Past Early Modern Europe Events

SPECIAL EVENTS

March 13, 2024: Book Talk with Céline Bessière.

book talk - march 2024

January 30, 2024: Book Talk with Guido Alfani.

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March 3-4 2023: New Directions in Economic History.

New Directions in Economic History

February 20, 2020: What Is Global History? A Roundtable.

Since its publication in 2016, Sebastian Conrad's What Is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016) has been read and debated not only by historians of modern Europe but also by historians of different parts of the world and scholars in different disciplines. Who writes global history? How and for whom? And why now? Sebastian Conrad, Professor of History, Free University of Berlin in conversation with Suzanne Akbari, Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study; Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study; Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study.

April 26, 2019: Natalie Zemon Davis, A Celebration of her 90th Birthday.

A workshop in honor of pioneering historian Natalie Zemon Davis’s 90th birthday featured talks by Professors Francesca Trivellato and Joan Wallach Scott; Trustee Lorraine Daston; and honoree Natalie Zemon Davis, past Member (1978) in the School of Social Science. Cosponsored by the School of Historical Studies at IAS and the Davis Center at Princeton University, the event was held from 1:30–4:30 p.m. in 010 East Pyne on the Princeton University campus. Full video of each of the two sessions is available on the IAS YouTube Channel. The speakers' contributions, compiled and edited by Trivellato and Angela N. H. Creager, are available at H-France Salon.

SPRING 2023 SEMINARS

January 24: Yasmin Haskell, "Who Let the Gods Out? Pagan Powers, Passions, and Their Proxies in Jesuit Latin Epic"

January 31: Evan Heafeli, "Andrew Marvell’s 'Bermudas,' the Bahamas, and the Revolutionary Puritan Atlantic, 1647-1653"

February 14: Bruce Hall, "Where is Islamic Law in Trans-Saharan Trade?"

March 7: Anne Dunlop, "Qingbai in Naples and an Embassy from the Yuan"

March 14: Elizabeth Bearden, "Descending the Mountain: Petrarch's Journey of Mental Disability and Consolation"

March 21: Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, "Elastic Empire: Architecture, Urbanism, and Identity in Early Modern Sicily"

March 28: Joel Blecher, "Profit and Prophecy: Islam and the Spice Trade"

April 4: Thiago Krause, "'That Cursed Bewitching Weed': Consumer Preference and the Global History of Brazilian Tobacco (c. 1620 – 1760)"

April 11: Esther Liberman Cuenca, "Custom, Community, and the Common Good in Urban Law"

April 18: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Basseporte's Hand"

FALL 2022 SEMINARS

Oct. 4: Sharon Strocchia, "Fare la prova: The Use of Human Subjects in Renaissance Drug Trials"

Oct. 25: Bruce Hall, "Re-Reading West Africa’s Oldest Arabic Book: Al-Maghīlī’s ‘Replies’ to Askia al-ḥājj Muḥammad and Songhay Styles of Sovereignty"

Nov. 15: Francesca Trivellato, "Chapter 1: A Different Kind of (In)equality"

Dec. 6: Thiago Krause, "After the Fall (of Recife): Preserving and Recreating Dutch-Brazilian Ties in the South Atlantic, c. 1655-1730"

SPRING 2022 SEMINARS

March 1:  Ayesha A. Irani, "The Auspicious Rise of the Seka: Reimagining the Islamic Conquest of Bengal"

March 8: Ana Lucia Araujo, "An Eighteenth-Century Gift in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade"

March 15:  Francesca Trivellato, "The Credit Nexus"

March 22:  Patricia Gaborik, "Mussolini’s Cesare: Roman History as Italy’s Present and Future"

April 5:  Gabriele Pedullà, "Niccolò Machiavelli"

April 12:  Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Experience of the Archive: Knowledge and the Making of the Early Modern British Empire"

April 19:  Emily Kadens, "Cheaters in a Moral Economy: Commercial Deceit in England, ca. 1200–1640"

April 26:  Ramnarayan Singh Rawat, "Swami Achutanand: Mofussil Activist and Cosmopolitan Intellectual"

Fall 2021 SEMINARS

October 12:  Jillian Porter, "The Living Line: Origins and Afterlives of the Soviet Queue"

October 19:  Asheesh Saddique, "The Contentious Archive"

October 26:  Ramnarayan S. Rawat, "Bhajans of Liberties: Songs as a Method of Critical Dialogue"

November 2:  Diana Kim, "'Untouchability' and Transnational Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea"

November 9:  Karen Graubart, "Religious Republics in Seville, 1248–1502"

November 16:  Jérémie Foa, "Investigating the Executioners of the Saint Bartholomew's Day
Massacre (France, 1572)"

November 23:  Peter Lake, "On Laudianism: Piety, Polemic, and Politics during the Personal Rule of Charles I"

