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This article serves as a repository for present and past scholarly programming at the [[Folger Institute]].  
This article serves as a repository for past scholarly programming at the [[Folger Institute]].  


[http://www.folger.edu/fi_anniv/index.htm?CFID=59709254&CFTOKEN=18444360 Folger Institute 40th Anniversary site].
[http://www.folger.edu/fi_anniv/index.htm?CFID=59709254&CFTOKEN=18444360 Folger Institute 40th Anniversary site].


===2014-2015 Folger Institute programs===
== 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)
* [[An Anglo-American History of the KJV (conference)|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)
* [[The Creation and Use of Electronic Texts and Images (seminar)|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)
* [[The Development of Poetry from Wyatt to Donne (seminar)|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 ====
* [[The Early Modern Bible (seminar)|Early Modern Bible (seminar)]] (2002)
* [[The Early Modern Book (seminar)|Early Modern Book (seminar)]] (1998, 2000)
* [[The Early Modern Book in a Digital Age (seminar)|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)
* [[The English Grammar School: Rhetoric, Discipline, Masculinity (seminar)|English Grammar School: Rhetoric, Discipline, Masculinity (seminar)]] (2007)
* [[English Paleography (seminar)]] (2018, 2014, 2009, 2006)
* [[The English Reformation, 1500–1640: One or Many? (seminar)|English Reformation, 1500–1640: One or Many? (seminar]]) (2004)
* [[The Enlightenment and its Others: Irish, British, and American Visions (seminar)|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 ====
* [[The Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England (seminar)|Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England (seminar)]] (2004)
* [[A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas (seminar)|Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas (seminar)]] (2014)
* [[The Force of Memory in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Culture (seminar)|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)
* [[The Foundations of Modern International Thought, 1494–1713 (seminar)|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)
* [[The History of the Stationers' Company 1557–1710 (seminar)|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)
* [[The Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early Modern Europe: From 1453 to the Death of Ahmed I (conference)|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)
* [[An Introduction to Research Methods at the Folger (seminar)|Introduction to Research Methods at the Folger (seminar)]] (2013)
* [[Irish Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century (seminar)]] (1998)
 
==== J ====
* [[The Jesuit Enterprises (seminar)|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)
* [[The Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court (seminar)|Legal and Cultural Worlds of the Inns of Court (seminar)]] (2012)
* [[A Libelous History of England, c. 1570–1688 (seminar)|Libelous History of England, c. 1570–1688 (seminar)]] (2009)
* [[The London Bills of Mortality (symposium)]] (2018)
 
==== M ====
* [[The Making of Paradise Lost (seminar)|Making of Paradise Lost (seminar)]] (2011)
* [[The Making of Shakespeare(s) (seminar)|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 (seminar)|Mastering Research Methods at the Folger (seminar)]] (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
* [[Mechanical Arts, Natural Philosophy, and Visual Representation in Early Modern Europe (seminar)]] (2000)
* [[The Mental World of Restoration England (seminar)|Mental World of Restoration England (seminar)]] (2007)
* [[The Mental World of Stuart Catholicism (seminar)|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|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)
* [[A New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas (seminar)|New World of Secrets: The Hermeneutics of Discovery in the Early Americas (seminar)]] (2012)
* [[The Novel and La Mode: Marketing Novelties 1670–1720 (seminar)|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)
* [[The Orality/Literacy Heuristic (seminar)|Orality/Literacy Heuristic (seminar)]] (2013)


