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

2011-present

• Jews, Christians, and Hebraic Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (symposium) (2014)
• Rogues, Gypsies, and Outsiders: Early Modern People on the Margins (seminar) (2014)
• Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography (conference) (2014)
• A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas (seminar) (2014)
• Constructing and Representing Authorship in Early Modern England (colloquium) (2013)
• Entangled Trajectories: Integrating European and Native American Histories (seminar) (2013)
• Political Theologies in Early Modern Literature (seminar) (2013)
• Where Was Political Thought in England, c. 1600-1642? (symposium) (2013)
• English Paleography (seminar) (2013)
• Law as Politics in England and the Empire, ca. 1600-1830 (seminar) (2013)
• An Introduction to Research Methods at the Folger (seminar) (2013)
• Acquiring Education: Early Modern Women's Pedagogies (seminar) (2013)
• Contestations of Religion and Natural History in the Atlantic World (seminar) (2013)
• The Orality/Literacy Heuristic (seminar) (2013)
• Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective (conference) (2012)
• Researching the Archive (seminar) (2012-2013)
• Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama (seminar) (2012)
• Introduction to Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2012)
• Teaching Book History (workshop) (2012)
• The Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court (seminar) (2012)
• Writing Down Experience: How-To Books and Artisanal Epistemology (seminar) (2012)
• Thinking the Revolution: American Political Thought, 1763-1789 (seminar) (2012)
• Mastering Research Methods (seminar) (2012)
• A New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas (seminar) (2012)
• Shakespeare and Sacraments (seminar) (2012)
• An Anglo-American History of the KJV (conference) (2011)
• Periodization and its Discontents: Medieval and Early Modern Pathways in Literature (seminar) (2011)
• Editing and its Futures (seminar) (2011)
• Researching the Archives (seminar) (2011-2012)
• Introduction to Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2011)
• NEH Summer Institute: Shakespeare from the Globe to the Global (seminar) (2011)
• Early Modern Translation: Theory, History, Practice (conference) (2011)
• What Was Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century England? (symposium) (2011)
• In Praise of Scribes: Early Modern English Manuscript Culture (seminar) (2011)
• The Making of Paradise Lost (seminar) (2011)
• The History of the Stationers' Company 1557-1710 (seminar) (2011)
• Mastering Research Methods at the Folger (seminar) (2011)
• Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (seminar) (2011)

