Renaissance Colloquium

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Renaissance Colloquium

The Renaissance Colloquium is committed to providing a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to gather and discuss current topics in early modern studies. We invite speakers from neighboring institutions and further afield to present their research in a collegial setting that encourages questions and discussion. In recent years, we have hosted scholars including Colin Burrow, Richard Halpern, Victoria Kahn, Rhodri Lewis, Molly Murray, and numerous others.

Past Events

2020-2021

Feb 24
Renaissance Colloquium
Colby Gordon, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
Zoom #932 5507 1711; https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93255071711 4: 30 PM

Inglorious, Unemployed: Trans/Crip Conjunctions and the Law of Maims in Samson Agonistes

2019-2020

Mar 23
CANCELED: Renaissance Colloquium
Colby Gordon, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
4: 30 PM

This event has been canceled.
Mar 09
Renaissance Colloquium
Stephen Fallon, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Milton, Newton, and the Making of a Modern World

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Co-sponsored with the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium.
Oct 10
Renaissance Colloquium
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Adventures in the Skin Trade: Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko and the Marks of Religion" 

Co-sponsored with the University Center for Human Values.

2018-2019

May 03
Publishing Workshop, sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Wolfe, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Publishing Workshop with Dr. Jessica Wolfe, Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly
May 02
Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Wolfe, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

" 'Men are lived over again': the Transmigrations of Sir Thomas Browne"

 
Feb 28
Renaissance Colloquium and the Committee for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Kathryn Murphy, Department of English, University of Oxford, UK
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Montaigne the Barbarian
Feb 21
Renaissance Colloquium
Rachel Eisendrath, Department of English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Failures of Selfhood: Augustine, Hamlet, and the Rise of the Aesthetic"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Nov 12
Renaissance Colloquium
Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
40 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Playing Songs and Singing Plays: Ballads and Plays in the Early Modern Period

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Sep 27
Renaissance Colloquium
David Como, Department of History, Stanford University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press

Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.

2017-2018

May 02
Renaissance Colloquium and the Department of Comparative Literature
Joanna Picciotto, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Tolerating Enthusiasts

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Feb 22
Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium
Timothy Duffy, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
40 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Crashaw After Petrarch: Lyrics Against the World

Reception in the Thorp Library to folow talk.
Dec 07
Renaissance Colloquium and Theory Colloquium
Ayesha Ramachandran, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
40 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Lyric Thinking: Humanism, Poetry, Modernity

Please review introduction prior to talk.  Introduction available from Mary Prokop (mprokop@princeton.edu)

Reception in Thorp Library following talk.
Oct 24
Renaissance Colloquium
Laurie Shannon, Department of English, Northwestern University
McCosh Hall, Room 40 4: 30 PM

"Hamlet and the Natural History of Human Being, circa 1600"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Oct 09
John Kerrigan
Council of the Humanities, Department of English, Renaissance Colloquium
John Kerrigan, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
McCosh Hall, Room 40 4: 30 PM

"King Lear and its Origins"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

2016-2017

Nov 18
Renaissance Colloquium: "Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Poetry and the Past in the Late Plays"
Seth Lerer, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego; Visiting Professor, Department of English, Cornell University (FA16)
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Poetry and the Past in the Late Plays"

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Nov 10
Renaissance Colloquium: All Things with Double Terror: Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's Paradise Lost
Bjoern Quiring, Freie Universitat Berlin
McCosh Hall, Room 40 4: 30 PM

"All Things with Double Terror: Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's Paradise Lost"
Oct 10
Renaissance Colloquium: Kubrick's Shakespeare: War, Literature, and Taste
Richard Rambuss, Department of English, Brown University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Kubrick's Shakespeare: War, Literature, and Taste"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.