The Early Modern Empires Workshop is dedicated to examining empire and empires from a variety of perspectives. We consider scholarly work about historical empires from around the globe. Major themes include but are not limited to political philosophy, state formation, sociocultural and economic exchange, resistance, materiality, mobility, law, and cultures of knowledge. By uniting methodological, conceptual and geographical diversity this workshop hopes to create an interdisciplinary space to discuss empire and early modernity, while still thinking critically about the limitations of “empire” and “early modernity” as units of analysis. Speakers hail from from academic institutions around the world, and are drawn from departments including history, literature, language/cultural studies, philosophy, economics, and political science.. Anyone who shares the workshop’s interests is invited and encouraged to attend.
Workshop Format
The Yale Early Modern Empires workshop is a regular meeting of students, professors, and other members of the Yale community from a variety of departments. For each workshop, we invite a speaker whose work speaks to our general areas of inquiry. Each speaker will submit a pre-circulated paper, which the entire workshop then discusses following a series of initial questions by a graduate respondent. Light lunch is also served.
Engage and Join
We welcome anyone with an interest in historical empires in the early modern period to attend the workshop and its related events. If you are interested in receiving emails regarding upcoming speakers and events, please sign up for our mailing list.
We are always looking for new ideas for upcoming talks and events. If you have an idea for a speaker, let us know.
At each workshop, a graduate student serves as a respondent to the speaker’s paper. Please contact us if you are interested in being a respondent at an upcoming workshop.
Coordinators:
CONTACT: If you have any other questions or concerns, please e-mail us at european.studies@yale.edu
2018 | 2019 Speakers
Previous Speakers
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Paul Kennedy, Yale; Stuart Schwartz, Yale; Peter Perdue, Yale; Debbie Coen, Yale; Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale; Marcela Echeverri, Yale; and Charlie Maier, Harvard |
Roundtable on Empire |
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Gabriel Paquette, John Hopkins University |
Allies and Adversaries: Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the mid-Nineteenth Century |
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Edna Bonhomme, Princeton University; Max Planck Institute |
Contagion, Occupation, and Plague: Sanitary Imperialism during the French Military Campaign in Egypt and Greater Syria, 1798-1801 |
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Fanny Malègue, EHESS |
The Empire in a Chart: Drafting and Crafting the Censuses of the First French Colonial Empire (Antilles, 1763-1804) |
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Sarah Kinkel, Ohio University, History |
The Authoritarian Navy and the British Crisis of Empire, 1763-76 |
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Iris Montero, Brown University |
The Hummingbird and a Doctor Turned Historian |
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Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti |
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Philip Stern, Duke University |
Portus et Insula: Legal Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese ‘Transfer’ of Bombay, c.1660-1720 |
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Gabriel Glickman, University of Cambridge |
American Colonists, Protestantism and the Shaping of English Whig Politics 1667-1700 |
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Munis Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley |
Mughal Politics: Princes and Imperial State Formation |
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Maria Bollettino, Framingham State University |
‘A Vassall to His Majestys’: The ‘King’s Negroes’ and Enslaved Black Subjecthood in the Mid-Eighteenth- Century British West Indies |
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| 2016-2017 |