Day 2: 26.5.2023
DAY 2, Friday 26th May 2023
This programme is available as a .pdf here.
8.30: Registration and information desk open
Main hall, Publicum building
9.00-10.00: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 2: Laurence Badel, Professor, Sorbonne University/Paris I
What the diplomatic capital tells us about the transformation of international space and why that matters.
On site: Edu 2-lecture hall, Educarium building
10.30-13.00: SLOT 2.1.
PANEL 2.1.1: Embassies, Ministries, Diplomatic Places 1
| Discussant: Karen Gram-Skjöldager (University of Aarhus) | |
| Chair: Michael Auwers (State Archives of Belgium) | |
| Sam Keeley (Forschungszentrum Europa, Universität Trier), The “Modern” Prussian Embassy: Sociability and Religious Diplomacy, 1817-1856 | |
| Alexandre Bibert (Institut historique allemand), The Premises of the German Embassy in Paris Adapted to the Nazi Taste (1933-1944) | |
| Michael Auwers (State Archives of Belgium), ‘Notre premier poste de ministre sera fatalement un trou’. Diplomatic postings and their place in diplomatic careers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries | |
| Jeffrey H. Michaels (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals), Contested Siting and Sitting: The Official Conversations on Vietnam Peace Talks, March 1968–January 1969 |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 4 lecture room
PANEL 2.1.2: Diplomacy on the margins: Non-ambassadorial actors and spaces of diplomacy in the long eighteenth century
| Chair and Discussant: Cathleen Sarti (University of Oxford) | |
| Alan Moss (Dutch National Archives), Young travellers on a mission | |
| Charlotte Backerra (University of Göttingen), Confessional spaces: chaplains, priests, and embassy chapels in eighteenth-century diplomacy | |
| Kristine Dyrmann (University of Aarhus/University of Oxford), The salon as a diplomatic space: Charlotte Schimmelmann’s salon in Copenhagen during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars | |
| Tessa de Boer (Leiden University), Anything but a consulate: the strange case of Franco-Dutch non-consulates in the eighteenth century |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 2.1.3: Diplomacy and the International Governance of Waterways in the 19th Century
| Chair and Discussant: Joanne Yao (Queen Mary University of London) | |
| Lukas Schemper (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin): Sovereignty, International Organization, and the Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Ottoman Empire | |
| Joep Schenk (University of Utrecht): The Berlin West-Africa Conference 1884/5, the Role of Non-diplomats and the Political Narrative of the Congo River | |
| Ellen Jenny Torgersen Ravndal (University of Stavanger) Empire and the Origins of Global Governance: The Case of the International Commission for the Cape Spartel Lighthouse |
On site: University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, lecture room Ls 07
PANEL 2.1.4: Negotiating the Public and Private in Postwar New York
| Chair: Haakon A. Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen) | |
| Discussant: Glenda Sluga (European University Institute) | |
| Haakon A. Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen), “The old world and the new: Prestige, networks and institution-building in postwar New York” | |
| Myriam Piguet (Université de Genève): “Secretariat of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): gendered norms and the integration of women to international bureaucracy” | |
| Dexter Fergie (Northwestern University): “(United Nations) Parents Just Don’t Understand: Raising International Children in New York” |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
14.00-16.30: SLOT 2.2.
PANEL 2.2.1: Roundtable panel: Comparing early modern diplomatic sites and why it matters
| Chairs: Lisa Hellman (Lund University) and Birgit Tremml-Werner (Linnaeus University) | |
| Stefan Eklöf Amirell (Linnaeus University), Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), Christina Brauner (Tübingen University), Norifumi Daito (The University of Tokyo), Fuyuko Matsukata (The University of Tokyo), João Melo (PO Sevilla) |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 4 lecture room
PANEL 2.2.2: France and the cities of European multilateral diplomacy
| Chair: Nicolas Badalassi | |
| Discussant: Louis Clerc | |
| Nicolas Badalassi (Sciences po Aix-en-Provence), The Cold War and the Helsinki process | |
| Birte Wassemberg (Sciences po Strasbourg), The cities of European integration | |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 2.2.3: Paradiplomacy and non-state actors
| Chair: Marion Lecoquierre (University of Helsinki) | |
| Discussant: Houssine Alloul (University of Amsterdam) | |
| Imma Petito (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Tommaso Portinari, a Florentine merchant and his relational network at the service of diplomacy, between Bruges and London. | |
| Gianpietro Sette (University of Turin), “Thompson and ‘the Pirates’: a para-diplomatic actor and the ‘True translation’ of the first asymmetric treaty with the Trucial States (1820)” | |
| Noé Cornago (University of the Basque Country) and Julio Ortiz-Luquis (Montclair State University), Puerto Rico within and beyond the USA (1950-2020): a mutually constitutive but ambivalent (para)diplomatic assemblage | |
| Marion Lecoquierre (University of Helsinki), Palestinian city diplomacy, between development strategies and the municipalization of foreign policy |
On site: University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, lecture room Ls 07
PANEL 2.2.4: Embassies, Ministries, Diplomatic spaces 2
| Chair: Kaarel Piirimae (University of Tartu, University of Helsinki) | |
| Discussant: Marion Aballéa (University of Strasbourg) | |
| Júlia Korobtchenko (University of Lisbon), The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, during the Constitutional Monarchy (1834-1910). Administrative reform and diplomatic career. | |
| Kaarel Piirimae (University of Tartu, University of Helsinki), Baltic Appeal to the United Nations and the failed attempt to spread anti-colonial self-determination to Europe, 1965-1971 | |
| Boris Vukićević (University of Montenegro), Modern Montenegrin diplomacy: two epochs, similar obstacles? | |
| Peter Jones (The Ottawa Dialogue), Julia Palmiano Federer (The Ottawa Dialogue), The Problem-Solving Workshop as an Evolving “Diplomatic Place” |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
16.30—19.00: SLOT 2.3.
