The term "Early Modern" designates the historical period of globalization, during which sustained interaction between different regions of the world occurred as a result of exploration or conquest and colonization. Transfers and exchanges of ideas, arts, technologies, and human populations between those regions are an important object of study: material and visual culture, performance, languages and literatures, systems of belief, and narratives of the past can all be viewed from diverse vantage points.
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Early Modern World
The center brings together a range of expertise to focus on the multiple historical traditions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe — and on potent connections between them.
Early Modern World
The center brings together a range of expertise to focus on the multiple historical traditions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe — and on potent connections between them.
The Early Modern World concentration promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to historical cultures around the world between the waning of feudalism and the arrival of global industrial capitalism, from the 1300s to the end of the 1800s.
The colloquium is a forum for all graduate students at Brown who profess an interest in the early modern period (broadly defined as 1400–1800) to meet and exchange ideas on topics of mutual interest in a convivial setting. As such, it is a highly diverse body with many different disciplinary and language backgrounds represented.