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Mehr lesen über das Event Dividing OM, Shaping Mantra Systems
Mi 08.07.
Dividing OM, Shaping Mantra Systems
EurAsia Academy Keynote Lecture by Finnian Gerety The division of the sacred syllable "om" into the three sounds, a, u, and m is one of the most enduring ideas in mantra culture. Originating in Vedic…
Mehr lesen über das Event Mantras between language, ritual, and materiality
Fr 03.07. 5 Tage
Mantras between language, ritual, and materiality
EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia This year’s Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia will introduce the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia
Do 25.06. 2 Tage
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
Mehr lesen über das Event ‘Ali Akbar Khata’i’s Book of China: Chinese Qanun as a Model of Political Reform in the Ottoman Empire
Mo 22.06.
‘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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Critique, Discontent and Protest: Political Advice from Military Encampments, Mosques and Public Squares in the Ottoman Empire during the Seventeenth Century
Mi 10.06.
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Imperial Infrastructures of Communication across Eurasia
Mo 08.06.
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Academy: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire
So 07.06. 6 Tage
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Summer Academy of Art, Culture and History across the Himalayas 2026
Fr 05.06.
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Congress: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research 4–6 June 2026
Do 04.06.
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Buddhist Pramāṇa across the Himalayas: Changing interpretations of the rules of inference
Di 02.06. 2 Tage
Buddhist Pramāṇa across the Himalayas: Changing interpretations of the rules of inference
International source reading workshop in the series: “Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond”
Mehr lesen über das Event Empires and their Armies
Do 28.05. 2 Tage
Empires and their Armies
Almost every known empire was established “from the horseback,” and the military naturally played a crucial role in the empire’s establishment. The later trajectory differed tremendously, though. Some…
Mehr lesen über das Event Digital Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of the Ancient World
Fr 22.05.
Digital Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of the Ancient World
This event brings together scholars and students of AI, Digital Humanities, and the study of antiquity, to explore both the challenges and the new research opportunities offered by generative AI. The…
Mehr lesen über das Event Learning from Experience in Medieval Tabriz? Islamic Views on Chinese and Mongol Medicine and the Limits of Cultural Exchange
Mi 20.05.
Learning from Experience in Medieval Tabriz? Islamic Views on Chinese and Mongol Medicine and the Limits of Cultural Exchange
The Mongol integration of Eurasia created unprecedented opportunities for cross-cultural exchange. Chinese, Persian, Tibetan, and other medical experts traveled to distant courts to treat the khans…
Mehr lesen über das Event Religious Philosophy in Medieval Armenia
Di 19.05.
Religious Philosophy in Medieval Armenia
This is the eleventh lecture in the lecture series Religious Philosophy in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Questions of Translatability organized within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian…
Mehr lesen über das Event Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire
Di 19.05.
Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire
The lecture examines violence directed at ancestor images and religious change, with particular attention to conversion to Islam, in the Mongol Empire. It situates the desecration of temples, burial…
Mehr lesen über das Event Irrigation Technology and Water Management Across Eurasia Part II
Mi 13.05.
Irrigation Technology and Water Management Across Eurasia Part II
Workshop series organized by Nina Mirnig, Robin Coningham, Hannes Fellner, Florian Schwarz, Yavuz Köse, Bernhard Palme, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Robert Rollinger
Mehr lesen über das Event Remembering along the Silk Roads: Psychology, History and Conservation in Dialogue
Mo 11.05.
Remembering along the Silk Roads: Psychology, History and Conservation in Dialogue
The Silk Roads serve as a "landscape of memory", where the preservation of the past is a continuous, contested, and collaborative process. This talk bridges the disciplinary divides between cognitive…
Mehr lesen über das Event Reconsidering Imperial Dynamics and Geographies of Power: Imperial Reach and Imperial Impact in Afro-Eurasia through the Ages
Mo 04.05. 4 Tage
Reconsidering Imperial Dynamics and Geographies of Power: Imperial Reach and Imperial Impact in Afro-Eurasia through the Ages
