ASI12 in Haifa: The 12th Israeli Conference of Asian Studies took place in Haifa on May 25-26, 2014. Project's members who participated in it included Geoff Humble, Florence Hodous, Francesca Fiaschetti and Michal Biran. The members of the project presented the following papers:
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“East Asian Readings of Inner Asian Lives? Editors, Ancestors and Status in Yuanshi Biographies” (Geoffrey Humble, University of Birmingham, UK, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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“Judging by Another's Law: the Transfer of Legal Principles Under the Mongol Empire” (Florence Hodous, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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“Han, non-Han and Common Bones: on the Political Construction of Identity in Yuan China” (Francesca Fiaschetti, University of Munich and The Hebrew University)
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“The Eurasian Sphere as Seen from the Mongol Empire: Spatial Concepts at the Heyday of Trans-Cultural Flows” (Michal Biran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)