Spring 2021 SEMINARS

January 19:  Samantha Kelly, "Translating Ethiopian Sanctity: Two Pilgrims in Pisa, 1516"

February 2:  Jeremy R. Schneider, "Reawakening the Ammonites: A Biography of an Extinct Lineage"

February 16:  Angelo Torre, "Ethnography of the Commons"

March 2:  Valeria López-Fadul, "The Etymologies of Phillip II"

March 16:  Isabelle Poutrin, "Corcos and Boncompagni: The Costs and Benefits of Religious Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Rome"

March 30:  Arnaud Orain, "French Merchant Capitalism, State Reform, and Science of Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment"

April 13:  Francesca Trivellato, "What Differences Make a Difference? Global History and Microanalysis Revisited"

April 27:  Simona Cerutti, "The Loving Attention Towards the Poor: Jurisdiction and Market Rules (the Savoyard State in the 18th Century)"

May 11:  Eleanor Hubbard, "Curiosity and Compulsion: The Reformations of an Elizabethan Seaman"

FALL 2020 SEMINARS

October 13: Valeria López-Fadul, "On Knowledge-Gathering, Language, and History Writing in the Spanish Empire"

October 27: Eleanor Hubbard, "Englishmen at Sea: Labor and the Nation at the Dawn of Empire, 1570-1630" (Chapter: A Plundering People)

November 10: Pamela O. Long, "Tiber River Flooding in Rome: Responses to a Recurring Disaster, 1476-1598"

November 24: Jonathan Sheehan, "Gods of Paste: Sacrifice and the Anthropology of Error"

December 1: Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj between Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals" (Chapter 1: Pilgrim Passages)"

SPRING 2020 SEMINARS

January 16: Deirdre Loughridge, Northeastern University, "Man Alone Sings"

January 27: Justin Stearns, New York University Abu Dhabi, "The Place of Sorcery in the Thought of a Seventeenth Century Moroccan Astronomer and Alchemist"

February 3: Hal Parker, Saint Louis University, "The Globalization of Calvinism and Dutch Society"

February 13: Francesca Trivellato with Guillaume Calafat in videoconference, " "The Shipwreck of the Turks": Law of Nations, Sovereignty, and the Boundaries of Hospitality in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean"

March 5: Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut, "The Maghreb in Spain: Slave and Muslims in Eighteenth-Century Cartagena"

March 27: Matt Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin"

April 13: Laurie Benton, Vanderbilt University, "The Blood of Households: Private Violence and Legalities of Raiding in Early European Empires"

May 15: Daniel Strum, University of Sao Paulo, "Coevolution of judicial and reputational institutions in contract enforcement across the early Atlantic sugar route"

FALL 2019 SEMINARS

October 10: Hal Parker, Saint Louis University, "Indigenizing Calvinism in the Dutch Empire"

October 28: Beth Plummer, University of Arizona, "No Better than a Brothel"

November 4: Andrew Sartori, New York University, "Metallism and the Social Theory of Money in Seventeenth-Century England"

November 25: Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut, "Religious Artifacts and Slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean"

December 2: Lisa Regazzoni, Goethe-Universität, "Signs of History. A Historical Inquiry into the Monument as an Object of Knowledge"

 

SPRING 2019 SEMINARS

January 24: Francesca Trivellato, "A Missed Encounter: Burckhardt and Economic Historians"

January 31: Eric Schluessel, "Marketing and Social Structure in Pre-Modern Xinjiang (East Turkestan)"

February 7: Gabriele Pedullà, "Humanist Republicanism: Toward a New Paradigm"

February 21: Seth Kimmel, "Sites of Antiquarianism: Between Seville and San Lorenzo"

March 7: Maartje Van Gelder, "Popular Politics in Early Modern Venice. The Arsenalotti's Protest of 1569"

April 4: Carina Johnson, "Europa Virgo, the Indies, and an Early Modern Family Romance"

April 11: Pier Mattia Tommasino, "Reading the Qur’an Backwards: the story of ms. Magliabechi XXXIV.31"

April 25: Glenda Goodman, "Land and Conversion: New Frameworks for Colonial American Hymnody"

 

FALL 2018 SEMINARS

October 4: Francesca Trivellato, "The Medieval/Early Modern Divide along the Franco-Spanish Border"

October 18: Sabine Go, "Shared burdens: Mutuality, governance constructs, and third-party enforcement in early modern Europe. The case of General Averages in the Netherlands (16th- 17th centuries)”

November 1: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, "Sex and Priestly Masculinities in Late Medieval Europe"

November 15: Seth Kimmel, "Hernando Colón’s Cosmography"

November 29: Earle Havens, "Reading Readers Writing about Reading: The Information Cultures of John Dee and Gabriel Harvey"

December 6: Pier Mattia Tommasino, "Reading the Qur'an Backwards: Orientalism, Science, and Philology in Seventeenth-Century Florence"