Key Researchers

Name

Specialisation

Research within the Cluster

Grigor Boykov

Balkan History

Node1: Geographies of Power

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

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Bridging Two Worlds. Multilayered Spatial Analysis of the Population in Western Asia Minor and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period

Constanza Cordoni

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Jeanine Dagyeli

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Printing Knowledge, Circulating Ideas: Making Modernities in Early 20th Century Vernacular Newspapers from Central Asia

Hannes Fellner

Historical Linguistics / Silk Road Studies

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Node 3: Identities and Religions

TWG5: Manuscript Studies in a Eurasian Context

Sebastian Fink

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action: Analyzing Imperial Dynamics

Julian Degen

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Case Study: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Impact on Eurasian Worldviews

Bruno De Nicola

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: From Samarkand to Bengal: Entangled Scribal Histories in Pre-modern Central Asia

Jan Hennings

 

Node1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Diplomacy Within and Between Empires: Russian-Ottoman Entanglements in the Age of Peter the Great

Alíz Horváth

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: The mito cluster

Case Study: Increasing the visibility of non-anglophone voices in DH

Case Study: The (in)effectiveness of propaganda in the transnational representation of Japan and its colonies

Pascale Hugon

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy from India to Tibet: the Agency of Change

Katharina Ivanyi

Islamic Studies

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Case Study: Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh) in Western, Central and South Asia, 6th/12th-9th/15th centuries

Christopher V. Jones

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Case Study: Dabanniepanjing 大般涅槃經: a lengthy fifth-century Chinese Buddhist

Michael Jursa

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Silver Circulation from Anatolia across Mesopotamia into Central Asia and China from the 2nd Millennium BCE until about 200 CE: Structures and Agents

Erich Kistler

Mediterranean Archaeology

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal

Yavuz Köse

Social, economic and consumer history of the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye

Node 1: Geogaphies of Power

Case Study: Nature, Environments and Societies in Ottoman and Turkish sources

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Entangled Scripts, Languages, and Literatures: The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitharist Congregation in Vienna

Naoíse Mac Sweeney

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Claiming the Classical 

Irene Madreiter

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Fictionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of "Oriental" Religions in Ancient Western Sources

Nina Mirnig

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Indic transregional practices of power and religion in frontier regions

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Trans-Himalayan Corridors as a Cultural Bridge between the Indo- and Sinosphere

Case Study: Entangled Scribal Histories: Kathmandu Valley as a Transregional Hub for Manuscript Production and Trade

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: External religious signs and their use in the construction and politics of religious identity

Wolfgang Mueller

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia

Lukas Nickel 

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Metropolitan hotspots of inter-imperial communication: Material evidence from China

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: The Habsburgs and Asia: Projections of China in the 18th century

Bernhard Palme

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Communication in multilingual empires - the case of Egypt

István Perczel

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Ancient Christian Communities in South India - Manuscripts and Inscriptions

Konrad Petrovszky

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeastern Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries'

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

 

Nodes 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Climate and socio-economic change between the global and the local in the longue durée

Robyn Dora Radway

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: EurAsian Central Europe - between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires

Helmut Reimitz

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Jim Rheingans

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions

Case Study: Constructing religious identities in the Tibetosphere: monasticism, yogic cultures, and institutional networks (late 14th–to early 17th century CE)

Pavlína Rychterová

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: The Idea of Empire and the Slavs, 860-1989

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Multilingualism and Cultural Translation in Central and Eastern Europe 1300-1700

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: The True Believer - Dynamics of Religious Identification in Central/Eastern Europe, 14th-18th century

Paolo Sartori

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to teh Present

Juliane Schiel 

 

Node 1: Geographies of Power

Case Study: Through the Lens of Coercion, Reassessing Medieval Labour and Power Relations

Florian Schwarz

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Cultural Brokerage in Multilingual Societies: Entangled Biographies of Persianate Muslim Dragoman-Diplomats (19th/early 20th Centuries)

Katalin Szende

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Cities as Multi-lingual Communities: from Small Towns to Imperial Capitals

Ulrike Tanzer

 

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan

Daniel Ziemann

 

Node 2: Communication and Mobility

Case Study: Migration and competing power structures in the Eurasian Early Middle Ages

Node 3: Identities and Religions 

Case Study: Cross-reading Narratives of Origins in early Medieval Eurasia