• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Tracey Sowerby , Antonio Pattori
• Timing: Tuesdays 16:15-17:45, Weeks 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)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Royal Gifts and Diplomatic Ceremonial: The Case of James VI/I’s Apologie (1609)’
  Dr Tracey A. Sowerby (Keble College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Decorative Supremacy. French diplomatic gifts in the 18th century
  Please RSVP to earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk by 16 November if you plan to attend.
  Dr Helen Jacobsen (The Wallace Collection)
• 17:30 - Decorative Supremacy. French diplomatic gifts in the 18th century
  Please RSVP to earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Helen Jacobsen (The Wallace Collection)

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Knowledge for Decision Makers: Austrian-Habsburg Foreign Intelligence in the Late Sixteenth Century
  Please RSVP to earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk by 24 November if you plan to attend.
  Dr Tobias Graf (University of Oxford, Faculty of History)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘The same game, but with different rules: Western diplomats in early modern Istanbul’
  Sir Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Trust building measures in cross-cultural settings: Diplomatic networking practices in early modern Istanbul’
  Prof Christine Vogel (Universität Vechta)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - 'Multilayered networks, information gathering and letter-writing: For a “new diplomatic history” of early Renaissance Italy (1350-1520 ca.)'
  Prof Isabella Lazzarini (Università degli Studi del Molise)

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - ‘The birth of cultural diplomacy in the eighteenth century: The case of Bernis, French ambassador in Rome’
  Professor Gilles Montègre (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - ‘Diplomatic Letters as Political Literature: Copying Sir Henry Unton’s Letters’
  Dr Elizabeth Williamson (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - First discussion session: Relazioni and diplomatic reporting
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Secretaries and the Persian Cosmopolis in the Making of an Anti-Safavid Diplomatic Discourse
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Second discussion session: Material letters and diplomacy
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Diplomatic Correspondence Networks and the Progress of Scientific Knowledge: Luigi Lorenzi and the Spread of the Practice of Smallpox Inoculation in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
  Ruggero Sciuto (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - ‘Cold War. Dutch Public Diplomacy in the Truce Period, 1609-1621’
  Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - A Diplomatic Narrative in the Archive: The War of Cyprus, Record Keeping Practices and Historical Research in the Early Modern Venetian Chancery
  Fabio Antonini (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Public news: an ambassador’s secret weapon. Diego Guzman de Silva’s interventions in the Low Countries from the embassy in Venice, 1568-1573
  Professor Emerita Mía J. Rodríguez-Salgado (The London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The "King of Peace" off Track? The Provoking Strategies of James I’s Diplomats in Germany
  Stefanie Freyer (Universität Osnabrück)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Confession, Conflict, & Cultural Renewal: the Hohenzollern Consort in the Seventeenth Century
  Sara Smart (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Robert Ashley’s Spanish Books: Textual Diplomacy
  Alexander Samson (UCL)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - "There was a rumour in the city that we were imprisoned": Swedish Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire & the Challenges of Misinformation
  Charlotta Forss (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The Diplomatic Correspondence of Dutch Grandpensionary Johan de Witt
  Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The Social Origins of Early Modern Ambassadors & Consuls: The Potential (& Limits) of an an International Relations Analysis
  Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Working Around the Ius Gentium: Diplomatic Lies and the Invention of Southern Europe
  John Watkins (University of Minnesota)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ottoman Protocol and Diplomatic Cultures at the Sublime Porte c.1550–1632
  Tracey Sowerby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Diplomatic Correspondence of Dutch Grandpensionary Johan de Witt
  Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - East India Company Gifting Practices and Anglo-Mughal Political Exchange (1670-1717)
  Please note change of date from 12 November to 5 November.
  Guido van Meersbergen (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sociability, Women and Control: Diplomacy at the Court of Louis XIII
  Marc Jaffré (Balliol College, Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Defining Territory through the Practice of Diplomacy. The Case of the Burgundian Low Countries (c.1350-1550)
  Michael Depreter (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cap or Hat? Political Party and Diplomatic Career through the Eyes of Christopher von Kochen
  Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University/Wolfson College, Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - (Dis)Connected Histories: Global Diplomatic History and Its Limits
  Zoltan Biedermann (University College, London)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "È cosa certa...che ama gl'italiani": The Northern Italian States and Louis XIV, 1659–1707
  John Condren (History Faculty, Oxford)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - VOC-Merchants and Mughal Mutasaddi: The Practice of Provincial Business Diplomacy in Surat, 1699-1702
  Kay Pepping (Keble College, Oxford)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Soldiers of Fortune, Defenders of Peace: Mercenary Captains and Face-to-Face Diplomacy in Late Quattrocento Italy
  Loek Luiten (New College, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Forgeries and Concealment: The Multiplicity of Diplomatic Authority in Early Modern Japan
  Kangziyi Xia (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Envoys, Etiquette, and Embarrassments: Court Protocol and Cross-Cultural Diplomatic Insult in Early-Modern South India
  Lennart Bes (Leiden University)

