Workshop: Politics, trade, diplomacy and power in the Swedish empire during the Seventeenth-century

Trivium – Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies organizes a one-day workshop at Tampere University (Faculty of Social Sciences – History) on the international outlook and connections of the early modern Swedish empire. This workshop offers six presentations on various topic related to the relationship between the Swedish empire and the wider world. In focus are topics such as Baltic rivalry, Swedish ambitions overseas, as well as how foreign expertise and capital was involved in the making of the Swedish empire. The presentations represent recent scholarly approaches in the fields from legal and political history, business history, history of diplomacy to the history of knowledge circulation.

You are warmly welcome to enjoy great presentations and take part in stimulating discussions on the early modern Swedish empire and its international outlook.

Coordinator: Kaarle Wirta

Date: 27.02.2020

Location: Pinni B (Faculty of Social Sciences): Room nr: B3032

Please confirm your attendance: Kaarle.wirta@tuni.fi

 

Program

11.00 – 11.15: Casual meet & greet

11.15 – 11.30: Kaarle Wirta (Tampere University) – opening of the workshop

11.30 – 12.00: Sebastian Schiavone (University of Eastern Finland) & (Otso Kortekangas KTH-Stockholm)

Building on foreign expertise – mercenaries’ and settlers’ role in the eastward expansion of 16th/17th century Sweden

12.00 – 12.30: Katja Tikka (University of Helsinki) & Kaarle Wirta (Tampere University)

Learning Empire: Administration of international business during the Swedish Age of Greatness

12.30 – 13.00: Edgar Pereira (Leiden University)

An Instrumental Connection? Economic Diplomacy, Overseas Prospects and Arms Trade between Portugal and Sweden (1640–1700)

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 14.30: Charlotta Forss (Stockholm University)

‘There was a rumour in the city that we were imprisoned’ – early modern diplomats between Sweden and the Ottoman Empire

14.30 – 15.00: Henri Hannula (University of Helsinki) & Kaarle Wirta (Tampere University)

Privateers of the Baltic – Diplomacy of the Swedish international trade of Naval Stores