==== '''Renaissance/Early Modern Translation''' ====
==== P ====
:A. E. B. Coldiron
* [[Paleography Refresher Course (skills course)]] (2007)
:Year-Long Afternoon Colloquium
* [[Pasts in Early Modern British Perception and Representation (seminar)]] (2017)
* [[Periodization and Hamlet in 2000 (seminar)]] (2000)
This colloquium is designed for faculty members and advanced graduate students working on projects about the theory and practice of early modern translation, and most sessions will center on developing the pre-circulated work of participants. Because translation was a pervasive mode of literary-cultural transformation in the Renaissance, and because translation now challenges major critical categories such as authorship and periodization, it animates historical and theoretical inquiries alike. Current database projects such as the Universal Short Title Catalogue and the Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue  have expanded our factual basis for studying translations; after the cultural turn in translation studies, new scholarship has theorized and historicized translation. In light of this new work, the colloquium will rethink perennial Renaissance topics such as the appropriation of antiquity, emergent literary nationhoods, and vernacularity. Gender, empire, textuality, multilingualism, and the transculturation of ideologies, for example, may also inform our work. Other welcome topics include the so-called “untranslatables” (such as translated literary genres and forms, music, clothing, or architecture). Both early modern and contemporary translation theories will ground our reading of the translations treated in participants’ projects.
* [[Periodization and its Discontents: Medieval and Early Modern Pathways in Literature (seminar)]] (2011)
* [[Plotting, Probability, and Evidence in English Renaissance Drama (seminar)]] (2006)
'''Director''': A. E. B. Coldiron is Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in French at Florida State University. She serves on the editorial board of the Tudor and Stuart Translations series for the ''Modern Humanities Research Association''. Author of numerous articles and three books on early modern and late-medieval translation, her most recent title is ''Printers Without Borders: Englishing Texts in the Renaissance'' (forthcoming 2014).
* [[Political Theologies in Early Modern Literature (seminar)]] (2013)
* [[Political Thought in Times of Crisis, 1640-1660 (symposium)]] (2016)
'''Schedule''': Fridays, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m., 10 October, 7 November, 5 December 2014; 16 January, 20 February, 20 March, 24 April, and 22 May 2015.
* [[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)
'''Apply''': 2 June 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid; 5 September 2014 for admission only.
* [[The Putney Debates, 1647 (conference)|Putney Debates, 1647 (conference)]] (1997)
* [[Puzzling Evidence (colloquium)]] (1999–2000)
* [[Puzzling Evidence: Literature and Histories (colloquium)]] (2000–2001)


==== '''Researching the Archive''' ====
==== R ====
:Jean E. Howard and Pamela H. Smith
* [[Reading the Early Modern Passions (seminar)]] (1999–2000)
:Year-long Dissertation Seminar
* [[Reading, Writing, and Erasmus (seminar)]] (2010)
* [[Reassessing Henry VIII (workshop)]] (2010)
Designed for doctoral candidates in History and English at work on their dissertations, this monthly seminar will address the scholarly issues raised by the projects of its participants and by the kinds of archival material under investigation. It will encourage participants to consider their projects in the context of broad methodological and theoretical problems in early modern studies, especially in collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship. It will scrutinize the evidentiary use of primary sources, whether those at the Folger Shakespeare Library or available online. Applicants should consult with their dissertation directors before applying to ensure that their work is at a stage that would benefit from the seminar. Admission will depend in part on the dissertation director’s written certification of that fact, with preference given to candidates who have completed course work and preliminary exams or the equivalent. Applicants should be preparing a prospectus or beginning to write chapters. Those whose dissertations are substantially complete will not be competitive applicants. Preference will also be given to those who will make significant use of the Library’s collections as part of each monthly visit. The grant-in-aid allows for an average of two nights’ stay per session.
* [[Reformation Transformation of Visual Culture (seminar)]] (2005)
* [[Religion, Culture, and Recreation in Shakespeare's England (seminar)]] (1999)
'''Co-Directors''': Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature and the history of theater. Her 2008 book, ''Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642'', won the Bernard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research. She is completing work on the 3rd edition of The Norton Shakespeare and a new book on the history play from Shakespeare to Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill. Pamela H. Smith is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of books on alchemy, artisans, and the making of knowledge. Recent ones include ''The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution'' (2004) and ''Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge'' (with Amy R. W. Meyers and Harold C. Cook, 2014). Her present research reconstructs the vernacular knowledge of early modern European miners and metalworkers.
* [[Religion, Revolution, Republicanism, and John Locke (seminar)]] (2005)
* [[Religious Conflict and Toleration in the Early Modern World (seminar)]] (2004)
'''Schedule''': Fridays, 1:00 – 4:30 pm., 3 October, 24 October, 21 November, 6 December 2014 (a Saturday); 23 January, 13 February, 13 March, and 10 April 2015.
* [[Remembering Theatre (seminar)]] (2006)
* [[Renaissance Fetishims: Clothes and the Fashioning of the Subject (seminar)]] (1998)
'''Apply''': 2 June 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid. Please note that eligibility is restricted to consortium affiliates only.
* [[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 (seminar)|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 Archive (seminar)|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 (NEH Summer Institute)|Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America (seminar)]] (2010)
* [[Rogues, Gypsies, and Outsiders: Early Modern People on the Margins (seminar)]] (2014)


