Annual Themes - Past, Present, and Future
| 2015-2016 Theme: | The Phenomenology of Playing |
| 2014-2015 Theme: | Making |
| 2013-2014 Theme: | Transatlantic Ecologies |
| 2012-2013 Theme: | Risk, Crisis, Speculation: 1500-1800 |
| 2011-2012 Theme: | Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800 |
| 2010-2011 Theme: | Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800 |
| 2009-2010 Theme: | Limits of the Human |
| 2008-2009 Theme: | Before Environmentalism |
| 2007-2008 Theme: | Science and Technology |
| 2006-2007 Theme: | Making Publics |
| 2005-2006 Theme: | Ballads, Broadsides, and Popular Culture |
| 2004-2005 Theme: | Memory |
| 2003-2004 Theme: | Home and World |
| 2002-2003 Theme: | Early Modern Women |
| 2001-2002 Theme: | Early Modern Visual Culture |
| 2000-2001 Theme: | The Early Modern 'New': Discoveries and Rediscoveries |
