Programme

Tea & Coffee, Registration 

9.15am       

Welcome - Michael Talbot & Phil McCluskey
9.45am

Session 1

10.00am

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

Emrah Safa Gürkan, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University

Thy flashing sword is the dread of the world: Polish-Lithuanian/Ottoman diplomacy during the reign of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman
Michael Połczyński, Georgetown University

Coffee break

11.30am 

Session 2

12.00pm

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

Irena Fliter, Tel Aviv University 

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

Michael Talbot, University of St Andrews

Lunch and stroll around St Andrews

1.30pm

Session 3

3.00pm

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

Lela Gibson, University of California - Los Angeles

The embassy of Müteferrika Süleyman Ağa to Louis XIV in 1669

Phil McCluskey, Sheffield University

Coffee break

4.30pm

Session 4

5.00pm

Moving forward in the historiography of Ottoman-European diplomacy

Open discussion