As of Fall 2017, the Early Modern Workshop and the Western Mediterranean Workshop have merged into the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds (1200-1800) Workshop. Please see the new website for all future workshop information: https://voices.uchicago.edu/emmw/
Spring Quarter Schedule
We are pleased to present you with the schedule for the Early Modern Workshop for the Spring quarter. It is quite a full schedule, and we hope you can make it to many of the events! All meetings are held on from 5:00-6:30 in Pick 319 unless otherwise noted. Pizza, wine, cheese, and crackers will be served.
Monday, March 27th
Amy Coombs (PhD Student, History)
“Pre-Carbon Agriculture for a Post-Carbon Future: Considering the Mustards as a Form of Early Modern Agricultural Improvement in England”
Discussant: Carl Shook
Friday, March 31st, 12:00-1:30, CWAC 152 (Note the change in day, time, and place!)
Professor Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan (Paris-Sorbonne University, History)
“Une cité au travail sur elle-même: constructions et déconstructions du mythe vénitien.” (Note: the paper is in French but an English summary will also be circulated and the workshop itself will be conducted in English. Both the paper and the summary are available at this link under the password “Venise.”)
This meeting is co-sponsored with the Medieval Studies Workshop.
Monday, April 3rd
Professor Brian Maxson (East Tennessee State University, History)
“The Late Medieval Audience of Renaissance Humanism: Two Case Studies”
Discussant: John-Paul Heil
This meeting is co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop.
Monday, April 10th
Jane Mikkelson (PhD Student, SALC/NELC)
“At Time’s Horizon: Two Early Modern Poems of Haste and Delay”
Discussant: Brendan Small
Monday, April 24th
Professor Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University)
“‘Our Interests Only Entail the Service of God’: Political Theory and Religious Violence during the French Wars of Religion”
Discussant: Oliver Cussen
Monday, May 22nd
Professor Hakan Karateke (NELC)
“Jews in the Ottoman Empire: A Critical Approach to Historiography”
Discussant: Mohamad Ballan
We hope to see you there!
Winter Quarter Schedule
We are pleased to present you with the schedule for the Early Modern Workshop for the Winter quarter. All meetings are held on from 5:00-6:30 in Pick 319 unless otherwise noted. Pizza, wine, cheese, and crackers will be served.
Monday, January 30th
Kyle Gardner (PhD Student, History)
“The Space Between: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Independent Ladakh”
Discussant: Gerry Siarny
Monday, February 13th
Theo Beers (PhD Student, NELC)
“A Comprehensive Introduction to Taẕkirah-i Tuḥfah-i Sāmī (comp. ca. 957/1550)”
Discussant: Shaahin Pishbin
Monday, February 27th
Benny Bar-Lavi (PhD Student, History)
“Joseph López’s ‘El Mantenedor’: Heresy, Enlightenment, and Interreligious Appropriation in eighteenth-century Sephardi Amsterdam”
Discussant: Colin Rydell
This meeting is co-sponsored with the Jewish Studies Workshop.
Monday, March 13th
Ryan Burns (PhD Student, History, Northwestern)
“The Kirk’s Catholic Ban: Immigration and Religion in Early Modern Scotland”
Discussant: Lisa Scott
Fall Quarter Schedule 2016
Welcome back! Below please find our schedule for Fall 2016. All events will be held in Pick 319, unless noted otherwise.
Monday, September 26th, 5-6:30: Welcome Reception in the Pick Lounge
Monday, October 3rd, 5:30-7:00 PM in Rosenwald 405 (note the different time and location): Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop. Jo Nixon (PhD Student, English): “‘Which some think dead’: Uniting Flint and Flesh in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans.”
From 4:30-5:15 PM, Jessica Smith and Annie Janusch from UChicagoGrad will be talking about fellowships relevant for those studying the early modern period. All are highly encouraged to attend this presentation!
