Pentecost. Case MS 185, f. 10
The Center for Renaissance Studies works with an international consortium of universities in North America and Europe. It offers a wide range of scholarly programs and digital and print publications based in the Newberry collections, and provides a locus for a community of scholars who come from all over the world to use the library’s early manuscripts, printed books, and other materials.
Faculty and graduate students from consortium institutions may be eligible to apply for Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grants to travel to the Newberry to attend programs or do research. Through our reciprocal arrangement with the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C., which also works with a consortium of universities, Institute seminar fees are waived for faculty and graduate students at Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies schools upon acceptance of application.
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Upcoming Programs
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; no registration required
“ ‘I can see he’s not in your good books,’ said the messenger.
‘No, and if he were I would burn my library.’”
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by Peter Garino.
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Milton Seminar
Stephen M. Fallon
Friday, June 1, 2018
Seminar in European Art
Lisa Pon–The Plague on Paper in Early Modern Venice and Beyond
Simone Zurawksi–Architecture & Urban Development in the Reign of Louis XIV Reconsidered: Paris in the Aftermath of the Fronde
Monday, June 4, 2018 – Thursday, June 28, 2018
Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography
At the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Application deadline: March 1, 2018
This four-week institute will provide an intensive introduction to reading and transcribing secretary and italic handwriting in the Tudor-Stuart period.
Monday, June 4, 2018 – Thursday, June 28, 2018
Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography
At the Newberry Library
The application deadline has passed.
This course will examine French manuscripts and archival materials from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. The institute will provide a summary outline of the history of handwriting in France, followed by intensive training in reading from facsimiles, both in class and at home.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Meet the Author
Meet the Author: Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
This workshop, held in conjunction with the Dante in Context roundtable on September 7, places two Dante scholars in dialogue concerning the methods employed in the study of Dante.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Other Renaissance Programs
By invitation only
Annual meeting for the faculty representatives of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions. Additional details will be added later.
Thursday, September 27, 2018 – Thursday, December 6, 2018
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Ten-Week Graduate Seminar
This course will introduce you to methods, approaches, uses, and challenges of digital humanities with respect to the study of the premodern world. Over the past few decades, scholars in all fields of medieval and early modern studies have increasingly used digital resources to study and teach the premodern past.
Thursday, September 27, 2018 – Friday, September 28, 2018
This symposium represents the culmination of research activities centered on the discovery at the Newberry Library of a unique Nürnberg manuscript written by Georg Rem (1561-1625) contained within the printed book Emblemata Politica (Nürnberg, 1617). Leading scholars from universities, libraries, and museums in the U.S.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
Following the Emblems and Empire symposium on September 27-28, this half-day workshop will provide students with the opportunity to examine emblem books from the Newberry’s collection in relation to their own research.
Friday, October 5, 2018 – Friday, April 26, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
This seminar will examine the material text in Europe, from the later Middle Ages through the early modern period (1300–1700). We will consider the production and circulation of manuscripts and early printed books, with a broad focus: we will range across descriptive bibliography (i.e.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
This workshop will provide early-career graduate students with an introduction to medieval primary sources, especially manuscripts and early printed books.
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; no registration required.
“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by J. R. Sullivan.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
Cartographic studies permeate all disciplines of early modern studies and inspire new perspectives on the renaissance world. Examining maps, atlases, and other cartographic material from the Newberry’s collections, participants will learn about the production, dissemination, and use of maps in the early modern period.
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; no registration required.
“O, why should nature build so foul a den, Unless the gods delight in tragedies?”
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by Michelle Shupe.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; no registration required.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love’s mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
This workshop will be open to first-year graduate students in literature and any of the humanities areas. The focus will be on approaches to Don Quixote and implications for the study of narrative in general.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
The goal of the workshop is to introduce early career graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty to research methodologies involved in studying the codicology of European manuscripts - the material aspects of books made by hand between 1200 and 1500.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Shakespeare Project of Chicago
Free and open to the public; no registration required.
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.
A staged reading by professional actors from The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, directed by Peter Garino.