Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia

Maarten Manse at the GLOBALISE Conference, Amsterdam 2026

International Institute of Social History Collage
Category
Events
Dates
2026-03-05 09:00 - 10:45
Venue
International Institute of Social History, Nikolaevsky room. - Amsterdam
Website
https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/globalise-conference-4-6-march-2026-amsterdam/

Maarten Manse will participate in the GLOBALISE Conference, Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures: Explorations of GLOBALISE, the Dutch East India Company Archives and the Writing of New Histories, held in Amsterdam from 4–6 March 2026. The conference brings together international scholars to explore new historiographical and digital approaches to the VOC archives and to rethink colonial and global histories through inclusive and comparative perspectives.

Manse will present the paper “Recasting the Terms of Empire: Indigenous Translators and Scribes in the VOC Archives, and how they Mediated the Legal Vocabulary of Empire through Treaty-making in Southeast Asia (c. 1680–1780)” in Session 3 (Mediators, Knowledge and Contestation) on Thursday 5 March, 09.00–10.45. The paper examines the role of indigenous intermediaries in shaping legal and diplomatic language within the Dutch colonial archive.

In addition, I will be discussant in a panel on Wed 4 March 15.00 - 16.30, Session 2C: Currencies, Politics and Labour.

More information: https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/globalise-conference-4-6-march-2026-amsterdam/

 
 

All Dates

  • 2026-03-05 09:00 - 10:45

Past Events

11
Sep
Presentation of the Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia Database
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In connection with the ENIUGH Congress at Linnaeus University, Sweden, Stefan Amirell and Johan
10
Sep
Congress Panel: Treaty-making in Comparative Perspective
M1088, Linnaeus University, Vaxjo.
ENIUGH panel: Between Indigenous Agency & Imperial Expansion - Treaties in Africa, Asia & Americas
06
Jun
Online Seminar: Arthit Jiamrattanyoo (Chulalongkorn University): Colonizing Blood Covenants: Ritualized Friendship and Contractual Colonialism in the Spanish Conquest of the Philippines.
Presenter: Arthit Jiamrattanyoo (Chulalongkorn University Pre-registration required.
06
Jun
Ariel Lopez, Eleonora Poggio and Birgit Tremml-Werner will present a joint paper at the Austronesian Research Seminar in Hamburg
Paper about trade from China to Sulu-Mindanao-Borneo through a Southeast Asian maritime lens
24
May
Panel “Tools of Power in Global Diplomacy, 1400-1900” at the New Diplomatic History Conference in Aix-Conference presentation organized by Birgit Tremml-Werner
Panel in Aix explores Asian diplomacy (15th–19th c.) via cases from the Middle East & Southeast Asia

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