2005-2010

• Researching the Archive (seminar) (2010-2011)
• Empire and Culture in the Early Modern English Caribbean (seminar) (2010)
• Introduction to Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2010)
• Reassessing Henry VIII (workshop) (2010)
• Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America (seminar) (2010)
• Mastering Research at the Folger (seminar) (2010)
• Crossroads of Amsterdam (seminar) (2010)
• Reading, Writing, and Erasmus (seminar) (2010)
• The Voice of Conscience, 1375-1613 (seminar) (2010)
• Researching the Archives (seminar) (2009-2010)
• Theatre and the Reformation of Space (symposium) (2009)
• Contact and Exchange: China and the West (conference) (2009)
• India in British Political Thought, c. 1600-1800 (seminar) (2009)
• Ben Jonson, Man of Letters (seminar) (2009)
• Teaching Paleography (workshop) (2009)
• English Paleography (seminar) (2009)
• Mastering Research at the Folger (seminar) (2009)
• A Libelous History of England, c. 1570-1688 (seminar) (2009)
• Introduction to Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2009)
• Researching Theatre History (seminar) (2009)
• Empire and Cosmopolis: Universalism from Rome to Washington (seminar) (2009)
• Changing Conceptions of Property (seminar) (2009)
• Secularization and Selfhood (seminar) (2009)
• Researching the Archives (seminar) (2008-2009)
• Forms of Religious Experience in the 17th-Century British Atlantic World (colloquium) (2008-2009)
• The University Cultures of Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge (seminar) (2008)
• The Development of Poetry from Wyatt to Donne (seminar) (2008)
• Anonymity (seminar) (2008)
• Connections, Trust, and Causation in Economic History (seminar) (2008)
• British Political Thought in an Age of Globalization, c. 1750-1800 (symposium) (2008)
• Observation in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2008)
• The Jesuit Enterprises (seminar) (2008)
• Shakespeare on Screen in Theory and Practice (seminar) (2008)
• Writing and Wonder: Books, Memory, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2008)
• The Annual Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "How Shakespeare Made History" (2008)
• Researching the Archives (seminar) (2007-2008)
• The Second Shepherds' Play and Early Drama Studies (workshop) (2007)
• Constantinople/Istanbul: Destination, Way-Station, City of Renegades (seminar) (2007)
• Opera and Gendered Voices in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2007)
• Early Modern English Paleography (skills course) (2007)
• Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Founders and the Bard" (2007)
• Paleography Refresher Course (skills course) (2007)
• The English Grammar School: Rhetoric, Discipline, Masculinity (seminar) (2007)
• The Mental World of Restoration England (seminar) (2007)
• A Sense of the Archive (seminar) (2007)
• Shakespeare in American Education, 1607-1934 (conference) (2007)
• Staging Political Thought (seminar) (2007)
• The Spanish Connection (seminar) (2007)
• Vernacular Health and Healing (colloquium) (2006-2007)
• Martin Luther and the Sixteenth-Century Universe (seminar) (2006)
• The Novel and La Mode: Marketing Novelties 1670-1720 (seminar) (2006)
• Further Transactions of the Book (conference) (2006)
• The State and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2006)
• Accessorizing the Renaissance (seminar) (2006)
• Europe and the Americas: Human and Natural Worlds in the Eyes of Sixteenth-Century Observers (seminar) (2006)
• Remembering Theatre (seminar) (2006)
• Plotting, Probability, and Evidence in English Renaissance Drama (seminar) (2006)
• Researching the Archives (seminar) (2005-2006)
• Harmony's Entrancing Power: Music in Early Modern England (seminar) (2005)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2005)
• Religion, Revolution, Republicanism, and John Locke (seminar) (2005)
• Early Modern Terrorism? The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 & its Aftermath (workshop) (2005)
• British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory (conference) (2005)
• In the Maelstrom of the Market: Women and the Birth of the European Market Economy (seminar) (2005)
• Early Modern Books and Readers (seminar) (2005)
• Ballads, Broadsides, and Eighteenth-Century Culture (seminar) (2005)
• Technologies of Writing (seminar) (2005)
• Reformation Transformation of Visual Culture (seminar) (2005)
• Garrick and Theatrical Death (lecture) (2005)