The conference is organised by the EurAsian Transformations cluster and the AWOSA Research Centre, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Vienna and CEU. The analysis of imperial…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsian Transformations at the General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Fr 17.04. 2 Tage
EurAsian Transformations at the General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
At the next general assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), an interdisciplinary team will explore the significance of Eurasian studies in Austria and the opportunities offered by the…
Mehr lesen über das Event International Conference: "Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond (14-17 April, 2026)
Di 14.04. 4 Tage
International Conference: "Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond (14-17 April, 2026)
The conference responds to a significant gap in petrofiction scholarship, which remains dominated by Anglophone contexts. It seeks to re-center Galicia—and similar Eurasian sites—as crucial but…
Mehr lesen über das Event Book Launch and Discussion: The Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945
Do 26.03.
Book Launch and Discussion: The Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945
In the interwar period, the radical right, which represented one of the most prominent groups of Russian political exiles, was inspired by new ideologies, primarily fascism. Exile groups included…
Mehr lesen über das Event The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
Mi 18.03. 2 Tage
The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
This conference aims at examining how archives have grown along with imperial expansion from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. It invites proposals that engage with the history of empires,…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Jour Fixe
Mi 18.03.
EurAsia Jour Fixe
The theme for this meeting is Edges and Encounters: a theme for both an academic discussion and for how the Cluster people relate. After an introduction and some discussion, we will then move on to a…
Mehr lesen über das Event Lecture Series: Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
Mi 18.03. 99 Tage
Lecture Series: Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
This lecture series explores musical cultures across the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia, examining these regions as interconnected soundscapes shaped by mobility,…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Academy Tokyo: The Mythmaking of Silk Roads
Di 17.03. 4 Tage
EurAsia Academy Tokyo: The Mythmaking of Silk Roads
There has been a growing renewed interest in the cultural heritage of the trans-Eurasian trade network, widely called “Silk Road”, as visible in recent exhibitions, accompanying publications and…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
Fr 13.03.
EurAsia Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
The series brings together leading international and local scholars specializing in a wide range of linguistic, literary, and religious traditions, offering a transregional and multilingual…
Mehr lesen über das Event 4th JEARN WORKSHOP
Fr 13.03.
4th JEARN WORKSHOP
JEARN is pleased to present the program for the upcoming 4th JEARN Workshop, scheduled for March 13–14, 2026, at PSK, 4th Floor, Meeting Room 6 (Georg Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna; best use the entrance…
Mehr lesen über das Event Hermann Graf Keyserling - Der reisende Philosoph als Mittler zwischen den Welten
Do 12.03.
Hermann Graf Keyserling - Der reisende Philosoph als Mittler zwischen den Welten
Am 26.4.1946 verstarb Hermann Graf Keyserling in Innsbruck. Sein Grab liegt am Friedhof in Innsbruck-Mühlau. Mit der Publikation des „Reisetagebuch eines Philosophen“ (1919) war Keyserling berühmt…
Mehr lesen über das Event Inner Asia and Europe: Archaeological, Historical and Linguistic Interactions in the thirteenth and fourteenth century
Do 05.03. 4 Tage
Inner Asia and Europe: Archaeological, Historical and Linguistic Interactions in the thirteenth and fourteenth century
The conference, jointly organized by the ELTE Department of Medieval History and the EurAsia Cluster of Excellence based in Vienna, focuses on the historical, archaeological, and linguistic…
Mehr lesen über das Event Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire
Mi 04.03.
Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire
International Workshop
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories
Fr 20.02.
Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories
Navigating Access, Preservation, and Knowledge Production Conveners: Ovidiu Olar, Mariya Kiprovska, and Grigor Boykov
Mehr lesen über das Event How to get our Data into the Computer: Tools for Data Collection and Presentation and the need for a joint Digital Infrastructure in the Cluster
