Global Connections: Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World

• Department of History
• Widening Europe Programme

The conference is organised under the EUI Widening Europe Programme in collaboration with Warsaw Centre for Global History (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw), the Faculty of Culture and Arts (University of Warsaw), and the Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology (Polish Academy of Sciences) Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026

The conference explores Central and Eastern Europe as an integral part of the early modern world, foregrounding its global connections, circulations, and entanglements from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Challenging the persistent marginalisation of the region in global history scholarship, it brings together researchers working across national and disciplinary boundaries to examine how Central and Eastern European states and communities participated in (and were shaped by) processes of exchange spanning continents.

The keynote lecture will be delivered by Tomasz Grusiecki, Associate Professor, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, at Queen’s University.

A post-conference publication is planned.