What did people in the past think about the future and how did this affect their actions in Europe, c. 1400 - 1830? Using merchant letters. ERC Starting Grant

University of Antwerp
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Very excited to announce our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond"! Thu Nov 14 and Fri Nov 15 in Antwerp and online. Program in image. Registration is required and can be done here: forms.office.com/e/zguvACCqS…
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Very excited to announce our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond"! Thu Nov 14 and Fri Nov 15 in Antwerp and online. Program in image. Registration is required and can be done here: forms.office.com/e/zguvACCqS…
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Very excited to announce our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond"! Thu Nov 14 and Fri Nov 15 in Antwerp and online. Program in image. Registration is required and can be done here: forms.office.com/e/zguvACCqS…
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Wil jij ook weten hoe mensen zich in de vroegmoderne tijd voorbereidden op de toekomst? Kom dan naar ons jaarcongres op 25 oktober! Alle info hier: vnvng.eu/2024/09/16/jaarcong…
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We are obviously biased but this is gonna be great!
Hoe keken vroegmoderne mensen naar de toekomst? Op vrijdag 25 oktober spreken Elisabeth Heijmans, Jessica den Oudsten, Steven Vanden Broecke, @AnnaLunaPost en @JeroenPuttevils op het VNVNG-jaarcongres over 'Toekomstdromen: Leven tussen hoop en vrees in de vroegmoderne periode'!
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Komt dat zien! Met onder andere @eheijmans89 en @JeroenPuttevils !
Hoe probeerden mensen in de 16e, 17e en 18e eeuw zich voor te bereiden op de toekomst? Op 25 oktober organiseert de VNVNG in Leuven haar jaarcongres met als thema 'Toekomstdromen: Leven tussen hoop en vrees in de vroegmoderne tijd'. Van harte welkom! Meer info volgt spoedig...
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CFP for a very fascinating conference on Future in the Low Countries, a topic close to our project’s!
Op 21 maart 2025 zal in Amsterdam het #Jaarcongres van onze Werkgroep @ModerneTijd plaatsvinden. Het thema van dit congres is 'Toekomst in de lage landen, 1780-1940'. De Werkgroep doet de volgende Call for papers uitgaan: mdnl.nl/?p=16714
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One of our project members @SanneHermans4 has a new journal article out that slipped through the summer recess. It deals with temporality, experience and the historian in times of Covid aup-online.com/content/journ…
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New blogpost on the project website related to Antwerp Mother Day last week by @SanneHermans4 uantwerpen.be/en/projects/ba…
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Shall we make our research into a musical too? backtothefuturemusical.com/n…
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New publication! This week our State of the Field: Histories of the Futures was published online in @HisJournalHA in open access for everyone to read doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13… ! In this paper we explore the growing historiography on past futures 1/
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It is not a coincidence that histories of the future are developing as a field today. Uncertainty about our own futures clearly motivates historians to look into past futures. Fin/
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