==== '''Narratives of Conversion in Reformation Europe, ca. 1550-1700''' ====
==== S ====
:Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith
* [[Scattered Rhymes, Bound Pages (seminar)]] (1999)
:Fall Faculty Weekend Seminar
* [[The Second Shepherds' Play and Early Drama Studies (workshop)|Second Shepherds' Play and Early Drama Studies (workshop)]] (2007)
* [[Secularization and Selfhood (seminar)]] (2009)
Can there be conversion without narrative? This seminar investigates the narrative sources and the source narratives of conversion produced in Europe and its colonies in an age that witnessed not only the Protestant and Catholic Reformations (as well as the so-called voyages of “discovery”) but also the apogee of Ottoman power in Europe and the Mediterranean. Twelve to sixteen faculty participants will collaboratively consider the place and effect of narrative structures in religious change, and the diversity of narratives (from court records to letters, and from painting to poetry) which articulate conversion as concept and practice. Issues include whether narratives are necessarily social, and what kinds of identity were called into being by the fragmented narratives of transformation and by the possibility of one individual existing under multiple names and within multiple narrative arcs. Are particular narratives specific to confessions? Is there a Catholic or Protestant conversion narrative, or do the two share tropes for conversion as the intensification of feeling? The seminar welcomes literary critics, historians, art historians, and scholars of religion and material culture with current research projects that challenge the concept that the conversion narrative exists as a coherent genre, and that investigate the narrative seepages, transformations, and turns that structured and effected individual and social conversions.
* [[A Sense of the Archive (seminar)|Sense of the Archive (seminar)]] (2007)
* [[Sexuality, Theory, History, Drama (seminar)]] (2012)
'''Co-Directors''': Simon Ditchfield is Reader in History at the University of York. He recently published ''Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World'' (2013, with Katherine Van Liere and Howard Louthan). He is currently completing a volume for the Oxford History of the Christian Church series entitled, ''Papacy and Peoples: The Making of Roman Catholicism as a World Religion 1500-1700''. Helen Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. Her publications include ''Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England'' (2012) and ''Renaissance Paratexts'' (co-edited with Louise Wilson, 2013). Together they directed the AHRC project ''Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe''. Their edited collection on Gender and Conversion is forthcoming.
* [[Shakespeare and Performance (workshop)]] (2003)
* [[Shakespeare and Postmodernism (seminar)]] (1998)
'''Schedule''': All day Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 September 2014.
* [[Shakespeare and Sacraments (seminar)]] (2012)
* [[Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography (conference)]] (2014)
'''Apply''': 2 June 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid.
* [[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)
* [[The Spanish Connection (seminar)|Spanish Connection (seminar)]] (2007)
* [[Staging Political Thought (seminar)]] (2007)
* [[The State and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe (seminar)|State and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe (seminar)]] (2006)
==== Shakespeare's Birthday Lectures====


==== '''Performing Restoration Shakespeare''' ====
** Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Bearded Ladies in Shakespeare" (April 1996)
:Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch
** Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Boy Voices and Adult Voices on the Shakespearean Stage" (1990)
:Fall Weekend Workshop
** [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots"]] (2003)
** [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Founders and the Bard"]] (2007)
In most studies of Restoration Shakespeare, the overwhelming concentration on textual adaptation loses sight of the reality that it was multimedia theatre, featuring music, dance, and scenery. This workshop will redress the imbalance by asking some new questions: How can direct engagement with theatrical performance enrich an understanding of Restoration Shakespeare? How can theatre practice articulate meaningful research questions? Participants will tackle these questions through an innovative workshop that integrates hands-on practical work in the [[Folger Theatre]]—with actors, musicians, and singers—with scholarly readings and discussion. To focus this activity, participants and professionals will stage and analyze selected scenes from William Davenant’s operatic version of ''Macbeth'' (ca. 1663/4, with additional revivals in 1673, ca. 1695, and 1702) and Charles Gildon’s adaptation of ''Measure for Measure'' (1700). With the musical contributions of [[Folger Consort]] Co-Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein and other performaning artists, the workshop promises to open up new areas for studying and teaching Restoration Shakespeare by combining primary sources from the Folger’s collections (including musical scores, promptbooks, and performance iconography), an interdisciplinary approach that unites musicology and theatre history, and a willingness to see performance theory and performance practice as mutually enriching.
** [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Garrick and Theatrical Death"]] (2005)
** [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Good Life in Shakespeare"]] (2010)
'''Co-Directors''': Amanda Eubanks Winker is Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University. She is author of ''O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage'' (2006) and ''Music for Macbeth'' (2004). Her current book project concerns music and dance in early modern English schools. Richard Schoch is Professor of Drama at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of ''Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage'' (1998) and ''Not Shakespeare'' (2002) and the editor of ''Great Shakespeareans: Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving'' (2011) and ''Victorian Theatrical Burlesques'' (2003). He is currently writing a book on British theatre historiography from the Restoration to the Twentieth Century.
** [[Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "Graymalkin and Other Shakespearean Celts"]] (2013)
**Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture: "The Hamlet Formerly Known as Prince" (1998)
'''Schedule''': All day Friday and Saturday, 14 and 15 November.
**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)
'''Apply''': 5 September 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid.
** [[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|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: Brian Cummings: Shakespeare, Biography and Anti-Biography (2014)|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"|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)


==== '''Science in Early Modern Atlantic World Cultures''' ====
==== T ====
:María M. Portuondo
* [[Teaching Book History (workshop)]] (2012)
:Fall Semester Seminar
* [[Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance (colloquium)]] (2016-2017)
* [[Teaching Paleography (workshop)]] (2009)
Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the lens through which early modern Europeans understood the natural world changed dramatically. The framework of natural philosophy that had long served Europeans collapsed in the face of contact with the Americas, an increasing skepticism about ancient philosophies, and the development of a new experimental science that in the words of Francis Bacon promised to “try the whole thing anew.” This seminar will explore how these and other changes in natural philosophy were reflected in a wide range of cultural products created or consumed in the early modern Atlantic world. Participants will study natural philosophical ideas as they appeared in literary genres such as poetry, utopias, and travel narratives. They will also examine the visual culture of this Atlantic space for clues about changing conceptions of the natural world. The expedition will encompass Anglophone, French, Portuguese and Hispanic regions and will pay careful attention to hybrid cultural products that reflect the interaction between indigenous cultures and the (changing) European understanding of the natural world.
* [[Technologies of Writing (seminar)]] (2005)
* [[Theatre and the Reformation of Space (symposium)]] (2009)
'''Director''': María M. Portuondo is Associate Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Her book, ''Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World'' (2009), studied how Spanish cosmographers sought to integrate the New World into the conceptual framework of Renaissance science. Her current focus is on the natural philosopher and biblical scholar, Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598).
* [[Theatrical Commerce and the Repertory System in Early Modern England (seminar)]] (2003)
* [[The Embodied Senses (symposium)]] (2017)
'''Schedule''': Fridays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 3 October through 12 December 2014, excluding 10 October, 7 November, and 28 November. The first and last sessions will convene from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
* [[Theory and Practice of Editing (seminar)]] (1998)
* [[The Theory and Practice of Scholarly Editing (seminar)|Theory and Practice of Scholarly Editing (seminar)]] (2001)
'''Apply''': 2 June 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid; 5 September 2014 for admission only for consortium members, and grants-in-aid for non-consortium members.  Support from The Kislak Family Foundation extends grant-in-aid eligibility to graduate students and faculty nationwide.
* [[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)
* [[The Three Kingdoms in an Age of Revolution, 1660–1720 (seminar)|Three Kingdoms in an Age of Revolution, 1660–1720 (seminar)]] (2003)
* [[Transactions of the Book (conference)]] (2001)


