29 October

09:30-10:30 Welcome and Introduction
10:30-11:30 Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez (University of Texas at Austin), ‘The encomienda under scrutiny: Indigenous advocacy on interpolity assemblages in the 16th-century Spanish empire’
11:45-12:45 Saliha Belmessous (University of Oxford), ‘The Foundations of Interpolity relations in Turtle Island/North America’
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:15-15:15 Einar Wigen (University of Oslo), ‘Diversity within Early Modern Eurasian Suzerainty: Political Authority among Turkic and Persian polities’
15:30-16:30 Cihan Yuksel (University of Houston), ‘Interpolity Relations within Dar al-Islam: From the Agents of Diplomacy to the Communal Networks’
16:40-17:45 Guido van Meersbergen (University of Warwick), ‘Practices of Diplomacy in Mughal South Asia: Situating the Norris Embassy (1699-1702)’