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DAY 2: 11 November 13:00-18:10

13.00-14.30 Panel 4: (Mis)calculations of Precedence and Protocol
Mark Dizon (Ateneo de Manila University), ‘Diplomatic Mestizaje: Mistaken Identity in a Spanish Imperial Frontier’
Ekaterina Domnina (Moscow State Lomonosov University), ‘“Ambassadrice de Sa Majeste Czarienne”: Marfa Matveeva and Her Nearly Failed Reception at the Prussian Court, 1710’
Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University), ‘The Lords of Misrule? Diplomatic Disruptions in Early Modern Sweden’

14.30-15.00 Break

15.00-16.30 Panel 5: Errors, (In)accuracy, and Agency in the Activities of Lower-level Diplomats
Pierre Nevejans (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), ‘When Errors Reveal a Wider System: Privati and ambasciatori in Italian Renaissance Diplomacy’
Michael Schaich (German Historical Institute, London), ‘Inaccuracy in Diplomatic Communication’
Polly O’Hanlon (University of Oxford), ‘“The native agent of this Government”: Gangadhar Shastri Patwardhan and the Perils of East India Company Employment in Early Nineteenth Century Western India’

16.30-17.00 Break

17.00-18.00 Panel 6: Error as Diplomatic Strategy?
Tracey Sowerby (University of Oxford), ‘Relics for a Queen of England: Wrongly Chosen Gifts or Diplomatic Strategy?’
Jean-Charles Speeckaert (University of Artois), ‘The Dutch Representatives and the Feast of the Corpus Christi in Brussels in 1752: An Error or a Diplomatic Act?’

18.00-18.10 Closing remarks