Renaissance Colloquium
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
2021 - 2022
The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England
Shakespeare in the Trans Archive
2020-2021
On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity
Inglorious, Unemployed: Trans/Crip Conjunctions and the Law of Maims in Samson Agonistes
2019-2020
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.
2018-2019
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.
2017-2018
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 (mprokop@princeton.edu)
Reception in Thorp Library following talk.
"Hamlet and the Natural History of Human Being, circa 1600"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"King Lear and its Origins"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2016-2017
"Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Poetry and the Past in the Late Plays"
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
"All Things with Double Terror: Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's Paradise Lost"
"Kubrick's Shakespeare: War, Literature, and Taste"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.