Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
International Workshop, Sunday, December 15, 2019
Conveners: Michal Biran, Vered Shurany, Jonathan Brack
Program
9:15-9:30: Gathering, Preliminary Remarks
9:30-11:00: Panel 1: Material Mobilities and Technologies
Chair: Yuri Pines (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Discussant: Gideon Shelach (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Ishayahu Landa (University of Bonn) Chinggisid Coinage in Mongol Eurasia
- Vered Shurany (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Mongols Between Gunpowder and Weaponry
- Hyunhee Park (The City University of New York) Koryŏ Intellectuals on “Middle Eastern” Liquors
11:30-13:00: Panel 2: Ideology, Politics and Institutions from Mongolia to Syria
Chair: Edith Chen (Princeton University)
Discussant: Matanya Gill (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Konstantin Golev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Witch-hunt and Politics atthe Court of the Mongol Khans in Mongolia and Iran: the Migration of a Political Device
- Josephine van den Bent (Leiden University) An Arabic Juvaynī: The Mongol Yasa in the Fourteenth-century Mamluk Sultanate
- Enerelt Enkhbold (National University of Mongolia) Evil Deeds of Luckless Tax Farmers in Mongol Middle East
Lunch Break
14:00-1530: Panel 3: Knowledge Exchange and Production
Chair: Vered Shurany (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Discussant: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Jonathan Brack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Rashid al-Din’s Approach to Cross Cultural Translation: from Chinese Medicine to Buddhist Reincarnation
- Uhaanch Urianhai (Wu Hanqi) (Inner Mongolia University) A Textual Analysis of the Multicultural Ancestral Legendaries of the Mongols According to the Records of the Jāmi‘al-Tawārīkh
- Qiao Yang (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Empire and Knowledge: Patronage for the Islamicate Astral Sciences under the Mongols
16:00-17:00: Keynote 1
Chair: Jonathan Brack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pamela Kyle Crossley (Dartmouth college) Objectification of Identities and the Emergence of Eurasian Rulership in China, Russia and the Middle East, 1250-1500
17:15-18:15: Keynote 2
Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania) Entanglement and Convergence: The Shaping of a Mongol Architectural Narrative
Dinner/Reception
