UCL Early Modern Exchanges

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The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/

Someone in the archive, examining an old document, wearing gloves.

Painting by Joos van Winghe (circa 1600) entitled 'Elegant company, playing with torchlight'. Group of musicians playing lute, flute, harpsichord and a singer, with other instruments on a table in the foreground.

Poster for the colloquium with a photo of a stained glass window from a church and details of speakers, ticket prices etc

Event title 'Between Translation and Confusion' next to a coat of arms with a dragon and a man with a sword

Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern
28 May 2025, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm
Join Professor Alexander Samson for his inaugural lecture. Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshadowed and heralded our ‘modernity’. But how are our times different from what came before?