Wonderful symposium! There is still time to write your proposal!
Lovely to see the 18th century French correspondences that we worked in the project analyzed and discussed!
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CFP Contingency and Imagination. Rethinking Economic Agency in the Early Modern Period tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige...
Project member Max-Quentin Bischoff will defend his PhD dissertation "Merchants' Futures: Plans and expectations in the Tucher family company, c.1520-c.1550" on Wednesday 10 June at Felixarchief Antwerpen (start at 13:30). More about this: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
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New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🎓🍻 Yesterday team member Max-Quentin Bischoff successfully defended his PhD-dissertation Merchants' Futures: Plans and Expectations in the Tucher Trading Company, c. 1520 - c. 1550. Congratulations Dr. Bischoff! @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social
New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society. For a short blog : www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
🎖️Project member @nicolozennaro.bsky.social received the Special Mention for the Human Solvency Historical Research Prize 2026. Congratulations!
More info can be had here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...