Splendid Encounters VI

Correspondence and Information Exchange in Diplomacy (1300-1750)

Lisbon, 28 to 30 September 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please email by 15 March 2017 to se6.lisbon@gmail.com your abstract for either 20‒minute individual papers or 90‒minute sessions (to comprise a panel, roundtable, project presentation, etc.). We especially encourage proposals dealing with:- Diplomatic correspondence: evolution, importance, cyphers, etc.
– Diplomats and diplomacy as a subject of news
– The languages, forms and performance of (written and oral) communication
– East–West/North–South encounters
– Channels of contact; Europe, Africa, Asia, America
– Diplomatic communication across cultures and the culture(s) of diplomatic communication
– Practices of information exchange in empire, states, regions
– The personnel of news networks
– Continuity and change in the long run: from ‘medieval’ to ‘early modern’