Summer Course: Latin for Reading Knowledge
Please see the flyer below for information on the CGU Writing Center’s summer course in Latin for reading knowledge! This course can help you prepare for your language exam.
Please see the flyer below for information on the CGU Writing Center’s summer course in Latin for reading knowledge! This course can help you prepare for your language exam.
Meet Professor Seth Lobis (Department of Literature, Claremont McKenna College) on Tuesday, 1 March 2016! 1PM-1.45 PM: Professor Lobis will discuss Book 6 of Paradise Lost with ENG 366, “The Milton Seminar,” in the IAC Library. Interested members of the Humanities, ENG, or EMS community are welcome to cram into the IAC Library to hear… Read More Mar 1: Professor Seth Lobis at CGU – Milton discussion and reception
All Claremont Colleges students and faculty are warmly invited to this exciting Shakespearean movement, dance and rhetoric hands-on workshop on Thursday! CGU early modern studies students are particularly encouraged to attend. What: Los Angeles’s Professional Repertory Shakespeare Company Theatricum Botanicum will conduct a workshop on Shakespearean movement, dance, and rhetoric. Where: Founders Room, Honnold/Mudd Library… Read More 18 Feb: Theatricum Botanicum at the Claremont Colleges!
Please see the below opportunity to learn paleography at the Huntington this summer. This is an excellent opportunity to experience high-level paleography instruction and also get to know the Huntington! Successful applicants are also granted a summer stipend. If you are interested in applying please contact Dr. Ferrell. Highly recommended! MELLON SUMMER INSTITUTE IN ENGLISH… Read More Special Opportunity: Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography
Remember that if your project can be considered “Renaissance,” even loosely, you have a great chance of winning one of these, since CGU is a member of the consortium! If you are interested in applying please contact Dr. Ferrell. Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Fellowships The Newberry Library is now accepting fellowship applications… Read More Newberry Renaissance Studies Fellowships
Please see below for a special library event. Students and faculty are welcome! International Open Access Week 2015 Open Access Opportunities for Credit, Tenure, and Promotion When: October 15 | 3:30 – 5:30 pm Where: Claremont Colleges Library, Founders Room What: Discussion, wine and treats with scholars from UW and USC Come to the Claremont… Read More Oct 15: Open Access Opportunities for Credit, Tenure, and Promotion
If you are already in the EMS concentration, or have an interest in any part of the program or the early modern world, please join us tomorrow! EMS Party 17 September, 4-6pm IAC Library, CGU Campus Food, drinks, and sweets will be provided, along with news from the Newberry Consortium, funding opportunities, possible events for… Read More Reminder: Early Modern Studies Meeting Tomorrow!
Going out one more time as a reminder! Please make sure to contact Dr. Ferrell if you intend to apply. Graduate Research Methods Workshops for Early-Career Graduate Students Application deadline for all fall workshops: September 10 Don Quixote and Theory, Renaissance and Contemporary Led by Edward Friedman and Timothy Foster, both of Vanderbilt University https://www.newberry.org/2015-don-quixote-and-theory… Read More 9/10 DEADLINE: Newberry Library Workshops
Dr. Ferrell and the Early Modern Studies program congratulate Megan Gallagher (PhD, English) on passing her Qualifying Exams! We’re all so excited for you, Megan!
Caroline Carpenter (PhD Candidate, English) served as a Contributing Editor of the 2015 Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Congratulations Caroline!
Please see below for an excellent professionalization opportunity at the Newberry Library! Please contact Dr. Ferrell or Dr. Easton with interest/questions. ——– As a Newberry consortium member, CGU is entitled to have a student serve as an organizer for the 2016 graduate student conference. “Starting this year, the committee will hold a virtual organizing meeting… Read More IMPORTANT: Apply to be a Newberry Library Conference Organizer!
CGU English Early Modernist Megan Gallagher has been selected to be a participant in the Newberry Library’s Fall 2015 Dissertation Seminar. Congratulations Megan! To learn more about the Newberry Library and its Renaissance Studies Consortium, of which CGU is a member, click here: http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-programs.
Please see below for information on the CGU Summer 2015 Latin course:
Honnold/Mudd Library will be updating to a new “discovery gateway,” i.e. a new library catalog, soon! http://news.libraries.claremont.edu/2015/03/our-new-discovery-gateway.html There will be “sneak-peek” events to introduce students and faculty to the new system – the link to the page above allows you to register for one of these sessions! I’d recommend going!
Please see below for exciting news! The library has purchased the remaining State Papers databases and now we have the full set. This is a GREAT resource for early modernists – not too many institutions have access to State Papers, so take advantage of our excellent and ever-improving, highly competitive online access! We have purchased… Read More New SPECIAL Primary Source Databases Available