30 October

09:00-10:00 Peter Borschberg (National University of Singapore), ‘Synergies, state-formation and trade: Melaka in the long 15th century’
10:15-11:15 Lorenz Gonschor (University of the South Pacific), ‘Interpolity relations in pre-colonial Oceania: From Indigenous thalassocracies and trade networks to a late but rapid integration into the world system’
11:30-12:30 Rémi Dewiere (University of Naples L’Orientale), ‘Clapping, ‘Kissing, Loving: Bodies and Emotions in Interpolity Diplomatic Relations in the Early Modern Sahel’
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:45-14:45 John Thornton (Boston University), ‘Interpolity and International Relations: West Central Africa, 1450-1700’
15:00-16:00 Edward Keene (University of Oxford), ‘Treaty-Making in the European “Society of Princes”, 1648-1789’
16:15-17:15 Hendrik Spruyt (Northwestern University), ‘Diplomacy and Interpolity Relations as a Shared Repertoire’
17:30-18:00 Final Observations and Conclusion