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5 months ago

We have to admit that a giraffe is not exactly a common pet - but who knows...

Whether you are a diplomat or not, we would love to see pictures of our pet(s)! (4/4)

#HistoryOfDiplomacy #AnimalStudies #emdiplomacy #diplomacy #diplomat #History #histodons #pet

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5 months ago

Did you spot the giraffe in the painting?

In fact, Giorgio Riello argues that “it was not Lorenzo’s real animal but its representation in Ghirlandaio’s fresco that kept the visual imagination of giraffes alive in Europe”.

This points us to another topic for another day: the visual […]

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5 months ago

Photograph (colour): Domenico Ghirlandaio's painting "Adoration of the magi"

But the afterlife of the giraffe was much longer. It had been the first giraffe in Europe since the 13th century and it remained so for many centuries coming. Thus, one should not wonder that it was commemorated in literature and paintings, such as the […]

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5 months ago

We want to follow up last week’s thread on diplomatic gift-giving with a very impressive example: the fate of a giraffe

In 1487, Lorenzo de Medici received the giraffe as a gift by Sultan Qā’itbāy of Egypt who thereby showed his support in Lorenzo’s fight against the Ottomans.

The animal was […]

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5 months ago

But what do you do with all these exquisite gifts, when they are not for personal use?

They are registered and kept in official collection.

The German government and the government of the German federal states occasionally auction them off as part of a raffle.

Perhaps you want to take a look […]

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5 months ago

Gift giving is not only key to early modern #diplomacy, but to modern, too.

Head of states frequently exchange presents, but these were of course not for themselves as individuals.

Moreover, the importation of state gifts is even regulated by customs law. The German customs authority […]

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5 months ago

Drawing (Black/White): Profile of an elephant. The head points to the left hand side. On the elephant's back sits a person in 16th century clothes holding a stick in the right hand. Another person in 16th century clothes holds the trunk of the elephant.

A special kind of gifts were animals, especially exotic animals were very popular, such as expensive horses, elephants, rhinos, leopards, giraffes etc.

But animals were risky presents, as they had of course a mind of their own. How did it look like, if a […]

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5 months ago

Gift-giving played a central role in early modern diplomacy. Gifts helped to communicate status and power and to initiate and stabilise alliances.

Häberlein explains the motives and intentions behind gift-giving, the political and cultural contexts of gift exchange, the actors involved, the […]

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5 months ago

It’s Sunday and we do not want to conclude this week without introducing you to our author Mark Häberlein.

He is Professor for Modern History at Bamberg University. He published extensively on early modern cities, knowledge, languages and material culture.

Especially interesting for us is his […]

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6 months ago

As a scholar of early modern European diplomacy and peace history Dorothée learned a lot about early 20th century East Asia. Moreover, it was interesting to get more insights into research about Japan and Korea. At the same time the different perspectives from scholars of International Relations […]

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6 months ago

@dorotheegoetze 's own contribution was somewhat of a final comment to bring in her own expertise. She emphasised the impact of changing regional and global frameworks for politics in East Asia and the peace negotiations. Dorothée also pointed out new research perspectives: Which concepts of […]

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6 months ago

The programme of this two-day workshop was divided into three thematic blocks which included historical as well as IR perspectives:

Participants discussed the question of Korean independence in the context of the Portsmouth conference. The second panel was dedicated to modern East Asia and […]

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6 months ago

The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on 5 September 1905 and concluded the Russo-Japanese War. The treaty was mediated by US-president Theodore Roosevelt. It acknowledged Japan’s hegemony over Korea and pathed the way for the Japanese annexation of Korea five years later.

Research on this peace […]

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6 months ago

In September our co-editor @dorotheegoetze had quite an exciting (and somewhat challenging) task to fulfil:

She was invited to give a paper on diplomacy and peripheral states at a workshop on Korea and the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905. This was an exciting experience but also challenging for […]

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