==== '''Advanced Early Modern English Paleography''' ====
==== U ====
:Heather Wolfe
* The [[The University Cultures of Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge (seminar)|University Cultures of Early Modern Oxford and Cambridge (seminar)]] (2008)
:December Weeklong Workshop
This workshop provides intermediate and advanced paleographers with the opportunity to tackle some of the Folger's many challenging manuscripts in a collaborative environment. It is part of the Folger [[Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)]] project, which is funded by a major grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Twelve to sixteen participants will select manuscripts from the Folger collections to transcribe while beta-testing a newly developed transcription software platform. They will work with the EMMO project team to refine their transcriptions before contributing them to the EMMO corpus. Some sessions will be devoted to participants' describing the research questions that currently engage them, evaluating each others' trranscriptions, and discussing digital mark-up and quality control issues. (No previous mark-up experience is necessary). In their application materials, applicants should describe the means by which they acquired their paleographic skill. Applicants are also welcome to indicate which previously unedited Folger manuscript or manuscripts they would be interested in transcribing.
'''Director''': Heather Wolfe is Curator of Manuscripts at the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. She has written various essays on early modern manuscript culture, and has most recently edited ''The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680'' (2007) and ''The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile Edition of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232'' (2007).
'''Schedule''': All day Monday through Friday, 8 – 12 December 2014.
'''Apply''': 5 September 2014. IMLS funding and funding from other sources extends travel and lodging award eligibility to all admitted participants.


==== '''Shakespeare’s Language''' ====
==== V ====
:Lynne Magnusson
* [[Vernacular Health and Healing (colloquium)]] (2006–2007)
:Spring Symposium
* [[Visual Genres (seminar)]] (2000)
* [[Visualizing English Print (Seminar)]] (2016)
If the Muses themselves spoke English, they would speak with “Shakespeare’s fine-filed phrase,” Francis Meres commented in 1598, suggesting that Shakespeare’s linguistic art tapped the emerging potential of the English language and extended its resources. Sponsored by the [[Folger Institute]] [[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive|Center for Shakespeare Studies]] as part of its triennial anniversary programming, this symposium will gather several dozen scholars with relevant research and teaching interests to explore Shakespeare’s still resonant language. With the help of invited session leaders, participants will consider reinvigorated contexts and new tools for its illumination and assessment. Four hundred years on, linguistic change is itself an important context, and the symposium will address not only variation in early modern English but also the effects of subsequent language change, changing perceptions of English, and translation on Shakespeare’s verbal art and its reception. Revisiting Renaissance education in the arts of language, symposium participants will ask how new perspectives on the everyday theatricality of the Latin schoolroom or its grammatical and rhetorical culture might inflect understanding of Shakespeare’s language. Turning to current-day tools, the symposium will look at how discourse analysis has developed beyond speech-act theory, whether reading Shakespeare’s performative utterance as passionate action, cognitive processing, or dialogic negotiation. With computer-assisted analysis of texts and large corpora rapidly transforming language study, the symposium will also create opportunities to try out some relevant tools for digital text-analysis.
* [[The Voice of Conscience, 1375–1613 (seminar)|Voice of Conscience, 1375–1613 (seminar)]] (2010)
'''Organizer''': Lynne Magnusson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is currently working on a book on ''The Transformation of the English Letter, 1500-1620'', a second book on ways to rethink Shakespeare’s language historically, and an edition of [[William Shakespeare’s sonnets]].
'''Schedule''': The symposium opens Thursday evening, 16 April, when Professor Magnusson will deliver Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture on “Shakespeare and the Language of Possibility,” and will continue all day Friday and Saturday, 17 – 18 April 2015. Invited session leaders will pose framing questions that invite general discussion.
'''Apply''': 12 January 2015 for admission and grants-in-aid.