2000-2004

• Rethinking Word and Image: History/Literary History/Art History (colloquium) (2004-2005)
• Religious Conflict and Toleration in the Early Modern World (seminar) (2004)
• Culinary Cartographies: Food, Gender, and Race in the Early Modern Black Atlantic (seminar)
• Emerging Ethnographies in Shakespeare's England (seminar) (2004)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2004)
• Early Modern Scientific and Intellectual Biography (seminar) (2004)
• The Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England (seminar) (2004)
• The Making of Shakespeare(s) (seminar) (2004)
• Early Modern Embodiment (seminar) (2004)
• The English Reformation, 1500-1640: One or Many? (seminar) (2004)
• Imagining Nature: Technologies of the Literal and the Scientific Revolution (colloquium) (2003-2004)
• Researching the Archive (seminar) (2003-2004)
• Networks and Practices of Political Exchange: Britain and Europe, 1651-1748 (symposium) (2003)
• The Three Kingdoms in an Age of Revolution, 1660-1720 (seminar) (2003)
• Theatrical Commerce and the Reportory System in Early Modern England (seminar) (2003)
• Shakespeare and Performance (workshop) (2003)
• Artifice and Authenticity: The Ambiguity of Early Modern Venice (seminar) (2003)
• The Early Modern Book in a Digital Age (seminar) (2003)
• Mutualities and Obligations: Social Relationships in Early Modern England (seminar) (2003)
• 1603: Kingship Renewed (seminar) (2003)
• Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots" (2003)
• Women on the Verge of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2003)
• The Enlightenment and its Others: Irish, British, and American Visions (seminar) (2003)
• Language and Visuality in the Renaissance Aesthetics, Theology, Theatre (colloquium) (2002-2003)
• The Early Modern Bible (seminar) (2002)
• Genealogies of Britishness: A Cultural and Literary Geography (seminar) (2002)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2002)
• The Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe: From 1453 to the Death of Ahmed I (conference) (2002)
• Historicizing Shakespeare's Language: Social Discourse and Cultural Production (seminar) (2002)
• Early Modern Paris (seminar) (2002)
• The Foundations of Modern International Thought, 1494-1713 (seminar) (2002)
• Researching the Archive (seminar) (2001-2002)
• Transactions of the Book (conference) (2001)
• Practices of Piety: Lived Religion in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2001)
• The Theory and Practice of Scholarly Editing (seminar) (2001)
• Divulging Household Privacies: The Politics of Domesticity from the Caroline Court to Paradise Lost (seminar) (2001)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2001)
• Comus: A Workshop (2001)
• Women Intellectuals and Political Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (seminar) (2001)
• Shakespeare, Jewishness, and English Cultural Identity (seminar) (2001)
• The Early Modern Book in a Digital Age (seminar) (2001)
• "The Times are Auspicious", British Art and the French Revolution (seminar) (2001)
• Puzzling Evidence: Literature and Histories (colloquium) (2000-2001)
• Rewriting the Elizabethan Stage (seminar) (2000)
• Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2000)
• Visual Genres (seminar) (2000)
• Defining the Court's Political Thought (seminar) (2000)
• Renaissance Paleography in England: An Intermediate Skills Course (2000)
• The Force of Memory in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Culture (seminar) (2000)
• Researching the Early Modern Archive (seminar) (2000)
• Between Worlds: Cultural Mixture and Translation (seminar) (2000)
• Periodization and Hamlet in 2000 (seminar) (2000)
• Mechanical Arts, Natural Philosophy, and Visual Representation in Early Modern Europe (seminar) (2000)
• The Early Modern Book (seminar) (2000)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (2000)
• Mapping Networks and Practices of Political Exchange in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: British Political Thought in Early Modern Europe (symposium) (2000)

1997-1999

• Reading the Early Modern Passions (seminar) (1999-2000)
• Puzzling Evidence (colloquium) (1999-2000)
• Divine Art/Infernal Machine: Exploring Attitudes toward Printing in the Age of the Hand Press (seminar) (1999)
• Thinking about Poetic Genres in the Early Modern Period (seminar) (1999)
• Domestic Servants and Apprentices in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Social History (seminar) (1999)
• Researching the Renaissance (seminar) (1999)
• Music and Theatre 1589-1642 (seminar) (1999)
• Going to Law (seminar) (1999)
• Scattered Rhymes, Bound Pages (seminar) (1999)
• Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course) (1999)
• Religion, Culture, and Recreation in Shakespeare's England (seminar) (1999)
• Shakespeare in an Age of Visual Culture (seminar) (1998-1999)
• The Mental World of Stuart Catholicism (seminar) (1998)
• Atlantic Matters (seminar) (1998)
• Gender and Sanctity in Counter-Reformation Europe (seminar) (1998)
• Renaissance Fetishims: Clothes and the Fashioning of the Subject (seminar) (1998)
• The Early Modern Book (seminar) (1998)
• Shakespeare and Postmodernism (seminar) (1998)
• Explorations of Space, Mapping, and Early Modern Literature (seminar) (1998)
• Theory and Practice of Editing (seminar) (1998)
• Irish Political Thought of the Eighteenth Century (seminar) (1998)
• The Putney Debates, 1647 (conference) (1997)
• The Creation and Use of Electronic Texts and Images (seminar) (1997)
• Researching the Renaissance (seminar) (1997)
• Princely Magnificence and Munificence: Ritual, Precious Objects, and the Gift Cycle in Early Modern Court (seminar) (1997)
• Constructing the Early Modern (seminar) (1997)

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