Thursday, 8 January 2026

Symposium Exhibiting the Domestic Past

Image: Rijksmuseum.

Huygens researchers Jelle van Lottum and Marlies Couch will give a lecture on domestic violence in early modern Amsterdam during the symposium Exhibiting the Domestic Past at the Rijksmuseum. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

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Exhibition At Home in the Seventeenth Century

The symposium is organised in conjunction with the exhibition At Home in the Seventeenth Century. A Day in the Life of Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum. From poor to rich and from migrant to merchant: the seventeenth century was characterised by great social and cultural diversity. Houses and households reflected these differences. Everyday objects offer a glimpse into daily life at that time.

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Book Venster op thuis

The lecture also ties in with their chapter ’Ze is haar lijf en leven niet zeker’ (She fears for body and her life) in the book Venster op thuis: Gezelligheid ontleed, the Meertens Institute’s New Year’s book 2025/2026 (Dutch only). The book brings together different perspectives on what ‘home’ can mean. Historians, cultural scientists and linguists show when (not just where) people feel at home, how that feeling arises and may change over longer periods of time.

Read here for more information about the book.