==== '''The Scale of Catastrophe: Ecology and Transition, Medieval to Early Modern''' ====
==== W ====
:Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
* [[What Was Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century England? (symposium)]] (2011)
:Spring Semester Seminar
* [[Where Was Political Thought in England, c. 1600–1642? (symposium)]] (2013)
* [[Women Intellectuals and Political Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (seminar)]] (2001)
Medieval and early modern texts share a vocabulary for catastrophe that intermixes deluge (the Flood that only Noah and his family survived) and incineration (the advent of apocalypse and the purging of the mortal world). Although one was in the distant past and never supposed to arrive again, the other to blaze forth at some uncertain future, both fire and flood tended to be invoked to mark historical breaks and anxious moments of transition. This seminar will pair medieval texts fascinated by survival in the face of cataclysm with early modern ones that carry the stories they offer into new realms. Participants will investigate the scale of catastrophe stories, where scale is both size (local versus cosmic) and structure, a ladder (scala) that arranges nature into a hierarchy. They will also consider the gender of catastrophe, and map whether women tell different stories against and within catastrophe from men. Readings frequently pair medieval texts with early modern ones that reinterpreted them. Medieval primary texts may include Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History, Des Grantz Geanz, the Chester play of Noah’s Flood, and Chaucer’s “Franklin’s Tale” and “Miller’s Tale.” Early modern readings may include Hooke’s ''Micrographia'', Raleigh’s ''Discovery of Guyana'', Holinshed’s ''Chronicles'', and several plays by Shakespeare before considering Defoe’s ''Robinson Crusoe''.
* [[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)
'''Director''': Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at The George Washington University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including ''Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green'' (2013), ''Medieval Identity Machines'' (2003), and ''Monster Theory: Reading Culture'' (1996). His book ''Stories of Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman'' is forthcoming.
* [[Writing Down Experience: How-To Books and Artisanal Epistemology (seminar)]] (2012)
'''Schedule''': Thursdays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 29 January through 23 April 2015, excluding 12 March, 2 April, and 9 April.
'''Apply''': 5 September 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid; 12 January 2015 for admission only.


