Presentations are available online
You can now watch the papers presented at our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond" online by clicking on the links below.
- Jeroen Puttevils (Antwerp University): Introduction to the conference and the theme: Back to the Future
- Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Future: A useful category of historical analysis
- Matthew Champion (Melbourne University): “There will come a time”: Imagining futurity in the Devotio Moderna
- Sanne Hermans (Antwerp University): Future ties: Familial experiences and expectations in the early modern Low Countries (c. 1600) (Available soon)
- Judith Pollmann (Leiden University): What’s in the air. Predicting the political future in the early modern Low Countries
- Elisabeth Heijmans (Antwerp University): Gendered future thinking and self-representation in French merchants’ correspondences during the eighteenth century
- Matthew O’Hara (UC Santa Cruz): Futures from the ruins: History and prediction in Early Mexico
- Sara Budts (Antwerp University): Candlemas or February 2nd? The use of temporal frameworks in early modern English merchant letters
- Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway University of London): Shifting views of time: From cyclical to linear and the future of prophecies
- Max-Quentin Bischoff (Antwerp University): Letters, contracts and testaments: The future horizon of a family firm (1520-1550)
- Klaus Oschema (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris): After the end : Medieval ideas on the limits of future
- Nicolò Zennaro (Antwerp University): The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice