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October 20 - 21st 2016

Thanks to: The Cultural Services of the French Embassyin the United States, The USC Francophone Resource & Research Center, The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,The USC Dana and David Dornsife Collegeof Letters, Arts and Sciences,The USC Department of French & Italian,The USC Libraries,The USC graduate program Comparative Studiesin Literature and Culture.

Early modern diplomacy was a secret affair conducted through negotiations and documents to which very few wereprivy. Early modern theater, from the sixteenth century on, abounds in what Timothy Hampton has aptly termed “fictions embassy” featuring ambassadors, spies, envoys, and other mediators. The aim of the symposium is to forge links between these two realms, the private or secret realm of diplomacy and the public (or, presented to a public) one of theater.

For any further information,please contact Béatrice Bennett

at bbennett@usc.edu or frc@usc.edu orAntónia Szabari at szabari@dornsife.usc.edu

The Conference will be held in French & in English.

Thursday, October 20th

Friday, October 21st

Antónia Szabari,University of Southern CaliforniaFriendship with the enemy: The Rhetoric of Prolonging Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire

Toby Wikström, Tulane UniversityPerforming Diplomacy on the Margins: Cross-Cultural Negotiations in Early Modern French Theater

4:00 PM - PANEL 2 - Moderator - Natania Meeker, University of Southern California

Katherine Ibbett,Royal College of London The Ambassador in Translation

Timothy Hampton,University of California, Berkeley Diplomatic Plots:  The Time of Delay

8:30 AM - Coffee

9:00 AM - PANEL 1 - Moderator - Katherine Hammett, University of Southern California

Caroline Trotot,Université Paris Est, Marne la ValléeMédiations diplomatiques, médiations littéraires et construction de l'identité dans l'ambassade en Flandresde Marguerite de Valois

Anna Rosensweig,University of RochesterAffect, Mediation, and Popular Sovereigntyin Sixteenth-Century Resistance Theory

10:30 AM - PANEL 2 - Moderator - Margaret Rosenthal, University of Southern California

Ellen McClure,University of Illinois, ChicagoDiplomacy and the Donkey in La Fontaine’s,Le pouvoir des fables

Ellen R. Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillUnmasking Diplomacy: Theater and Theatricality in  L’histoire amoureuse et badine du Congrès d’Utrecht (1714)

Isabelle Nathan,Archives nationalesLes Archives diplomatiques, entre forteresse du secret d’Etatet recherche historique

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM - PANEL 3 - Moderator - Antónia Szabari, University of Southern California

Indravati Félicité,Université Paris DiderotLe cérémonial diplomatique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: un théâtre politique subversif?

Nathan Per-Rosenthal,University of Southern CaliforniaHow to Do Things With Paper: Materiality, Performance and  Genre in French Revolutionary Correspondence, ca.1789-1794

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM - Lunch

2:00 PM - Plenary Speaker - Moderator - Antónia Szabari, University of Southern California

1:30 PM - Coffee

2:00 PM - Introductory remarks - Antónia Szabari, University of Southern California

2:30 PM - PANEL 1 - Moderator - Anna Rosensweig, University of Rochester

Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library