PhD Completion Fellowships of the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations"

The FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence (CoE) “EurAsian Transformations”—in cooperation with the Doctoral School of Historical Studies (University of Vienna), the Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), and the…

Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia

CEU invites you to the following conference: "Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia", Thursday, June 25 – Friday, June 26, 2026

‘Ali Akbar Khata’i’s Book of China: Chinese Qanun as a Model of Political Reform in the Ottoman Empire

This talk takes as its point of departure a new English translation of Khata’i’s Account of China (trans., ed. Kaveh Hemmat et al., forthcoming), a text that has long attracted scholarly attention but remains insufficiently understood in terms of its…

Der Mythos vom Yoga aus der Vorzeit

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Yoga zwischen Ideologie, Vermarktungsstrategien und Authentizität. Der 21. Juni ist der internationale Tag des Yoga. Im Gastblogbeitrag macht sich Dominik A. Haas, Südasienforscher am Institut für Kultur- und…

Critique, Discontent and Protest: Political Advice from Military Encampments, Mosques and Public Squares in the Ottoman Empire during the Seventeenth Century

This lecture aims to contextualize a particular corpus of political advice works that flourished in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire and that exhibited the following three traits. Firstly, the texts in question were all written in simple…

Imperial Infrastructures of Communication across Eurasia

The lecture examines the institutional framework of imperial communication in the Assyrian Empire, focusing on the interdependent roles of messengers, auxiliary personnel, pack animals, and the royal roads that structured the transmission of …

EurAsia Academy: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire

Our summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the early modern and modern period. Here the term…

EurAsia Summer Academy of Art, Culture and History across the Himalayas 2026

This Summer Academy offers a deep and rigorous dive into the study of primary Sanskrit material for students and researchers. In line with the ethos of our successful Summer Academy 2024, the course aims to provide participants with hands-on…

Congress: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research 4–6 June 2026

Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research is dedicated to the study of manuscript miscellanies (mecmuas) as a key yet insufficiently theorised format of knowledge organisation across the Ottoman world and…

Schapur II. und sein Zug gegen Arabien by Clemens Steinwender

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die geografischen Herausforderungen der berühmten Offensive und ihre Auswirkungen auf Imperien und deren Politik. Im Gastblogbeitrag gibt Clemens Steinwender, Dissertant am Institut für Alte Geschichte und…

The four partner institutions collaborate in offering training to students and early career scholars in Austria and internationally. For this purpose, the Austrian Consortium for the Study of EurAsia (ACE) was initiated.

Through courses, summer schools, workshops, and training sessions, both in person and online, we aim to equip new generations with the following skills: 

  • Competence in reading original language sources as a basis for cultural literacy
  • Global methodology and outlook
  • Competence in the use of digital methods
  • A set of transferable skills