The Center hosts an annual graduate student-organized conference featuring new work from scholars across the country.
Previous conferences
2020 - Eco-Entanglements: Ruin, Grafting, Stratification
Keynotes: Jean Feerick and Heide Estes
Conference Organizer: Melissa Hudasko, John Yargo
2018 - Spaces of Authority
Keynote: Christopher R. Kyle
Conference Organizer: Hayley Cotter, Maria Ishikawa, John Yargo
2017 - History, Embodiment, Materiality
Keynote: Jennifer Waldron
Conference Organizer: Hayley Cotter, Yunah Kae
2016 - Early Modern Encounters
Keynote: Diana Henderson
Conference Organizer: Catherine Elliott Tisdale, Greg Sargent
2015 - Publics & Privates
Keynote: Anne Lake Prescott
Conference Organizer: Catherine Elliott Tisdale, Jessie Hill Gillooly, William Hrusovsky
2014 - Affect, Language, and the Stage
Keynote: Coppelia Kahn
Conference Organizer: Greg Sargent, April Genung, Thomas Hopper, William Hrusovsky
2013 - Women and Drama
Keynote: Susan P. Cerasano
Conference Organizer: April Genung, Thomas Hopper
2012 - Sex and Sexuality
Keynote: Mario DiGangi
Conference Organizer: April Genung, Meghan Conine
2011 - Early Modern Material Culture
Keynote: Nigel Smith
Conference Organizer: April Genung, Meghan Conine