8:30 to 10:00am

The Collection as Laboratory

10:30am to 12:00pm

Roundtable: The Renaissance in Chicago: An Exploration of Local Collections

12:15 to 1:15pm

"John Milton's Paradise Lost," adapted by Regina Schwartz, directed by Peter Garino

1:30 to 3:00pm

Roundtable: Thinking with Objects: Cultural Encounters and Material Culture

3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: Academics as Writers

7:30 to 9:00pm

Newberry Consort Performance

8:30 to 10:00am

Rethinking Early Modern Politics

10:30am to 12:00pm

Organization and Erudition: Scholarly Archives and Politics

1:30 to 3:00pm

Emblem and England: Context and Subtext

3:30 to 5:00pm

Emblem and the Continent: Context and Subtext

5:30 to 7:00pm

The Blazon: Affect, Poetics, and Rhetoric

10:30am to 12:00pm

Roundtable: John Donne Society I: John Donne and the Bible

1:30 to 3:00pm

John Donne Society II: Donne’s Religious Poetry and Prose in Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts

3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: John Donne Society III: Letters by or to Donne in LR1 (the Burley Manuscript)

5:30 to 7:00pm

John Donne Society IV: New Perspectives on Donne's Sermons

8:30 to 10:00am

Jesuit Visual Culture I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Jesuit Visual Culture II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Forgery, Creativity, and Establishing Trust in the Archives

3:30 to 5:00pm

Early Modern Editions in this Present Moment: Options, Challenges, Complexities

5:30 to 7:00pm

Roundtable: Reading John Dee’s Marginalia: Expanding the Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe

8:30 to 10:00am

Early Modern Poetry and Poetics: From Puttenham to Milton

10:30am to 12:00pm

Early Modern Christian Readings of the Hebrew Bible I: Milton and the Bible

1:30 to 3:00pm

Early Modern Christian Readings of the Hebrew Bible II: Milton on Self, Nation, and Passion

3:30 to 5:00pm

Early Modern Christian Readings of the Hebrew Bible III: George Peele and Aphra Behn

5:30 to 7:00pm

Herbert and Milton: Poetry, Theology

8:30 to 10:00am

Books, People, Places: Networks of Cultural Exchange

10:30am to 12:00pm

Gender and Archives in Early Modern Europe

1:30 to 3:00pm

Cavendish I: Readings of The Blazing World

3:30 to 5:00pm

Cavendish II: Religion and Science

5:30 to 7:00pm

Ironies of Form in Post-Reformation English Literature

8:30 to 10:00am

Magicians, Witches, and Devils on the Early Modern Stage

10:30am to 12:00pm

Nonhuman Compassion on the Early Modern Stage

1:30 to 3:00pm

Rhyme, Repetition, and Scansion: Literary History and Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare

3:30 to 5:00pm

Spenser's Sustaining Fictions I

5:30 to 7:00pm

Spenser's Sustaining Fictions II

8:30 to 10:00am

Hybrid Cultures and Experiences in the Renaissance

10:30am to 12:00pm

Captivity and Culture: Relations between Europe and the Arab Countries in the Early Modern Period

1:30 to 3:00pm

Armenian Early Modernities: Social Networks, Print Culture, and Multilingualism

3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: Rethinking the Global Renaissance I: Questions, Methods, Practices

5:30 to 7:00pm

Roundtable: Rethinking the Global Renaissance II: Encounters between East and West‬‬‬‬

8:30 to 10:00am

Shakespeare’s Greek Passions

10:30am to 12:00pm

Shakespeare's Doubles

1:30 to 3:00pm

Difficult Shakespeare

3:30 to 5:00pm

Haunted Shakespeare

5:30 to 7:00pm

Early/Modern Spaces of Shakespearean Performance

8:30 to 10:00am

The Early Modern Book as Visual Enterprise, 1500–1650

10:30am to 12:00pm

Renaissance Jokes and Jokebooks

1:30 to 3:00pm

New Approaches to Skepticism I

3:30 to 5:00pm

New Approaches to Skepticism II

5:30 to 7:00pm

New Approaches to Skepticism III

8:30 to 10:00am

Conceptions of Instrumentality in Italian Music, 1580–1630

10:30am to 12:00pm

Music, Poetry, and Rhetoric

1:30 to 3:00pm

Women's Voices in Early Modern Europe: Poetry and Song

3:30 to 5:00pm

Music and Territory in the Low Countries (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) I

5:30 to 7:00pm

Music and Territory in the Low Countries (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) II

8:30 to 10:00am

Virginity in Song: Digital Tools for the Liturgy

10:30am to 12:00pm

Renaissance Conflicts and Digital Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion

1:30 to 3:00pm

Digital Humanities and Art History I: Geomapping

3:30 to 5:00pm

Digital Humanities and Art History II: Network Visualizations

5:30 to 7:00pm

Digital Humanities and Literature: Digital Editing and Network Visualizations

12:00 to 6:00pm

RSA Executive Board Luncheon and Meeting

8:30 to 10:00am

Artistic Exchanges: Rome, Florence, Sweden, Prague

10:30am to 12:00pm

Shaped by Nature, Forged by Art: Image, Object, Concept, Practice in Early Modern Europe

1:30 to 3:00pm

Discovery and Rediscovery: The Reception of Renaissance Objects

3:30 to 5:00pm

Material Conversions

5:30 to 7:00pm

Roundtable: Baroque Forms

8:30 to 10:00am

Titian I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Titian II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Atlante's Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 I: Images and Materials

3:30 to 5:00pm

Atlante's Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 II: Madrid, Lisbon, and Naples

5:30 to 7:00pm

Atlante's Palace: Culture, Enchantment, and Politics in European Palaces, 1600–1700 III: Rome and London

8:30 to 10:00am

Devotion and Salvation in Art

10:30am to 12:00pm

Music of the Spheres

1:30 to 3:00pm

The Visual and the Viewer in the Sistine Chapel

3:30 to 5:00pm

Antiquity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy I

5:30 to 7:00pm

Antiquity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy II

8:30 to 10:00am

Medici Materials: From Substance to Artefact I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Medici Materials: From Substance to Artefact II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Cabinetization and Compartmentalization in Early Modern Art and Science I

3:30 to 5:00pm

Cabinetization and Compartmentalization in Early Modern Art and Science II

5:30 to 7:00pm

Cabinetization and Compartmentalization in Early Modern Art and Science III

8:30 to 10:00am

Artifice and Anti-Naturalism in Renaissance Architecture I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Artifice and Anti-Naturalism in Renaissance Architecture II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Heresy and Heterodoxy I: Visual Definitions

3:30 to 5:00pm

Heresy and Heterodoxy II: Images

5:30 to 7:00pm

Heresy and Heterodoxy III: Topographies and Geographies

10:30am to 12:00pm

Drawn to Print

1:30 to 3:00pm

Creating Woodcuts: Transforming, Reusing, and Dating Woodblocks

3:30 to 5:00pm

Materiality and Money: Re-Use, Repurposing, and Repetition in Sixteenth-Century Book Production

5:30 to 7:00pm

The Shape of Knowledge: The Form and Function of Printed Professional Manuals

10:30am to 12:00pm

Roundtable: Teaching Inclusivity through Early Modern English Literature

1:30 to 3:00pm

Roundtable: Teaching Shakespeare in the Online Classroom

3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: Active Learning about Early Modern Periods: Engaging Students’ Imaginations to Deepen Their Understanding

5:30 to 7:00pm

Roundtable: Teaching Early Modern Religion with "The Other Voice"

7:30 to 9:00pm

Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture

8:30 to 10:00am

Early Modern German Genres of Literary Representations of Women and Gender

10:30am to 12:00pm

Mourning Women at the Courts of Early Modern Germany

1:30 to 3:00pm

Della Robbia and Beyond I: Luca’s Invention and His Workshop

3:30 to 5:00pm

Della Robbia and Beyond II: Renaissance Contexts and Reception

5:30 to 7:00pm

Della Robbia and Beyond III: Making and Remaking Glazed Terracotta

8:30 to 10:00am

Saddle Up: Horses, Power, and Princely Image Construction in Renaissance Mantua and Beyond

10:30am to 12:00pm

Of Horsemanship and Guns

1:30 to 3:00pm

Transnational Literary Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries I

3:30 to 5:00pm

Transnational Literary Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries II: A Roundtable

8:30 to 10:00am

RETS Business Meeting

10:30am to 12:00pm

Forgery, Fraud, and Material Authenticity across the Early Modern Sciences

1:30 to 3:00pm

Medical Identity and Cures in Early Modern Literature

3:30 to 5:00pm

The Nature of Medical Professions: Exchanging Skills and Circulating Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

5:30 to 7:00pm

Exploring Disability and Medicine in Early Modern Italy

8:30 to 10:00am

Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Identifying Renaissance Philosophy

3:30 to 5:00pm

Renaissance Philosophy across Languages I

5:30 to 7:00pm

Renaissance Philosophy across Languages II

8:30 to 10:00am

Discontent I: Staging Discontent

10:30am to 12:00pm

Discontent II: Amicable Solutions

1:30 to 3:00pm

The Archival and Literary Record in England: From the Inns of Court to the Civil Wars

3:30 to 5:00pm

Vulgarity, Reciprocity, and Apiculture: Women's Political Writing in Civil War England

