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27 February 2025

SYMPOSIUM: The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions and Practices (Antwerp: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, 8-9 MAY 2025).

 



Location: Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
Dates: May 8–9, 2025
Conveners: Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Supported by: FWO Junior Fundamental Research Project G016122N (2024–2026)


Day 1 (May 8)

9:30 – 9:45
Welcoming Remarks
Stefano Cattelan & Frederik Dhondt

9:45 – 10:45
Keynote 1
Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur)
Eighteenth-century neutrality: a view from the sea

10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break


11:00 – 12:15
Panel I

  • 11:00 – 11:20: Ubaldo Morozzi (Independent Scholar)
    ‘The Great Duke knows how to excuse ingaging himselfe and seemes resolved to remayne neutral’. The system of Tuscan neutrality, 1642–1721
  • 11:20 – 11:40: Bastien Carpentier (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
    Construire l’autonomie par la neutralité. L’action des repubblichisti de Gênes à l’encontre des Habsbourg d’Espagne (1560-1650)
  • 11:40 – 12:00: Dorian Varenne (Sorbonne Université)
    Un pape neutre? Principe et réalité de la notion de padre comune à l’ère post-tridentine
  • 12:00 – 12:15: Discussion

12:15 – 13:30
Lunch


13:30 – 14:45
Panel II

  • 13:30 – 13:50: Louis Sicking (University of Leiden/VU Amsterdam)
    The (im)possibility of neutrality. Prize Law in legal practice and politics during the war between the Habsburg Netherlands and Denmark-Norway prior to the Peace of Speyer
  • 13:50 – 14:10: Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
    Between the devil and the deep sea: Venetian neutrality amidst the Bourbon-Habsburg confrontation (1688-1714)
  • 14:10 – 14:30: Géraud Poumarède (Sorbonne Université)
    Négocier la neutralité en temps de guerre: Venise dans la guerre de Succession d'Autriche
  • 14:30 – 14:45: Discussion

14:45 – 16:00
Panel III

  • 14:45 – 15:05: Roeland Goorts (Thomas More University of Applied Sciences)
    The Neutrality of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
  • 15:05 – 15:25: Julien Régibeau (Université de Liège and KU Leuven)
    Comparer l’incomparable ? Neutralités pontificale et liégeoise en pratique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
  • 15:25 – 15:45: Antoine Leclère (Université de Liège and Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
    Une rupture de la neutralité liégeoise ? Négocier la levée d’un régiment français dans la principauté de Liège à la veille de la Révolution (1787-1788)
  • 15:45 – 16:00: Discussion

16:00 – 16:15
Coffee Break


16:15 – 17:30
Panel IV

  • 16:15 – 16:35: Matheus Vila Nova (École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris)
    Du Mare Clausum à l’art de la Neutralité: la transformation de la politique étrangère portugaise (1625-1666)
  • 16:35 – 16:55: Mathias Karlsmose (Stockholm University)
    Shaky Neutrality: The Danish East India Company and the Dutch-Portuguese War in Asia, 1620-1655
  • 16:55 – 17:05: Emmanuel Lemée (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
    L’Angleterre en quête de neutralité (1660-1689)
  • 17:05 – 17:20: Discussion

19:00
Dinner


Day 2 (May 9)

10:00 – 11:00
Keynote 2
Éric Schnakenbourg (University of Nantes)
La neutralité à l’épreuve du monde, XVIe -XVIIIe siècles

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break


11:15 – 12:30
Panel V

  • 11:15 – 11:35: Joshua Meeks (US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island)
    Weapons of the Strong? Great Powers Strategy and Small Power Neutrality in the late 18th Century
  • 11:35 – 11:55: Erik de Lange (Utrecht University)
    Neutral in the Face of Revolution: Traditions of Neutrality and the 1820s Challenge
  • 11:55 – 12:15: Discussion

12:15 – 13:15
Lunch


13:15 – 14:20
Panel VI

  • 13:15 – 13:35: Daniel R. Quiroga (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)
    ‘For the Sake of Friends’: Obligations Owed to Allies as a Justification for Violence in International Legal Thought
  • 13:35 – 13:55: Izidor Janzekovic (Central European University)
    The Balance of Sea Power in the Revolutionary Era
  • 13:55 – 14:15: Andreas Häckermann (University of Erfurt)
    The (Im-)Partial Leviathan Neutrality in Carl Schmitt’s Remarks on the Early Modern State
  • 14:15 – 14:35: Discussion

14:35 – 15:15
Outlook and Conclusions

15:30 – 17:00
Visit to the Plantin Moretus Museum


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