Programme
Day 1: Thursday 30 May OC1.04 (Oculus) & FAB0.08 (Faculty of Arts Building)
9.45: Arrival and Coffee (OC1.04)
10:15-10.45: Welcome
Guido van Meersbergen, University of Warwick
Lisa Hellman, Lund University
Birgit Tremml-Werner, Stockholm University
10:45-12.30 Panel 1 – Worldmaking
Chair: Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
‘Inner and Outer’: Toward a New Framework for Qing Foreign Relations
Meng Zhang, Vanderbilt University / IHSS, Peking University
An Eighteenth-Century Scribal Revival? The Challenges of Incorporating Islamic Thought into Global Diplomatic History
Peter Kitlas (online), American University of Beirut
The World of the Ottoman Consular Network
Michael Talbot, University of Greenwich
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13:30-14:45: Panel 2 – Ritual Performance
Chair: Aysu Dincer, University of Warwick
‘Ces sortes d’amis’ (That Kind of Friends): Compérage as Embodied Interregional Diplomacy in the Early French-Indigenous Atlantic
Céline Carayon, Salisbury University
Allegiance in the Eye of the Beholder: Rituals and Performativity in Russian-Central Asian Diplomacy
Ulfat Abdurasulov, Austrian Academy of Science
14:45-15:15: Coffee
15:15-16:30: Roundtable 1 – Archives of Global Diplomacy
Chair: Guido van Meersbergen, University of Warwick
Sâqib Bâburî, British Library
Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter
Kurosh Meshkat, British Library
16:30-17:00: Coffee (FAB0.08)
17:00-18:30: Keynote
The Foundations of Inter-Polity Relations in Pre-1800 North America
Prof. Saliha Belmessous, University of Oxford/ University of New South Wales
Chair: Lisa Hellman, Lund University
NB: the keynote takes place in FAB0.08
Day 2: Friday 31 May OC0.01 (Oculus)
9:15-11:00: Panel 3 – Ordering Empire
Chair: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
‘Imperial Agents’ in South America: Limits and Opportunities of Informal Diplomacy during the Independence Process (1800s-1820s)
Deborah Besseghini, Università degli Studi di Torino
Seeing Berlin from Bogotá: Latin American Reactions to European Imperial Expansion in the late Nineteenth Century
Tom Long, University of Warwick
African Diplomacy on the Zambezi: Lewanika, Count von Caprivi, and the Helgoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890
David M. Anderson, University of Warwick and Jonathan M. Jackson, University of Cologne
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-12:45: Panel 4 – Textual Practice
Chair: Natalya Din-Kariuki, University of Warwick
The Art of Emissary among Persianate Courts: Querying the Figure of the Early Modern Envoy
Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University
Malay Diplomatic Correspondences at the National Archives of the Philippines, c. 1750-1800: Connections and Comparisons
Ariel Lopez, University of the Philippines Dilliman
12:45-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:15 Panel 5 – Trans-Locality
Chair: Nitya Gundu, University of Warwick
Korean Diplomacy and Imperial Transitions: From Identity to Isomorphism (1400–1900)
Sixiang Wang, UCLA
From Captive to Diplomat: Representing the Ottoman State in War and Peace in the Eighteenth Century
Gül Şen, Universität Bonn
15:15-15:45: Coffee
15:45-17:15: Closing Roundtable: Writing Global Diplomatic History
Chair: Birgit Tremml-Werner, Stockholm University
Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Linnaeus University
Saliha Belmessous, University of Oxford/ University of New South Wales
Ariel Lopez, University of the Philippines Dilliman
Tracey Sowerby , University of Oxford
Michael Talbot, University of Greenwich
17:15: Reception
This conference would not have been possible without the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Warwick’s International Partnership Fund, and the Global Diplomacy Network.