Draft Programme
REFRAMING DIPLOMACY:
NEW DIPLOMATIC HISTORY IN THE BENELUX AND BEYOND
Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September 2013
Leiden University
Friday 6 September 2013
Venue ACADEMIEGEBOUW, KLEIN AUDITORIUM, RAPENBURG 67-73
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-09.35 Opening
09.35-10.30 Keynote
Klaus Kiran Patel (Maastricht University) ‘Unofficial Diplomacy and the New Deal: America’s Global History during the 1930s’
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
Venue LIPSIUS BUILDING, DOELENSTEEG
11.00 – 12.30 Panel I: WW I and the Interbellum Room: Lipsius 003
Chair: Kees van Minnen
Samuël Kruizinga (University of Amsterdam) ‘“Business-like” Diplomacy: The Trade Negotiations of the Netherlands Overseas Trust Company (1914-1919) during the First World War’
Michael Jonas (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg) ‘“It is not good with these private politici, particularly not during these times”: Activism, Diplomacy and Swedish-German Relations during the First World War’
Bertrand Herremans (CEESAG) ‘Belgian Non-Official Diplomacy on National and Religious Issues 1918-1940’
Panel II: Expertise and Diplomacy Room: Lipsius 227
Chair: Jan-Henrik Meyer
David Burigana (Universita di Padova) & Leonard Laborie (CNRS, Paris) ‘Who are the Diplomats? Negotiating in Techno-Political Areas’
Laurence Badel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) ‘Conflicting Identities: Diplomats facing Economic Challenges in the 20th Century’
Jennifer Kesteleyn (University of Ghent) ‘Business Diplomacy and Corporate Political Activity: A New Paradigm?’ Panel III: Unofficial Diplomacy and Political Activism Room: Lipsius 228
Chair: Louis Clerc
Ann Marie Wilson (Leiden University) ‘From Boston to The Hague: American Women and “Humanitarian Diplomacy” at the Turn of the 20th Century’
Anne-Isabelle Richard (Leiden University) ‘The “Avant-Garde” of the League of Nations: The International Federation of League of Nations Societies and their Part in Governing the World’
Jorrit van den Berk (Radboud University Nijmegen) ‘The Interamerican: Highway Building and New Diplomatic History’
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Venue LIPSIUS BUILDING, DOELENSTEEG
14.00 – 15.30 Panel IV: Diplomacy beyond the West Room: Lipsius 003
Chair: Peter Meel
Roberto Duran (Catholic University of Chile) ‘New Challenges for Latin American Diplomacy: Multilateralism and Preventive Diplomacy’
Stefan Hübner (Bundeswehr University, Munich / Jacobs University, Bremen) ‘Building Asian Nations through Sports Events: The Transnational Communication of “Modernization” and Development through the Asian Games and its Predecessors’
Frank Gerits (European University Institute, Florence) ‘The Methodological Basis for a New Field of Study: Africa and International History’
Panel V: Ceremony Room: Lipsius 005
Chair: Michael Auwers
Andreas Rathberger (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ‘Correspondents, Lobbyists and Confidential Informers: Informal Diplomacy in the late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman Empire’
Houssine Alloul (University of Antwerp) ‘What is “Oriental Ceremonial”? Belgian Diplomats at the Ottoman Court 1876-1914’
Daniëlle de Vooght (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels) ‘Dining with Kings: Culinary Diplomacy in the Low Countries’
Panel VI: Private Networks and Peace Promotion Room: Lipsius 227
Chair: David Woolner
Allen Pietrobon (American University, Washington DC) ‘The Role of Norman Cousins and Citizen Diplomacy in the Breakthrough to the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty’
Giles Scott-Smith (Roosevelt Study Center / Leiden University) ‘A Dutch Dartmouth: Ernst van Eeghen’s Private Campaign to Defuse the Euromissiles Crisis’
