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Center for Renaissance Studies Programs

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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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2021-2022 Programming Brochure

Upcoming Programs

Thursday, July 1, 2021 – Thursday, August 12, 2021
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
500 Years of Mexican Books: Colonial Book Bibliography in Indigenous Languages
On the occasion of the anniversary of the so-called “conquest” of Mexico, this series of presentations addresses the relationship between bibliography, the history of the New Hispanic book, and the production of Indigenous-language books in Mexico.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 – Thursday, December 9, 2021
The World in the Book: 1300-1800
Center for Renaissance Studies Undergraduate Seminar
Centuries before television, smartphones, and social media, books were the primary means by which people made sense of the world around them. In cultures throughout the world, manuscripts and printed materials of all kinds were used to archive professional and personal lives, cultivate relationships with the divine, care for minds and bodies, and visualize faraway lands and peoples.
Friday, October 1, 2021
Looking Forward to Attending to Premodern Women
In fall 2022, Attending to Premodern Women will return with a three-day conference focused on the theme of “Performance” at the Newberry Library. Formerly known as “Attending to Early Modern Women,” the 2022 meeting will expand the scope of the conference to include scholars representing the ancient, classical, and medieval periods.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Word and Image in Print and Digital Archives
This workshop takes a long view of the effects of technological change on word-image relations. Beginning with the print resources of the Newberry, we will ask the following questions: How were particular methods of visual and verbal representation key to the organization of knowledge in the early modern period?
Friday, October 22, 2021 – Friday, May 20, 2022
Dissertation Seminar: The Translocal and the Transnational
This seminar provides an interdisciplinary, supportive community for graduate students in the early stages of dissertation preparation. The movement of people, things and ideas deeply shaped medieval and early modern literature, philosophy, art, music and culture.
Friday, December 3, 2021
Introduction to Early Modern Critical Race Studies
This workshop introduces participants to the history and methods of Early Modern Critical Race Studies (EMCRS).