(Dis)Entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800

Date: 

Friday, March 24, 2017 (All day)

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street)

A one-day symposium exploring how distinct global “early modernities” emerged across time, space, and place in the period from 1300-1800, and re-contextualizing the contingent rise of Western Europe among other hegemonic areas in the eighteenth century. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Colloquium for Intellectual History, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for African Studies, History Department, Early Modern History Workshop, Center for History and Economics, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Mellon Rare Book School. A complete program may be found here.