16 to 19 November 2026 Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Organizing Committee: Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna), Melanie Malzahn (University of Vienna), Nina Mirnig (University of Vienna), Mariya Kiprovska (University of Vienna), Claudia…

Thanks to the generosity of the Alpha+ Foundation of the FWF, the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations is able to make available funding for extended study and research stays in Asia. The thematic focus should be on the application of…

Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for top-down state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or unspectacular encounters of local communities with…

On 1 July, Oliver Jens Schmitt has been awarded the Bruno Kreisky Grand Prize for his political book "Moskaus westliche Rivalen".

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On 22 June 2026, the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna held an academic ceremony at the Austrian Academy of Sciences to honour Claudia Rapp's scholarly achievements on the occasion of her 65th birthday. Colleagues from…

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 thought, dividing OM offers a fertile framework…

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 participants to the subject of mantras or “potent…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International source reading workshop in the series: “Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond”

CEU’s Department of Historical Studies is announcing a two-year post-doctoral researcher position funded by the FWF Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”. Regional and chronological specializations are open, but applicants should…

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 empires tended to reduce the importance of the…

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 program will include an AI workshop and Q+A…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Geografisch neuralgische Wasserstraßen waren schon in der Antike strategische Brennpunkte politischer Konflikte Im Gastblogbeitrag blickt Robert Rollinger, Professor für Kulturbeziehungen und Kulturkontakte zwischen…

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 and their diasporic communities of migrating…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Märchenbücher als wertvolle Zeugnisse eines sich wandelnden Japanbilds in Europa Im Gastblogbeitrag schreibt Komparatistin Christine Frank über die Bedeutung japanischer Märchen in europäischen Sprachen für die…

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 Transformations: Resources of the Past and Challenges of…

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 sites, and royal remains at the intersection of…

The position is defined for a research focus Mobility and Migration in and out of Byzantium: The Outside Perspective. Given its geographic location at the intersection of three continents, the East Roman Empire of the Middle Ages engaged in…

Workshop series organized by Nina Mirnig, Robin Coningham, Hannes Fellner, Florian Schwarz, Yavuz Köse, Bernhard Palme, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Robert Rollinger

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 psychology, historiography, and material…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Im Bundesstaat Kerala erforschen Wiener Wissenschaftler hebräische Inschriften und Religionsvielfalt In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Carsten Wilke vom Department of Historical Studies der Central European…

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 dynamics is central to the cluster’s research agenda.…

The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a Postdoc (f/m/x) Position (40 hours per week, starting…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie Rıza Nur, Mitbegründer der Türkei, im Jahr 1911 das Zentrum der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie erlebte. In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Yavuz Köse, Professor für Turkologie an der Universität Wien,…

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 “EurAsian Transformations” excellence initiative. The…

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 overlooked regions in the cultural history of oil.…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Technischer Fortschritt verändert die Weltordnung und wird zur kulturellen Herausforderung Im Gastblogbeitrag schreibt Komparatistin Christine Frank darüber, wie die Verflechtungen von Ölgeschäft und imperialen…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Bedeutung der wichtigen Handelsrouten einst und heute als zentrale Verkehrsader der globalen Wirtschaft In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Florian Schwarz, Direktor des Instituts für Iranistik der…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Das fortwährende Rezitieren von Mantras und Gebeten ist keine natürliche Praktik, sondern ein historisches Phänomen Dominik A. Haas, Südasienforscher an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, geht im…

First session March 19 Thursday, 4:00-6:00 PM at Apostelgasse 23 In this reading group series, we will read, translate, and discuss four key texts from the Guodian corpus.

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, knowledge production, record keeping, and governance…

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 short documentary, A Detail in Cyprus, and a…

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, devotional practices, and political transformations.…

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, devotional practices, and political transformations.…

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 monographic studies. Yet these endeavours are often…

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 perspective on Eurasian religious history. Drawing on major…

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 at Georg Coch-Platz and then take the elevator).…

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 geworden und fand zahlreiche prominente Förderer, die…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Begriffe für Himmelsrichtungen und ihre Relevanz für antike Raumwahrnehmung. In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Alexander Steiner, Doktorand am Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik der Universität…

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 interactions between Europe and Inner Asia.

