Thursday 6 November 2025

10.00-11.30 Parallel sessions 1

1a. The roles of daughters, wives and servants I (Location: NB)

Katie Holly (University of North Carolina, USA), Wives, Daughters, and the Authority of the Executrix in the Early English Book Trade
Kristof Selleslach (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Maria de Sweert and the Plantin Press. A revaluation of silent partnerships by printer’s widows
Rachel Cilia-Werdmölder (Cornell University, USA), Daughters of the press: Tracing Jewish women through the printed page in early modern Amsterdam

  1b. Networks and Exchange (Location: AL)

Joanne Butler (Keele University, UK), Women supporting women in the eighteenth century English regional print trade
Lieke van Deinsen (KU Leuven) and Nina Lamal (Huygens ING, Amsterdam), The correspondence between a paper merchant and Plantin women
Valentyna Bochkovska (Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine, Kyiv), Women in the book trade of the L’viv Stavropegian brotherhood (Ukraine) of the XVII c. and in the producing of engravings of the Pochayiv Printing House (Ukraine) of the XVIII c.

11.30-12.00 Coffee/tea

12.00-13.30 Parallel sessions 2

  2a. The roles of daughters, wives and servants II (Location: NB)

Heleen Wyffels (Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, Antwerp), The roles of wives in the printing business of Plantin-Moretus
Adam Smith (St. John University, York, UK), Winifred Gales & Radical Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Sheffield
Paul Arblaster (UCLouvain Saint-Louis, Brussels), Getting the runaround: The 1689 investigation of a clandestine pamphlet in Brussels

2b. Knowledge Production (Location: AL)

Stéphanie Reitzig (Columbia University, USA), 'As Clever as Artful': Women and Craft Knowledge in Print in Early Modern Nuremberg
Beth DeBold (Newcastle University, UK), 'This Body': the London Stationers and Gender Identity
Amanda Pipkin (University of North Carolina, USA), Women’s (un?)Orthodox knowledge production in Dutch Reformed Networks, 1650-1710

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Parallel sessions 3

3a. Agency (Location: NB)

Alica-Nana Citron (University of Oslo, Norway), Printing Privileges: Women and their Agency in Book Production of the Early Modern Period
Saskia Limbach (Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany), Learning the ropes. Women in the German book trade, 1550-1700
Violet Soen (KU Leuven), Women as Academic Printers? New conjections about the business of women in the university town Douai in Habsburg Flanders (1559-1659)

3b. Specializations (Location: AL)

Helena Declerck (KU Leuven), The Antwerp Print Seller Susanna Verbruggen (1684-1752): A Biographical Study and Reconstruction of Her Print Shop
Margriet Hoogvliet (Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam), Uncovering Women Mapmakers in Amsterdam (c. 1580-1800)
Michael Noone (Boston College, USA), Susana Muñoz (d. 1625), the unsung printer of sacred music in Golden Age Salamanca

16.00-16.30 Coffee/tea

16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions 4 

4a. Interactions between the book trade and religious (catholic) communities (Location: NB)

Patricia Stoop (University of Antwerp), Women Religious and the Economics of Hand-Written Book Production in the Late Middle Ages
Linde Van den Eede (KU Leuven), Circulating Knowledge in the Cloister: the Seventeenth-Century Annunciates of the Low Countries
Maddy C. Keightley-Philipps (Durham University, UK), Reading Pious Books in Their Company: Early Modern English Catholic Women and the Use of Missionary Texts

  4b. Consumption cultures and the book (Location: AL)

Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland), Women's books collections at private noble courts in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the first part of XVIII century
Gráinne McMenamin (Ulster University, UK), Printed and Bound: (Re)Discovering Women’s Work in The Derry and Raphoe Library Collection
Valentina Sonzini (Università di Firenze, Italy), Books and Matronage

19.00 Conference dinner