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Center for Renaissance Studies Programs

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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

Thursday, October 3, 2019 – Thursday, December 5, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Reading Catalan for Research Purposes
This fast-paced course prepares students from a variety of fields in medieval and early modern studies to read and do research using texts in Catalan. Students will work on reading comprehension skills, grammar, and vocabulary, and will also be introduced to translation strategies. Students will use texts in their own disciplines in project-based activities using the Newberry’s collections.
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, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019
Center for American Indian Studies Programs
Reading the Ministry in the Americas, 1492-Present
Free and open to the public; registration required
This conference explores the development, use, and afterlife of religious libraries in the Americas.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Exploring Digital Premodern Libraries
Offered in conjunction with the “Reading the Ministry in the Americas” conference, this workshop will explore the concept of digital libraries and their applications to the study of the premodern world.
Friday, November 15, 2019
Renaissance Graduate Programs
Library Services and Premodern Studies: An Introduction
Classical, medieval, and early modern studies have always relied on the work of library professionals. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the contributions catalogers, archivists, curators, and conservators have made to our understanding of the premodern world, which go well beyond the practical work necessary to make primary and secondary sources accessible for scholars.
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
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.
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.