COE EurA­sia 2nd Annual Con­fe­rence in Inns­bruck

KAISER-LEOPOLD-SAAL in the Theology building (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck |2nd floor, room 203)

Registration (for conference participants)

Registration desk open from 09:00 in the entrance hall (ground floor)

Section 2: Eastern Europe and Japan (convened by Ulrike Tanzer)

09:45-10:15
Christine Frank (University of Innsbruck)
Just A Further Instance of Modernisation? The Expansion of the Japanese Empire into Mainland Asia and Its Representation in the Western Press

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:15
Larissa Cybenko (University of Vienna)
Ukrainisches Narrativ der Kulturgeschichte der Krim

Section 3: Mediterranean and Levant (convened by Erich Kistler)

11:15-12:00
Keynote: Achim Lichtenberger (University of Münster)
The Cities of Koile Syria: Perspectives on the Southern Borderlands of the Seleucid Empire

12:00-12:30
Veronika Sossau (University of Basel)
In the Midst of the Edge? Dynamic Hubs at the Northern Margins of the Ancient Mediterranean Oikumene in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30
Jehan Hillen (University of Innsbruck)
A Rebellion from the Byzantine Borderland: Heraclius’ Rebellion and the last Roman Consuls

Section 4: Middle East and Africa (convened by Bernhard Palme)

14:30-15:15
Keynote: Adam Łajtar (University of Warsaw)
The Emergence of Nubian Kingdoms in the Nile Valley on the Southern Border of the Roman Empire, and their Christianisation (4th–6th Cent.)

15:15-15:45
Jitse Dijkstra (University of Ottawa)
Entangled Worlds on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in the Roman Period

15:45-16:15 Coffee

16:15-16:45
Anna Dolganov (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
On the Edge of Empire: Case Studies from the Roman Near East

Section 5: Early Career Researchers' Poster Session (convened by Mariia Golovina and Clemens Steinwender)

16:45-18:15

Amelie Jochmus (University of Innsbruck)
South Italian and Sicilian red-figured pottery between Carthage and Syracuse in the divided Sicily of the late 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries BC

Salvatore Liccardo (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Legacies of the Huns – Human Mobility, Group Identities, and Practices of Power in the Early Medieval Carpathian Basin (5th–6th Centuries)

Christopher J. Sprecher (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Westward Gazes on Eastern Rome: South Caucasus Perspectives on Byzantine Mobility

Raphael Szeider (University of Innsbruck)
Hadrianus.Augustus – Hadrian’s Legitimation and (Re)constructions of the Past

19:00 Pub Quiz @TRIBAUN (Museumstraße 5)

Everyone's welcome! —  Teams of 5! — Win book and drink vouchers, small beers, fame and glory and perhaps even new knowledge!

Register here:  EurAsia AnnCon25 Pub Quiz

KAISER-LEOPOLD-SAAL in the Theology building (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck |2nd floor, room 203)

Section 6: Central Asia and China (convened by Melanie Malzahn)

09:00-09:45
Keynote: Tomas L. Høisæter (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Stord)
Elite Culture, Imperial Models, and Local Agency in the Tarim Basin in the 1st Millennium AD

09:45-10:15
Lauren Morris (Charles University, Prague) 
From Chinese Chronicles to Bactrian Foothills: The Question of the Kushan Empire on the Ground

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:15
Milad Abedi (University of Innsbruck)
A Globulus Traveling the Globus – Tracing Ancient Iranian Contact Networks through Terms for Coriander

Section 7: Central Asia and South Asia (convened by Nina Mirnig)

11:15-12:00
Keynote: Robin Coningham (Durham University and UNESCO)
Mapping the Mauryans: Negotiating Hierarchies and Heterarchies across Early Historic South Asia

12:00-12:30
Kathrin Holz (University of Würzburg)
Epigraphic Transitions: Tracing the Shift from Buddhist to Hindu Society in Medieval Northwestern India (6th–10th c. CE)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30
Viola Allegranzi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Architectural inscriptions and the geography of power in the Ghurid Sultanate under Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1163–1203 CE)

Section 8: Iran and Central Asia (convened by Florian Schwarz)

14:30-15:15
Keynote: Marie Favereau Doumenjou (Paris Nanterre University / French Institute for Central Asian Studies)
The Quriltai: A Key Governing Institution of Central Asia and Iran

15:15-15:45
Paul Wordsworth (University College London)
Pathways of Resistance in the Desert Zones of Medieval Central Asia

15:45-16:15 Coffee

16:15-16:45
Clemens Steinwender (University of Innsbruck)
The Sasanians at the Caucasus. Resilience and Resistance against Imperial Politics in a Late Antique Borderland Region

Section 9: Early Career Researchers' Workshop (convened by Boris Fonarkov)

16:45-17:15
Valentina Cambruzzi (University of Innsbruck)
Peripheries in Perspective: The Case of Arsakes in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries

19:00 Official Dinner

KAISER-LEOPOLD-SAAL in the Theology building (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck |2nd floor, room 203)

Section 10: Iran and India (convened by Robert Rollinger)

09:00-09:45
Keynote: Wu Xin (Fudan University/Bryn Mawr College)
Building Empires at the Edge: Achaemenid and Han Borderland Formation

09:45-10:15
Suchandra Ghosh (University of Hyderabad)
The Local Elites of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands: Voices from Epigraphy, Archaeology and Visuals

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:15
Ian Macgregor Morris (University of Innsbruck/Salzburg)
The King at the Borderlands: Models of Kingship across and between Cultural Traditions

Internal COE EurAsia Meetings

11:15-12:15
Cluster of Excellence internal ACE Meeting (convened by Melanie Malzahn and Tijana Krstić)
@Theologie, Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, Dekanatssitzungssaal

13:30-15:30
Cluster of Excellence internal Advisory Board Meeting (convened by Claudia Rapp)
@Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, Besprechungsraum 03D050 (3rd floor)

Section 8: Iran and Central Asia (convened by Florian Schwarz)

14:30-15:15
Keynote: Marie Favereau Doumenjou (Paris Nanterre University / French Institute for Central Asian Studies)
The Quriltai: A Key Governing Institution of Central Asia and Iran

15:15-15:45
Paul Wordsworth (University College London)
Pathways of Resistance in the Desert Zones of Medieval Central Asia

15:45-16:15 Coffee

16:15-16:45
Clemens Steinwender (University of Innsbruck)
The Sasanians at the Caucasus. Resilience and Resistance against Imperial Politics in a Late Antique Borderland Region

Section 11: Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion (organisiert von Ulrike Tanzer)

Kontext ‚Eurasien‘: Wie wir die Welt sehen und sahen

17:00-19:00 Kaiser-Leopold-Saal (Theologiegebäude, 2. Stock)

Mit Andreas Ernst (Schweizer Journalist „NZZ“ und Historiker), Franz Fischler (ehem. österr. Bundesminister und EU-Kommissar sowie Präsident des Europäischen Forums Alpbach), M. Rahim Shayegan (Professor für Iranian Studies, UCLA und Direktor des UCLA Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World)

Moderation: Oliver Jens Schmitt (Historiker, Osteuropaexperte)