Friday 7 November 2025
Location: Rubenshuis – conference center ‘Kolveniershof’
9.30-10.30 Keynote Lecture II – Alicia Montoya (Radboud University Nijmegen)
10.30-11.00 Coffee/tea
11.00-12.30 Session 5
Computational approaches
- Evi Dijcks (KU Leuven, Women Printers in Early Modern Leiden: Networks and Representations
- Kirk Melnikoff (University of North Carolina, USA), Women in the Early Modern English Book Trade and their Networks
- Lisa Bakhuizen van den Brink (University of Amsterdam), Digital Methods in Book History: Gender, Career and Family in the Early Modern Dutch Book Trade
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 6
Places of work
- Molly G. Yarn (independent scholar), 'Old Bookes and odd things': Women’s Printing Houses in the London Archives
- Christine Moog (University of Arts, London), Susan Islip, Space and Networks in Seventeenth-Century London Printing Houses
- Helen Williams (Northumbria University, UK), Paper mills and household management
15.00-15.30Coffee/tea
15.30-17.00 Session 7
(Paratextual) Representations
- Emily C. Francomano (Georgetown University, USA), Margarita Wolschaten’s Book of Love and Languages
- Martine van Elk (California State University, USA), A Transnational Perspective on Women Stationers in Amsterdam, London, and Paris
- Elise Watson (University of Edinburgh, UK), Drukster, Printeress, Imprimeuse: Gender, Paratext, and Business Strategy in the Early Modern Low Countries
17.00 Closing remarks & reception
