THURSDAY 5 MARCH

09.00-9.30: Registration

09.30-09.45: Welcome and introduction

09.45-10.45 Keynote lecture by Diana Carrió-Invernizzi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) - Imagined embassies in seventeenth century Europe: Spanish Habsburg diplomats and visual communication

10.45-11.15: Morning coffee

11.15-13.00: Panel 1: The figure of the ambassador at the English Court
Chair: Roberta Anderson

Georgina Moore (Bath Spa University) - Baldesar Castiglione and Courtly Masculinity

Vincenzo de Meulenaere (Ghent University) - Lodewijk van Praet, Habsburg ambassador to Henry VIII’s court

Ernesto Oyarbide (University of Oxford) - Count of Gondomar (1567-1626), Spanish ambassador in the court of King James

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.30: Panel 2: Ceremonies and protocol
Chair: Laura Mesotten

Diego Pizzorno (University of Genoa) - Ceremonies and ancient magnificence: meaning and representation of a Genoese ‘embassy of obedience’ through a private report

Ettore Cafagna (University of Verona) - Diplomatic protocol and political legitimation: the case of Venice and the Dutch Republic in the early 17th century

Michal Wasiucionek (European University Institute) - West/East Divide, Diplomacy and Coffee in the Early Modern Europe: the Experience of Polish-Moldavian Diplomatic Encounters

15.30-16.00: Afternoon coffee

16.00-17.00: Presentation: Samuel Morrison Gallacher (The Medici Archive Project) - Digital Humanities and Diplomacy

17.00-18.30: Panel 3: Long-distance relationships
Chair: Anna Kalinowska

Roger Lee Jesus (University of Coimbra) - Diplomacy and Empire in Portuguese Asia during the government and viceroyalty of D. Joao de Castro (1545-1548)

Ozden Mercan (European University Institute) - An Ottoman Ambassador in Florence: Mustafa Aga's Role in Ottoman-Tuscan Negotiations in 1598
Rikard Drakenlordh (Bath Spa University) - King Charles XII of Sweden and the Diplomatic Expedition to the Madagascar Pirates in 1718

FRIDAY 6 MARCH

8.45-9.15: Registration

9.15-10.45: Panel 4: Diplomacy beyond ambassadors: Informal Agents between Habsburg's Courts
Chair: Rafael J. Valladares Ramírez (Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma)

Rubén González Cuerva (German Historical Institute in Rome/IULCE) - Five Ambassadors, the Queen of Hungary and her Confessor: How to Defend Spanish Interests in Vienna around 1632?

Miguel Conde Pazos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IULCE) - Discreet and pragmatic Diplomacy: the Marquis de la Fuente and the Spanish Agents in Poland (1642-1667)

Koldo Trápaga Monchet (Universidade Nova da Lisboa/IULCE) - The political Development of Habsburgs’ Courts through John of Austria and official and unofficial Agents (1665-1679)

10.45-11.15: Morning coffee

11.15-13.00: Panel 5: Women and Diplomacy
Chair: Samuel Morrison Gallacher

Vanessa de Cruz Medina (Independent researcher) - Medici’s Secret Diplomacy: Women, Gifts and Political Alliances at the Court of Philip III of Spain

Alejandra Franganillo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – Between France, Savoy and the Spanish Monarchy: The Princess of Carignano, “prisoner” in the Spanish Court (1636-1644)

Laura Oliván (University of Vienna) - Between discourses and practices: Imperial Ambassadresses in Madrid (1650-1700)

John Condren (University of St Andrews) - Braganza, Este, and Medici marital diplomacy under the umbrella of French geopolitical strategy in the 1680s

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Panel 6: Performance and diplomacy
Chair: Georgina Moore

Bram van Leuveren (University of St Andrews) - ‘Diplomacy With(out) Borders? Translating French Court Ballet across European Cultures and Languages’

Suna Suner (Don Juan Archiv Vienna) - Diplomacy and Theatre in the Early Modern Era: Ambassadors and Ambassadresses in the Italian Opera History

15.00-16.00: Panel 7: The circulation of news
Chair: Anna Kalinowska

Nina Lamal (KU Leuven/University of St Andrews) - Looking for alternative eyes and ears: Italian correspondents in the Low Countries (c. 1590-1632)

Francesco Malfatti (European University Institute) - Broadening the horizon of Medicean diplomacy: the ambassadorial mission to Transylvanian court (1593)

16.00-16.30: Afternoon coffee

16.30-17.30: Panel 8: Europe and North Africa
Chair: Francesco Malfatti

José Miguel Escribano Páez (European University Institute) – Diplomacy without Kings. The diplomatic negotiations between the Hispanic Monarchy and the Maghreb cities (1500-1511)

Michael Talbot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) - A reassessment of British and French diplomacy with the 'Barbary States', 16th-18th century

17.30-18.00: Concluding discussion