12:30-12:45 Hanna SONKAJÄRVI (University of the Basque Country), Introduction

Section I: Symbolic Communication and Performance in Administration and Local Politics in Germany and the Netherlands

12:45-13:05 Birgit NÄTHER (University of Munich), Routines and Forms of Symbolic Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Bavarian Intermediary Level Administration

13:05-13:25 Uta PROTZ (University of Hanover), Charity in the Dutch Republic: Philanthropy or Performance? – Reflections on the Emergence of a New Genre, the Regents’ Group Portrait

13:25-13:45 Discussion

Section II: Performing Ceremonies, Rituals and Routines in Intercultural Context

14:45-15:05 Lorena ÁLVAREZ DELGADO (University of Cantabria), Cultural Misunderstandings in the Spanish Philippines: Manila in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

15:05-15:25 Aude ARGOUSE (University de Chile/EHESS, Paris), Rituals and Notarization in Santiago de Chile, c. 1650-1700

15:25-15:45 Christina BRAUNER (University of Bielefeld), Ritual and Writing in Intercultural Treaty-Making on the Gold and Slave Coast, 17th-18th c.

15:45-16:15 Discussion

Section III: Local and Regional Level Administration and Politics on the Iberian Peninsula

16:45-17:05 Thomas WELLER (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz), Exclusion or Inclusion? Foreign Merchants and Ritual in Iberian Trading Port Cities

17:05-17:25 Hanna SONKAJÄRVI (University of the Basque Country), Receiving and Rejecting the Corregidor: The Ceremonies of the Juntas y Regimientos de Bizkaia in the Seventeenth Century

17:25-17:45 Imanol MERINO MALILLOS (University of the Basque Country), The Funeral Rites and Proclamation Ceremonies of Kings in Seventeenth-Century Biscay

17:45-18:15 Discussion

18:20-18:40 Closing Discussion