On Friday, February 9 from 2-4 pm, Medieval and Renaissance Studies welcomes Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, to campus for an informational session on the Newberry and its fellowships. Serving an international consortium of universities, the Center for Renaissance Studies connects students and scholars with unique opportunities to learn, research, and contribute to the vibrant fields of medieval and early modern studies. Please join us for Dr. Markey's presentation and a reception with light refreshments to follow in room 411 Fayerweather Hall.
Lia Markey (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies where she is responsible for conferences, symposia, workshops, seminars, and digital humanities projects devoted to medieval and early modern studies. Her publications include a monograph, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence (2016), and two edited volumes, The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (2017) and Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s “Nova Reperta” (2020). She teaches at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois Chicago, and has held fellowships at the Folger Library, the Warburg Institute, the Villa I Tatti, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the European University Institute. Recently, Lia co-curated the Newberry exhibition Seeing Race before Race (fall 2023) and co-edited with Noémie Ndiaye the related publication by the same name. Lia participates in the Getty Connecting Art Histories Research Group, “Spanish Italy and the Iberian New World,” (directed by Columbia faculty Alessandra Russo and Michael Cole).
