Thursday 6 December 2018
8:45-9:15: Registration
9:15-9:30: Opening and Welcome
9:30-10:00: Introduction (Klaas Van Gelder – Ghent University)
10:00-11:00: Keynote Lecture 1
Theater and Theatricality in Early Modern European Diplomacy: Staging Negotiations between the Habsburgs and France (Ellen R. Welch – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:30: Session 1A – Public Diplomacy through Pamphlets, Prints, and Newspapers
- Cold War. Dutch Public Diplomacy in the Truce Period, 1609-1621 (Helmer Helmers – University of Amsterdam
- “Glorious Victories”: The Public Embassy of Alonso de Cárdenas (Thomas Donald Jacobs – Ghent University)
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30:-14:30 Keynote Lecture 2
Fortitude and Temperance. Soft Power and Cultural Rhetoric in the Habsburg Peacemaking Policy (1559-1648) (Bernardo José García García – Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Fundación Carlos de Amberes)
14:30-15:30: Session 1B – Public Diplomacy through Pamphlets, Prints, and Newspapers
- Newspapers as an Integral Part of Habsburg Public Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Nina Lamal – University of Antwerp)
- Jean Dumont’s “Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens” (1726-1739) as a Habsburg Design of the Law of Nations (Stephan Wendehorst – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen/Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem/University of Vienna)
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-17:00: Session 2: Public Diplomacy, Material Culture, and Gift-Giving
- “They Gave Us Only Words”: Martín de Rada and the First Spanish Embassy to China (1575) (Ashleigh Dean – Gordon State College, Barnesville USA)
- Disseminating French Fashion in Vienna under Leopold I: A Rocky Road in Times of Political Antagonism (Veronika Hyden-Hanscho – Austrian Academy of Sciences)
19:00: Conference Dinner
Friday 7 December 2018
9:00-10:00: Keynote Lecture 3
Public Diplomacy at the Sublime Porte? Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in Early Modern Times (Arno Strohmeyer – University of Salzburg/Austrian Academy of Sciences)
10:00-11:00: Session 3: Public Diplomacy, Information Politics, and Diplomatic Incidents
- Information politics of French diplomats at the court of Vienna (1660-1756) (Dorothea Nolde – University of Vienna)
- The Negotiation around the Barrier Payment in Brussels, 1752-1753: Transvestite and Irreligious Diplomats on Stage (Jean-Charles Speeckaert – Université libre de Bruxelles)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:30: Session 4: Cultural and Public Diplomacy and Dynastic Consolidation
- “Because of her special consideration”. Cultural and diplomatic demonstrations of the consideration of Archduchess’ Maria Antonia of Austria as the heir to the Spanish Monarchy (1673-1692) (Rocío Martínez López – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid)
- The Expulsion of the Jewish Community of Prague (1744) Reconsidered in the Light of the Early Modern Law of Nations (Stephan Wendehorst & Louise Hecht – Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen/Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem/University of Vienna & University of Potsdam)
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Session 5: Cultural and Public Diplomacy and Religion
- For the sake of religion. Bernardino de Rebolledo’s defence of Catholicism in Denmark during his mission as envoy (1648 – 1659) (Enrique Corredera Nilsson – University of Bern)
- Patrons from the East: Russia and the Orthodox Public in Habsburg Transylvania, 1740s-1750s (Radu Nedici – University of Bucharest)
14:30-15:00: Conclusions
Final Reception