We are delighted to announce the schedule for Spring 2025, designed to deepen and contextualize our understanding of the Renaissance. We hope you will be able to join us for lively discussion of issues that invigorate our various fields.
As is our custom, the seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. Please email in advance for the paper(s) if you are not already on our campus distribution list and would like to attend (contact information below).
Papers can only be made available by pdf with the express permission of the author. We ask that participants exercise the utmost discretion and confidentiality with the speaker’s work. Please refrain from circulation of any form. Many thanks.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
4:30PM, Boger Hall, Room 315
William Theiss (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
“Spectacle and the Care of the Self in Renaissance Germany”
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4:30PM, Boger Hall, Room 315
Eric Weiskott (Professor, English Department, Boston College)
“‘Everything is broken’: Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse”
RENAISSANCE SEMINAR RELATED EVENT
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
4:30PM, PAC 100
Surekha Davies (Author, speaker, historian)
“Humans: A Monstrous History” [book talk]
For a copy of the seminar paper(s), please contact Renaissance Seminar coordinator, Joseph Ackley at jackley@wesleyan.edu.