International Workshop

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie ein baltischer Adeliger um die Welt reiste, östliche Kulturen schätzen lernte und in Innsbruck eine "Schule der Weisheit" gründen wollte Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Sebastian Fink, Senior Scientist am Institut…

Navigating Access, Preservation, and Knowledge Production Conveners: Ovidiu Olar, Mariya Kiprovska, and Grigor Boykov

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EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Ein historisches – und doch so aktuelles – Beispiel, was Machthabende bereit sind zu unternehmen, wenn ihre Position bedroht ist Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Robert Rollinger, Professor für Kulturbeziehungen und…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Über den Einfluss von Quellen und deren Interpretation der Forschenden In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Geschichtswissenschaftler Raphael Szeider, wie weit zurückliegende historische Begebenheiten ermittelt…

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 seventeenth century onward, some ‘reform-minded’…

We have just published our very first video - and many more stories, insights, and research perspectives are on the way. Our channel explores connections, histories and transformations across Europe and Asia through the lens of cutting-edge research

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 to explore text-related research problems on the…

Research Focus Mobility and Migration in and out of Byzantium: the Outside Perspective

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Chronik der berühmten Kirche spiegelt die lange und komplizierte Geschichte Konstantinopels bis zum heutigen modernen Istanbul wider Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt der Historiker Jehan Hillen die Bedeutung und…

JEARN Workshop III

This workshop invites early-career researchers from the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, CEU, and the University of Innsbruck to explore these questions by selecting either a short passage of text or an image of an artifact,…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Auf den Spuren des kulturellen Erbes der Pistazie, die zum Ausgangspunkt einer süßen Revolution geworden ist Im Gastblogbeitrag befasst sich Milad Abedi, Postdoktorand am Institut für Alte Geschichte und…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Ein prachtvoll gestaltete anatolische Handschrift aus dem 14. Jahrhundert zeugt in Wien von einer kulturellen Epoche In seinem Gastblogbeitrag erzählt Bruno De Nicola, Historiker und Distinguished Researcher am…

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 have focused particularly on the philosophical…

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Eur-Asia Blog in der Standard: Antike Dokumente auf Papyrus bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in diese letzte große Auseinandersetzung in der Spätantike Im Gastblogbeitrag vermittelt Clemens Steinwender, Dissertant am Institut für Alte…

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 Transformations: Resources of the Past and Challenges of…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie die Vorstellung von Sparta nach Belieben geändert und für politische Zwecke oder kulturelle Aneignungen verwendet wird Im zweiten Teil seines Gastblogs beleuchtet Historiker Ian Macgregor Morris von der…

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 Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage.…

The grand history of Russia's neighbours – retold from the Middle Ages to the present day. Oliver Schmitt traces the history and experiences of societies from the North Cape to the Black Sea across a broad time span from the Middle Ages to the…

Lecture by François-Xavier Fauvelle (Collège de France/French Research Center in Jerusalem)

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Das Image des antiken Stadtstaates ist geprägt von Begriffen wie Stärke, Militärmacht und Disziplin. Hier ist ein Blick hinter dieses Bild Im ersten Teil seines Gastblogs beschäftigt sich Historiker Ian Macgregor…

Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia (Online Event)

Claudia Rapp, Director of Research at the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformation, explains the cluster's structure, scope and aims at the brand-new ÖAW campaign, "Keine Forschung, keine Antwort".

(Social) Media & Content Creation (m/f/d) 5 hours/week, starting 1 November 2025

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 University of Vilnius.

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Eine kritische Nachbetrachtung der kürzlich in Wien gezeigten Ausstellung "Der europäische Koran" In seinem Gastblog setzt sich der Historiker Konrad Petrovszky vom Institut für die Erforschung der…

Radway's book, "Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople" was chosen for its originality, analytical depth, and production quality

Russland hat mit Cyberattacken, Geldbestechung und politischer Fehlinformation versucht, Einfluss auf das Wahlergebnis in der Republik Moldau zu nehmen. Trotzdem haben die proeuropäischen Kräfte gesiegt. Warum das möglich war, und was der Rest von…

The Historical Studies Department at CEU offers two-credit elective courses specifically designed for academic purposes, free of charge for CEU students and the students/faculty from the institutions participating in the Cluster (University of…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Im 12. Jahrhundert verließen die ersten tibetischen Mönche ihre Heimat und wirkten als Missionare Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Zhouyang Ma, Postdoktorand am Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der…

We invite Cluster members to a 14-day expedition to major sites of the Silk Road in the Xinjiang region in Western China that are difficult to access for individual scholars without special ties to the region.

