Program

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