Day 1: 25.5.2023
DAY 1, Thursday 25th May 2023
! Each session offers a hybrid format for online participants. Links for the Zoom sessions will be sent to the participants’ emails in due time !
This program is available as a .pdf here.
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Assembly President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (left), of Algeria, conversing with UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. UN Photos.
8.30: Registration and information desk open
Main hall, Publicum building
9.00-10.00: OPENING & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 1: Deepak Nair, Lecturer in International Relations, Australian National University
Studying Difference: Avoiding Innocence and Ignorance in the study of Diplomatic Culture.
On site: Edu 2-lecture hall, Educarium building
10.30-13.00: SLOT 1.1
PANEL 1.1.1: Languages of diplomacy in early Modern Europe: Sweden, Spain, and Russia
Chair: Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute in Paris) | |
Discussant: Indravati Félicité (University of Reunion) | |
Sophie Holm (German Historical Institute in Moscow), Diplomacy and language in Swedish foreign affairs during the first half of the 18th century | |
Gleb Kazakov (Justus-Liebig University of Gießen), Foreign Languages in the Russian Diplomacy of the Petrine Era (1690—1725): between the Muscovite Tradition and the francophone Europe | |
Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute in Paris), The languages of the early Modern Spanish diplomacy |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 1.1.2: State Visits in the Nordic Countries in the 1950s – 1970s
Chair: Rósa Magnúsdóttir (University of Iceland) | |
Discussant: Haakon Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen) | |
Pia Koivunen (University of Turku), Khrushchev’s state visit to Finland in 1957 | |
Rósa Magnúsdóttir (University of Iceland), “Peaceful Coexistence Requires Personal Contacts”: Premier Khrushchev’s 1964 Scandinavia Tour | |
Laura Saarenmaa (University of Turku), Geng Biao’s Nordic tour in 1979 |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 209 lecture room
PANEL 1.1.3: Roundtable panel: Diplomatic Networking: New Approaches and Methodologies
Chair: Richard Smith (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) | |
Thomas Mills, Lancaster University | |
Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent | |
Ian Gregory, Lancaster University | |
Michael Hughes, Lancaster University |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
PANEL 1.1.4: Roundtable Panel: Damocles at the Diwan. Security, risk and threat in nineteenth-century Mediterranean diplomacy
Erik de Lange (Utrecht University) |
Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht University) |
Gert Huskens (Université libre de Bruxelles) |
On site: University of Turku, Educarium-building, Edu 3 lecture room
14.00-16.30: SLOT 1.2
PANEL 1.2.1: Welcome to the Liberal State: Place Branding as a Diplomatic Practice, 1920s-1950s
Chair and discussant: Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Freie Universität Berlin) | |
Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Freie Universität Berlin): The Proud State: How Countries Have Marketed Themselves as Liberal Regimes | |
Tobias J. Klee (Freie Universität Berlin) : We Can’t Live with You No More: Francesc Macià’s Campaign to Market Catalonia in France in the 1920s | |
Lesar Yurtsever (Freie Universität Berlin) : A Mecca for Jazz Enthusiasts: The Turkish Embassy in the U.S., in the 1930s | |
Marlene Ritter (Freie Universität Berlin): Europe as a Liberal Brand at the Expo 58 |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 1.2.2: ’Dinner diplomacy’ from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries
Chair: Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford) | |
Discussant: Haakon Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen) | |
Sophie Holm (Deutsches Historisches Institut/ Max Weber Stiftung): Behind the Scenes of Dinner Diplomacy. Duty-Free Import Amongst the Diplomatic Corps in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Stockholm | |
Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford): Diplomatic dinners and salon sociability in Copenhagen during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars | |
Bård Frydenlund (Eidsvoll 1814), «Diplomatic free havens» or «lairs of a deceitful opposition»? The role of private receptions and formal dinner parties at Norwegian rural manors as arenas of political negotiations during the Napoleonic Wars in Scandinavia (1809-1814). | |
Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Aarhus University), Dining for Denmark – The Role of Dinner Diplomacy in Danish Exile Politics 1940-1945 | |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 209 lecture room
PANEL 1.2.3: Training, recruitment, social origins, diplomatic careers
Chair: Nicolas Badalassi (IEP, Aix-en Provence) | |
Discussant: Laurence Badel (University Paris 1) | |
Ruth Craggs, Fiona McConnell & Jonathan Harris (King’s College London and University of Oxford), Diplomatic training as a site of socialisation: courses for post-independence African diplomats | |
