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… Barnes  is a linguist with particular interests in Ancient Greek and Hittite, but is also comfortable working in …

… Postdoctoral Associates Russell Burge is a historian of modern Korea. His dissertation, “The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul,” examined urbanization and social change in … in pre-1600 Japan. Jooyeon Hahm is a historian of modern East Asia, with a particular interest in gender and …

… photographic composite measuring nearly 40 feet long, is a modern recreation of the Song-dynasty scroll “Along the River … and real estate developers.”  Using AI to overcome the language barrier and discuss the scroll in English, … of a Song-dynasty frame for his critique of modern Chinese society reveals how important the past is in …

… Emigres … Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres The Modern Europe Colloquium is pleased to invite you to our second event of the spring semester on next Thursday, February 17 … Please find the zoom link: https://bit.ly/3JzT8np The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the …

… Sovereignty (Oxford UP, 2020), explores the emergence of modern ideas on sovereign power through the writings of …

… Babayan is a social and cultural historian of the early-modern Persianate world with a particular focus on gender … which is a gendered history of reading practices in early modern Isfahan. Babayan is the author of two award-winning … The City as Anthology: Urbanity and Eroticism in Early Modern Isfahan (SUP, 2021) and Mystics, Monarchs and …

… some forms of knowledge, conceptual categories, and the modern historical epochs. These preferences then dictate … the intersection of gender, the law, and religion in early modern Southeast Asia. She is currently working on two book projects: the first, a global history of early modern Catholicism through the prism of Vietnamese …

… sense for us? In this talk I explore how one early modern polymath writing in Pashto verse, Khushhal Khan … Second, this is important in terms of approaches to early modern history. In maintaining the present as a point of … I argue that we transform what we do in studying the early modern. We are prompted to engage Khushhal on the level of …

… and culture of the Japanese islands from ancient to modern times at the University of Northern Iowa. His … a new and multi-dimensional description of Japan’s early modern past. He enjoys taking a written document, a painting, …