Networks, Regions and Institutions in Mongol Eurasia: A Meso-Historical Analysis
Workshop
May 17-18, 2017
Organizers: Yoichi Isahaya & Francesca Fiaschetti
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)