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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