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
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
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)