Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia

Networks, Regions and Institutions in Mongol Eurasia (May 2017)

Networks, Regions and Institutions in Mongol Eurasia: A Meso-Historical Analysis

Workshop

May 17-18, 2017

Organizers: Yoichi Isahaya & Francesca Fiaschetti

(poster to download)

 

17th May (Wen): Room 2001 at Rabin Building Mt Scopus Campus

18:15–19:30: Keynote Speech, Akinobu Kuroda (The University of Tokyo), “A Global Monetary History of Mongol Eurasia: A Mesoscopic Perspective” (poster to download)

Moderator: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

19:30: Reception

 

18th May (Thu): Room 2001 at Rabin Building Mt Scopus Campus

10:00–11:00: First Panel: “Networks of the Empire and Beyond”

Chair: Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Yoichi Isahaya (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Toluid Appanages as Mesoscale Agency in Cross-Cultural Exchange

Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University), “Mongol Eurasia at Sea: Peninsular South India in Networks of Maritime Trade and Tribute (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)"

 

11:00 –11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30–13:00: Second Panel: “Decentralizing the Empire through Mesoscale Regions”

Chair: Yoichi Isahaya (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Francesca Fiaschetti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Empires within the Empire: Governance and Dynastic Space in Eastern Eurasia under Mongol Rule

Christopher Eirkson (University of Pittsburgh), “Mongol Appanages and Ming Chinese Frontier Princedoms: A Comparison of Autonomous Territorial Units in Northern China, 1200-1500 CE

Nikolay Kradin (Russian Academy of Sciences), “North-Eastern Margin of Mongolian Empire: Hinterland Urbanization of Chinggis Khan Brother

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:00: Third Panel: “Law as a Meso-Institution”

Chair: Yifat Monnickendam (Tel Aviv University)

Khohchahar E. Chuluu (The University of Tokyo), “Law, Institutions, and Justice in the Mongol Empire

Florence Hodous (Renmin University), “Joint Trials as a Key to Local History and Empire-Wide Dynamics

Edith Chen (Princeton University), “Justice of the Khan: Writing the Lives of the Jarqučis in the Yuan Shi

 

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

 

16:30–18:00: Fourth Panel: “Sources Narrate Eurasia”

Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Roman Hautala (Tatarstan Academy of Sciences), “Catholic Missionary Sources on the Everyday Life in the Golden Horde (First Half of the 14th Century)

Stephen Pow, (CEU University) “What a Source Says, When It Says Nothing at all: Extracting Information from Jochi Khan’s Biography in the 117th Chapter of the Yuan Shi

Jonathan Brack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “How the Dead Mattered in Ilkhanid Iran? The Local and the Global in Rashid al-Din’s Three Refutations of Reincarnation

 

Concluding Remarks: Francesca Fiaschetti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)