Conference Podcast

Following the success of the roundtable, we are very happy to present the podcast recordings of the excellent papers presented. All of the papers from this event will be published together in the near future, and we hope that this will be the first in a series of conferences and roundtables on the subject of Ottoman diplomacy in the early modern period and beyond.

Emrah Safa Gürkan (İstanbul 29 Mayıs University)

'His Bailo's Kapudan: Uluç Hasan Pasha and the Venetian Bailo'

Michael Połczyński (Georgetown University)

'Thy flashing sword is the dread of the world: Polish-Lithuanian/ Ottoman diplomacy in the reign of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman'

Irena Fliter (Tel Aviv University)

'Accounts of lives abroad: Financing Ottoman diplomats in Prussia, 1761-1806'

Michael Talbot (University of St Andrews)

'The idea of the gift in British-Ottoman relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century'

Phil McCluskey (University of Sheffield)

'The embassy of Müteferrika Süleyman Ağa to Louis XIV in 1669'

Lela Gibson (University of California- Los Angeles)

'Diplomats and philosophers: Heinrich von Diez and Ali Aziz Efendi, 1797'

The organisers are very grateful to all of the participants and attendees for a hugely useful day of discussion, and look forward to further events and collaborations in the future. 

We would like to thank Lorna Harris, Dorothy Christie, and Audrey Wishart for their help in organising the event, and Andy Eccles for his support on the day and effort in helping with the podcast. A special thanks goes to John Condren and Caleb Karges for their insights as discussants, and to John in particular for his thorough analysis of the day through his conference report.  

Conference speakers and discussants at St Andrews Cathedral