About this Conference

The Early Modern Center’s annual conference brings faculty and graduate students from across the globe to think, work, and discuss together a topic of salience to early modern studies. The EMC’s 2019-2020 annual theme is “Queer Crossings, Unruly Locales, 1500-1800.”

Many thanks to EMC current director, Bernadette Andrea, and the 2019-2020 conference planning committee:

Giorgina Paiella, Organizer
Katie Adkison
Unita Ahdifard
Kristen McCants
Anita Raychawdhuri
Nicole Stark
Jessica Zisa

The EMC would also like to thank our generous conference sponsors and co-sponsors who make this event possible:

UCSB College of Letters and Science

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

New Sexualities Research Focus Group

Department of History

Department of French and Italian