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Diplomatic Staff and Competing Norms: A Case Study from Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
  Florian Kühnel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Charles V’s Diplomatic Relations with Muslim Powers: Rhetoric and Reality
  Mia Rodríguez-Salgado (LSE)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Signed, Sealed, Delivered; Ratification and the Time of Tragedy
  Timothy Hampton (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany
  Michael Martoccio (Oxford)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Practices of Materiality and Visual Culture in Early Modern Diplomatic Encounters
  Diana Carrió-Invernizzi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Dragoman on Home Soil: Pierre-Marie Ruffin and the Translation of Oriental Envoys and Travellers in Late Eighteenth-century France
  Rahul Markovits (ENS, Paris)

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable on Early Modern Ottoman Diplomacy
  Please note this is on a Monday
  Christine Vogel (Universitat Vechta), Kaya Sahin (Indiana University Bloomington), Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Temper, Hate, and Character: Emotions in Early Modern Diplomacy
  Dr Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Conference Day 1: Errors in Early Modern Diplomacy
  If you would like to attend please email earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Conference Day 2: Errors in Early Modern Diplomacy
  If you would like to attend please email earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Early Modern Embassy Building: Representation, Publicity and Propaganda
  Dr Maurits Ebben (Leiden University)

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Politics and Diplomacy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature on the Ambassador
  Dr Dante Fedele (KU Leuven)

Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Unobtrusive Intermediaries in the Diplomatic Correspondence of Marguerite de Navarre
  Dr Jonathan Patterson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion of Matthias Pohlig, 'Gender and the Formalisation of Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe'
  Matthias Pohlig

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Intriguing Stories of Successful Diplomatic Negotiations in Ottoman Constantinople (1578-1581)
  Dr Francesco Caprioli (Universita degli studi di Milano), Dr Özden Mercan (Hacettepe University)

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars
  Dr Kristine Dyrman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Discussion session on periodization
  N/A

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Republic of Secrets: The Bureaucratisation of Secrecy as a Tool of Diplomacy and Knowledge Exchange in Early Modern Venice
  Dr Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Discussion of Diplomatic Culture in the later early modern period
  N/A

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Sherley Mission: the Scoundrel, the Diplomat and Rival Seventeenth-Century Empires
  Dr Yvonne Cornish (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Parchami (Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Gifts Amongst Khans, Sultans, Emperors, and Shahs: The Circulation of Abu’l-Khairid Manuscripts to the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals in the 16th Century
  Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Oxford)

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - The Bahmani Connection: Diplomacy in the Late Medieval Islamic World
  **This seminar has been cancelled**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Meia Walravens (Oxford)

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Gender and Diplomacy Roundtable
  Please note change of date from 16 to 30 May
  Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford), Florian Kühnel (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz), Kristine Dyrmann (Oxford)

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Letters, Larceny and Leaks: Diplomatic Mailbags and Political Communication During the Thirty Years War
  Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Propaganda against the Co-Religionist: Ottoman-Afghan Diplomatic and Military Encounters in the 1720s
  Dr Habib Saçmali (Marmara University)

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - "It Seemed That We Had Reached the Gates of Our Own Land": Extraterritoriality, Resident Diplomacy, and the Fondaco System in the Late Medieval Period
  Samuel Holcroft (Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - The Spanish Expeditions to Brunei: Iberian Diplomacy in Early Modern Asia
  Euan Huey (Oxford)

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Safavid Discourses on Diplomacy
  Please note this seminar is at 12:00-13:00, online only
  Professor Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - A Diplomatic Conspiracy? The Fall of Thomas Cromwell Revisited
  Susan Brigden, Antonio Pattori

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Royal letter-writing in the 16th century: the edition of the letters-missive of Francis I
  David Potter (University of Kent)

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Sight and Sound in Royal Ceremonial: The Chapel Royal and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy (1558-1625)
  Oscar Davies Patton

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:15 - Courtly Marriage
  Please note this seminar is in-person only and will be held in the Gerry Martin Room
  Hanna Sinclair, Max Diemer

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Qing China’s Foreign ‘Dragomanate’ and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat
  Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Corporate Diplomacy and Constitutional Pluralism: The East India Company in British Politics, 1773-1793
  Damien Berube (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:15 - Bending the Knee, Bending the Word: Rituals of Power in Russian-Central Asian Diplomacy
  Dr Ulfat Abdurasulov (Austrian Academy of Sciences)