Mi 18.02.
How to get our Data into the Computer: Tools for Data Collection and Presentation and the need for a joint Digital Infrastructure in the Cluster
EurAsia Jour Fixe #1
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop: Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia
Do 05.02.
Workshop: Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia
The workshop, following a series of lectures, highlights various examples for the interplay between ecology, infrastructure, power, culture and religion from Egypt to Central Asia. At the same time,…
Mehr lesen über das Event Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature
Di 27.01.
Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature
Pre-modern inter-confessional relations in the Ottoman and Safavid realms were often tense among Eastern Christians, shaped by the presence of Muslims and by Catholic influences. From the late…
Mehr lesen über das Event JEARN Book Club: The West - A New History in Fourteen Lives, by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Do 22.01.
JEARN Book Club: The West - A New History in Fourteen Lives, by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Our first session of the new year will be on Thursday 22. January @ 17:30-19:00, at the ÖAW Site at Georg-Coch Platz! We will be meeting in Besprechungsräume 1 & 2, and we are very happy to be joined…
Mehr lesen über das Event Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop IV Working with Texts
Sa 17.01. 7 Tage
Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop IV Working with Texts
Organized by Calahan Morse and Dominik Haas, the workshop will address the challenges that we encounter when working with texts. We invite early-career researchers from all institutions of the Cluster…
Mehr lesen über das Event The Materiality of Knowledge
Fr 09.01. 2 Tage
The Materiality of Knowledge
JEARN Workshop III
Mehr lesen über das Event Sanskrit texts of the Buddhist epistemological tradition: Negotiating translations without illusions (but painstakingly)
Do 11.12.
Sanskrit texts of the Buddhist epistemological tradition: Negotiating translations without illusions (but painstakingly)
Since the early 20th century, scholars from diverse cultural regions such as Japan, India, Russia and Austria have studied and translated texts of the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition. They…
Mehr lesen über das Event CEU DH Fest
Do 04.12.
CEU DH Fest
This event will provide an excellent opportunity to bring the Cluster and CLARIAH-AT closer to each other and to facilitate the creation of a more systematic framework for digital projects in the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Translating Sattā: Existence, Being, or Something Else?
Do 27.11.
Translating Sattā: Existence, Being, or Something Else?
This is the third lecture in the lecture series Religious Philosophy in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Questions of Translatability organized within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian…
Mehr lesen über das Event Erste sein: Jesuiten und Pietisten in Konstantinopel und die missionarischen Praktiken mit Griech*innen (ca. 1700-1750)
Di 25.11.
Erste sein: Jesuiten und Pietisten in Konstantinopel und die missionarischen Praktiken mit Griech*innen (ca. 1700-1750)
Christian missionary strategies in the Ottoman Empire: As part of the lecture series "Balkan Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences," global historian Stefano Saracino provides an overview of…
Mehr lesen über das Event Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran
Di 18.11. 11 Tage
Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran
Joint Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformation in collaboration with Durham University’s UNESCO Chair on…
Mehr lesen über das Event Imperial Dynamics, Borderlands and Resistance: Entangled Worlds of Afro-Eurasia (ca. 1000 BCE – 2000 CE)
Mo 17.11. 5 Tage
Imperial Dynamics, Borderlands and Resistance: Entangled Worlds of Afro-Eurasia (ca. 1000 BCE – 2000 CE)
EurAsian Transformations 2nd Annual Conference
Mehr lesen über das Event Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages
Do 06.11. 2 Tage
Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages
Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Spaces. 3rd Workshop of the Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series
Mehr lesen über das Event Echoes in Stone. Refracting the Holy Sepulchre from Ethiopia to Scotia
Mi 05.11.
Echoes in Stone. Refracting the Holy Sepulchre from Ethiopia to Scotia
Lecture by François-Xavier Fauvelle (Collège de France/French Research Center in Jerusalem)
Mehr lesen über das Event The Mongols in (Western) Eurasia – Perspectives and Problems
Mi 05.11.
The Mongols in (Western) Eurasia – Perspectives and Problems
