UW Madison Center for Early Modern Studies

The Center's mission is to encourage innovative research and foster dialogue and debate across a range of disciplines with a focus on the early modern period.

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Save the date! This Friday, April 30, from 2:00-3:45, the second annual Early Modern Dissertation Workshop will take place via Zoom. Visit the CEMS page for more information on presenters (https://t.co/mnrsU6njvL), and please send an email to [email protected] for the Zoom link.

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The Center for Early Modern Studies will be hosting Professor Paul Lodge (Oxford) on Friday, April 17, at 1:00 pm CST. Professor Lodge will give a presentation titled "Still the Best of All Possible Worlds after all these Years?"
https://t.co/mnrsU6njvL

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The Center for Early Modern Studies is delighted to share a new publication by two of our affiliates - Jelena Todorovic and Ernesto Livorni!
https://t.co/tlT1Yg6yb0

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Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Nelson has won the @HBA_CAA Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600 for "Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Hoblein's 'Ambassadors'"!
Congrats Prof. Nelson!!!🥳 🎉 👏 🤩 #uwmadison #OnWisconsin #earlymodernarthistory

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CEMS is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Emily Nacol (Assistant Professor of Political Theory, University of Toronto), who will present'A More Onerous Citizenship:' Immunity and Community in Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.” Join us on Zoom @ 1:30 pm, Friday, 2/19!

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Her first book, Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture (https://t.co/Stc7vp5j8C) explores the early architecture of the Fatimids.

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We’re happy to introduce another new affiliate of CEMS, Professor Jennifer A. Pruitt! She is a historian of Islamic art and architecture, exploring how multi-faith, diverse populations in the Arabic-speaking world patronize, utilize, and respond to their built environment.

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To see a short introduction of her book on Youtube, please follow the link: https://t.co/Xhw1FB17md

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We are excited to introduce a new CEMS affiliate faculty, Professor Yuhang Li! Check out her podcast interview with New Books Network on her book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press) here https://t.co/tDQyPHyc2R

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Her book was featured on the Columbia University Press’ blog during this year’s Women’s History Month: https://t.co/g8CLj30mEh

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Even though resentment is often thought of as an "unjustifiable and volatile emotion", this book, Recognizing Resentment, argues that "understanding this very emotion, resentment, of victims of injustice is vital to upholding justice in liberal societies."

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We are happy to share with you that a book by Professor Michelle Schwarze (@maschwarze), a CEMS affiliate in Political Science, is soon to be released. The publication date is October 22, 2020. Check out the link for more information about the book!
https://t.co/O396868uCt

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@uw_early Thanks for the shout-out and let me note that this piece (with gorgeous photograph by @pompei79) features in Volume 34 of the Berlin Journal, 2020-21, published by the @AmericanAcademy in Berlin!

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In this article, Professor Pandey, a first-generation Indian-American scholar in “an overwhelmingly white field”, explores the diversity of Rome, the popular image of which has been whitewashed.

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Professor Nandini Pandey (@global_classics), affiliated with CEMS, has published an article: “The Roman Roots of Racial Capitalism” in The Berlin Journal. Check out the link to read the full article! https://t.co/BTgh69nAk1

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Focusing on the experiences of black people in French and British North America from the 17th to early 19th centuries, she is particularly interested in retrieving the unexplored histories of African Americans in areas that historians have not sufficiently examined.

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CEMS would like to welcome our newest faculty affiliate, Professor Clark-Pujara! Check out her recent media appearance on Podcast—Textualizing the Past: Slavery in New England Episode 15. https://t.co/jsSKLXmyh6, August 7, 2020