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

Renaissance Colloquium
Apr 9, 2024, 4:30 pm

Timothy Harrison has most recently published Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England (2020), following the history of the modern concept of “consciousness” from the philosophy of René Descartes, the poetry of John Milton, to the ethics in the philosophy of John Locke. Harrison’s work often constructs a literary…

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
Renaissance Colloquium
Apr 23, 2024, 4:30 pm

William N. West studies, teaches, and thinks about early modern drama, poetry, and prose, mostly. He has taught on Shakespeare’s “theater of others”; on taking comedy seriously; speculative fictions of the Renaissance and post-millennial systems fictions; poetics and aesthetics from Aristotle to Kant; the story…

Location
Chancellor Green 103

Past Events

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Renaissance Colloquium
Feb 29, 2024, 4:30 pm

Among his poetic contemporaries, George Herbert stands out as a virtuoso of containers and containment: The Temple’s strong architectural conceit implies a delimited physical structure, within which lyric poems — often featuring boxes, cases, bags, and other vessels — call attention to their own formal limits of line and…

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
2023 - 2024
Renaissance Colloquium
Nov 14, 2023, 4:30 pm

As mainstream theater slowly adopts more transgender-informed casting practices, plays like The Roaring Girl, Middleton and Dekker’s city comedy featuring the notorious and historical Moll Frith, become attractive vessels for nonbinary and genderqueer character readings and staging. While infusions of contemporary stakes…

Location
Chancellor Green, Room 103
Speaker
2023 - 2024
Renaissance Colloquium
Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 pm

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).

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 2, 2023, 4:30 pm

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.

Location
TBD
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Nov 17, 2022, 4:30 pm

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

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
May 9, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/91800542902; Meeting ID: 918 0054 2902
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 17, 2022, 4:30 pm

Shakespeare in the Trans Archive

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93028020240; Meeting ID: 930 2802 0240
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Renaissance Colloquium
Apr 7, 2021, 4:30 pm

On Protean Acting in Shakespeare:  Race & Virtuosity

Location
Zoom ID#: 941 2035 7852; https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94120357852
Speaker
2020-2021
Renaissance Colloquium
Feb 24, 2021, 4:30 pm

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

Location
Zoom #932 5507 1711; https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93255071711
Speaker
2020-2021
CANCELED: Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 23, 2020, 4:30 pm

This event has been canceled.

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Speaker
2019-2020
Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 9, 2020, 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.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2019-2020
Renaissance Colloquium
Oct 10, 2019, 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.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2019-2020
Publishing Workshop, sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
May 3, 2019, 12:00 pm

Publishing Workshop with Dr. Jessica Wolfe, Articles Editor for Renaissance Quarterly

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium
May 2, 2019, 4:30 pm

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

 

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium and the Committee for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Feb 28, 2019, 12:00 pm

Montaigne the Barbarian

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium
Feb 21, 2019, 4:30 pm

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

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium
Nov 12, 2018, 4:30 pm

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

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
40 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium
Sep 27, 2018, 4:30 pm

The Origins of the Concept of Freedom of the Press

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

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Renaissance Colloquium and the Department of Comparative Literature
May 2, 2018, 4:30 pm

Tolerating Enthusiasts

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018
Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium
Feb 22, 2018, 4:30 pm

Crashaw After Petrarch: Lyrics Against the World

Reception in the Thorp Library to folow talk.

Location
40 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018