PANEL 2.3.1: Early Modern Ideas, Objects and Practices in Eurasian Royal Courts, 1600- 1800
| Chair: Melinda Susanto (Leiden University) and Benjamin J.Q. Khoo (Asia Research Institute) | |
| Discussant: Naoko Shimazu (Asia Research Institute, Yale-NUS College) | |
| Khoo, B.J.Q (Asia Research Institute), Reassessing the 1686 Dutch Embassy to the Qutb Shahi Court | |
| Naisupap, P (Leiden University) Dutch-Asian Elephant Diplomacy in the Early Modern Period, 1600-1800 | |
| Sinha, N (Leiden University), Hoarding Gifts: Collections and Diplomacy at the Mughal and Habsburg Courts | |
| Susanto, M (Leiden University), Valuing Medical Knowledge at the Court of Kandy, 1716-17 |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 4 lecture room
PANEL 2.3.2: Embassies, Ministries, Diplomatic spaces 3
| Chair: Michael Trull (Cardiff University) | |
| Discussant: Amit das Gupta (University of the Bundeswehr, Munich) | |
| Michael Trull (Cardiff University), Britain’s Mobile Legation in Japan, 1865-67 | |
| Emma J. Forsberg (Lund University), “With blessings and well-wishes.” The Swedish diplomats’ micro-mobility during the early decades of the 18th century | |
| Michael Jonas (HSU, Hamburg), From Dresden 1850/51 to Frankfurt 1863: The German Confederation’s Conferences. On the Symbolic Life of a Failing Organization. | |
| Maximilian Drephal (University of Potsdam), Dispensaries: medical humanitarianism and colonial diplomacy in Afghanistan |
On site: University of Turku, Publicum-building, Pub 5 lecture room
PANEL 2.3.3: Diplomatic Networks
| Chair: Mika Suonpää (University of Turku) | |
| Discussant: Juhana Aunesluoma (University of Helsinki) | |
| Agustin Cosovschi (École française d’Athènes – Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques), A Partisan Diplomacy: Yugoslav Non-Alignment and the Legacy of Antifascism | |
| Una Bergmane (University of Helsinki), Baltic American Diaspora and NATO enlargement | |
| Thomas Soden (EUI), “Well disposed to us”: Diplomatic networks, Anglo-German relations, and the British applications to the EEC, 1967-1972 | |
| Mika Suonpää (University of Turku), Anticommunist Propaganda and Unofficial Diplomatic Networks in Interwar Europe |
On site: University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, lecture room Ls 07
PANEL 2.3.4: Multilateral venues of diplomacy
| Chair and discussant: Louis Clerc (University of Turku) | |
| Marjo Uutela (University of Helsinki), The end of the Cold War and the rise of regional cooperation. Finland, Germany and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. | |
| Juha-Matti Ritvanen (University of Helsinki), End of secret back channel. Finland and Russian foreign intelligence after the collapse of the Soviet Union | |
| Jukka Pesu (University of Turku), The Finnish peacebuilding diplomacy: peacemaking as a device to promote national interests, and defence cooperation from the Cold War to the Afghanistan operation |
On site: University of Turku, Calonia-building, Cal 2 lecture room
20.00-22.00: EVENING EVENT, Conference Dinner
The conference dinner is free and open to all participants in the conference. It will take place in the Turku Town Hall, starting at 20.00.
Turku always provides vegetarian alternatives, but please be in touch with the organizers of the conference in case of food allergies and other requirements.