Conference Day 2: Errors in Early Modern Diplomacy
If you would like to attend please email earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk
All times are Greenwich Mean Time (London time)
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
Date:
11 November 2021, 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue:
Online webinar
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Part of:
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
earlymoderndiplomacy@torch.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
