeting |
| 3 pm | Registration Opens (Ruggles Hall) |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Collection Presentation (2-West) |
| 4:30 - 5:30 pm | Plenary: "Digital Humanities and Premodern Studies" Smiljana Antonijević, Field Museum of Natural History Jen Wolfe, Digital Initiatives and Services Isabella Magni, Center for Renaissance Studies |
| 5:30 - 7 pm | Opening Reception |
FRIDAY, January 25
| 9 - 9:30 am | Coffee and Light Breakfast (Ruggles Hall) |
| 9:30 - 11 am | Sessions 1-4 1. Boundaries of Premodern Gender 2. Medicinal Texts and Treatments 3. Constructing Sovereignty 4. New Directions in Shakespeare Studies |
| 11 - 11:30 am | Break |
| 11:30 am - 1 pm | Sessions 5-8 5. Royal Women: Education, Speech, and Portraiture 6. Royal Men: Ritual, Politics, and Statemaking 7. Birth, Death, and Resurrection 8. Textual and Visual Language |
| 1 pm - 2 pm | Luncheon (Ruggles Hall) |
| 2 - 3 pm | Collection Presentation (2-West) Meet a Newberrian: Megan Kelly |
| 3 - 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 5 pm | Sessions 9-12 9. Female Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature 10. Premodern Global Judaism 11. Humanity and Animality 12. Liminality and Imagined Space in Medieval Romance |
SATURDAY, January 26
| 10 - 10:30 am | Coffee (Ruggles Hall) |
| 10:30 am - 12 pm | Sessions 13-16 13. Agency and Self-Fashioning 14. Locating Disability 15. Negotiating Identity 16. Ruling Religion |
| 12 - 1 pm | Collection Presentation (2-West) Meet A Newberrian: Ikumi Crocoll |