This one-day workshop on the Mongols in Western Eurasia is envisaged with two panels of four speakers each, followed by a general discussion. Participants include Jack Wilson (Reports of Famine and…
Mehr lesen über das Event Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop II: Cultural Brokers and Gatekeepers
Fr 31.10. 2 Tage
Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop II: Cultural Brokers and Gatekeepers
The JEARN are thrilled to announce our second workshop, centred on the topic of Cultural Brokers & Gatekeepers, which will be taking place on 31st October - 1st November!
Mehr lesen über das Event Doing Business in Turkestan: Labour, Networks, Institutions
Do 30.10. 2 Tage
Doing Business in Turkestan: Labour, Networks, Institutions
The economic history of colonial-era Central Asia is still largely clichéd and regarded as ‘peripheral’, with most of post-1991 scholarship focusing on identity, culture, and governance. Piecemeal…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsian Transformations at the Open Day of the Ministry Women, Sciences and Research
So 26.10.
EurAsian Transformations at the Open Day of the Ministry Women, Sciences and Research
Join the team to enjoy a game of "Bis an die Enden der Welt", the EurAsia Board Game by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller!
Mehr lesen über das Event SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND ADAPTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ARAL SEA BASIN
Di 21.10.
SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND ADAPTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ARAL SEA BASIN
Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia (Online Event)
Mehr lesen über das Event Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters
Do 09.10.
Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters
Opening lecture of the EurAsia Lecture Series WS2025/26 „Europas unbekannteste Großmacht: Litauen zwischen historischer Reichsbildung und moderner Staatlichkeit", by Rimvydas Petrauskas, Rector of the…
Mehr lesen über das Event OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities
Fr 03.10.
OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities
This workshop will bring together early-career and more senior scholars, as well as technical specialists, who have worked with or developed OCR (Optical Character Recognition) /HTR (Handwritten Text…
Mehr lesen über das Event The Armenians of Trabzon between 1461 and 1700
Fr 12.09.
The Armenians of Trabzon between 1461 and 1700
Lecture by Prof. Kenan İnan (Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan)
Mehr lesen über das Event A PRESENTATION OF THE CURRENT PROJECTS OF THE MONGOLIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Do 11.09.
A PRESENTATION OF THE CURRENT PROJECTS OF THE MONGOLIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Speaker: Sc.D. S. Demberel President of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Respondant: Prof. Walter Pohl Austrian Academy of Sciences
Mehr lesen über das Event Conference: Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints and Newspapers
Mi 06.08.
Conference: Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints and Newspapers
This landmark event will feature nine thematic panels, bringing together international leading scholars to explore diverse aspects of Armeno-Turkish textual traditions, including archival sources and…
Mehr lesen über das Event Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
Mo 07.07. 6 Tage
Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
The 2025 Eurasia Summer Academy – Vienna Summer school on the History and Cultures of Asia 2025 event is an intensive one-week exploration of the diverse roles of language in South Asian philosophical…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Academy The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) 2025
So 06.07. 5 Tage
EurAsia Academy The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) 2025
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Prophetic Conceptions of Time and Space in Insurgent Greece (1821-1829)
Mi 18.06.
Prophetic Conceptions of Time and Space in Insurgent Greece (1821-1829)
Lecture by Dr. Marios Hatzopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Mehr lesen über das Event Identity / Identification
Mo 16.06.
Identity / Identification
In this colloquium, COE members together with two external experts will informally present exemplary sources and probe into the uses of key concepts for their interpretation. In which cases can the…
Mehr lesen über das Event 1st JEARN Workshop
Fr 13.06.
1st JEARN Workshop
Mehr lesen über das Event Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages
Do 12.06. 2 Tage
Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages
The second workshop of the Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series will delve into the languages of religion, once again extending the attention to their spatial dimension. Frequently, distinct spaces…
