SYMPOSIUM: The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions and Practices [Special Issue/Numéro spécial Clio@Thémis] (Antwerp: Conscience Heritage Library, 8-9 MAY 2025)

  

The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): 

Norms, Institutions and Practices 

 Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library - 8-9 May 2025

 

Convened by Stefano Cattelan & Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

 

Supported by FWO Junior Fundamental Research Project G016122N, In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth Century (2024-2026) 

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DAY 1 (May 8)

Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, 2000 ANTWERP (Nottebohm Room)

9:30 – 9:45 - Welcoming 

              Stefano Cattelan & Frederik Dhondt

 

9:45 – 10:45 - Keynote n.1: 

              Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur) 


10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break 

 

11:00 – 12:15 - Panel I 

11:00  11:20

Ubaldo Morozzi (PhD, 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 (University of Liege/FRS-FNRS 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 n. 2: 

              Éric Schnakenbourg (University of Nantes)

 

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  12:10

Discussion

 

12:10 – 13:10: Lunch 

 

13:10 – 14 :25 - Panel VI 

13:10  13:30

Daniel R. Quiroga Villamarín (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 

13:30  13:50

Izidor Janžekovič (Central European University): 

            The Balance of Sea Power in the Revolutionary Era 

13:50  14:10

Andreas Häckermann (University of Erfurt): 

            The (Im-)Partial Leviathan Neutrality in Carl Schmitt’s Remarks on the Early Modern State

14:10  14:35

Discussion

 

 

14:35 – 15:10: Outlook and conclusions 

 

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

Vrijdagmarkt 22, 2000 ANTWERP

Attendance can be confirmed with stefano dot cattelan at vub dot be.


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