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Conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ – deadline abstracts 31 March 2025
On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries’ Book Trade (1550-1750)’. The conference is also co-hosted by The Rubens House Museum in Antwerp.
Keynote speakers at this conference are Professor Susan Broomhall (Australian Catholic University) and Professor Alicia Montoya (Radboud University).
The organisers call for papers and invite participants to consider the supposed binary between home and work for women in the early modern book trade worldwide. Through this approach, the organisers hope to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home labour for early modern women.
Abstracts (max. 200 words) should be submitted via e-mail ultimately 31 March 2025. Specifications on how to submit are to be found in the full call via the button below.
