This symposium will address the question of how we approach the study of early modern women in the 21st century. We will focus on women of the Low Countries to ask and answer larger questions about the dynamic position of early modern women in a changing, increasingly global environment.
Keynote: Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) Gendered Paths and Spaces in the Early Modern World
Roundtable
Chair: Martine van Elk, California State University, Long Beach
Participants: Lieke van Deinsen, KU Leuven / Columbia University
Adam Eaker, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Karen Hollewand, University of Groningen
Martha Howell, Columbia University
Nina Lamal, Huygens Institute
Sponsors: Program in Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World, European Institute, Department of Germanic Languages
*Reception to follow
