Past Conferences and Colloquia











  • 2000-2001
    
Colloquium
    
        The 
        Image and the Court:
    
 Van Dyck, Monarchs, and Puritans    


    Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
     A Tribute to W.R. Elton
    


    



  • 1999-2000
    


Teleconference: Cultural
        Studies and
    
        Renaissance Futures    
        
    
Post-Conference Website




    

Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
    
          " 
          'Th'Observed of All Observers': New Perspectives on     Hamlet" 
        
    



    



  • 1998-99
    
Colloquium Series
    
Scattered Bodies of Truth:
    
Inter-Religious/Sectarian Relations, 1450-1700    

    
Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
    
Debora Shuger (English, UCLA; Peter Lake (History, Princeton University) 

    


  • 1997-98
    
Colloquium Series
    
 "Early Modern Cultural Geography"


    Annual Shakespeare Lecture
    
"'A Map Doth Nature Store': Shakespeare and Nature's Network"

    


  • 1996-97
    
Conference
    
Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters: England, Spain, and the Americas

    
Colloquium
     Leatrice Mendelsohn     (SUNY-New Paltz), Bronzino's Female Hybrid Monster: Classical Sources for a Mannerist Heresy
    April 1

    
Annual Shakespeare Lecture
    Shakespeare's Discourses
    
Jonathan Goldberg,     (Johns Hopkins University); OnCoriolanus"; Katherine Eisamen Maus (University of Virginia), "On Magic and Subjectivity in Shakespeare and Jonson"

    




  • 1995-96
    

Colloquium
     Steven Zwicker     (Washington University), "Passions and Occasions: The Politics of Reading, c. 1649"
    October 5

    
Colloquium
     Social and Literary Space in Early Modern Cities:
     Italy and England
    
Edwin Muir     (Northwestern University), Civic Ritual in Renaissance Italy"; Lawrence Manley (Yale University), "Metropolitan Culture in Early Modern London"
    November 17
    

    

Colloquium
     James Binns     (University of York), "Printing and Paratext: University Presses in Sixteenth-Century England
    
March 12

    
Colloquium
     Elizabeth Eisenstein     (University of Michigan), "Encounters with the Printed Word in the Age of Incunabula"
    April 19


    
Symposium on Medicine and Society in Europe:
     Renaissance to Enlightement
    

Katherine Park     (Wellesley College), "The Visible Woman: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection"; Mary Lindemann (Carnegie Mellon University), "Physicians on the Margins: The Medical World of Eighteenth-Century Germany"
    March 25

    
Colloquium
     Patron, Client/Client Patron: The Circulation of Influence
    

Rona Goffen     (Rutgers University), "Patronage and Rivalry: Observations on Michelangelo and Titian; Ernest Gilman (NYU), Madagascar on My Mind: The Earl of Arundel, Patronage, and the Arts of Colonization"
    March 29

    



  • 1994-95
    
Colloquium Series
     Old Worlds/New Words: Explorations into Continuiity and Change
    
I.The Renaissance in Post-Colonial Perspective
    
Walter D. Mignolo     (Duke University), "Countermodernity and Post-Colonial Reason in the Early Modern Period"; David Armitage (Columbia University), "The Discovery of America and the Birth of the Modern"
    November 18

    
II. Transmitting the Word in Print Culture
    
Lisa Jardine     (University of London), "Strategic Reading: The Intellectual as Entrepreneur in Late Elizabethan England"; Peter Burke (Cambridge University), "Orality, Print, and the Renissance Dialogue"
    April 7

    



  • 1992-93
    
Conference
    
Facets of Piero della Francesca:
    
A New York Symposium Across the Disciplines
    
Held in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection
    
February 26-27

    


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