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections
Do 05.06. 2 Tage
EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections
Layered processes of creation, circulation, and reinterpretation characterize much EurAsian material culture in central European collections. The goal of this workshop is to bring these material…
Mehr lesen über das Event The Fortified Cities are the Life of the Land: Results from the New Akkadian Fragments of the Telipinu Proclamation
Mo 19.05.
The Fortified Cities are the Life of the Land: Results from the New Akkadian Fragments of the Telipinu Proclamation
Cluster of Excellence Visiting Professor James Burging is hosting a talk at the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Mehr lesen über das Event A tale of two cities: Water and the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China
Di 06.05.
A tale of two cities: Water and the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China
Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia
Mehr lesen über das Event Poster Session
Fr 21.03.
Poster Session
The cluster members will present their current research results in a poster session, aimed at facilitation exchange and discussion and generating interest among researchers. All interested parties are…
Mehr lesen über das Event 1st network meeting of the JEARN initiative
Fr 21.03.
1st network meeting of the JEARN initiative
The Junior EurAsia Researchers Network (JEARN), a grassroot initiative founded by post-docs and PhD students at all 4 institutions in the cluster of Excellence EurAsia, with the aim of bringing…
Mehr lesen über das Event Elite Multilingualism in Premodern Societies and the Production of Power
Mi 12.03. 3 Tage
Elite Multilingualism in Premodern Societies and the Production of Power
In the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformations linguistic diversity represents one of the core topics. In the Eurasian space of interaction language contacts vary on great scale and written…
Mehr lesen über das Event The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action
Di 04.03. 2 Tage
The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action
Analyzing Imperial Dynamics – the Radius of Action and the Radius of Impact
Mehr lesen über das Event Icons In-Between
So 26.01. 161 Tage
Icons In-Between
Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece)
Mehr lesen über das Event Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages
Fr 17.01. 28 Tage
Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages
Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space | 1st Workshop of the Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series
Mehr lesen über das Event Between and beyond empires: from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (3rd c. BC – 7th c. AD)
Di 03.12. 4 Tage
Between and beyond empires: from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (3rd c. BC – 7th c. AD)
As a follow-up of the conference in Obergurgl (The Achaemenid Persian Empire and imperial Transformations in the Ancient Near East, 7th c. BCE – 2nd c. BCE, Obergurgl, 3rd – 9th July 2023) the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Premodern China: first gathering
Fr 29.11.
Premodern China: first gathering
Flaminia Pischedda, the new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Premodern China from the “EurAsian Transformations” Cluster of Excellence, is inviting to a first gathering aimed at connecting with each…
Mehr lesen über das Event Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories
Fr 29.11. 2 Tage
Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories
Source Reading Workshop in the Series "Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond"
Mehr lesen über das Event When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures
Fr 22.11.
When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures
Key Note Lecture of the EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Mi 20.11. 3 Tage
EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Global history is often addressed in the context of unifying master narratives. The paradigm of globalisation focuses on a process of modernisation through the expansion of European dominion. One…
Mehr lesen über das Event Manuscript Collections across Eurasia: From Egypt to Central and South Asia
Do 07.11.
Manuscript Collections across Eurasia: From Egypt to Central and South Asia
Philological research revolving around premodern materials in many regions across Eurasia has often been operating without much scholarly reflection on the current context and heritage value of source…
Mehr lesen über das Event Conference: Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
Mo 21.10.
Conference: Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
New Approaches to Western Sicilian Communities between Syracuse, Carthage and Rome (c. 340/30 BCE - c. 130 BCE)
Mehr lesen über das Event Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
