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There will be three types of sessions: keynote lectures, sessions and workshops. Keynote lecturers will present research from different regions. The aim is to identify problems and possibilities in the research field of Political Women.

Ida Bull, Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Norway
"Political women - from regional administration to politics of the family. Norway 1500-1900"

Suzanne Desan, Professor of History, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
"Women and Politics in Old Regime and Revolutionary France".

Anne Laurence, Professor of History, Department of History, the Open University, UK
“Women, Politics and Financial Markets in Early Modern England”.

Ariadne Schmidt, PhD, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
"Women and politics in the Dutch Republic".

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US
"Women as political actors in a global context, 1500–1900".

Charlotta Wolff, PhD, Department of History, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Political women 1500–1900 in Swedish and Finnish history writing. Achievements and perspectives".

Heide Wunder, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c., University of Kassel, Germany “
" What made women ‘political women’ in the Holy Roman Empire and the German states in the nineteenth century?"