==== '''Debating Capitalism: Early Modern Political Economies''' ====
== Programs by year ==
:Julia Rudolph  and Carl Wennerlind
*[[2020-2021 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
:Spring Semester Seminar
Emerging discourses of political economy offered a series of powerful analytical frameworks for understanding and shaping the profound changes underway in early modern Europe and its empires. Sponsored by the Center for the History of British Political Thought, this seminar will trace a number of different traditions of political economy, primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explore some of the vibrant debates that took place over the nature of improvement and prosperity. Participants will explore the interplay between self-interest and moral sentiments, the ethics of pleasure and luxury, the changing definitions of credit and reputation, and the growing problems of poverty, inequality, and criminality. Careful attention will be paid to the ways in which political economy was embedded in discourses about natural history and religion, moral philosophy and political theory, gender and law. The seminar will mix readings in sources and recent scholarship with discussion of seminar members’ projects on these and related themes. Canonical (Locke, Mandeville, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith) and quasi-canonical writings on political economy will be studied alongside related literary and legal texts. While the majority of the readings will come from England, Scotland, and France, others, to be read in translation, were produced in the Dutch Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden.
'''Co-Directors''': Julia Rudolph is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Her most recent publication is ''Common Law and Enlightenment in England 1689-1750'' (2013), and she is currently at work on two new projects: one about the history of English mortgage law and one about the history of judicial power in early modern Ireland. Carl Wennerlind is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. After publishing ''Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720'' (2011), he is currently working on two books, one about the history of the idea of scarcity and one about science, spirituality, and political economy during Sweden’s “Age of Greatness.”
'''Schedule''': Thursdays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 29 January through 23 April 2015, excluding 19 February, 12 March, and 9 April.
'''Apply''': 5 September 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid; 12 January 2015 for admission only.


==== '''A Folger Introduction to Research Methods and Agendas''' ====
*[[2019-2020 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
:Alan B. Farmer
:Spring Semester Seminar


This seminar will illustrate and exemplify graduate-level work in the humanities, surveying the tools of research in early modern studies through a semester-long immersion in one of the world’s major Renaissance collections. Representative fields and approaches addressed will include various forms of historiography (e.g., theatrical, cultural, social, scientific, and political), the book as a material object, the visual analysis of images, manuscript studies, and editorial practice. Participants will develop their research skills through a series of exercises linked to the strengths and ranges of the collection and current trends and debates in scholarship. They will develop potential research projects; identify and discuss theses and hypotheses; and engage with the varieties of expertise found in the scholarly community at the Folger Shakespeare Library, including those of fellows and professional staff. Each student will assemble a portfolio of exercises throughout the term, with copies of all to be shared so that students are prepared for further graduate work with a broad-based sourcebook for early modern studies.
*[[2018-2019 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
'''Director''': Alan B. Farmer is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is the co-creator (with Zachary Lesser) of [http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/ DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks] and the co-editor (with Adam Zucker) of ''Localizing Caroline Drama'' (2006). The author of essays on Jonson, Shakespeare, and the early modern book trade, he is currently completing book projects on print and popularity in Shakespeare’s England and on playbooks, newsbooks, and the politics of the Thirty Years’ War in England.
'''Schedule''': Fridays, 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 6 February through 24 April 2015, excluding 3 April and 10 April.
'''Apply''': 2 December 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid. The course is designed for students in the first two years of graduate study. Applicants should briefly describe their ambitions for graduate study and indicate their understanding of the role of research in those studies. Examples may be drawn from their undergraduate courses as well as from their graduate courses.


==== '''Afterlife of the Reformation: Embodied Souls and their Rivals''' ====
*[[2017-2018 Scholarly Programs]]
:Brad Gregory
:Spring Semester Seminar
Since the sixteenth century, the embodied souls of medieval Latin Christianity have both persisted and been reinterpreted in myriad ways. Conceptions of human corporeality have converged in the modern era with the advance of modern biology and medicine, whereas conceptions of human souls have diverged in an open-ended range of religious and secular views about what human beings are. The early modern period lies at the heart of these processes, as Catholic and Protestant controversialists squared off with conflicting theological anthropologies, learned scholars revived and transformed ancient philosophical ideas, extra-European peoples presented different views of human beings, and foundationalist philosophers sought to answer on the basis of reason alone what human beings are and what they should be. This multidisciplinary seminar seeks advanced graduate students as well as faculty working on projects that address conceptions of human nature from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It welcomes historians of ideas, religion, culture, the body, and medicine, as well as scholars from departments of literature, religious studies, political science, theology, and philosophy with projects anchored in early modern Europe, including its colonial and global commercial contexts. Participants will have opportunities to share their work-in-progress, whether dissertation chapters, book chapters, or articles.
'''Director''': Brad Gregory is Professor of History and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, ''The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society'' (2012), examined the continuing impact of the Reformation era’s conflicts on the contemporary Western world. He is currently working on a history of rival views of human nature from the Middle Ages to the present.
'''Schedule''': Fridays, 1 – 4:30 p.m., 6 February through 24 April 2015, excluding 6 March and 3 April.
'''Apply''': 5 September 2014 for admission and grants-in-aid; 12 January 2015 for admission only.


