ANU Centre for Early Modern Studies

The Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University brings together a vibrant multidisciplinary group of humanities scholars and graduate researchers who study the long early modern period (1450-1800). Our research and teaching areas include history, art and design, literary and bibliographical studies, theatre and performance history, languages and historical linguistics, and the digital humanities.

ANU CEMS Members

Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies

Oxford’s Centre for Early Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary hub for Oxford Humanities researchers working in the period 1500-1800 across different languages and regions of the world. Oxford CEMS hosts faculty members and postgraduate students from fifteen departments who are interested in the various aspects of early modernity in Europe and beyond. The departments include the Bodleian Library, Classics Faculty, Department of Continuing Education, English Faculty, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages), History, History of Art, Music, Philosophy, and Theology.

Oxford CEMS Faculty

Oxford CEMS Steering Committee

London Renaissance Seminar

The London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) at Birkbeck, University of London is a discussion forum for examining all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. The LRS meets regularly at Birkbeck during term time, with Saturday seminars, events and conferences. The LRS welcomes academics and students with an interest in early modern culture and is open to the submission of papers and suggestions for panels.

LRS Steering Committee

Paris Early Modern Seminar

PEMS is an inter-university seminar which meets monthly at the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne. University partners include –

• Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
• Sorbonne Université
• Université Paris-Cité
• Université Paris-Nanterre
• Université Paris-Est-Créteil
• Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord
• Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin

PEMS Members

Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850, University of Birmingham

The Early Modern Research Centre, 1450-1850 supports interdisciplinary research into the early modern period at the University of Birmingham. It fosters an inclusive research community among staff and postgraduate researchers, facilitates ambitious and high-quality research, and creates opportunities for collaboration within and beyond the University.

EMRC Staff

Center for Early Modern Studies, Aarhus University

The main aim of the center is to facilitate and develop interdisciplinary and comparative research in the arts (literature, art, music, theater, crafts) and culture of early modernity (approximately 1400–1750). Another aim is to enhance collaboration with researchers and external institutions: museums, galleries, theaters, music houses, libraries, and other literary institutions.

CEMS Aarhus Participants

FISIER (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l’Étude de la Renaissance)

FISIER (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l’Étude de la Renaissance) is an international collective of early modern organisations from across Europe, the USA, Canada and the UK. FISIER aims to support studies on the Renaissance period internationally by promoting exchanges between learned societies and research centres around the world, coordinating international meetings, and supporting collective projects.

FISIER Institutional Members

• British Library
• Renaissance Society of America
• State Library Victoria