For more papers coming out of the 2022 Warwick Global History and Culture Centre annual conference on "The History of Science and the 'Big Picture'" see FirstView on BJHS Editor Themes. More on the way! #histsci cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The first speaker on our second panel ‘Ritual Performance’ is Dr. Céline Carayon who examines the compérage system, a form of kinship alliance, as inter-regional diplomacy in 17th cent French-Indigenous Atlantic. #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

The second session of the afternoon was a roundtable discussion on Archives of Global Diplomacy. Thank you to our speakers Sâqib Bâburî Nandini Chatterjee Dr. Kurosh Meshkat | د. کورش مشكوة for initiating a fascinating conversation on the nature of the documents of diplomacy and how they may be read!

I prefer this map of North America. Keynote in the GHCC Annual Conference by Professor Saliha Belmesous. #History #GlobalDiplomacy Warwick Global History and Culture Centre WarwickHistory University of Warwick

Our keynote this evening is being delivered by Prof. Salina Belmessous in a fantastic lecture on Indigenous diplomatic networks and politics of protection in pre-1800 North America! #GHCC #GlobalDiplomacy

And that’s a wrap on Day 1! Join us tomorrow for more papers on ‘Ordering Empire’, ‘Textual Practice’ ‘Trans-Locality’. We’ll be in OC 0.01 from 9:15AM onwards! #GHCC #GlobalDiplomacy

Excellent full room to start off Day Two of the Global Diplomatic History organised by Guido van Meersbergen and others for Warwick Global History and Culture Centre at WarwickHistory

Our first speaker this morning is deborah besseghini who explains the limits and opportunities of informal diplomacy in early 19th cent Spanish America, particularly examining the influence exerted by European and US agents.

Drawing on multinational archival research Tom Long seeks to better understand reactions in Latin America to the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 - essentially a watershed event in European imperialism - which ranged from alarm to ambivalence. #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

Our final speaker of this panel, Prof. David Anderson discusses how overlapping diplomatic politics were deployed by European and African actors to legitimise their own visions for territories in Africa and Europe. #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

Start of the second day of GHCC Annual Conference with great presentation by Tom Long about Latin American reactions to the Berlin Conference and European imperial ambitions in late 19th century. #History #GlobalDiplomacy Warwick Global History and Culture Centre WarwickHistory

Shounak Ghosh kicks off the ‘Textual Practice’ panel with a paper on the figure of the trans-imperial envoy in Qutb Shahi Deccan and Safavid Iran. He uses Persian epistolary compositions to present a new approach to the study of early modern diplomacy. #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

In a deeply researched paper, Ariel Lopez presents examples of Malay diplomatic correspondences at the Philippines National Archives to highlight differences in various rulers’ intentions and approaches. #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

Final round table of the conference on global diplomatic history. Warwick Global History and Culture Centre WarwickHistory #globaldiplomacy #ghcc Guido van Meersbergen

Our first speaker on ‘Trans-Locality’ is Sixiang Wang who suggests the integration of ideas of isomorphism in studying Choson diplomatic practices.

Incredibly stimulating roundtable discussion on ‘Writing Global Diplomatic History’ to conclude the conference! Thank you to our speakers and audience for engaging with questions on the language and methods of writing on diplomacy across time and geography! #GHCCGlobalDiplomacy

"The tapestry of global diplomacy' visible in this powerful intervention by Ulfat Abdurasulov, reminding us of connections across linguistic spaces and political hierarchies. Great ending to Warwick Global History and Culture Centre annual conference on #globaldiplomacy.

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