Chris Parkes (London School of Economics) ‘“Queer in everything he did”: Sumner Welles and the Art of Non-Traditional Diplomacy 1933-1943’
15.30 – 16.00 Tea / Coffee
Venue LIPSIUS BUILDING, DOELENSTEEG
16.00 – 17.30 Panel VII: ‘Cultural Ambassadors’ Room: Lipsius 028
Chair: Anne Marie Wilson
Tity de Vries (University of Groningen) ‘When Reporters cross Professional Borders: The Case of Sal Tas and his Diplomatic Activities in Africa’
Jonathan Rosenberg (Hunter College / CUNY Graduate Center) ‘Travels with Lenny: Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic, and the Cold War’
Kenneth Marcus (University of La Verne, Los Angeles) ‘The International Relations of Thomas Mann in Early Cold War Germany’
Panel VIII: Integrating Europe Room: Lipsius 227
Chair: Angela Romano
Thomas Gijswijt (University of Tübingen) ‘Transnational Networks and Informal Governance: The Case of the Monnet Committee and European Integration’
Mathieu Segers (Utrecht University) ‘“A World that Existed but Never Was”: European Market Integration and the Atlantic Community in the Making 1958-1962’
Alexander Reinfeldt (Universität Hamburg) ‘Europeanized Diplomats? Belgian Foreign Policy and European Political Co-operation in Perspective’
Simon Rofe (Centre for Diplomacy, SOAS) ‘US Embassies in Europe in War and Peace 1940-1948’
18.30 FACULTY CLUB, ACADEMIEGEBOUW Buffet Dinner for all speakers and board members of New Diplomatic History Network
Saturday 7 September 2013
Venue LIPSIUS BUILDING, DOELENSTEEG
9.00 – 10.30 Panel IX: Changes in Diplomatic Practice Room: Lipsius 005
Chair: Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Carlos Sanz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ‘Diplomatizing Democracy, Democratizing Diplomacy? Continuity and Change in the Spanish Foreign Service after Franco, 1975-1982’
Vincent Delcorps (University of Louvain) ‘The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emerging Multilateralism 1944-1960’
Haakon Andreas Ikonomou (European University Institute, Florence) ‘Caught in the Middle: Connecting “Europe” and “Norway” through Informal Diplomacy’
Panel X: CSCE and Multilateral Diplomacy Room: Lipsius 028
Chair: Mathilde von Bülow
Martin Brown (Richmond American International University, London) & Angela Romano (London School of Economics) ‘The Diplomatic Culture of the CSCE 1969-1975’
Sara Lamberti Moneta (University of Trento) ‘Official and Unofficial Diplomacy in the Netherlands in the 1970s: Working Together for Human Rights?’
Jan-Henrik Meyer (Ludwig-Maximillian-University, Munich) ‘Informal Diplomats across International Organizations? Networks of Environmental NGOs in the 1970s’
Panel XI: Interpreting the Ambassadors Room: Lipsius 228
Chair: Simon Rofe
Amit Das Gupta (Jacobs University, Bremen) ‘Subimal Dutt: Three Stages of Indian Diplomacy 1941-1974’
Johan van Merriënboer (Radboud University Nijmegen) ‘Supranational Diplomacy from Within: The Private Papers of the European Ambassador to Japan (1987-1990) and the United States (1990-1995), the former Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt’
Rimko van der Maar (Utrecht University) ‘“The Ultimate in Ambassadors”: Herman van Roijen 1905-1991’
10.30 – 11.00 Tea / Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Roundtable: Room: Lipsius 003
American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War
Robert Waters (Ohio Northern University) Geert van Goethem (AMSAB / Ghent University) Larissa Rosa Corrêa (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Dustin Walcher (Southern Oregon University) Quenby Olmsted Hughes (Rhode Island College) Mathilde von Bülow (University of Nottingham) Alessandro Brogi (University of Arkansas)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Venue LIPSIUS BUILDING, DOELENSTEEG
14.00 – 15.30 Panel XII: Diplomatic Identities Room: Lipsius 005
Chair: Michael Jonas
Michael Auwers (University of Antwerp) ‘The Illusion of Diplomacy: To Become a Diplomat before the First World War’
