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Past Themes

2021-2022 | Voicing ‘Woman’ Across Media

2019-2020 | Queer Crossings, Unruly Locales

2018-2019 | World-Making

2017-2018 | Bodies and Boundaries

2016-2017 | Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral

2015-2016 | The Phenomenology of Playing

2014-2015 | Making

2013-2014 | Transatlantic Ecologies

2012-2013 | Risk, Crisis, Speculation

2011-2012 | Early Modern Social Networks

2010-2011 | Future of Literary Studies

2009-2010 | Limits of the Human

2008-2009 | Before Environmentalism

2007-2008 | Science and Technology

2006-2007 | Making Publics

2005-2006 | Ballads, Broadsides, and Popular Culture

2004-2005 | Memory

2003-2004 | Home and World

2002-2003 | Early Modern Women

2001-2002 | Early Modern Visual Culture

2000-2001 | The Early Modern “New”: Discoveries and Rediscoveries


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