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Call for Applications

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Apply now for the Spring 2019 CSPW Dissertation Fellowship.

Faculty and students of the Premodern Consortium pose with many objects that reflect their studies

On Purpose: Portrait of the Consortium for the Premodern World

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Civilizations before the advent of specialized academic knowledge and modern public museums often presented their accumulated learning through copious collections that amassed singular meaningful specimens in a display that mirrored in microcosm the complex reality of the universe.

Call for Applications: 2018-2019 CSPW Research Workshops

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Apply Now For a 2018-2019 CSPW Research Workshop.

Freeman, Volek, and Becklin at Utrecht Summer School

CSPW Students at Utrecht Summer School

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The CSPW strengthened its connections in the Netherlands by funding summer graduate study at Utrecht Summer School.

Globalizing the History of Science

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Rutgers University Professor James Delbourgo shares his work on global premodern pedagogy.

Call for Applications: 2017-18 CSPW Research Workshops

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Applications are due by May 5, 2017.

Medical Materialities Symposium

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Join scholars from science and the humanities as they explore the materiality of the human body.

CSPW receives $900,000 Mellon Grant

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Continued funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support CSPW activities through 2021.

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We Need New Categories

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CLA's collaborative explorations of the premodern era are so impressive that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a grant of more than $600,000 to create the initial structures for a newly integrated Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World (CSPW) at the University of Minnesota.

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Upcoming Events

September 28, 2018

CEMH Lecture: The Global Silver Trade and the Rise of the Novel East and West

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The Center for Early Modern History presents: "The Global Silver Trade and the Rise of the Novel East and West" Ning Ma Asian Languages and Literature University of Minnesota

October 4, 2018

CMS Lecture: The Trouble with Medieval Conversion: Reading Petrus Alfonsi

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents: "The Trouble with Medieval Conversion: Reading Petrus Alfonsi in the Light of Legal, Polemical, and Autobiographical Sources" Nina Caputo...

October 5, 2018

CEMH Workshop: Academic Publishing Workshop

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The Center for Early Modern History presents: Academic Publishing Workshop Panel: Albert Hoffstädt (Brill, Senior Editor, Asian Studies) Ann Waltner (UMN History) Marguerite Ragnow (Curator...

October 12, 2018

CEMH Lecture: On Music and Rites as Governmental Apparatuses in Late Imperial China

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The Center for Early Modern History presents: "On Music and Rites as Governmental Apparatuses in Late Imperial China: Qiu Jun's Supplement to the Extended Meaning of The Great Learning,...

October 19, 2018

Big 10 Emerging Scholar Michael Gadaleto

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Michael Gadaleto, a David Lowenstein student from Pennsylvania State University, was selected as a Big 10 Emerging Scholar and will share his work with the University of Minnesota through...

November 1, 2018

Ada Ferrer: Visionary Aponte: History, Art, and Black Freedom (IAS Thursdays)

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José Antonio Aponte was a free black man in nineteenth-century Havana. He was also a visual artist and a revolutionary. In fact, he used his art as a way to think about and plot revolution...

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