Practical information for the participants (PDF)
Program:
Sunday, June 29th
Panel 1: Modes of Migrations
Chair: Michal Biran
Discussant: David Morgan
May, Timothy, University of North Georgia - The Mongols and Afghanistan: Military Migrants in the Mongol Empire
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
Panel 2: Religious Exchange
Chair: Johan Elverskog
Discussant: Peter Jackson
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
Panel 3: Rulers and Ruled in Transition: the United Empire and China
Chair: Kim Hodong
Discussant: Liu Xiao
Sarkozy, Miklos, 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
Panel 4: Poster Session: Mobility and Transformations (During evening reception)
Arom, O. Na'ama, Hebrew University - "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, Hebrew University - 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
Hua, Kaiqi, Hebrew University - The Travels of a Royal Monk: Depictions of Zhao Xian (1271-1323) in Court Histories and Private Literary Accounts
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, Hebrew University - "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
Discussant: Kim Hodong
Pochekaev, Roman, Scientific and Research University “Higher School of Economics” (St. Petersburg Branch) - Törü: Ancient Turkic law ‘privatized’ by Chinggis Khan and his descendants
Vásáry, István, Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest - A Multi-Cultural Institution of Mongol Eurasia:
Bayarsaikhan, Dashdondog, National University of Mongolia - Political and Inter-Cultural Dialogues via Nomadic Women in Mongol Eurasia
Haw, Stephen G., Independent scholar - "The Semu ren in the Yuan Empire – Who Were They?"
Panel 6: Artistic Medias on the Move
Chair: Morris Rossabi
Discussant: Sheila Blair
Kadoi, Yuka, University of Edinburgh, UK - Draping a Body, Magnifying a Space: Textiles as Political Legitimacy and Cultural Identity in Mongol West Asia
Shea, Eiran, 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
Discussant: Michal Biran
Jackson, Peter, British Academy - The Islamization of the Chaghadaids in Comparative Perspective
Blair, Sheila, Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University -The Mongol Muslim Mausoleum- in Iran, Central Asia and China
Qiu Yihao, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Western Branch of Chaghtai - Ulus Relating to Eastern Frontier of Ilkhanate: a Comparative Study of an Inner-Mongol Conflict
Manz, Beatrice F., Tufts University, Milton, MA - The Memory of the Mongols in Central Asia and the Islamic World 1300-1800
Panel 8: Economic Exchanges
Chair: Roman Pochekaev
Discussant: Timothy May
Yokkaichi, Yasuhiro, Waseda University/Keio University, Japan - Fars and Two Iraqs under Mongol Rule:
Reichert, Susanne, Universität 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 1st
Panel 9: Science, Wisdom and Knowledge Transfer
Chair: Chris Atwood
Discussant: Reuven Amitai
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, Hebrew University - Like Stars in the Sky: Dynamic networks of astronomers in Mongol Eurasia
Panel 10: The Mongols and Maritime Asia
Chair: Valerie Hansen
Discussant: Morris Rossabi
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, Hebrew University - Mobility, Tributes and the Foundations of Qubilai’s Diplomacy- The Annam Example
General Discussion