Since the center’s inaugural Lecture in Early Modern History, given in 2008 by Anthony Grafton, the Lecture in Early Modern History series presented cutting-edge research by historians of note. Topics ranged from early Italian Renaissance book publication and eighteenth-century learned societies to South American colonization, early Anglican theology, and Cromwell’s Ireland, presented by scholars from throughout the United States and the United Kingdom.
Starting with the 2015-16 academic year, we have changed formats. Instead of individual lectures, we plan to hold a biennial full-day Early Modern Studies Symposium, expanding the scope to include the work of scholars in other disciplines—the literatures of various languages, art history, philosophy, and so forth—as well as history.