Audrey Becker (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon): Introduction

   Elena Torregaray (Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herrico Unibertsitatea): The invention of diplomatic practice in the West: from conjuncture to institutionalization

   Rocco Selvaggi (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg): Barbarian Diplomacy and Shifting Politics in the fifth-century West.

   Marco Cristini (Università degli Studi, Firenze): “The Voice of Kings”. Ostrogothic Ambassadors between Written and Verbal Diplomacy

   Aitor Fernandez Delgado (Universidad de Alcalá): Ad nutum principis? Shaping the Figure of the Eastern Roman Legatus in Late Antiquity (ca. 395-602)

   Martin Vucetic (Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, München): Between Crisis and Consolidation: Byzantine Diplomacy from the 7th to the 10th Century

   Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Aksumite Diplomacy and Kingship from the 4th-6th Centuries: Communicating Power

   Mehdi Berriah (Institut français du Proche-Orient, Ifpo): The Formation of Islamic Diplomacy (7th–9th Century): Texts, Practices, and Actors 

   Ekaterina Nechaeva (Université de Lille), Kodahad Rezakhani (Universiteit Leiden): Ērān in Tūrān and Hrōm: Sasanian Diplomacy Between the Steppe Land and the Mediterranean in the Sixth Century 

   Emmanuel Francis (CNRS) : The effects of diplomacy: matrimonial alliance and ultramarine patronage in southern India (7th-11th centuries)

   Pablo Blitstein  (EHESS, Paris): Diplomacy in Medieval China

   Michael Maas (Rice University, Houston): Conclusions