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Read more about event Dividing OM, Shaping Mantra Systems
Wed 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…
Read more about event Mantras between language, ritual, and materiality
Fri 03.07. 5 days
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…
Read more about event Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia
Thu 25.06. 2 days
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
Read more about event ‘Ali Akbar Khata’i’s Book of China: Chinese Qanun as a Model of Political Reform in the Ottoman Empire
Mon 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…
Read more about event Critique, Discontent and Protest: Political Advice from Military Encampments, Mosques and Public Squares in the Ottoman Empire during the Seventeenth Century
Wed 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…
Read more about event Imperial Infrastructures of Communication across Eurasia
Mon 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…
Read more about event EurAsia Academy: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire
Sun 07.06. 6 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsia Summer Academy of Art, Culture and History across the Himalayas 2026
Fri 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…
Read more about event Congress: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research 4–6 June 2026
Thu 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…
Read more about event Buddhist Pramāṇa across the Himalayas: Changing interpretations of the rules of inference
Tue 02.06. 2 days
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”
Read more about event Empires and their Armies
Thu 28.05. 2 days
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…
Read more about event Digital Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence and the Study of the Ancient World
Fri 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…
Read more about event Learning from Experience in Medieval Tabriz? Islamic Views on Chinese and Mongol Medicine and the Limits of Cultural Exchange
Wed 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…
Read more about event Religious Philosophy in Medieval Armenia
Tue 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…
Read more about event Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire
Tue 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…
Read more about event Irrigation Technology and Water Management Across Eurasia Part II
Wed 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
Read more about event Remembering along the Silk Roads: Psychology, History and Conservation in Dialogue
Mon 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…
Read more about event Reconsidering Imperial Dynamics and Geographies of Power: Imperial Reach and Imperial Impact in Afro-Eurasia through the Ages
Mon 04.05. 4 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsian Transformations at the General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Fri 17.04. 2 days
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…
Read more about event International Conference: "Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond (14-17 April, 2026)
Tue 14.04. 4 days
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…
Read more about event Book Launch and Discussion: The Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945
Thu 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…
Read more about event The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
Wed 18.03. 2 days
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,…
Read more about event EurAsia Jour Fixe
Wed 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…
Read more about event Lecture Series: Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
Wed 18.03. 99 days
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,…
Read more about event EurAsia Academy Tokyo: The Mythmaking of Silk Roads
Tue 17.03. 4 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsia Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
Fri 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…
Read more about event 4th JEARN WORKSHOP
Fri 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…
Read more about event Hermann Graf Keyserling - Der reisende Philosoph als Mittler zwischen den Welten
Thu 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…
Read more about event Inner Asia and Europe: Archaeological, Historical and Linguistic Interactions in the thirteenth and fourteenth century
Thu 05.03. 4 days
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…
Read more about event Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire
Wed 04.03.
Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire
International Workshop
Read more about event Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories
Fri 20.02.
Workshop: Working with Monastic Repositories
Navigating Access, Preservation, and Knowledge Production Conveners: Ovidiu Olar, Mariya Kiprovska, and Grigor Boykov
Read more about 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
Wed 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
Read more about event Workshop: Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia
Thu 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,…
Read more about event Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature
Tue 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…
Read more about event JEARN Book Club: The West - A New History in Fourteen Lives, by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Thu 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…
Read more about event Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop IV Working with Texts
Sat 17.01. 7 days
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…
Read more about event The Materiality of Knowledge
Fri 09.01. 2 days
The Materiality of Knowledge
JEARN Workshop III
Read more about event Sanskrit texts of the Buddhist epistemological tradition: Negotiating translations without illusions (but painstakingly)
Thu 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…
Read more about event CEU DH Fest
Thu 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…
Read more about event Translating Sattā: Existence, Being, or Something Else?
Thu 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…
Read more about event Erste sein: Jesuiten und Pietisten in Konstantinopel und die missionarischen Praktiken mit Griech*innen (ca. 1700-1750)
Tue 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…
Read more about event Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran
Tue 18.11. 11 days
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…
Read more about event Imperial Dynamics, Borderlands and Resistance: Entangled Worlds of Afro-Eurasia (ca. 1000 BCE – 2000 CE)
Mon 17.11. 5 days
Imperial Dynamics, Borderlands and Resistance: Entangled Worlds of Afro-Eurasia (ca. 1000 BCE – 2000 CE)
EurAsian Transformations 2nd Annual Conference
Read more about event Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages
Thu 06.11. 2 days
Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages
Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Spaces. 3rd Workshop of the Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series
Read more about event Echoes in Stone. Refracting the Holy Sepulchre from Ethiopia to Scotia
Wed 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)
Read more about event The Mongols in (Western) Eurasia – Perspectives and Problems
Wed 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…
Read more about event Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop II: Cultural Brokers and Gatekeepers
Fri 31.10. 2 days
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!
Read more about event Doing Business in Turkestan: Labour, Networks, Institutions
Thu 30.10. 2 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsian Transformations at the Open Day of the Ministry Women, Sciences and Research
Sun 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!
Read more about event SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND ADAPTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ARAL SEA BASIN
Tue 21.10.
SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND ADAPTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE ARAL SEA BASIN
Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia (Online Event)
Read more about event Heiden und Christen: das Großfürstentum Litauen im Europa des Spätmittelalters
Thu 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…
Read more about event OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities
Fri 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…
Read more about event The Armenians of Trabzon between 1461 and 1700
Fri 12.09.
The Armenians of Trabzon between 1461 and 1700
Lecture by Prof. Kenan İnan (Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan)
Read more about event A PRESENTATION OF THE CURRENT PROJECTS OF THE MONGOLIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Thu 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
Read more about event Conference: Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints and Newspapers
Wed 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…
Read more about event Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
Mon 07.07. 6 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsia Academy The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) 2025
Sun 06.07. 5 days
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…
Read more about event Prophetic Conceptions of Time and Space in Insurgent Greece (1821-1829)
Wed 18.06.
