Cross-Confessional Diplomacy and Diplomatic Mediators in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
May 24-27, 2012 at Central European University in Budapest
Workshop Program
Thursday, May 24 (Nádor 13, Room 001)
17:30-17:40 Welcoming remarks
17:40-19:00 Inaugural Lecture by Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The Question of Mediation and Defining Cultural Difference in Diplomatic Relations: Islamic Embassies in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period
19:00-19:45 Reception
Friday, 25 May (Nádor 13, Room 001)
9:30-11:00 Panel I
Moderator: László Kontler (CEU, Department of History)
E. Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto)
Trans-Imperial Subjects and the Mediation of Sovereignty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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
11:30-13:00 Panel II
Moderator: Marcell Sebők (CEU, Medieval Studies)
Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam)
Switching sides? Renegades as mediators in seventeenth-century Dutch diplomacy with North Africa
Tobias Graf (Heidelberg University)
Renegades and the ‘Secret World,’ c.1580-1610
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
15:00-16:30 Panel III
Moderator: Tolga Esmer (CEU, History)
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
Günhan Börekçi (İstanbul Şehir University)
On the Agents and Information Networks of Diplomacy in Istanbul in the Early Seventeenth Century
17:00-18:30 Panel IV
Moderator: Carsten Wilke (CEU, Medieval Studies, History, Jewish Studies)
Joshua Michael White (University of Michigan)
Fatwa Diplomacy: The Ottoman Şeyhülislam as Trans-imperial Intermediary
Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
A “Nest of Pirates”? Diplomatic Mediators in 1670s Algiers
Saturday 26, May (Nádor 13, Room 001)
9:30-11:00 Panel V
Moderator: Niels Gaul (CEU, Medieval Studies)
John-Paul Ghobrial (University of Cambridge)
Men Made of Paper: Eastern Christians in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Baki Tezcan (University of California, Davis)
Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Apology for Islam
11:30-13:00 Panel VI
Moderator: TBA
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
Tijana Krstic (Central European University)
Mediating the Mediators: Moriscos in Ottoman and Western Diplomatic Sources from Istanbul, 1570s-1620s
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Roundtable and closing remarks