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Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays of even weeks at 16:15 in the Swire Seminar Room, University College, 12 Merton Street, unless otherwise stated, and online via Zoom; the Zoom link will be sent to our mailing list.
Tea and coffee will be served before the seminar from c. 16:05
If you are not on the mailing list, and wish to attend online, please contact: Dr Tracey Sowerby mailto:tracey.sowerby@history.ox.ac.uk to receive the link.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Tracey Sowerby,
Antonio Pattori
Timing: Tuesdays 16:15-17:45, Weeks 2, 4, 6, & 8
Web Address:
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/diplomacy-in-early-modern-period-1400-1800#/
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Talks:
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Objects of Informal Diplomacy: Gift-Giving and Cultural Exchange between Tudor England and the Italian peninsula, 1500-1550
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker
:
Teresa Callaioli (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 February 2026
Competition or Integration? Urban and Princely Diplomacy at times of Civil War in the Burgundian Low Countries (1380s vs. 1480s)
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker
:
Michael Depreter (UC Louvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Personal correspondence and early modern diplomacy
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker
s:
Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute, Paris),
Vladimir Somov (Independent Researcher)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
