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.
Upcoming Events
Sawyer Kemp is a scholar of Shakespeare, early modern drama, and performance. Kemp's first book project, “Shakespeare and the Paradox of Access” investigates the rhetoric and industry of “accessibility” in contemporary Shakespeare performance. Exploring access as a tool for feminist and queer critique, this project analyzes theater’s impact…
Past Events
Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University and Author of Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance (Penn Press, 2014).
Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. He specializes in the literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. He teaches courses on race, disability, and emotions in early modern British literature.
Associate Professor of English at John Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Author of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance…
The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England
Shakespeare in the Trans Archive
On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity
Inglorious, Unemployed: Trans/Crip Conjunctions and the Law of Maims in Samson Agonistes
This event has been canceled.
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.
"Adventures in the Skin Trade: Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko and the Marks of Religion"
Co-sponsored with the University Center for Human Values.
Publishing Workshop with Dr. Jessica Wolfe, Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly
" 'Men are lived over again': the Transmigrations of Sir Thomas Browne"
Montaigne the Barbarian
"Failures of Selfhood: Augustine, Hamlet, and the Rise of the Aesthetic"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Playing Songs and Singing Plays: Ballads and Plays in the Early Modern Period
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press
Reception in the Thorp Library, McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
Tolerating Enthusiasts
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Crashaw After Petrarch: Lyrics Against the World
Reception in the Thorp Library to folow talk.
Lyric Thinking: Humanism, Poetry, Modernity
Please review introduction prior to talk. Introduction available from Mary Prokop ([email protected])
Reception in Thorp Library following talk.
"Hamlet and the Natural History of Human Being, circa 1600"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.