This academic year, the venerable “Premodern Mediterranean Seminar,” originally founded and generously funded through the Early Modern Studies Institute, is renaming itself, now as, simply, “The CPW Seminar.” The previous incarnation of this seminar had long chafed against the boundaries of the Mediterranean and in fact had already opened up its scholarly gates to a whole range of geographic topics. This year, the transformation is official, as it begins to explore to cultures, events, archeological sites, religions, economies, languages, art — you name it — from around the globe. Check back her often for updates and events.