Conferences

feegi 2026

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. More details will be forthcoming, but please mark your calendars!

Although it is still far in advance, and more reminders/instructions will come later in the year, those interested should consider submitting a proposal by November 15, 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. More information will be forthcoming, and you can sign up for the PEAES mailing list here: https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/peaes/

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.