Friday, October 7, 2011

Entering the Gate of Felicity: Diplomatic Representation of Christian Powers in Early Modern Istanbul

International conference organised by the project group “Ottoman Orient and East Central Europe” at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO); Leipzig, 14th–16th October 2011
14 October
18:00 Keynote lecture
Peter Burschel (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Westliche Gesandte in Istanbul:
Beobachtungen eines historischen Anthropologen
15 October
9:00–10:30 Panel I , Chair: Sabine Jagodzinski (GWZO)
Gunes Işıksel (Collège de France, Paris): Resident Ambassadors as the Agents of the Ottoman State?
Anikó Kellner (Central European University, Budapest): Amicitia: A Key Term of Diplomacy at the Sublime Porte
Dennis Dierks (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena): Die Sprache(n) des Friedens: Zur Reichweite der Okzidentalisierung europäisch-osmanischer Friedensverträge im 18. Jahrhundert
11:00–13:00 Panel II, Chair: Dietlind Hüchtker (GWZO)
Radu G. Păun (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris): “A Never Ending Flow”. The Gift-Giving Vocabulary of the 16th Century Venetian Diplomats in Constantinople
Lovro Kunčević (Institute for Historical Sciences in Dubrovnik of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Antemurale Christianitatis and the Most Loyal Servant of the Sultan: The Discourses of Ragusan Diplomacy
Tatjana Trikic (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main): Subversive Sovereigns? The Exchange of Gifts and Letters between Elisabeth I and Valide Sultan Safiye
Will Smiley (Law School, Yale University): Negotiating Freedom: Russian Diplomats and the Freeing of Ottoman Slaves, 1739–1794
14:30–16:00 Panel III, Chair: Winfried Eberhard (GWZO)
Stephan Theilig (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Friedrich II. und Carl Adolf von Rexin als Bittsteller an der Hohen Pforte
Sándor Papp (Szeged University): Zwei Modelle des Gesandtschaftswesens: Habsburg und Siebenbürgen
Nedim Zahirović (GWZO): Der osmanische Beglerbeg zu Ofen: Der Wandel des Amtes anhand der Analyse der diplomatischen Geschenke
16:30–18:30 Panel IV, Chair: Arno Strohmeyer (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg)
Dóra Kerekes (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): War die „geheime Korrespondenz“ der Habsburger im Osmanischen Reich während der frühen Neuzeit ein Geheimdienst?
Emrah Safa Gürkan (Georgetown University, Washington DC): The Diplomatic Function of Espionage: The Case of Habsburg Renegados in 16th Century Constantinople
Cecilia Tarruell (EHESS, Paris): Hispanic Monarchy’s agents at the Sublime Porte and the Muslim world at the end of 16th Century
Ovidiu Cristea (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest): An Unusual Diplomatic Episode: The Conversion to Islam of Prince Iliaş Rareş of Moldavia in 1551
16 October
9:30–11:00 Panel V, Chair: Andreas Puth (GWZO)
Tetiana Grygorieva (Mohyla Academy, Kiev): Ottoman Palace Ceremonial: Translated and Edited by Polish-Lithuanian Ambassadors
Michał Wasiucionek (European University Institute, Florence): Hermeneutics of Ceremonial Lore: Glimpses of the Idealized Diplomatic Protocol as revealed in the Polish-Lithuanian diplomatic accounts (1677–1763)
Ernst Petritsch (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Wien): Von Bittstellern zu gleichrangigen Diplomaten: Zeremonielle Fragen bei der Behandlung habsburgischer Gesandter
11:30–13:30 Panel VI, Chair: Peter Burschel (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
Pascal Firges (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg): The Ottoman Empire in the Eyes of a Revolutionary Diplomat
Petr Štěpánek (The Embassy of the Czech Republic, Ankara): The Household of the Habsburg Ambassador Heřman Černín at His First Embassy 1616–1618
Robert Born (GWZO): Chronisten, Vermittler und Unternehmer. Beobachtungen zu den Künstlern im Gefolge der diplomatischen Delegationen nach Konstantinopel
Gábor Kármán (GWZO): Diplomats in Chains: Imprisoning Transylvanian Envoys at the Sublime Porte