Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

The 28th Annual
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies

Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
January 21-23, 2010
Chicago, Illinois

Keynote Speaker: Jean Howard, Columbia University
Keynote address sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago

Organized and run by graduate students, this conference provides a premier opportunity for maturing scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Selected papers will be published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings.

In celebration of the Center’s thirtieth anniversary, this year’s conference is expanded to three days and will include nine panels with up to thirty-six student papers, a keynote address by eminent scholar Jean Howard, and a staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.

Call for Papers: Deadline October 15th, 2009

We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.

Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.