THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14
09:30 – Introduction to the conference and the theme (Jeroen Puttevils, Antwerp University)
10:00-10:50 – Future: A useful category of historical analysis (Marek Tamm, Tallinn University)
10:50-11:10 – Coffee break
11:10-12:00 – “There will come a time”: Imagining futurity in the Devotio Moderna (Matthew Champion, Melbourne University)
12:00-13:15 – Lunch break
13:15-14:05 – Future ties: Familial experiences and expectations in the early modern Low Countries (c. 1600) (Sanne Hermans, Antwerp University)
14:05-14:55 – What’s in the air. Predicting the political future in the early modern Low Countries (Judith Pollmann, Leiden University)
15:55-15:20 – Coffee break
15:20-16:10 – Gendered future thinking and self-representation in French merchants’ correspondences during the eighteenth century (Elisabeth Heijmans, Antwerp University)
16:20-17:00 – Futures from the ruins: History and prediction in Early Mexico (Matthew D. O’Hara, UC Santa Cruz)
17:00-17:30 – Wrap up
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15
09:30-10:20 – What did the future look like in early colonial India? (Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan University)
10:20-11:10 – Candlemas or February 2nd? The use of temporal frameworks in early modern English merchant letters (Sara Budts, Antwerp University)
11:10-11:25 – Coffee break
11:25-12:15 – Shifting views of time: From cyclical to linear and the future of prophecies (Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway, University of London)
12:15-13:15 – Lunch break
13:15-14:05 – Letters, contracts and testaments: The future horizon of a family firm (1520-1550) (Max-Quentin Bischoff, Antwerp University)
14:05-14:55 – Practical futurology in the Later Middle Ages: Thoughts and observations (Benjamin Scheller, University of Duisburg-Essen)
14:55-15:20 – Coffee break
15:20-16:10 – After the end: Medieval ideas on the limits of future (Klaus Oschema, German Historical Institute Paris)
16:10-17:00 – The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice (Nicolò Zennarò, Antwerp University)
17:00-17:30 – Wrap up