*[[2016-2017 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]


== Past programs==
*[[2015–2016 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
===2011-present===


*[[Jews, Christians, and Hebraic Scholarship in Early Modern Europe (symposium)]] (2014)
*[[2014–2015 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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 Archive (seminar)|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 (seminar)|Mastering Research Methods at the Folger (seminar)]] (2011)
*[[Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (seminar)]] (2011)


===2005-2010===
*[[2013–2014 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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 Methods (seminar)|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 Archive (seminar)|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 Methods (seminar)|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 Archive (seminar)|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 Archive (seminar)|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 Archive (seminar)|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===
*[[2012–2013 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Rethinking Word and Image: History/Literary History/Art History (colloquium)]] (2004-2005)
 
*[[Religious Conflict and Toleration in the Early Modern World (seminar)]] (2004)
*[[2011–2012 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Culinary Cartographies: Food, Gender, and Race in the Early Modern Black Atlantic (seminar)]]
 
*[[Emerging Ethnographies in Shakespeare's England (seminar)]] (2004)
*[[2010–2011 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Renaissance Paleography in England (skills course)]] (2004)
 
*[[Early Modern Scientific and Intellectual Biography (seminar)]] (2004)
*[[2009–2010 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[The Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England (seminar)]] (2004)
 
*[[The Making of Shakespeare(s) (seminar)]] (2004)
*[[2008–2009 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Early Modern Embodiment (seminar)]] (2004)
 
*[[The English Reformation, 1500-1640: One or Many? (seminar)]] (2004)
*[[2007–2008 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Imagining Nature: Technologies of the Literal and the Scientific Revolution (colloquium)]] (2003-2004)
 
*[[Researching the Archive (seminar)]] (2003-2004)
*[[2006–2007 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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)
*[[2005–2006 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Theatrical Commerce and the Reportory System in Early Modern England (seminar)]] (2003)
 
*[[Shakespeare and Performance (workshop)]] (2003)
*[[2004–2005 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Artifice and Authenticity: The Ambiguity of Early Modern Venice (seminar)]] (2003)
 
*[[The Early Modern Book in a Digital Age (seminar)]] (2003)
*[[2003–2004 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Mutualities and Obligations: Social Relationships in Early Modern England (seminar)]] (2003)
 
*[[1603: Kingship Renewed (seminar)]] (2003)
*[[2002–2003 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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)
*[[2001–2002 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[The Enlightenment and its Others: Irish, British, and American Visions (seminar)]] (2003)
 
*[[Language and Visuality in the Renaissance Aesthetics, Theology, Theatre (colloquium)]] (2002-2003)
*[[2000–2001 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[The Early Modern Bible (seminar)]] (2002)
 
*[[Genealogies of Britishness: A Cultural and Literary Geography (seminar)]] (2002)
*[[1999–2000 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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)
*[[1998–1999 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[Historicizing Shakespeare's Language: Social Discourse and Cultural Production (seminar)]] (2002)
 
*[[Early Modern Paris (seminar)]] (2002)
*[[1997–1998 Folger Institute Scholarly Programs]]
*[[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 Archive (seminar)|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 ===
[[Category: Folger Institute]]
*[[Reading the Early Modern Passions (seminar)]] (1999-2000)
[[Category: Scholarly programs]]
*[[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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