5th Meeting of the Mongol Empire Spring State
By land and by sea. Cultural and Other Networks of Exchange in Mongol Eurasia and Beyond
13. - 14. September 2021
Thessaloniki
Organisers:
Francesca Fiaschetti, University of Vienna
Stefanos Kordosis, International Hellenic University
Monday 13th September 2021
10.45 - 11:00 | Opening remarks
11.00 - 12.30 | Panel 1
Bruno De Nicola (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – Chair/Discussant
Hadel Jarada (Austrian Academy of Sciences) : “Between Marāgha and the Islamic West”
Tanvir Ahmed (Austrian Academy of Sciences) : ‘The Reins of Power Were in the Hands of the Sheikhs’: The Shaykhī Network (c. 1335 - 1365) and its Ghosts”
Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) : “Network Cut Off: The Marāgha Observatory and the Tūsī Family”
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 | Panel 2
Panos Sophoulis (University of Athens) – Chair/Discussant
Qiu Yihao (Fudan University Shanghai) : “More than Rumors: Remarks on the Anecdotes Relating to the Beginning of the Mongol Epoch”
Georgios Kardaras (National Hellenic Research Foundation) : “Political, Social and Military Aspects of the Mongol Invasions in Poland”
Stefanos Kordosis (International Hellenic University) : “The Western Mongolic World in the Early 18th c.: Dzungars and Kalmyks in V. Vatatzēs’ Periēgētikon (Voyages) and his 1732 Map of Central Asia”
Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.30 | Books presentation
Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University) : The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) : Der Lange Sommer und die Kleine Eiszeit: Klima, Pandemien und der Wandel der Alten Welt von 500 bis 1500 n. Chr.
Christopher P. Atwood (University of Pennsylvania) : The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources
Coffee break
18:00 - 19:30 | Keynote
Lorenzo Pubblici (Santa Reparata International School of Art, Firenze) : “The Mongol Factor in the Development of International Commerce Seen from a Venetian Perspective”
Tuesday 14th September 2021
11.00 - 13.00 | Panel 3
Yakir Paz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Chair/Discussant
Jacqueline Armijo (NYU-Shanghai) : “How a Muslim from Bukhara Serving in the Yuan Dynasty Came to Have a Major Impact on Southwest China”
Márton Vér (Göttingen University) : “A less known Cultural Network: Uyghur Literati in the West”
Alexander Osipian (Freie Universität Berlin) : “Facilitating Communication and Cultural Exchange: Armenian Merchant Networks in the Il-Khanid Persia, the Golden Horde and Rus’, 1240s-1440s”
Riccardo Liberati (Oxford University) : “Italians in Ilkhanid Persia. A Reassessment of the Relations between Ilkhanid Princes and Western Merchants”
Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 | Panel 4
Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre) – Chair/Discussant
Hiroyuki Nagamine (National Institute of Technology, Oyama College) : “Where was Sarai, the Capital of the Jochid Ulus? New Perspectives for Research on Sarai”
Konstantin Golev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) : “Projection of Power Networks within the Sedentary Periphery of the Golden Horde: a Royal Affair of Medieval Bulgaria”
Szilvia Kovács (University of Szeged) : “Hungarian Franciscans’ Knowledge about the 14th Century Golden Horde”
Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00 | Panel 5
Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna) - Chair/Discussant
Francesca Fiaschetti (University of Vienna) : “The Social Life of Things: Commodities and Mongol Policies in Maritime Asia”
Nikolaos Vryzidis and Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) : “The Archaeology of Mediation: An Assessment of the Mongol Element in Later Byzantine Art and Material Culture”
Valentina Bruccoleri (Sorbonne University) : “Fragments of the Northern Routes: Chinese Ceramics and the Golden Horde”