Folger Institute scholarly programs archive

This article serves as a repository for past scholarly programming at the Folger Institute.

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Past programs listed by title

• 1603: Kingship Renewed (seminar) (2003)

A

• Accessorizing the Renaissance (seminar) (2006)
• Acquiring Education: Early Modern Women's Pedagogies (seminar) (2013)
• After the Great Instauration (seminar) (2018)
• Anglo-American History of the KJV (conference) (2011)
• Anonymity (seminar) (2008)
• Artifice and Authenticity: The Ambiguity of Early Modern Venice (seminar) (2003)
• Atlantic Matters (seminar) (1998)

B

• Ballads, Broadsides, and Eighteenth-Century Culture (seminar) (2005)
• Ben Jonson, Man of Letters (seminar) (2009)
• Between Worlds: Cultural Mixture and Translation (seminar) (2000)
• British Political Thought in an Age of Globalization, c. 1750–1800 (symposium) (2008)
• British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory (conference) (2005)

C

• Cavendish and Hutchinson (seminar) (2017)
• Changing Conceptions of Property (seminar) (2009)
• Comus: A Workshop (2001)
• Conjugality and Early Modern Political Thought (seminar) (2017)
• Connections, Trust, and Causation in Economic History (seminar) (2008)
• Constantinople/Istanbul: Destination, Way-Station, City of Renegades (seminar) (2007)
• Constructing and Representing Authorship in Early Modern England (colloquium) (2013)
• Constructing the Early Modern (seminar) (1997)
• Contact and Exchange: China and the West (conference) (2009)
• Contestations of Religion and Natural History in the Atlantic World (seminar) (2013)
• Creation and Use of Electronic Texts and Images (seminar) (1997)
• Crossroads of Amsterdam (seminar) (2010)
• Convent Culture (seminar) (2016)
• Culinary Cartographies: Food, Gender, and Race in the Early Modern Black Atlantic (seminar) (2004)

D

• Defining the Court's Political Thought (seminar) (2000)
• Development of Poetry from Wyatt to Donne (seminar) (2008)
• Divine Art/Infernal Machine: Exploring Attitudes toward Printing in the Age of the Hand Press (seminar) (1999)
• Divulging Household Privacies: The Politics of Domesticity from the Caroline Court to Paradise Lost (seminar) (2001)
• Domestic Servants and Apprentices in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Social History (seminar) (1999)

E

• Early Modern Bible (seminar) (2002)
• Early Modern Book (seminar) (1998, 2000)
• Early Modern Book in a Digital Age (seminar) (2001, 2003)
• Early Modern Books and Readers (seminar) (2005)
• Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective (conference) (2012)
• Early Modern Embodiment (seminar) (2004)
• Early Modern Manuscripts Online: New Directions in Research (conference) (2017)
• Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2007)
• Early Modern Paris (seminar) (2002)
• Early Modern Scientific and Intellectual Biography (seminar) (2004)
• Early Modern Terrorism? The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 & its Aftermath (workshop) (2005)
• Early Modern Theater and Conversion (symposium) (2016)
• Early Modern Translation: Theory, History, Practice (conference) (2011)
• Editing and its Futures (seminar) (2011)
• Emerging Ethnographies in Shakespeare's England (seminar) (2004)
• Empire and Cosmopolis: Universalism from Rome to Washington (seminar) (2009)
• Empire and Culture in the Early Modern English Caribbean (seminar) (2010)
• English Grammar School: Rhetoric, Discipline, Masculinity (seminar) (2007)
• English Paleography (seminar) (2018, 2014, 2009, 2006)
• English Reformation, 1500–1640: One or Many? (seminar) (2004)
• Enlightenment and its Others: Irish, British, and American Visions (seminar) (2003)
• Entangled Trajectories: Integrating European and Native American Histories (seminar) (2013)
• Europe and the Americas: Human and Natural Worlds in the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century Observers (seminar) (2006)
• Explorations of Space, Mapping, and Early Modern Literature (seminar) (1998)
• Exploring Entangled Histories: Britain and Europe in the Age of the Thirty Years’ War, c.1590-1650 (conference) (2018)

F

• Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England (seminar) (2004)
• Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas (seminar) (2014)
• Force of Memory in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Culture (seminar) (2000)
• Forms of Religious Experience in the 17th-Century British Atlantic World (colloquium) (2008–2009)
• Foundations of Modern International Thought, 1494–1713 (seminar) (2002)
• Further Transactions of the Book (conference) (2006)

G

• Gender, Race, and Early Modern Studies (colloquium) (2017-2018)
• Gender and Sanctity in Counter-Reformation Europe (seminar) (1998)
• Genealogies of Britishness: A Cultural and Literary Geography (seminar) (2002)
• Going to Law (seminar) (1999)

