Cross-Confessional Diplomacy and Diplomatic Mediators in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: Papers
May 24-27, 2012 at Central European University in Budapest
Günhan Börekçi (İstanbul Şehir University) On the Agents and Information Networks of Diplomacy in Istanbul in the Early Seventeenth Century
Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) A “Nest of Pirates”? Diplomatic Mediators in 1670s Algiers
Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam) Switching Sides? Renegades as Mediators in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Diplomacy with North Africa
John-Paul Ghobrial (University of Cambridge) Men Made of Paper: Eastern Christians in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Tobias Graf (Heidelberg University) Renegades and the ‘Secret World’, c.1580-1610
Mathieu Grenet (Washington University in St. Louis) Their Masters' Voices? Muslim Envoys and Interpreters of "Oriental Languages" in France and Italy, c. 1610-c.1780
Tijana Krstic (Central European University) Mediating the Mediators: Moriscos in Ottoman and Western Diplomatic Sources from Istanbul, 1570s-1620s
Natividad Planas (Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand) A World Upside Down? The Christian Slaves of Algier between the Lord of Koukou and the King of Spain, early 1600s
Mía J. Rodríguez-Salgado (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Contacts and Diplomacy between the Spanish Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in the 1570s and 1580s
E. Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto ) Trans-Imperial Subjects and the Mediation of Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Baki Tezcan (University of California, Davis) Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Apology for Islam
Joshua Michael White (University of Michigan) Fatwa Diplomacy: The Ottoman Şeyhülislam as Trans-imperial Intermediary