Conferences

feegi 2026

Registration and Conference Program

View the 2026 Conference Program here.
Register for the 2026 conference here.

Conference Hotel Information

We have reserved a room block at a hotel in downtown New Brunswick. The Hyatt Regency New Brunswick is about a 10-15 minute walk from campus, and very close to a lot of food and coffee in the downtown area. Rooms are priced at $189 a night for the 9th-12th of April. You can book them using this link: https://www.hyatt.com/events/en-US/group-booking/EWRRN/G-DFEE

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the 2026 meeting of the Forum for Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions will be held April 10-11th, 2026 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Interested participants should submit a paper abstract below by October 30, 2025. Submissions will be reviewed by the conference committee, and participants will be notified in early 2026 if they have been accepted. We welcome papers on early modern global history writ large, and encourage you to share news of the conference with anyone who would be interested.

In addition, we are pleased to be partnering with the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) for our 2026 meeting. PEAES will be hosting a workshop on Thursday, April 9th. Applications are due October 17! More information will be forthcoming, and you can sign up for the PEAES mailing list here.

CFP: Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions, April 10-11 2026, Rutgers University
The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its sixteenth biennial conference, to be held April 10-11, 2026 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We are delighted to announce that for the 2026 conference, FEEGI is teaming up with The Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES). PEAES will host a one-day works-in-progress workshop (featuring pre-circulated papers), convened by Jessica Roney (Library Company/Temple University) and Casey Schmitt (Cornell University), at Rutgers on Thursday, April 9, 2026. The FEEGI Conference will begin the following day, Friday April 10, and continue through Saturday April 11. The PEAES Call for Applications can be found here. All participants in the PEAES workshop are encouraged to apply to present at, or simply attend, FEEGI. On Thursday evening, April 9th, PEAES and FEEGI will cohost a plenary discussion on the intersection of early American history and global early modernity, followed by a reception.
FEEGI conferences investigate the histories of places and people touched directly and indirectly, advantageously or catastrophically, by the process of enhanced global interactions that commenced in the fifteenth century. Our conferences provide an opportunity for exchanges about the circumstances, causes, and consequences of increased global interaction in the early modern period (roughly 1450 to 1850). We welcome proposals exploring political, economic, and socio-cultural interactions from a variety of fields and perspectives. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
One hallmark of FEEGI conferences is the creation of a space for comparative thinking and intellectual exchange among scholars across traditional temporal, geographic, and imperial boundaries. To promote such dialogue the Program Committee configures panels to make deep thematic connections, and all our sessions are plenary.
FEEGI members may submit proposals for individual papers no later than Oct. 30, 2025 below. (Details on membership can be found on http://feegi.org/membership.html ). Submissions should include a 200-400 word abstract as well as a brief (1-2 page) CV. We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students.
Graduate student papers accepted for the program will be eligible for consideration for the FEEGI prize for best presentation by a graduate student, which is accompanied by a $250 honorarium.
For more information, contact Molly Warsh, FEEGI Vice-President & 2026 Program Chair, at warsh@pitt.edu.

FEEGI 2026 Program Committee:
Sarah Balakrishnan (Duke University)
Jack Bouchard (Rutgers University)
Kathleen Burke (National University of Singapore)
Hieu Phung (Rutgers University)
Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh), Chair

Submit a PROPOSAL here!

FEEGI 2024

FEEGI's 2024 Conference was held at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, April 19-20, 2024.
Click here for the conference program. Link to more photographs from the conference here.

The 2024 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Ursula Rall (Emory University), who presented the paper “Black Womanhood, Identity, and Urban Space in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.”

Thanks to the committee:
Matt Romaniello (chair), Carla Pestana, and Ernesto Bassi

FEEGI 2022

FEEGI's fourteenth biennial conference was held virtually, 24-26 February 2022. Click here for the conference program.

FEEGI 2020

FEEGI's thirteenth biennial conference was held February 14-15 at Saint Louis University. Check out the photos below, and click here for the full program.

FEEGI 2018

FEEGI's twelfth biennial conference was held February 23-24 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Check out the photos below, and click here for the full program.

FEEGI 2016

FEEGI’s eleventh biennial conference was held February 5-6 at the University of California, Irvine. Check out the photos below, and click here for the full program.

PAST CONFERENCES

FEEGI holds a biennial conference in the even-numbered years. All sessions at FEEGI meetings have traditionally been plenary, so that each panel can enter a common conversation. As the conference proceeds, both presenters and audience often build on the work presented at that very meeting to enhance the discussion of papers given later in the conference, creating an atmosphere of scholarly exchange and collegiality that may be difficult to find at larger conferences.

As much as possible, panels at FEEGI meetings are organized thematically in order to encourage comparative thinking outside the bounds of regional histories. Among other topics, FEEGI conferences frequently have been a rich arena for discussion of the various oceanic paradigms, examining the Mediterranean World, the Indian Ocean World, and the Atlantic World, and the ways in which these worlds can be compared, contrasted, and connected.

In June 2015 FEEGI and the University of Leiden teamed up to offer the first ever FEEGI in Europe conference.