Mo 21.10. 5 Tage
Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
New Approaches to Western Sicilian Communities between Syracuse, Carthage and Rome
Mehr lesen über das Event Crossing geographical barriers and conceptualizing expansion in Eurasia. Exploration, conquest and ideology in antiquity and beyond
Do 17.10. 2 Tage
Crossing geographical barriers and conceptualizing expansion in Eurasia. Exploration, conquest and ideology in antiquity and beyond
Mountains, seas, rivers, forests, deserts and swamps created barriers that separated human communities in the distant and even more recent past. Major geographical obstacles not only determined the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Entangled Charters of Eurasia
Mi 16.10. 3 Tage
Entangled Charters of Eurasia
The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists on various aspects of the production of state-sponsored writing (documents, but also inscriptions or manuscripts) and the edition and analysis…
Mehr lesen über das Event Ring Lecture: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction
Mi 09.10.
Ring Lecture: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction
Hybride Event 9 October 2024 - 22 January 2025 Wednesday, 5PM - 6:30PM Lecture Hall of the Department of Near Eastern Studies UniCampus 1F-O1-3842
Mehr lesen über das Event International Workshop
Di 01.10. 2 Tage
International Workshop
Spaces and Agents of Ottoman Conquest in Southeastern and Central Europe
Mehr lesen über das Event EurAsia Academy Living in and with cultural heritage
Mo 30.09. 11 Tage
EurAsia Academy Living in and with cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for topdown state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or…
Mehr lesen über das Event Pahlavi Workshop
Mi 25.09.
Pahlavi Workshop
The objective of this workshop is to convene the foremost experts in Pahlavi studies and related fields of papyrology in Vienna. The intention is to establish a foundation for the practical…
Mehr lesen über das Event Medieval Origin Myths in Eurasian Comparison: Religion and Identity
Do 19.09.
Medieval Origin Myths in Eurasian Comparison: Religion and Identity
This workshop aims to open a comparative perspective on the origin myths of Eurasian peoples and polities, and particularly their metahuman foundations. Such often ancient myths have been transmitted,…
Mehr lesen über das Event Summer Academy of art, culture and history across the Himalayas
Mo 16.09. 13 Tage
Summer Academy of art, culture and history across the Himalayas
This Summer Academy offers a research-based rigorous philological training program for exploring Sanskrit manuscripts and epigraphical material preserved in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. By combining text…
Mehr lesen über das Event Placing China at the Courts of Europe, 1700–1800
Do 05.09. 2 Tage
Placing China at the Courts of Europe, 1700–1800
Als Leopold III. Friedrich Franz, Herzog von Anhalt-Dessau, seinem weitläufigen Gartenreich chinesisch inspirierte Prunkräume, eine Pagode, ein Teehaus und Brücken hinzufügte, folgte er einer Praxis,…
Mehr lesen über das Event Conference Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
Mi 04.09. 3 Tage
Conference Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
The civilizations of the Ancient Silk Road networks are rightfully famous for their cultural multiplicity. Modern scholarship has likewise profited enormously from the collaboration of various…
Mehr lesen über das Event Summer Academy Language and Culture in the Borderlands
Mo 19.08.
Summer Academy Language and Culture in the Borderlands
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is hosting a Summer School within the "EurAsian Transformations" Summer Academy. The Summer School will focus on the specific languages of the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Kinderuni Vienna
Fr 19.07.
Kinderuni Vienna
We often hear that people used to believe that the earth was a disc. But is this true? What did people know about the world 1,000 years ago and beyond? What images did they have of the Earth? And how…
Mehr lesen über das Event Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
Mo 08.07.
Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
Mehr lesen über das Event International Nestroy Talks
Sa 29.06.
International Nestroy Talks
The World in Vienna - Exoticism in Europe between cultural mediation and cultural appropriation
Mehr lesen über das Event The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
Mi 26.06. 5 Tage
The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
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…
Mehr lesen über das Event Book Launch
Di 18.06.
Book Launch
Grigor Boykov, Space, Architecture, and Population (14th–17th Century) (Schriften zur Balkanforschung, Vol. 5)
Mehr lesen über das Event THE FORMATIVE HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN MONGOLIA IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: A REASSESSMENT