5:30 to 7:00pm

Adaptive, Discursive, Juridical: Language, Gender, and Politics in the English Civil Wars

8:30 to 10:00am

Early Modern Portraiture

10:30am to 12:00pm

Artistic Production in Venice

1:30 to 3:00pm

The Mirror

3:30 to 5:00pm

Loving the Neighbor: Literature, Theology, and Economics

5:30 to 7:00pm

Sounding Out the Renaissance Convent: Strategies of Female Speech and Sonic Regulation in Florentine Tuscany

8:30 to 10:00am

The Architectural Imaginary

10:30am to 12:00pm

Spotlighting Artistic Production in Early Modern Europe: Women Artists, Artists at Court

1:30 to 3:00pm

New Research on Local Renaissance I

3:30 to 5:00pm

New Research on Local Renaissance II

5:30 to 7:00pm

How to Do Things with Letters in Early Modern Italy

10:30am to 12:00pm

Mapping Trade, the Body, and the World

1:30 to 3:00pm

Translation Theory and Practice during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk I

3:30 to 5:00pm

Translation Theory and Practice during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk II

5:30 to 7:00pm

Translation Theory and Practice during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk III

8:30 to 10:00am

Affective Piety in Early Modern Art and Literature

10:30am to 12:00pm

Women, Piety, and Reading in the Fifteenth Century

1:30 to 3:00pm

Vision and Its Instruments in Early Modern Literature I

3:30 to 5:00pm

Vision and Its Instruments in Early Modern Literature II

5:30 to 7:00pm

Vision and Its Instruments in Early Modern Literature III

8:30 to 10:00am

Gender, Legal Systems, and Social Reintegration in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Communities

10:30am to 12:00pm

Jewish and Anti-Jewish Representations in Early Modern Europe

1:30 to 3:00pm

Jewish Intermediaries in Early Modernity

3:30 to 5:00pm

Jews and the Natural World

5:30 to 7:00pm

Francesco Guicciardini between History and Theory

10:30am to 12:00pm

Reading the Symbols: Pathways in Renaissance Iconography

1:30 to 3:00pm

Playfulness and Invention in Early Modern English Literature

3:30 to 5:00pm

The Language of Reform I: Philology, Colloquy, and Polemic in Reformation Humanism and Religious Controversy

5:30 to 7:00pm

The Language of Reform II: Translation and Adaptation in Devotional and Polemical Printed Editions

8:30 to 10:00am

Antiquarianism and Ethnography in the Early Modern World I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Antiquarianism and Ethnography in the Early Modern World II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Theorizing the Human, the Animal, the Body and Mind

3:30 to 5:00pm

Renaissance Stained Glass: The Challenge of Invention in Glass

5:30 to 7:00pm

Early Modern Biopolitics

8:30 to 10:00am

Collective Politics across the Alps during the Renaissance

10:30am to 12:00pm

Uncertainty in the Renaissance Alps

1:30 to 3:00pm

Princely Bastards: Illegitimate Children in Late Medieval and Early Modern Dynasties

3:30 to 5:00pm

Taking Your Ancestors to Church: Dynastic Commemoration and Material Mementos in a Restored Sacred Landscape

5:30 to 7:00pm

The Influence of Medici Women on the Politics and Culture of Two Italian Courts

8:30 to 10:00am

Poésie, politique, et religion à la cour de Marguerite de France, duchesse de Savoie

10:30am to 12:00pm

Women's Knowledge in Renaissance France

1:30 to 3:00pm

Perpetuum Mobile: Movement and Mobility in French Renaissance Literature

3:30 to 5:00pm

Questions of Authority, Mediation, and Literary Tradition in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron

5:30 to 7:00pm

Roundtable: Plante, animal, homme: Du nécessaire art de conférer

8:30 to 10:00am

De la compilation au parangon: les pratiques des compilateurs au service de l’exemplarité littéraire

10:30am to 12:00pm

Rabelais: états de la recherche

1:30 to 3:00pm

Travel, the Imaginary, and Alchemy in Late Renaissance France and Poland

3:30 to 5:00pm

Dialogical Writing in Renaissance France

5:30 to 7:00pm

Huguenot Historiography

10:30am to 12:00pm

Figuring Language, Space, and Sound in the Italian Renaissance

1:30 to 3:00pm

Courtship, Marriage, and Female Power in the Lives and Works of Italian Professional Theater Producers

3:30 to 5:00pm

Italian Theater

5:30 to 7:00pm

Learned and Literary Women in Italy and France: Academies, Epistolarity

8:30 to 10:00am

The Waning of the Renaissance and the New Foundations of Campanella's Political Thought

