Thursday, 2 June 2016
14.30–15.00: Coming together, Welcome Coffee
15.00–15.30: Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) / Christian Windler, (Bern) / Nadine Amsler (Bern): Introduction
Panel I: Transformations around 1800
Chair: Nadir Weber (Constance / Bern)
15.30–16.10: Matthew Mosca (Seattle)
Comprehending the Qing Empire: Building Multilingual Competence in an Age of Imperial Rivalry, 1790-1820
16.10–16.40: Coffee Break
16.40–17.20: Will Smiley (Portland)
Ottoman Diplomacy and the Law of Nations, 1699-1856
17.20–18.00: Pascal Firges (Paris)
The French Revolutionary Transformation of Diplomatic Practise: Franco-Ottoman Negotiations in Istanbul, 1792-1797
18.00–18.15: Break
18.15–19.15: Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) / Hillard von Thiessen (Rostock)
Comments, Panel Discussion
Friday, 3 June 2016
Panel II: Practices of Diplomatic Interaction
Chair: Henrietta Harrison (Oxford)
09.00–09.40: Adam Yuet Chau (Cambridge UK)
Hosting the Periphery: The Alternating Audience System (年班) during the Qing Dynasty
9.40–10.20: Tanja Bührer (Bern)
Intercultural Diplomacy at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1770-1815
10.20–10.50: Coffee Break
10.50–11.30: Michael Khodarkovsky (Chicago)
The White Tsar and his “Unfaithful” Subjects: Intercultural Diplomacies on Russia's Asian Frontier
11.30–12.10: Jan Hennings (Budapest)
Exchanges between Centres beyond the Periphery: The First Russian Permanent Embassy in Istanbul
12.10–14.10: Lunch
14.10–14.50: Christian Windler (Bern)
Performing Inequality in Mediterranean Diplomacy
14.50–15.50: Muzaffar Alam (Chicago) / André Krischer (Münster)
Comments, Panel Discussion
15.50–16.20: Coffee Break
17.00-18.00: Keynote Lecture at the Institute of History (Unitobler, room F 013)
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Los Angeles)
The Usual Compliments? Translations and Silences in Early Modern Intercultural Diplomacy
Saturday, 4 June 2016
Panel III: The Social Identities of Diplomatic Agents
Chair: Nadine Amsler (Bern)
9.00–9.40: Christian Steppan (Vienna)
Crossing the Border between 'the Self' and 'the Other': Imperial Ambassadors as Actors of Communication and Representation at the Russian Court (1720s-1730s)
9.40–10.20: Irena Fliter (Tel Aviv)
The Prussian Connection: Careers of Ottoman Diplomats in Times of Revolutions
10.20–10.50: Coffee Break
10.50–11.30: David Do Paço (Paris)
Family, Clientelism and Regional Integration from Below: The Oriental Branch of the Cobenzl Clientele between Vienna and Istanbul
11.30–12.10: Henrietta Harrison (Oxford)
Becoming a Faithful Interpreter: The Story of Jacobus Ly and the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China
12.10–13.40: Lunch
13.40–14.20: May Bo Ching (Hongkong)
Little People, Big World: Intercultural encounters around the Pearl River Delta in South China from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
14.20–15.20: Maurus Reinkowski (Basel) / Jeroen Duindam (Leiden)
Comments, Panel Discussion
15.20–16.00 Round Table, Final Discussion