Mo 17.06.
THE FORMATIVE HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN MONGOLIA IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: A REASSESSMENT
On Monday, 17 June, 2024, 17:00-18:30, our Guest professor, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, will deliver a lecture at the Austrian Academy of Scieces, Seminar room 1, located on the third floor of the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall neu gelesen
Do 13.06.
Workshop Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall neu gelesen
The Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences invites you to a workshop that will take a fresh look at the Orientalist, translator and homo politicus Joseph von…
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop on Myths of Migration
Sa 08.06.
Workshop on Myths of Migration
Unveiling the Hidden Threads of Ancient Tales: A Digital Exploration of Greek Migration Myths
Mehr lesen über das Event Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World
Do 06.06.
Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World
In this conference, we will examine how local and regional mobilities contributed to the making of the wider Greek world.
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop: Modes of Coercions
Mo 03.06.
Workshop: Modes of Coercions
The workshop brings together scholars of the recently launched Cluster of Excellence on "EurAsian Transformations" with members of the COST Action "Words of Related Coercions in Work" (WORCK) and…
Mehr lesen über das Event Poetry Lecture with Ann Cotten
Di 21.05.
Poetry Lecture with Ann Cotten
Ann Cotten will be giving a poetry lecture in May at the Literaturhaus am Inn/Brenner Archive in cooperation with the Institute of German Studies and the Cluster of Excellence.
Mehr lesen über das Event Georg Bühler Lecture: Beyond India
Mo 15.04.
Georg Bühler Lecture: Beyond India
About scratchings, scribblings and Buddhists in the west of the Indian ocean
Mehr lesen über das Event Lecture "Cycles of crisis and recovery in Byzantine and Ottoman Macedonia"
Mo 15.04.
Lecture "Cycles of crisis and recovery in Byzantine and Ottoman Macedonia"
Adam Izdebski and Georgios Liakopoulos, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (“Palaeo-Science and History” Research Group) The event is organised on short notice to take advantage of the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Workshop: Colour Terms
Do 21.03.
Workshop: Colour Terms
Evolution or Diffusion? Since the postulation of the international blue blindness of antiquity by the later English Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1859, the debate about color concepts and…
Mehr lesen über das Event Entanglements of the Greek, Neo-Assyrian and Iranian worlds
Mi 20.03.
Entanglements of the Greek, Neo-Assyrian and Iranian worlds
The conference will follow and reconstruct the essential steps and developments in the creation of this new worldview that can be characterized as a major heritage of the ancient Near East towards our…
Mehr lesen über das Event Lecture Series: Nordic Perspectives on Russia
Do 14.03.
Lecture Series: Nordic Perspectives on Russia
The lecture series focuses on the long lines in the history of Nordic-Russian relations between conflict and coexistence.
Mehr lesen über das Event Book publication: Ottoman Plovdiv
Di 12.03.
Book publication: Ottoman Plovdiv
Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-18th Centuries) by Grigor Boykov The significance of studying urban life and cities in the Balkans under Ottoman rule has long been recognized by modern…
Mehr lesen über das Event Poster Session
Fr 08.03.
Poster Session
The cluster members will present their current research results in a poster session, aimed at facilitation exchange and discussion and generating interest among researchers. All interested parties are…
Mehr lesen über das Event Book Launch
Di 27.02.
Book Launch
Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the…
Mehr lesen über das Event Student Orientation Event
Fr 12.01.
Student Orientation Event
Insight into the cluster and the emerging opportunities for students within it.
Mehr lesen über das Event Early Medieval Irrigation System in the Kathmandu Valley
Fr 15.12. 2 Tage
Early Medieval Irrigation System in the Kathmandu Valley
International Workshop
Mehr lesen über das Event On Languages and Scripts in the Ottoman Levant: The Case of Frangochiotika
Do 14.12. 337 Tage
On Languages and Scripts in the Ottoman Levant: The Case of Frangochiotika
A joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Jesuit Library and Archives of Greece: The first international workshop on Frangochiotika…
Mehr lesen über das Event Kick-off Event
Mo 20.11.
Kick-off Event
Members of the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations" aim to showcase the Cluster by exploring the histories of selected representative objects.

