University of Minnesota
Theorizing Early Modern Studies
131 Nolte Center 315 Pillsbury Drive S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-5054


TEMS

Welcome to TEMS

Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary workshop investigating Europe and the wider world during the early modern period (late 16th-early 19th centuries). TEMS has three primary endeavors: 1) to undertake and promote research that moves beyond traditional Liberal Arts themes, methodologies, and disciplinary divisions; 2) to create conditions promoting truly collaborative research involving the humanities and social sciences; 3) to further both the research of participants and the field-shaping conversations to which their work contributes.

  • Coming Events:
  • Friday, December 11: Work in Progress session with Ann Waltner, History, University of Minnesota
  • Topic: “Les Noces Chinoises:  An Eighteenth-century French View of a Chinese Wedding Procession”
  • Time and Place: 12 – 1:30 PM, Heller 1210
  • Friday, December 18: Walter Benjamin Reading Group
    Topic: The Origin of German Tragic Drama (the English translation of Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928). “Allegory and Trauerspiel" (pp. 159-235 in the Verso Osborne translation).”
    Time and Place: 12:15 - 2:00 PM, Nolte 335.
    In conjunction with the Dialectics and Society Research Group.

TEMS Organizers:

Juliette Cherbuliez, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian
Michael Gaudio, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
J.B. Shank, Associate Professor, Department of History

A full calendar for Fall 2009 - Spring 2010 will be available soon.