• 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)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 16 October 2018

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

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 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

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

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 14 May 2019

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

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 15 October 2019

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

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 23 February 2021

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

Tuesday 9 March 2021

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

Tuesday 4 May 2021

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

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 30 November 2021

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

Tuesday 17 May 2022

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

Tuesday 14 June 2022

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

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 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

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

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 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

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

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 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

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

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 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

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

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 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

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 16:15 - Reading week: rethinking early modern treaties
  N/A

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 16:15 - Roundtable discussion on pre-modern Chinese diplomacy
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge), Dr Jacob Fordham (LSE)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 16:15 - The Tsushima Domain and the Taiping Rebellion: Intelligence Networks and Information Circulation in Japan, 1853–1855
  Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)