Clara Isabel Serrano (CEIS20, University of Coimbra), Sérgio Neto (CEIS20, University of Coimbra ) , The diplomatic twilight of the Belle Époque. Portuguese diplomatic corps in London (1910-1926) | |
Zane Šime (College of Europe, Bruges campus), Moulding the post-Westphalian routines of external action among diplomats-in-the-making | |
Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki), Brussels as a site of learning. Finnish diplomats encountering the European Communities, 1964–1994. |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
PANEL 1.2.4: Informal practices, personal relations, unofficial diplomacy
Chair: Dino Knudsen (Mälmö University) | |
Discussant: Alice Byrne (University Aix-Marseille) | |
Janne Schreurs (Research Foundation-Flanders, KU Leuven), Whose Imperialism? Which Geography? Brazilian diplomatic actors in the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp (1900-1914) | |
Maja Lukanc (University of Ljubljana), Brothers in arms: The legacy of the Second World War in Polish-Yugoslav relations (1945–1968) | |
Bradley Reynolds (University of Helsinki), Sauna Diplomacy Situated: A Contextual and Personal Tool in Finnish Diplomacy | |
Victoria Phillips (Global Fellow, The Wilson Center, Washington DC), Finlandization: Martha Graham and American ‘Neutral’ Cold War Psychwar” |
On site: University of Turku, Educarium-building, Edu 3 lecture room
16.30-19.00, SLOT 1.3
PANEL 1.3.1: Diplomacy, communication and the media
Chair: Sarah Snyder (School of International Service, American University, Washington D.C.) | |
Discussant: Bradley Reynolds (University of Helsinki) | Shane Brighton (Queen’s University, Belfast), Narrative, Necropolitics and Consular Space: British officials, Irish-America and the Irish Republican Hunger Strikes, 1979-1981 |
Blandine Demotz (Cergy-Paris University), Staging diplomacy : formulas and political persona in Thomas Cromwell’s letters to Anne de Montmorency (1532-1540) | |
Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (University of Lausanne), Diplomats and consuls, the forgotten actors of international media circulations | |
Sarah Snyder (American University, Washington DC), Journalists as Unofficial Diplomats: American Correspondents and Their Influence on U.S. Foreign Relations | |
Alice Byrne (Aix Marseille University), British scientists at Expo 58: competition and cooperation |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 1.3.2: Diplomats and negotiation processes
Chair and discussant: Michael Jonas (University Helmut Schmidt/Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg) | |
Ryan Langton (Temple University), Kindling Council Fires from the Bushes along the Allegheny Frontier, 1740-1758 | |
Ariane Knüsel (University of Fribourg, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland), Being the one on the spot – How Swiss and Chinese diplomats negotiated with their governments during the Cold War | |
Oscar Nygren (Södertörn University), Grounds of Diplomacy – On the Nature of Politics in Geneva 1924 |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 209 lecture room
PANEL 1.3.3: Concepts and memory of diplomacy
Chair: Martin D. Brown (Richmond University) | |
Discussant: Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden) | |
Vinay Kumar Rao (Special Centre for the Study of North East India), Indian Elements in Sculptural Art of Myanmar: Exploring diplomatic relations through archaeological evidences | |
Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher (Diplomatic Academy, Vienna), The ‘Foreign’ in the World’s Constitutions: A Taxonomy of Diplomatic Topics | |
Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London), Diplomacy on Ice: Freezing and Thawing in International Cooperation over Antarctica | |
Martin D. Brown (Richmond University), “The Whiff of Munich”: Place, memory, and policy. |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
PANEL 1.3.4: Cultural diplomacy, culture and science
Chair: Louis Clerc (University of Turku) | |
Discussant: Marlene Ritter (Freie Universität Berlin)/Louis Clerc (University of Turku) | |
Eliud Biegon (Kenyatta University), Intellectuals and Kenya’s Diplomacy in the immediate Post-independence period | |
Sotiris Mikros (Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University in Athens), Security for Whom? Science Diplomacy and Security in EU-Africa Relations | |
Professor Jonathan Rosenberg (Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York),“A Sixteen-Inch Broadside of Soft Power”: The New York Philharmonic’s 2008 Trip to North Korea | |
Felipe Antonio Honorato (University of Sao Paulo), Art as a tool for diplomacy: the case of the Kuba Kingdom in the former Belgian Congo. | |
Emőke Horváth (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest), The main shaper of Hungarian cultural diplomacy: the activities of the Institute of Cultural Relations in the 1950s-1960s |
On site: University of Turku, Educarium-building, Edu 3 lecture room
19.00-20.00: EVENING EVENT: Publishing in Diplomatic Studies
Giles Scott-Smith
On site: University of Turku, Educarium-building, Edu 2 lecture room