14:00 Welcome and introduction
14:30 Tatjana Trikic: “I have no word, because no country: / Each place is my habitation”. A spatial reading of Thomas Kyd’s Soliman and Perseda
15:30 Constantin Rieske: The (un)making of a religious self. Conversion in seventeenth-century Europe
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Jessica Stevenson Stewart: In the cards – gambling merchant sociability and the emblematics of chance in sixteenth-century Antwerp merchant communities
19:00 Dinner
09:30 Jennifer Bishop: Searching for precious metals in mid-sixteenth-century England and Ireland
10:30 Hannah August: Constructing the reader – the space of the paratext in early modern play quartos
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Valentina Sebastiani: How books make money. Terms and conditions for printing in sixteenth-century Basel
13:00 Simon Smith: “I see no instruments, nor hands that play, [...] ‘Tis some celestiall rapture of the minde”. Seeing music on the early modern stage
14:00 Résumé – final discussion
14:30 End of conference