Monday, October 10th, 5-6:30 PM: Professor Cornell Fleischer: “From al-Bistami (d.1454) in Bursa to Postel (d. 1581) in Paris: The Trajectory of Apocalyptic in the Early Modern Mediterranean.” The discussants will be Hasan Siddiqui and Benny Bar-Lavi.
Monday, October 24th, 5-6:30 PM: Fidel J. Tavárez (Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, History): “The Spanish Theory of Commercial Empire, c. 1740-1762.” The discussant will be Theo Beers.
Monday, November 7th, 5-6:30 PM: Valeria López Fadul (Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, History): “The World in the Library: Juan Páez de Castro and the History of New World Natives and Ancient Iberians.” The discussant will be Carlos Grenier.
Monday, December 5th, 5-6:30 PM: Maryam Sabbaghi (PhD Student, Divinity): “Madness and the Erotic in the Ghazals of Zīb al-Nisa Makhfī”
Early Modern Workshop Spring Quarter Schedule 2016
*please note the location change for Spring 2016*
Monday, April 4, 2016
Kat Lecky
Assistant Professor of English, Bucknell University
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry
“Pocket Empire: Portable Maps and Public Poetry, 1590-1649.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 222
Monday, April 18, 2016
Hannah Marcus
PhD Candidate, History
Stanford University
“Censored Objects: Expurgating Medical Books in Counter-Reformation Italy.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 222
Monday, May 2, 2016
Jakub Wysmulek
Visiting Scholar, History
Loyola University Chicago
“Identities, Communities, and Emotions in Early Modern Lviv – Research Project.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 222
Monday, May 16, 2016
Carlos Grenier
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Marvels and the Microcosm: Touring the Natural World in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Turkish Writing.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 222
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 * (odd date due to Memorial Day)
N. İpek Hüner-Cora
PhD Candidate, NELC
University of Chicago
“The Infidel” in Fiction: A Case Study.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: TBA
Early Modern Workshop Winter Quarter Schedule 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Lisa Scott
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Governing Without a King: The Efforts of the Bohemian Assembly in the Post-Luxembourg Interregnum”
(co-sponsored with Central Europe workshop)
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Monday, February 8, 2016
Lindsey Martin, PhD (Stanford University)
Mellon Career Development Officer, Department of History,
University of Chicago
“The Problem with Pokrovskoe: Policing and Competing Conceptions of Urban Order in Eighteenth-Century Moscow.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Monday, February 15, 2016
Steve Pincus
Bradford Durfee Professor of History
Yale University
“Patriot Fever: Georgia and the Ideological Origins of the War of Jenkins Ear”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
(co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture)
Monday, Febuary 22, 2016
Basil Salem
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Group Sentiment Among Arabic-Speaking Scholars of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Monday, March 7, 2016
Ralph Austen
Professor Emeritus of African History
University of Chicago
“Monsters of Early Modern Colonialism: The East India Companies and Slave Plantations as Primitive Accumulation or Hyper-Capitalism.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Early Modern Workshop Autumn Quarter Schedule 2015
Early Modern Workshop Autumn Quarter Schedule 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
Elisa Jones
University of Chicago
“Between Granting Privileges and Guaranteeing Rights: Monarchy, Religion, and the Politics of Liberté de Conscience in Mid-Sixteenth Century France”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 319
Monday, October 19, 2015
Maura J. Capps
University of Chicago
“All Flesh is Grass: A Political Ecology of Agrarian Improvement in Britain’s Settler Empire, 1760-1846.”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 319
Monday, November 2, 2015
Ahmet Tunç Şen
University of Chicago
“Where Astrology Meets Architecture in Suleyman’s Istanbul: The Foundation Horoscope for the Suleymaniye Complex”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 319
Monday, November 16, 2015
Mara Caden
Yale University
“‘A dangerous and dishonourable thing’: Overseas Mints and the Rise of Technocratic Expertise in the British Empire, 1650-1700”
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 319
Monday, November 30, 2015
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
University of Chicago
“Immanent Vitalism, Alchemical Cornucopianism, and Hartlib Circle Projects, 1630-1665” (tentative title)
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Pick Hall 319