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Inger Leemans Editor & Author

Inger Leemans is Professor of Cultural History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Principle Investigator of NL-Lab at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published on the history of emotions and the senses, radical Enlightenment, financial crises and digital humanities. Her current project is on ‘Affective Economies. A Cultural History of Stock Trading’.

Anne Goldgar is Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Professor of European History at the University of Southern California. From 1993 to 2020 she taught at King’s College London, where she was Professor of Early Modern European History. She is a social and cultural historian who has written numerous works, including Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters 16801750 and Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age.