International Conference

Mobility and Transformations:New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire

Joint Research Conference of the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Israel Science Foundation

Jerusalem, June 29 - July 4, 2014

International Conference: Mobility and Transformations: Economic and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia

(June 29 - July 1 ,2014)

Call for the conference (PDF)

Poster of the conference (PDF)

Practical information for the participants (PDF)

Restaurants and coffee houses in Jerusalem (PDF)

Full Program (PDF), Chinese version 中文 (PDF)

List of Chairs and Discussants (PDF)

All panels of the conference online on Youtube (link)

Photo gallery of the conference (link)

Reports about the conference in the Chinese internet (link)

Program

Sunday, June 29

Panel 1: Modes of Migrations

Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Discussant: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Kradin, Nikolay (Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok) - "Movement of Peoples, Empires, Technologies in the Mongol Empire: A View from the Far East"

Kamola, Stefan (Princeton University) - "The Probable Course of an Improbable Life: Migration, Rebellion, and Rashīd al-Dīn"

Robinson, David (Colgate University) - "Migration and Memory"

Panel 2: Religious Exchange

Chair: Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX)

Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)

Brack, Jonathan (University of Michigan) - "Sufi Ritual and the Mongols: the Sama’ in Ilkhanid Iran"

Wonhee Cho (Yale University) - "The Mongol rule of Taoists and Buddhist in Southern China: A Comparative Review"

Manson, Charles (EPHE Paris) - "Warrior Emperor and Ecclesiastic Thaumaturge: Relations between Mongke Qan and Karma Pakshi"

Hautala, Roman (Independent scholar) - "Latin Sources on Competing Catholic and Muslim Proselytizing Activity among the Golden Horde's Nomads in the First Half of the 14th Century"

Panel 3: Rulers and Ruled in Transition: the United Empire and China

Chair: Liu Xiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)

Sárközy, Miklós (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) - "The Dīwān-i Qā’imiyyāt – Aspects of Mongol-Nizārī Contacts in the Light of a Newly Discovered Literary Source"

Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University) - "A Discussion before the Mongolian Campaign to the Volga Area and East Europe 1235"

Humble, Geoffrey (University of Leeds and The Hebrew University) - "Centre, Periphery, Politics and Authority: Seeking Non-Chinggisid Court Networks in the Early Empire"

Atwood, Christopher P. (Indiana University) - "Qubilai Qa’an’s Three Confucian Crises"

Panel 4: Poster Session: Mobility and Transformations (During evening reception)

Arom, O. Na'ama (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Our Word" – Foreign Advisers and the Western Diplomacy of the Early Ilkhans"

Gergő Vér, Márton (University of Szeged, Hungary) - "The Provision Orders of the Postal System of the Chinggisid Empire"

Haiwei Liu (University of Southern California) - "Seeking Legitimation across Cultures: The Case of Prince Ananda and the Challenge of Mongol Rule over Muslim Subjects"

Hodous, Florence (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Cross-cultural Influences on Law in the Ilkhanate and the Yuan dynasty"

Hosung Shim (Indiana University, Bloomington) - "Transmission and Misconception: A Crooked Sense of Direction in Geographical Writings as an Evidence of Mongols’ Agency in Cultural Exchange during the Mongol Empire"

Sinclair, Tom (Cyprus University) - "Movement on the Ayas-Tabriz Road from the mid-1250s to 1337 A.D.: Products, Coin and Metal, and the Growth of Cities"

Shurany, Vered (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Islam and Buddhism in Mongol-ruled Hexi"

Wright, Eloise ( University of California, Berkeley) - "Elite Reorientations under Mongol Rule in Dali, Yunnan"

Monday, June 30

Panel 5: Law, Gender and Institutions

Chair: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)

Pochekaev, Roman (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch) - "Törü: Ancient Turkic Law ‘privatized’ by Chinggis Khan and his Descendants"

Vásáry, István (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest) - "A Multi-Cultural Institution of Mongol Eurasia: the Chancellery of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanid Iran"

Haw, Stephen G. (Independent scholar) - "The Semu ren in the Yuan Empire – Who Were They?"

Panel 6: Artistic Media on the Move

Chair: Morris Rossabi (Columbia University and Queens College, the City University of New York)

Discussant: Sheila Blair (Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University)

Kadoi, Yuka (University of Edinburgh) - "Draping a Body, Magnifying a Space: Textiles as Political Legitimacy and Cultural Identity in Mongol West Asia"

Shea, Eiren (University of Pennsylvania) - "Khitan and Uighur Sources of Yuan Court Dress"

Bloom, Jonathan (Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University) - "The Role of Paper in the Arts of the Mongols"

Prazniak, Roxann (University of Oregon) - "Princess Sengge Ragi’s Historic Gathering: Thoughts on Art and the Mongol Khanates"

Panel 7: The Mongol State in Central Asia in Comparative Perspective

Chair: Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University)

Discussant: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Jackson, Peter (The British Academy) - "The Islamization of the Chaghadaids in Comparative Perspective"

Blair, Sheila (Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University) - "The Mongol Muslim Mausoleum - in Iran, Central Asia and China"

Qiu Yihao (Fudan University, Shanghai) - "The Western Branch of the Chaghatai Ulus Relating to the Eastern Frontier of Ilkhanate: a Comparative Study of an Inner-Mongol Conflict"

Manz, Beatrice F. (Tufts University) - "The Memory of the Mongols in Central Asia and the Islamic World 1300-1800"

Panel 8: Economic Exchanges

Chair: Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch)

Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)

Yokkaichi, Yasuhiro (Waseda University and Keio University, Japan) - "Fars and Two Iraqs under Mongol Rule: Kish Merchants’ Trade Network in the Indian Ocean"

Reichert, Susanne (University of Bonn) - "Karakorum as a Manufacturing City – Cultural Ties Evidenced by the Archaeological Record"

Pachkalov, Alexander (Financial University, Moscow) - "Numismatics as a Source for History of Golden Horde Cities"

Langer, Lawrence (University of Connecticut) - "Rus’ and the Economic World of the Mongol Empire"

Tuesday, July 1

Panel 9: Science, Wisdom and Knowledge Transfer

Chair: Christopher P. Atwood (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Discussant: Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Lane, George (SOAS, University of London) - "The Chinggisids and their Intellectual Jousting Tournaments"

Isahaya, Yoichi (University of Tokyo/ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) - "Cross-Cultural Dialogue between a Chinese Sage and Muslim Polymath: Chinese Calendar in the Īlkhānīd Zīj as the Embodiment of the Astronomical Dialogue"

Yang, Qiao (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Like Stars in the Sky: Dynamic Networks of Astronomers in Mongol Eurasia"

Panel 10: The Mongols and Maritime Asia

Chair: Valerie Hansen (Yale University)

Discussant: Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Queens College, the City University of New York)

Levin, Cecilia (Harvard University) - "The Great Wave: The Influence of the Mongol Empire on Javanese Art"

Segal, Ethan (Michigan State University) - "Yuan Dynasty Policies and Their Impact on Early Medieval Japan"

Fiaschetti, Francesca (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Mobility, Tributes and the Foundations of Qubilai’s Diplomacy- The Annam Example"

General Discussion and Concluding Remarks