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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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Upcoming Programs

Friday, October 4, 2019 – Friday, May 1, 2020
Renaissance Graduate Programs
2019-2020 Dissertation Seminar for Scholars of Religion and Politics
Meeting four times over the year, this seminar aims to form an interdisciplinary community of graduate students in the early stages of writing their dissertations, with an eye toward examining
Thursday, January 16, 2020 – Thursday, April 2, 2020
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Exposed to the Elements: Matter and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
This seminar examines early modern European modes of knowledge-production by zeroing in on the idea of the “elemental.” From geometry to medicine and alchemy, almanacs and handbooks of prognostication to natural history (including colonial natural history), the Newberry’s collection includes books that deploy the notion of an “element” (and the “elemental” or even the “elementary”) in many diff
Friday, March 6, 2020
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Encounters
The aims of this proposed workshop are two-fold: to provide an introduction and overview of a growing scholarly engagement with Anglo-Muslim relations from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries as represented in a selected body of English texts: plays, travel texts, histories, religious and propaganda pamphlets, Atlases, and maps; and more specifically to guide a close micro-readi
Thursday, April 23, 2020
In Defense of the Faith: Interpolated Prints as Multifunctional Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament (1614)
Issued in 1614 for the express purpose of re-evangelizing the United Provinces, Franciscus Costerus, S.J.’s Het Nieu Testament onses Heeren Iesu Christi consists of a Dutch translation of the New Testament, supplemented by numerous marginal glosses referring to parallel scriptural texts from the Old and New Testaments, and by an extensive interpretative apparatus that underscores the s
Friday, April 24, 2020
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Understanding Hybrid Books
In conjunction with Professor Walter Melion’s lecture at the Newberry, “Meditating the Unbearable in a Customized Fifteenth-Century Prayerbook,” and a conference at Emory University, this workshop will explore the phenomenon of hybrid and composite books in the medieval and early modern periods.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Eighteenth-Century Seminar
Roxann Wheeler, Ohio State University
Anti-race, 1550–1760, Roxann Wheeler
Friday, May 1, 2020
Premodern Studies Seminar
Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville
“I await the financial recovery of France”: Funding Archaeological Fieldwork in the Age of Enlightenment Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville
Thursday, May 7, 2020 – Saturday, May 9, 2020
Elemental Forces
This international symposium explores questions of early modern matter by focusing on the four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) and their properties, combinations, and transformations.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Milton Seminar
Gregory Chaplin, Bridgewater State University
“Like Consort”: Raphael and Adam’s Other Self, Gregory Chaplin
Friday, May 22, 2020
Seminar in European Art
Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve University, and Christina Normore, Northwestern University
Nothing is the Matter: Locating God in the Cosmic Void, Elina Gertsman
Thursday, June 18, 2020 – Saturday, June 20, 2020
Music, Theory, and Their Sources
The study and performance of early music (pre-1700) requires us to recreate and represent past musical practices through consulting a variety of sources available to us today. The theme of the conference seeks to encourage an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which we engage with these sources of and for early music and the degrees of mediation intrinsic to them.