H

• Harmony's Entrancing Power: Music in Early Modern England (seminar) (2005)
• Historicizing Shakespeare's Language: Social Discourse and Cultural Production (seminar) (2002)
• History of the Stationers' Company 1557–1710 (seminar) (2011)

I

• Image and Knowledge in Early Modern Books (seminar) (2018)
• Imagining Nature: Technologies of the Literal and the Scientific Revolution (colloquium) (2003–2004)
• Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe: From 1453 to the Death of Ahmed I (conference) (2002)
• In Praise of Scribes: Early Modern English Manuscript Culture (seminar) (2011)
• In the Maelstrom of the Market: Women and the Birth of the European Market Economy (seminar) (2005)
• India in British Political Thought, c. 1600–1800 (seminar) (2009)
• Introduction to Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2017, 2016, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
• Introduction to Research Methods at the Folger (seminar) (2013)
• Irish Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century (seminar) (1998)

J

• Jesuit Enterprises (seminar) (2008)
• Jews, Christians, and Hebraic Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (symposium) (2014)

L

• Language and Visuality in the Renaissance Aesthetics, Theology, Theatre (colloquium) (2002–2003)
• Law as Politics in England and the Empire, ca. 1600–1830 (seminar) (2013)
• Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court (seminar) (2012)
• Libelous History of England, c. 1570–1688 (seminar) (2009)
• The London Bills of Mortality (symposium) (2018)

M

• Making of Paradise Lost (seminar) (2011)
• Making of Shakespeare(s) (seminar) (2004)
• Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (seminar) (2011)
• Mapping Networks and Practices of Political Exchange in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: British Political Thought in Early Modern Europe (symposium) (2000)
• Martin Luther and the Sixteenth-Century Universe (seminar) (2006)
• Mastering Research Methods at the Folger (seminar) (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
• Mechanical Arts, Natural Philosophy, and Visual Representation in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2000)
• Mental World of Restoration England (seminar) (2007)
• Mental World of Stuart Catholicism (seminar) (1998)
• Music and Theatre 1589–1642 (seminar) (1999)
• Mutualities and Obligations: Social Relationships in Early Modern England (seminar) (2003)

N

• NEH Summer Institute: Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2001)
• NEH Summer Institute: Shakespeare from the Globe to the Global (seminar) (2011)
• Networks and Practices of Political Exchange: Britain and Europe, 1651–1748 (symposium) (2003)
• New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas (seminar) (2012)
• Novel and La Mode: Marketing Novelties 1670–1720 (seminar) (2006)

O

• Observation in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2008)
• Opera and Gendered Voices in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2007)
• Orality/Literacy Heuristic (seminar) (2013)

P

• Paleography Refresher Course (skills course) (2007)
• Pasts in Early Modern British Perception and Representation (seminar) (2017)
• Periodization and Hamlet in 2000 (seminar) (2000)
• Periodization and its Discontents: Medieval and Early Modern Pathways in Literature (seminar) (2011)
• Plotting, Probability, and Evidence in English Renaissance Drama (seminar) (2006)
• Political Theologies in Early Modern Literature (seminar) (2013)
• Political Thought in Times of Crisis, 1640-1660 (symposium) (2016)
• Practices of Piety: Lived Religion in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2001)
• Princely Magnificence and Munificence: Ritual, Precious Objects, and the Gift Cycle in Early Modern Court (seminar) (1997)
• Putney Debates, 1647 (conference) (1997)
• Puzzling Evidence (colloquium) (1999–2000)
• Puzzling Evidence: Literature and Histories (colloquium) (2000–2001)

R

• Reading the Early Modern Passions (seminar) (1999–2000)
• Reading, Writing, and Erasmus (seminar) (2010)
• Reassessing Henry VIII (workshop) (2010)
• Reformation Transformation of Visual Culture (seminar) (2005)
• Religion, Culture, and Recreation in Shakespeare's England (seminar) (1999)
• Religion, Revolution, Republicanism, and John Locke (seminar) (2005)
• Religious Conflict and Toleration in the Early Modern World (seminar) (2004)
• Remembering Theatre (seminar) (2006)
• Renaissance Fetishims: Clothes and the Fashioning of the Subject (seminar) (1998)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999.)
• Renaissance Paleography in England: An Intermediate Skills Course (2000)
• Researching the Archive(s) (seminar) (2017-2018, 2017-2018, 2016-2017, 2015-2016, 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012–2013, 2011–2012, 2010–2011, 2009–2010, 2008–2009, 2007–2008, 2005–2006, 2003–2004, 2001–2002)
• Researching the Early Modern Archive (seminar) (2000)
• Researching the Renaissance (seminar) (1999, 1997)
• Researching Theatre History (seminar) (2009)
• Rethinking Word and Image: History/Literary History/Art History (colloquium) (2004–2005)
• Rewriting the Elizabethan Stage (seminar) (2000)
• Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America (seminar) (2010)
• Rogues, Gypsies, and Outsiders: Early Modern People on the Margins (seminar) (2014)

