Conversation: “Social Media and Being a Historian in Public,” Tues. Oct. 24, 2-3pm, Park 532. With current and former UB History Ph.D. students of the DIG Podcast. Sponsored by the Early Modern Research Workshop with co-sponsorships from the History Department and Gender Institute.

A round-table discussion with Reynald Abad, Professor of History at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and Jeffrey Ravel, Professor of History at MIT These are complicated times for students of the early modern period. In many ways the field is flourishing as never before, with an abundance of new studies and innovative approaches. But early modernists […]

WIP session with Amy Graves Monroe (RLL), “Rational Catastrophes: Plausibility and Verisimilitude in Early Modern Eventhood.” This event was rescheduled from October 17th. New date and time information has been updated.  

A work-in-progress session with Professor Stephanie Schmidt, UB Romance Languages & Literatures, “Neophytes Write the ‘Spiritual Conquest’ of Mexico: Native Perspectives in the Libro de los colloquios"

Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), “Dissertation Lightning Round: The State of Early Modern Studies.”  

Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick (UK), "Violence in Early Modern Europe: Questions and Debates"

A work-in-progress session with Prof. Sharonah Fredrick (UB RLL), “Regicides and Inca Kings – Spanish Anti-Colonial Criticism”

Location: The Digital Composition Lab of the Center for Excellence in Writing, 128 Capen, inside The Silverman Library Training in digital transcription, with an emphasis on early modern texts, by paleographer Sarah Powell from the Folger Shakespeare Library Stay the day, stop by for an hour or two, or just look in on the Lab […]