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)