Thursday, 10 November 2022
19:30 (19:30 CET, by Zoom 1:30 pm EST)
Greeting / Opening of Conference
Lucinda Martin, Director, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica and Ritman Research Institute, The House with the Heads as Refuge in the 17th century
19:45
Keynote Address
Emil Schrijver, General Director, Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam, The Book Culture of the first Generations of Portuguese Jewish Refugees in Amsterdam
21:00
Reception at the Foyer of the Embassy of the Free Mind
Friday, 11 November 2022
09:00
Guided Tour of the “House with the Heads” and Rare Book Tour in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (for conference speakers only)
10:00 Coffee
Panel 1 (Chair: Bart Wallet, Universiteit Amsterdam)
10:30
Susanne Lachenicht (Universität Bayreuth)
Refugee Cities in 16th and 17th Century Europe
11:15
Hans Wallage (Universiteit Amsterdam)
Amsterdam as Haven: A Refugee Creation
12:00
Stephanie Bode (Universität Augsburg)
“Le Refuge & l’Azile de toutes les Nations” – The Construction of a Haven for Religious Refugees in Amsterdam Publications, 1680–1715
12:45 Lunch (Provided at the Conference Site for speakers)
Panel 2 (Chair: Heide Warncke, Ets Haim Library)
14:00
Kyra Gerber (Universität Amsterdam / Ritman Research Institute)
The Peculiar Ordinary: Everyday Jewish Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th Century
14:45
Florian Wieser (University of Edinburgh)
Señores de la Cofradía de Holanda: Amsterdam and the Jewish Diaspora in the 17th-Century Spanish Empire
15:30
Daniel Rafiqi (University of London, digital connection)
“That Town I Yearned For”: Representations of Arrival in Huguenot Refugees’ Autobiographical Writings, 1686–1712
16:30
“Radical Amsterdam” Walking Tour
20:00
Conference Dinner (for speakers only, location to be announced)
Saturday, 12 November 2022
Panel 3 (Chair: Fred van Lieburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
09:30
Leigh T.I. Penman (Monash University, Australia, digital connection)
Books in Exile: Toward a history of German-language heterodox printing in the United Provinces
10:15
Andreas Pietsch (Universität Münster)
A Hub in a Network of Dissent - Amsterdam’s Role in the Publication of Hiël’s Mystical Treatises around 1700
11:00
Viktoria Francke (Enschede)
The “Dutch Connection” in Friedrich Breckling’s Catalogue of Witnesses of Truth (1700) and his “Autobiography” (ca. 1704)
11:45 Lunch (provided for speakers on site)
Panel 4 (Chair: Andreas Pietsch, Universität Münster)
13:00
John Exalto (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Comenius’ Latin School in Amsterdam: Pansophia, Didactics, and Chiliasm
13:45
Francesco Quatrini (University College Dublin, digital connection)
Unitarian Letters from Exile: The Polish Brethren between Betrayal, Liberty, and the Needs of a Banished Church (c.1658–1668)
14:30
Mike Driedger (Brock University, Canada, digital connection)
Digital Evidence of Amsterdam as a City of Refuge for Contributors to the Growing Book Industry during “the Golden Age”: The eCartico Website
15:15
Final Exchange and Dutch “Borrel” (tradition of snacking and drinking after work)