Events

Newberry Library Renaissance Studies Conference

Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind
Friday, January 23, 2009

Call for Papers

How did premodern people learn? How did they teach? In a rapidly expanding world, how were education and information disseminated to both traditional, school-based students and a more general public? This year’s Graduate Student Conference invites papers that broadly interpret education in premodern societies through the focal point of history, literature, art, philosophy, music, gender, disability, cultural studies, or other fields. In particular we seek studies that expand how we think about learning and teaching in medieval and early modern contexts. Some possible topics include gender and education, cloistered learning, the master/disciple relationship, missionary work and colonial learning, confessionalization, the effects of the printing press, propaganda, literacy, the education of the prince, and illustrated treatises and educational primers (possibly based on the Newberry’s extensive collection).

Selected papers will be published in the peer-edited online conference proceedings, Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind.

Submit a 250-word abstract and CV to renaissance@newberry.org by October 15, 2008. Preference will be given to graduate students enrolled at Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium institutions.

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Registration
The conference will include a continental breakfast. While there is no fee to attend this program, participants must register in advance. To register please call the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.