8h 15 : Accueil

8h 30 :  Introduction, Audrey Becker (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon).

8h 45 : The Invention of Diplomatic Practice in the West: from Conjuncture to Institutionalization, Elena Torregaray (Universidad del Pais Vasco).

9h : Discussion

9h 30: Barbarian Diplomacy and Shifting Politics in the fifth-century West, Rocco Selvaggi (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg).

9h45: “The Voice of Kings”. Ostrogothic Ambassadors between Written and Verbal Diplomacy, Marco Cristini (Università degli Studi, Firenze).

10h: Discussion

10h 30: Pause

11h 15 : Ad nutum principis? Shaping the Figure of the Eastern Roman Legatus in Late Antiquity (ca. 395-602), Aitor Fernandez Delgado (Universidad de Alcalá). 

11h 30: Between Crisis and Consolidation: Byzantine Diplomacy from the 7th to the 10th Century,  Martin Vucetic (Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, München).

11h 45 : Discussion

12h 15 : Déjeuner

13h 30: Ērān in Tūrān and Hrōm: Sasanian Diplomacy Between the Steppe Land and the Mediterranean in the Sixth Century, Ekaterina Nechaeva (Université de Lille), Kodahad Rezakhani (Universiteit Leiden).

13h 50: Discussion

14h 20: The Formation of Islamic Diplomacy (7th–9th Century): Texts, Practices, and Actors, Mehdi Berriah (Institut français du Proche-Orient, Ifpo).

14h 35: Aksumite Diplomacy and Kingship from the 4th-6th Centuries: Communicating Power, Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (University of Tennessee, Knoxville).

14h50 : Discussion

15h 20: Pause

16h : Diplomacy during the Early Chinese Middle Ages (220-589 AD), Pablo Blitstein  (EHESS, Paris).

16h 15 : The Effects of Diplomacy: Matrimonial Alliance and Ultramarine Patronage in Southern India (7th-11th centuries), Emmanuel Francis (CNRS).

16h 30 : Discussion

17h: Conclusions, Michael Maas (Rice University, Houston).