Board of Directors

Name

Specialisation

Research within the Cluster

Birgit Kellner

Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Philosophical discourse, debate narratives and religious identification in late medieval South Asia (ca.7th to 13th c. CE)

Tijana Krstić

Ottoman Studies

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Political and Religious Imagination of the Ottoman Slavs in the Confessional Age

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Entangled Histories of Community- and Confession-Building in the Early Modern Ottoman period

Melanie Malzahn

Linguistics

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Entangled Literacies and Narrative Performance in Ancient Eurasia

Walter Pohl

Comparative Medieval History

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Empires and the Eurasian Steppe: Shifting Borderlands

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: The Emergence of New Strategies of Identification in the Christianisation of Europe

Case Study: Dealing with Diversity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe

Case Study: Resilient Identities and Distinctions in Eurasian comparison

Claudia Rapp

Byzantine Studies

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: the Outside Perspective

Case Study: Orthodox Christianity as a Conduit for the Dissemination and Adaptation of Religious Texts across Linguistic Traditions

Robert Rollinger

Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Reconsidering the borderlands of the Achaemenid Persian empire

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Ancient Near Eastern Mental Maps, Greek Geographies, and the Conceptualisation of Afro-Eurasia

Oliver Schmitt

Eastern European History

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century)