University of Minnesota
Center for Early Modern History
cemh@umn.edu
612-625-6303


Department of Chicano Studies

Welcome to the Center for Early Modern History

The Center for Early Modern History is a premier research, teaching, and resource center for studying the early modern world. The Center emphasizes a global and comparative approach and supports historical work drawing from a variety of disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. CEMH collaborates with other centers and departments to coordinate interdisciplinary activities and graduate seminars on campus relating to the early modern period, and seeks to create scholarly connections between the University of Minnesota and other institutions.

three musicians

"Three musicians." Watercolor by Father Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, Portuguese missionary. Angola, 1670s.

Explore our website to view CEMH's many activities. Our fall calendar contains colloquia, workshops, and symposia that explore an array of early modern issues. Our publications page features the new series Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History, as well as the Journal of Early Modern History and Ming Studies. Finally, learn more about the new interdisciplinary graduate minor in Early Modern Studies.

In Memoriam: Donna Cardamone Jackson

Early Modern Class Listing

The CEMH has created a listing of classes across the CLA which may be of interest to early modernist graduate students. This can be found under our Early Modern Studies Minor tab. Note that some courses, while organized around themes or methodologies that may be of use to an early modernist, do not deal with the early modern exclusively. Please contact the department and/or instructor for full details on each course.

Paul Lovejoy Talk Available Online

Last spring semester the CEMH had the honor of hosting a talk by Professor Paul Lovejoy of York University and the Harriet Tubman Research Center. His talk was on a collection of narratives of and by African slaves in the Atlantic world, all of whom experienced slavery but were able to gain degrees of freedom through various strategies, and which Lovejoy titled "Freedom Narratives." This presentation was recorded by the CEMH and is now available here.

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