Prophetic Conceptions of Time and Space in Insurgent Greece (1821-1829)
Lecture by Dr. Marios Hatzopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Read more about event Identity / Identification
Mon 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…
Read more about event 1st JEARN Workshop
Fri 13.06.
1st JEARN Workshop
Read more about event Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages
Thu 12.06. 2 days
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…
Read more about event EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections
Thu 05.06. 2 days
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…
Read more about event The Fortified Cities are the Life of the Land: Results from the New Akkadian Fragments of the Telipinu Proclamation
Mon 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.
Read more about event A tale of two cities: Water and the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China
Tue 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
Read more about event Poster Session
Fri 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…
Read more about event 1st network meeting of the JEARN initiative
Fri 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…
Read more about event Elite Multilingualism in Premodern Societies and the Production of Power
Wed 12.03. 3 days
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…
Read more about event The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action
Tue 04.03. 2 days
The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action
Analyzing Imperial Dynamics – the Radius of Action and the Radius of Impact
Read more about event Icons In-Between
Sun 26.01. 161 days
Icons In-Between
Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece)
Read more about event Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages
Fri 17.01. 28 days
Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages
Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space | 1st Workshop of the Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series
Read more about event Between and beyond empires: from the Seleucids to the Sasanians (3rd c. BC – 7th c. AD)
Tue 03.12. 4 days
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…
Read more about event Premodern China: first gathering
Fri 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…
Read more about event Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories
Fri 29.11. 2 days
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"
Read more about event When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures
Fri 22.11.
When Words Make Worlds. Building Theory across Languages and Cultures
Key Note Lecture of the EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference
Read more about event EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Wed 20.11. 3 days
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…
Read more about event Manuscript Collections across Eurasia: From Egypt to Central and South Asia
Thu 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…
Read more about event Conference: Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
Mon 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)
Read more about event Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
Mon 21.10. 5 days
Local Perspectives on the Grand Narratives of Sicilian Hellenistic History
New Approaches to Western Sicilian Communities between Syracuse, Carthage and Rome
Read more about event Crossing geographical barriers and conceptualizing expansion in Eurasia. Exploration, conquest and ideology in antiquity and beyond
Thu 17.10. 2 days
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…
Read more about event Entangled Charters of Eurasia
Wed 16.10. 3 days
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…
Read more about event Ring Lecture: Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction
Wed 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
Read more about event International Workshop
Tue 01.10. 2 days
International Workshop
Spaces and Agents of Ottoman Conquest in Southeastern and Central Europe
Read more about event EurAsia Academy Living in and with cultural heritage
Mon 30.09. 11 days
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…
Read more about event Pahlavi Workshop
Wed 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…
Read more about event Medieval Origin Myths in Eurasian Comparison: Religion and Identity
Thu 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,…
Read more about event Summer Academy of art, culture and history across the Himalayas
Mon 16.09. 13 days
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…
Read more about event Placing China at the Courts of Europe, 1700–1800
Thu 05.09. 2 days
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,…
Read more about event Conference Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
Wed 04.09. 3 days
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…
Read more about event Summer Academy Language and Culture in the Borderlands
Mon 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…
Read more about event Kinderuni Vienna
Fri 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…
Read more about event Summer Academy: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN PREMODERN SOUTH ASIA
Mon 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
Read more about event International Nestroy Talks
Sat 29.06.
International Nestroy Talks
The World in Vienna - Exoticism in Europe between cultural mediation and cultural appropriation
Read more about event The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
Wed 26.06. 5 days
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…
Read more about event Book Launch
Tue 18.06.
Book Launch
Grigor Boykov, Space, Architecture, and Population (14th–17th Century) (Schriften zur Balkanforschung, Vol. 5)
Read more about event THE FORMATIVE HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN MONGOLIA IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: A REASSESSMENT
Mon 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…
Read more about event Workshop Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall neu gelesen
Thu 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…
Read more about event Workshop on Myths of Migration
Sat 08.06.
Workshop on Myths of Migration
Unveiling the Hidden Threads of Ancient Tales: A Digital Exploration of Greek Migration Myths
Read more about event Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World
Thu 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.
Read more about event Workshop: Modes of Coercions
Mon 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…
Read more about event Poetry Lecture with Ann Cotten
Tue 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.
Read more about event Georg Bühler Lecture: Beyond India
Mon 15.04.
Georg Bühler Lecture: Beyond India
About scratchings, scribblings and Buddhists in the west of the Indian ocean
Read more about event Lecture "Cycles of crisis and recovery in Byzantine and Ottoman Macedonia"
Mon 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…
Read more about event Workshop: Colour Terms
Thu 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…
Read more about event Entanglements of the Greek, Neo-Assyrian and Iranian worlds
Wed 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…
Read more about event Lecture Series: Nordic Perspectives on Russia
Thu 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.
Read more about event Book publication: Ottoman Plovdiv
Tue 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…
Read more about event Poster Session
Fri 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…
Read more about event Book Launch
Tue 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…
Read more about event Student Orientation Event
Fri 12.01.
Student Orientation Event
Insight into the cluster and the emerging opportunities for students within it.
Read more about event Early Medieval Irrigation System in the Kathmandu Valley
Fri 15.12. 2 days
Early Medieval Irrigation System in the Kathmandu Valley
International Workshop
Read more about event On Languages and Scripts in the Ottoman Levant: The Case of Frangochiotika
Thu 14.12. 337 days
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…
Read more about event Kick-off Event
Mon 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