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Events

Dividing OM, Shaping Mantra Systems

Mantras between language, ritual, and materiality

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

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

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

Imperial Infrastructures of Communication across Eurasia

EurAsia Academy: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire

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

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

Buddhist Pramāṇa across the Himalayas: Changing interpretations of the rules of inference

Empires and their Armies

Digital Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of the Ancient World

Learning from Experience in Medieval Tabriz? Islamic Views on Chinese and Mongol Medicine and the Limits of Cultural Exchange

Religious Philosophy in Medieval Armenia

Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire

Irrigation Technology and Water Management Across Eurasia Part II

Remembering along the Silk Roads: Psychology, History and Conservation in Dialogue

Reconsidering Imperial Dynamics and Geographies of Power: Imperial Reach and Imperial Impact in Afro-Eurasia through the Ages

EurAsian Transformations at the General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

International Conference: "Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond (14-17 April, 2026)

Book Launch and Discussion: The Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945

The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)

EurAsia Jour Fixe

Lecture Series: Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia

EurAsia Academy Tokyo: The Mythmaking of Silk Roads

EurAsia Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road

4th JEARN WORKSHOP

Her­mann Graf Key­ser­ling - Der rei­sende Phi­lo­soph als Mitt­ler zwi­schen den Wel­ten

Inner Asia and Europe: Archaeological, Historical and Linguistic Interactions in the thirteenth and fourteenth century

Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire

Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories

How to get our Data into the Computer: Tools for Data Collection and Presentation and the need for a joint Digital Infrastructure in the Cluster

Workshop: Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia

Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature

JEARN Book Club: The West - A New History in Fourteen Lives, by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop IV Working with Texts

The Materiality of Knowledge

Sanskrit texts of the Buddhist epistemological tradition: Negotiating translations without illusions (but painstakingly)

CEU DH Fest

Translating Sattā: Existence, Being, or Something Else?

Erste sein: Jesuiten und Pietisten in Konstantinopel und die missionarischen Praktiken mit Griech*innen (ca. 1700-1750)

Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran

Imperial Dynamics, Borderlands and Resistance: Entangled Worlds of Afro-Eurasia (ca. 1000 BCE – 2000 CE)

Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages

Echoes in Stone. Refracting the Holy Sepulchre from Ethiopia to Scotia

The Mongols in (Western) Eurasia – Perspectives and Problems

Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop II: Cultural Brokers and Gatekeepers

Doing Business in Turkestan: Labour, Networks, Institutions

EurAsian Transformations at the Open Day of the Ministry Women, Sciences and Research

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND ADAPTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ARAL SEA BASIN

Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters

OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities

The Armenians of Trabzon between 1461 and 1700

A PRESENTATION OF THE CURRENT PROJECTS OF THE MONGOLIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Conference: Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints and Newspapers

Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA

EurAsia Academy The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) 2025

Prophetic Conceptions of Time and Space in Insurgent Greece (1821-1829)

Identity / Identification

1st JEARN Workshop

Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages

EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections

The Fortified Cities are the Life of the Land: Results from the New Akkadian Fragments of the Telipinu Proclamation

A tale of two cities: Water and the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China

Poster Session

1st network meeting of the JEARN initiative

Elite Multilingualism in Premodern Societies and the Production of Power

The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action

Icons In-Between

Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages

Between and beyond empires: from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (3rd c. BC – 7th c. AD)

Premodern China: first gathering

Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories

When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures

EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Manuscript Collections across Eurasia: From Egypt to Central and South Asia

Conference: Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History

Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History

Crossing geographical barriers and conceptualizing expansion in Eurasia. Exploration, conquest and ideology in antiquity and beyond

Hermann Graf Keyserling - Der reisende Philosoph als Mittler zwischen den Welten