Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe.

For the first time, this hybrid symposium aims to study public diplomatic uses of pageantry and ritual at all kinds of court and civic events across the Low Countries, including ceremonial entries, diplomatic conferences, state receptions, and public celebrations. Additionally, it will consider the reception of those public diplomatic events in popular media, such as pamphlets, newspapers, and illustrated chronicles, and the extent to which pageantry and ritual worked together with other practices of public diplomacy, such as chronicling or pamphleteering. Finally, this symposium will explore Netherlandish practices of public diplomacy, including uses of pageantry and ritual, abroad, namely in Sweden and Poland-Lithuania.

This free symposium will be held both in person, in the Vossiuszaal of the Leiden University Library, and online. Please register via the link above. Registration will close on 28 November 2022. Closer to the date of the event you will receive the link to the Zoom room. For further queries, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Bram van Leuveren via mail.


Programme

10:00 – 10:30 Walk in with coffee and tea

10:30 – 10:45 Opening remarks

10:45 – 12:00
Helmer Helmers (KNAW, Humanities Cluster) ● Keynote ‘Dutch Practices of Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe’

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:30
Bram van Leuveren (Leiden University, LUCAS)
‘Pageantry and Ritual as Tools for Public Diplomacy: Netherlandish Receptions of Anglo-French Dignitaries, 1577-1642’

13:30 – 14:00
Marika Keblusek (Leiden University, LUCAS)
‘Welcome to the Garden: The Entry of Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, and Mary Stuart, Princess Royal, in the Dutch Republic (1642)’

14:00 – 14:15 Coffee and tea

14:15 – 14:45
Nina Lamal (KNAW, Humanities Cluster)
‘Tracing Ephemeral Diplomatic Celebrations in Dutch Serial Publications’

14:45 – 15:15
Luc Duerloo (University of Antwerp, Department of History)
‘Pageantry and Pragmatism: Repertoires of Princely Entries and the Festival Culture of Cities of the Habsburg Netherlands’

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee and tea

15:45 – 16:15
Paul Hulsenboom (Radboud University Nijmegen, RICH)
‘Representatives of a European Orient: Dutch Impressions of Early Modern Polish Diplomats’

16:15 – 16:45
Maurits Ebben (Leiden University, Department of History)
‘The Early Modern Embassy Building: Representation, Publicity, and Propaganda’

16:45 – 17:00 Concluding remarks

Speakers and attendees are invited for drinks at Pakhuis Leiden (Doelensteeg 8, 2311 VL Leiden)

There will be a display of relevant engravings, books, and pamphlets from Leiden University’s Special Collections for the duration of the symposium.