Workshops
Early Modern History Workshop
Inaugurated in 2011, the Early Modern History Workshop is a collaborative research experiment. It provides a venue for advanced students, PhD candidates, and senior researchers to intensively engage with current approaches in early modern history and pressing methodological questions. This series of workshops began as a cooperation between researchers at the universities of Princeton, Oxford, and Münster as well as Central European University and has since met regularly. The appointment of the founding member Matthias Pohlig to the Chair of Early Modern European History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin added the German capital to the network, which currently also includes researchers at the University of California Berkeley, King's College London, Sabancı University Istanbul and the University of Freiburg.
The last meeting of the Early Modern History Workshop was hosted by King's College London on 14–16 May 2024. Under the heading "Environmental History and Early Modernity", the workshop explored the role of the early modern in periodizing the Anthropocene. It asked not simply how early modern history is positioned on the way to our current climate crisis, but how deeper study of the early modern period might help destabilize and denaturalise this teleology. In doing so, it explored how early modern history can nuance the environmental humanities, and how approaches from environmental humanities, in turn, might illuminate and deepen our understanding of the early modern period in its own right. The Chair of Early Modern European History was represented by Matthias Pohlig and Magdalena Baader. Further information about the network and its events are available on the website of the Early Modern History Workshop.
Cambridge-Humboldt-Princeton-Early Modern German History Exchange Workshop
| The first Cambridge-Humboldt-Princeton-Early Modern German History Exchange Workshop took place on 12 January 2022. At this event jointly organized by Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge), Yair Mintzker (Princeton), and Matthias Pohlig (HU Berlin) six PhD candidates presented their research. We hope that this will be the inauguration of a regular exchange between the participating institutions. |  |