David Woolner (Roosevelt Institute / Marist College / Bard College) ‘The Private Diplomacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt’
Constant Hijzen (Leiden University) ‘Dutch Intelligence and Diplomacy: The Problem of National Interest and Informal Influence’
Panel XIII: Transnational Networks Room: Lipsius 028
Chair: Dario Fazzi
Aaron Bell (American University, Washington DC) ‘Salvadorean Elites, Transnational Allies, and the Influence of Non-State Actors during the Salvadorean Civil War’
Kim Christiaens (KU Leuven) ‘Relationships and Exchange: Cuban Public Diplomacy and Solidarity Activism in Belgium during the Cold War 1960s-1980s’
Alessandro Brogi (University of Arkansas) ‘The United States and the International Network of the West European Communists 1964-1979’
Panel XIV: Private Diplomatic Networks Room: Lipsius 227
Chair: Tity de Vries
Mariano Alvarez (Leiden University) ‘Paradiplomacy: The Evolution of Non-Central Governments in Foreign Affairs’
Albertine Bloemendal (Leiden University) ‘Ernst van der Beugel (1918-2004): Private Diplomat for an Atlantic Community’
Johannes Grossmann (University of Tübingen) ‘Winning the Cold War: Anti-Communism, Informal Diplomacy and the Transnational Career of Jean Violet’
16.00 CAFE DE GROTE BEER, REMBRANDTSTRAAT 27 Closing Drinks E-mail Addresses Participants: Houssine Alloul [email protected] Mariano Alvarez [email protected] Michael Auwers [email protected] Laurence Badel [email protected] Aaron Bell [email protected] Jorrit van den Berk [email protected] Albertine Bloemendal [email protected] Alessandro Brogi [email protected] Martin Brown [email protected] Mathilde von Bülow [email protected] David Burigana [email protected] Kim Christiaens [email protected] Louis Clerc [email protected] Larissa Rosa Corrêa [email protected] Vincent Delcorps [email protected] Roberto Duran [email protected] Dario Fazzi [email protected] Frank Gerits [email protected] Thomas Gijswijt [email protected] Geert van Goethem [email protected] Karen Gram-Skjoldager [email protected] Johannes Grossmann [email protected] Amit Das Gupta [email protected] Bertrand Herremans [email protected] Constant Hijzen [email protected] Stefan Hübner [email protected] Quenby Olmsted Hughes [email protected] Haakon Andreas Ikonomou [email protected] Michael Jonas [email protected] Jennifer Kesteleyn [email protected] Samuël Kruizinga [email protected] Leonard Laborie [email protected] Rimko van der Maar [email protected] Kenneth Marcus [email protected] Peter Meel [email protected] Johan van Merriënboer [email protected] Jan-Henrik Meyer [email protected] Kees van Minnen [email protected] Klaus Kiran Patel [email protected] Chris Parkes [email protected] Allen Pietrobon [email protected] Andreas Rathberger [email protected] Alexander Reinfeldt [email protected] Anne-Isabelle Richard [email protected] Simon Rofe [email protected] Angela Romano [email protected] Jonathan Rosenberg [email protected] Carlos Sanz [email protected] Mathieu Segers [email protected] Daniëlle de Vooght [email protected] Tity de Vries [email protected] Dustin Walcher [email protected] Robert Waters [email protected] Ken Weisbrode [email protected] Ann Marie Wilson [email protected] David Woolner [email protected]
Sponsors:
- Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation
- Institute of History, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands
- Leids Universiteitsfonds
- Department of Political Studies, University of Turku, Finland
New Diplomatic History Network: http://toynbeeprize.org/network-for-the-new-diplomatic-history/
Conference Organizer:
Giles Scott-Smith, Roosevelt Study Center and Leiden University [email protected]
Roosevelt Study Center P.O. Box 6001 4330 LA Middelburg The Netherlands tel. 00-31.118-631459 or 00-31.118-631590