S

• Scattered Rhymes, Bound Pages (seminar) (1999)
• Second Shepherds' Play and Early Drama Studies (workshop) (2007)
• Secularization and Selfhood (seminar) (2009)
• Sense of the Archive (seminar) (2007)
• Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama (seminar) (2012)
• Shakespeare and Performance (workshop) (2003)
• Shakespeare and Postmodernism (seminar) (1998)
• Shakespeare and Sacraments (seminar) (2012)
• Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography (conference) (2014)
• Shakespeare in American Education, 1607–1934 (conference) (2007)
• Shakespeare in an Age of Visual Culture (seminar) (1998–1999)
• Shakespeare on Screen in Theory and Practice (seminar) (2008)
• Shakespeare, Jewishness, and English Cultural Identity (seminar) (2001)
• Shakespeare’s Virtues: Ethics, Entertainment, and Education (seminar) (2017)
• Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2000)
• Spanish Connection (seminar) (2007)
• Staging Political Thought (seminar) (2007)
• State and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2006)

Shakespeare's Birthday Lectures

• • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare" (April 1996)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Boy Voices and Adult Voices on the Shakespearean Stage" (1990)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots" (2003)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Founders and the Bard" (2007)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Garrick and Theatrical Death" (2005)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Good Life in Shakespeare" (2010)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Graymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts" (2013)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Hamlet Formerly Known as Prince" (1998)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Harrying the Stage: Theatre, Bad Conscience, and Other Skills of Offence in Henry V" (1999)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Heat-Seeking Missiles: Shakespeare, Women, and the Caloric Economy in Early Modern England" (1994)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "How Shakespeare Made History" (2008)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "'Is this the promised end?': Shakespeare's King Lear" (1988)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Jessica's Daughters" (2001)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Latest Hamlet" (2000)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Love and Death in Shakespeare's Poetry" (2002)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Made in America: Shakespeare(s) for the Nineteenth Century" (2004)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Making Histories" (1991)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Measuring Performance" (1997)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen" (2011)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Sensational Shakespeare" (2009)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Shakespeare 3.0" (2006)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Shakespeare and Translation" (1993)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Shakespeare, Biography and Anti-Biography" (2014)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Shakespeare Studies and the Current `Crisis' in the Humanities" (1989)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture:"Thoroughly Modern Henry, or It is Better to Marry than to Burn" (1995)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "'Wanton Words': Shakespeare and Rhetoric" (1987)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "What Mamillius Knew: Ceremonies of Initiation in The Winter's Tale" (2012)
  • Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Worn Worlds: Clothes and Identity in Shakespeare" (1992)

T

• Teaching Book History (workshop) (2012)
• Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium) (2016-2017)
• Teaching Paleography (workshop) (2009)
• Technologies of Writing (seminar) (2005)
• Theatre and the Reformation of Space (symposium) (2009)
• Theatrical Commerce and the Repertory System in Early Modern England (seminar) (2003)
• The Embodied Senses (symposium) (2017)
• Theory and Practice of Editing (seminar) (1998)
• Theory and Practice of Scholarly Editing (seminar) (2001)
• Thinking about Poetic Genres in the Early Modern Period (seminar) (1999)
• Thinking the Revolution: American Political Thought, 1763–1789 (seminar) (2012)
• Thomas Nashe and His Contemporaries (symposium) (2017)
• Three Kingdoms in an Age of Revolution, 1660–1720 (seminar) (2003)
• Transactions of the Book (conference) (2001)

U

• The University Cultures of Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge (seminar) (2008)

V

• Vernacular Health and Healing (colloquium) (2006–2007)
• Visual Genres (seminar) (2000)
• Visualizing English Print (Seminar) (2016)
• Voice of Conscience, 1375–1613 (seminar) (2010)

W

• What Was Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century England? (symposium) (2011)
• Where Was Political Thought in England, c. 1600–1642? (symposium) (2013)
• Women Intellectuals and Political Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (seminar) (2001)
• Women on the Verge of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2003)
• Writing and Wonder: Books, Memory, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2008)
• Writing Down Experience: How-To Books and Artisanal Epistemology (seminar) (2012)

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