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Venue: Research Center for the Humanities Tóth Kálmán u. 4. 1097 Budapest

Organised by the project SMALLST: The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (ERC CoG 101043451)

Navigating the Society of Princes The Strategies of Early Modern Small States in Their Foreign Policy

Tuesday, May 30

 8:45–9:00 Welcome address

 9:00–10:00 Keynote: Baldur Thorhallsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík): Shelter-Seeking and Power Potential: Small States in Political Science

10:00–11:20 Panel: Avoiding conflicts – proving useful

Chair: Antal Molnár (RCH Institute of History, Budapest)

Michael Depreter (University of Oxford): Small States on the Marketplace for Military Manpower Agents, Goals, and Methods in The Hague

Vedran Stojanović (RCH Institute of History, Budapest): Neutrality as Necessity: The Republic of Ragusa and the Holy League of 1571

Laura Turchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): The Safe-Belt of Milan: The Principalities of the Po Valley (Second Half of the 16^th Century–First Half of the 17^th Century)

 

11:20–11:40 Coffee break

 

11:40–13:00 Panel: A Garrison’s Diplomacy: Spanish–Muslim Negotiations in the Sixteenth-Century Maghreb

Chair: Géza Pálffy (RCH Institute of History, Budapest)

Rubén González Cuerva (Institute of History - Spanish National Research Council, Madrid): La Goleta, a Reluctant Diplomatic Centre in Hafsid–Habsburg Relations (1535–1574)

Francesco Caprioli (Autonomous University of Madrid): Who Benefits? The Peacekeeping Dialogue between Oran and Algiers (1547–1551)

Miguel Soto Garrido (Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, Madrid – University of Málaga): Ceuta, Centre of Political Intermediation in the Spanish–Saadian Relations (1580–1610)

 

13:00–14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00–15:20 Panel: Facing Great Empires I: Resisting pressure

Chair: Ferenc Tóth (RCH Institute of History, Budapest)

Lovro Kunčević (Croatian Academy of Sciences, Dubrovnik): Ragusan Republic and the Great Powers: An Early Modern System of International Checks and Balances

Rieke Becker (University of Paderborn): Weakness as a Trump Card: Strategies of Diplomatic Persuasion of the Regent Christine Charlotte of East Frisia 1665–1690

Ágnes Szalai (RCH Institute of History, Budapest): Transylvania’s Ottoman diplomacy after 1660 at the local level and at the center

 

15:20–15:40 Coffee break

 

15:40–17:20 Panel: Facing Great Empires II: Patronage and clientele

Chair: Radu G. Păun (Centre d’études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques, Paris)

Marian Coman (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest – University of Bucharest): Securing the Succession: The Ruling Lords of Wallachia and Foreign Potentates (Early 15^th C. – Early 17^th C.)

John Condren (University of Oxford): ‘If the King of France Procures Some Advantage for Him, He Cannot Very Well Refuse It.’ Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, as a Pawn between Rome, France and Spain?

Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla (Independent researcher): Quibbles, an Ancient Tribute, and a ‘Holy Hand’. The Legal and Diplomatic Efforts of Ragusa to Obtain the Austrian Protection in 1770–1772

Magdalena Jakubowska (University of Warsaw): Small State Diplomatic Network: The Case of Hospodar Jeremia Movilă and His Correspondence with Poland-Lithuania, 1595–1606

 

Wednesday, May 31

09:00–10:40 Panel: Wider ambitions

Chair: Lovro Kunčević (Croatian Academy of Sciences, Dubrovnik)

Zsuzsanna Hámori Nagy (RCH Institute of History, Budapest): From Regional Middle Power to Small State: The Formation of the Principality of Transylvania in the View of Its Dynastic Strategies

Dénes Harai (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour) – Álvaro Adot Lerga (Universidad Complutense, Madrid): Negotiations of Dynastic Alliances of the Royal House of Navarre and the Plan for Marrying Isabelle d’Albret to János Szapolyai, King of Hungary (end of the 1520s – beginning of the 1530s)

Massimo Bomboni (University of Torino): A History of Failures: The Global Ambitions of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the Beginning of the 17^th Century

Johanna Sinclair (University of Oxford): Loco et Tempore: Projections of Strength and Prudence in Ferrara, 1505–1525

 

10:40–11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00–12:40 Panel: Searching for Acknowledgment I

Chair: Michał Wasiucionek (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest)

Ovidiu Cristea (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest): A Case of Disloyalty? The Treaty of Alba Iulia (20 May 1595): Context and Implications

Marian Hefter (University of Erfurt): An Ambiguous Agreement: The Negotiations of the ‘Corresponding Princes’ on Diplomatic Ceremonial (1700–1701)

Tetiana Grygorieva (National University of Kyiv – Mohyla Academy): The Cossack Ambition: The Claims for Sovereignty from Bohdan Khmelnytsky to Pylyp Orlyk

Murat Yaşar (State University of New York, Oswego): Kabarda and Its Struggle for Freedom and Survival between the Ottoman Empire and Muscovy in the 16^th-Century North Caucasus Borderland

 

12:40–13:40 Lunch break

 

13:40–15:20 Panel: Searching for Acknowledgment II

Chair: Zsuzsanna Cziráki (University of Szeged)

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska (University of Warsaw): In Search of an Alternative Model of Diplomacy? Foreign Relations of the Crimean Khanate in the Years 1624–1637

Thomas Weller (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): Unequal Partners: The Diplomatic Relations between the Spanish Monarchy and the Hanseatic Cities in the 16^th and 17^th Centuries

Gábor Kármán (RCH Institute of History, Budapest): Banging on the Door of the Society of Princes: Ferenc Rákóczi II’s Problems of International Acknowledgment

 

15:20–15:40 Coffee break

 

15:40–17:00 Panel: The Europe of Small States

Chair: Gábor Kármán (RCH Institute of History, Budapest)

Indravati Félicité (University of Réunion): Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival? The Ontological Function of Foreign Affairs for the Hanseatic Cities and the Northern Duchies of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries

Konstantinos Poulios (European University Institute, Florence): Small Tributary States as Indirect Players and Topics of Discussion at the Peace Congress of Carlowitz (1698/99)

Blythe Alice Raviola (University of Milano): Pictures of a Continent. Giovanni Botero and the Small States of Europe at His Time

17:00 Closing remarks