The plenary speaker was Diana Carrió-Invernizzi, of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, who spoke on ‘Imagined embassies in seventeenth century Europe: Spanish Habsburg diplomats and visual communication’. Samuel Morrison Gallacher, of the Medici Archive Project, gave us an introduction to Digital Humanities and Diplomacy.
Speakers: Vincenzo de Meulenaere, Ghent University; Georgina Moore, Bath Spa University; Ernesto Oyarbide, University of Oxford; Diego Pizzorno, University of Genoa; Ettore Cafagna, University of Verona; Michał Wasiucionek, European University Institute; Roger Lee Jesus, University of Coimbra, Ozden Mercan, European University Institute; Rikard Drakenlordh, Bath Spa University; Rubén González Cuerva, German Historical Institute in Rome/IULCE; Miguel Conde Pazos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/IULCE; Koldo Trápaga Monchet, Universidade Nova da Lisboa/IULCE; Vanessa de Cruz Medina, Independent researcher; Alejandra Franganillo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Laura Oliván, University of Vienna; Bram van Leuveren, University of St Andrews; Suna Suner, Don Juan Archiv, Vienna; Nina Lamal, KU Leuven/University of St Andrews; Francesco Malfatti, European University Institute; José Miguel Escribano Páez, European University Institute; Michael Talbot,
Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne.
The conference concluded with a wonderful dinner at Castello di Sezzate, Greve in Chianti, as the guests Dr Giovanni Weidinger of the Don Juan Archiv, Vienna.