University of Oxford
Organiser: Ruggero Sciuto
Keynote Speaker: Lucien Bély (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Monday, 11 June 2018
9:00 – Arrival and registration
9:30 – Opening remarks
9:45-11:00 – First panel: Masculinity and diplomacy
Tracey Sowerby (University of Oxford) – ‘A duelling diplomat? Chivalry, masculinity, and representative character in late Elizabethan diplomacy’
Lisa Dallavalle (Independent Researcher) – ‘The lifelong friendship of Sir John Finch and Dr Thomas Baines’
11:00-11:20 – Coffee break
11:20-13:00 – Second panel: Princesses, consorts, and regents
Federico Piseri (Università di Pavia) – ‘Letter-writing as a diplomatic education for the Sforza princesses in the second half of the XV century’
Wolfram Aichinger (Universität Wien) – ‘A pressing issue. Negotiating a midwife for empress Margaret of Austria’
John Condren (University of St Andrews) – ‘Queste novelle amazzoni: Laura Martinozzi di Fano and Isabella Klara von Habsburg as duchess-regents of Modena and Mantua vis-à-vis Louis XIV, 1662-1674’
13:00-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:15 – Third panel: El rey ha muerto
Valentina Marguerite Kozák (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – ‘Imperial envoys at Charles II’s court in Madrid: Diplomatic strategies of co-operation within the female entourage of Maria Anna of Neuburg (1696-1700)’
Rocío Martínez López (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-UNED) – ‘Just Family matters? The diplomatic confrontation between emperor Leopold I and Charles II of Spain regarding archduchess Maria Antonia’s rights of succession’
15:15-15:30 – Coffee break
15:30-16:45 – Fourth panel: Theatre and literature
Nathalie Rivere de Carles (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès) – ‘Shakespeare and the “persona mixta”: Feminine diplomacy on the early modern stage’
Barbara Distefano (Università di Palermo) – ‘The womenless Risorgimento. Diplomacy and education in Carlo Collodi’s Viaggio per l’Italia di Giannettino’
16:45-17:15 – Coffee break
17:15-19:00 – Keynote: Lucien Bély (Université Paris-Sorbonne) – Women in diplomacy: Representation or negotiation?
19:30 – Conference dinner
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
8:30-9:45 – Fifth panel: Weddings and births
Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla (Independent Researcher) – ‘Love and marriage at the French embassy in Constantinople in the second half of the 18th century’
Philippa Woodcock (University of the Highlands and Islands) – ‘Life-cycle, ceremony and the embassy’
9:45-10:00 – Coffee break
10:00-11:40 – Sixth panel: Ambassadresses and the limits of independence
Marc W. S. Jaffré (University of St Andrews) – ‘Sociability, gender, and diplomacy at Louis XIII’s court, 1610-1643’
Ruggero Sciuto (Hertford College, University of Oxford) – ‘Mr and Mrs Lorenzi: One or two correspondences?’
Florian Kühnel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) – ‘The ambassador is dead – Long live the ambassadress. Widowship and proxy representation in early modern diplomacy’
11:40-12:00 – Coffee break
12:00-13:15 – Seventh panel: Spaces for female diplomatic agents
Kristine Dyrmann (Aarhus Universitet) – ‘Diplomacy at the spa: A Danish noblewoman’s encounters with the European élite at Bad Pyrmont, 1789-94’
Matthias Pohlig (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) – ‘Ambassadors, ambassadrices, and the Chevalier d’Éon. Reflections on diplomacy and gender’
13:15-13:30 – Concluding remarks and discussion