10:30am to 12:00pm

Writing Modern Languages in Renaissance Europe: An Interdisciplinary Approach

1:30 to 3:00pm

Boccaccio and Compassion

3:30 to 5:00pm

Boccaccio and Law

5:30 to 7:00pm

Perspectives on Boccaccio

8:30 to 10:00am

Intersections of Epic and Lyric in the Hispanic Renaissance I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Intersections of Epic and Lyric in the Hispanic Renaissance II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Against Poetry: Disputes, Condemnations, Invectives, and Poetic Discourse (1500–1700)

3:30 to 5:00pm

Poetry and Music in the Early Modern Hispanic World

5:30 to 7:00pm

Visual/Textual Encounters with the Tomb: Ekphrasis and Death in Early Modern Hispanic Poetry

8:30 to 10:00am

Manuscripts and Merchants I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Manuscripts and Merchants II

1:30 to 3:00pm

Thomas More's Visions and Revisions I: Utopia's Mixed Messages

3:30 to 5:00pm

Thomas More's Visions and Revisions II: Heretical or Holy Humanism

5:30 to 7:00pm

Thomas More's Visions and Revisions III: Fashioning Martyrdom

8:30 to 10:00am

Robert Southwell: Out of the Shadows

10:30am to 12:00pm

Thinking with the Lyric

1:30 to 3:00pm

Translating Epic and Lyric

3:30 to 5:00pm

The Role of Religion in Early Modern Epic Poetry

5:30 to 7:00pm

Literature and Figurative Arts in the Renaissance

10:30am to 12:00pm

Decorum, Dignity, and Nobility in Humanist Language and Thought

1:30 to 3:00pm

Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture across Europe as Seen in the National Delitiae

3:30 to 5:00pm

Scottish Itinerant Cultural Agents of the Scientific Revolution

5:30 to 7:00pm

Imagining America: Scottish and English Conceptions of Landscapes and Colonization

8:30 to 10:00am

Disclosing the Vegetative Soul: Metaphysical, Physiological, and Botanical Intersections from Late Scholastics to Early...

10:30am to 12:00pm

The Renaissance Tradition of Love Treatises

1:30 to 3:00pm

Biondo Flavio and His European Fortune I

3:30 to 5:00pm

Biondo Flavio and His European Fortune II

5:30 to 7:00pm

Biondo Flavio and His European Fortune III

10:30am to 12:00pm

Florentine Political Debates Reflected by the Minutes of the Consulte e Pratiche

1:30 to 3:00pm

Diplomacy and War in Renaissance Europe

3:30 to 5:00pm

Humanism across Borders

5:30 to 7:00pm

Imagining the New World: Poets in the Age of Discovery

8:30 to 10:00am

Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

10:30am to 12:00pm

Space and Early Modern Subjectivity

1:30 to 3:00pm

New Methods for a New Poetry I: Testing Digital Methods Applied to Góngora’s Poetry and Reception

3:30 to 5:00pm

New Methods for a New Poetry II: Mapping the Critical Vocabulary about Gongorism

5:30 to 7:00pm

Literature and Love in Renaissance and Early Modern Spain

8:30 to 10:00am

Le Mot d’Esprit à la Renaissance: Verbal Ingenuity in France

10:30am to 12:00pm

Renaissance Multilingualism: Expressing Linguistic Hierarchies and Voicing Equivalences in Ancient and Modern Tongues

1:30 to 3:00pm

New Perspectives on L'Adone by Giovambattista Marino

3:30 to 5:00pm

Artists and Their Techniques in the Florentine Novella

5:30 to 7:00pm

Representing Cities in Early Modern Literature

8:30 to 10:00am

Framing: Between Transience and Permanence I

10:30am to 12:00pm

Framing: Between Transience and Permanence II

1:30 to 3:00pm

The Renaissance Draft I

3:30 to 5:00pm

The Renaissance Draft II

5:30 to 7:00pm

Architectural Painting

8:30 to 10:00am

Papal Triumphs in Texts and Images

10:30am to 12:00pm

All that Glitters: Gems and Jewelry in the Renaissance

1:30 to 3:00pm

To the Reader: Early Modern Print’s Epistolary Relationships

3:30 to 5:00pm

The Luther Effect, Printmaking, and the Arts

5:30 to 7:00pm

Printing and Networking in Venice, Madrid, and Cracow

8:30 to 10:00am

Styling Early Modern Disability

10:30am to 12:00pm

The Early Modern Public Sphere Revisited: Consensus Politics as Usual?

1:30 to 3:00pm

Rethinking Erasmus and His Legacy

3:30 to 5:00pm

Erasmus

5:30 to 7:00pm

Trading Freedom for Liberty: Redefining Rights, Sovereignty, and Identity in Early Modern Europe