This interdisciplinary workshop focuses on every aspect of the early modern experience, circa 1350-1800. It encompasses the entirety of the Mediterranean and European worlds as well as their rivals and colonial possessions. While the workshop’s approach is historical, we actively encourage participants who work on any aspect of the areas and period covered. Most sessions discuss precirculated papers presented by graduate students, faculty, or invited visitors.  The Early Modern Workshop is a forum for members of the Chicago community to meet and help one another in ongoing research about political, cultural, economic, and legal topics broadly situated across four centuries of world history, from colonial America to Europe to Southeast Asia.