Lecture by Prof. Kenan İnan (Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Erzincan)

Speaker: Sc.D. S. Demberel President of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Respondant: Prof. Walter Pohl Austrian Academy of Sciences

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie die Chronik eines Prinzen im Zentralasien des 17. Jahrhunderts zur wertvollen historischen Quelle dieser Epoche wurde Im Gastblogbeitrag berichtet Guglielmo Zucconi, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Rolle der Sufisten in der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und die abenteuerliche Geschichte einer Schießerei vor Gericht In seinem Gastblog blickt Islamwissenschaftler Paolo Sartori auf das dunkle Kapitel einer Sufi…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Von einer Rarität in der Rüstkammer zum Symbol einer Nation Im Gastblog geht Komparatistin Christine Frank zwei japanischen Rüstungen nach, die in Schloss Ambras Innsbruck zu bestaunen sind. Und beschreibt die…

A Podcast about Environmental History of the Byzantine Era in the Online Magazin DerPragmatikus, with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (in German)

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die rituelle Zeremonie, bevor ein Krieger seine Heimat und Familie verließ, um in die Schlacht zu ziehen, findet sich in Mythos und Malerei der Antike wieder Im Gastblogbeitrag berichtet Amelie Jochmus, Doktorandin…

A Podcast about Environmental History of the Byzantine Era in the Online Magazin DerPragmatikus, with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (in German)

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Vorstellungen von der Welt und ihren Bewohnern basierten weniger auf echten Erfahrungen als vielmehr auf verbreiteten Bildern. In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beleuchtet der Althistoriker Julian Degen die möglichen…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Anpassung und Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen sind kein Phänomen moderner Zeiten. Im Gastblogbeitrag berichtet Valentina Cambruzzi, Doktoratsstudentin am Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik…

A Podcast about Environmental History of the Byzantine Era in the Online Magazin DerPragmatikus, with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (in German)

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of Geographies of Power in the Eastern Mediterranean World (c. 1000-1800). Your position will be embedded in the cluster activities of Research Node 1 ("Geographies of Power") and the conceptual…

Lecture by Dr. Marios Hatzopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Historische Quellen zeigen den großen Einfluss und wirtschaftlichen Status eines Königshausmitglieds im Achämenidenreich. Historiker Yazdan Safaee beschreibt in seinem Gastblogbeitrag die besondere Stellung der…

A post in the online magazine The Digital Orientalist, by Ephrem A. Ishac.

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 were inhabited by individual religious and language…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Machtspiele an der osmanisch-ungarischen Grenze und ein vergessener Anlauf zur Wiederherstellung serbischer Staatlichkeit. Im Gastblogbeitrag analysiert die Historikerin Mariya Kiprovska die gescheiterten…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Rolle des Iran als Zentrum globalen Handels machte das Land auch zur Drehscheibe von Wissens- und Sprachvermittlung. Im Gastblogbeitrag berichtet Milad Abedi, Postdoktorand am Institut für Alte Geschichte und…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Eine Ikone aus der Westukraine steht im Zentrum religiöser Verehrung, politischer Instrumentalisierung und konfessioneller Grenzgänge. Im Gastblogbeitrag beleuchtet Historikerin Liliya Berezhnaya, wie eine Ikone,…

Lecture Series Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia

EurAsia Blog in der Standard: Das Gedicht "Grodek" des österreichischen Dichters Georg Trakl gehört zu den bedeutendsten Texten, die das Grauen des Ersten Weltkriegs poetisch verdichtet beschreiben. Im Gastblog skizziert Ulrike Tanzer,…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: In Phasen von Konflikten und Unruhen spielt die Präsentation des Herrschers als militärischer Führer eine entscheidende psychologische Rolle. Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt der Historiker Jehan Hillen am Beispiel des…

The Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a position as PRAEDOC DISS (f/m/x) (part-time, 30 hours per week) within the framework…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Heiligendarstellungen sind typisch für Ikonen. Viele entstanden in Russland im 17. Jahrhundert. Auf der Spur einer ganz besonderen Ikone. Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt der Historiker Ovidiu Olar die Hintergründe der…

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 cordially invited to attend.

The Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies is offering workshops in audio and video technology, as well as in eye tracking and motion capture.

EurAsia Blog in DerStandard: In der Bibliothek des Mechitaristenklosters in Wien-Neubau befindet sich eine der größten und ältesten Sammlungen türkischer Texte in armenischer Schrift. Im Gastblog schreiben Musikwissenschafterin Jeanette Kilicci…

Those interested in pre-modern China have the opportunity to participate in reading groups for beginners and intermediates held by the Clusters Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Flaminia Pischedda.

James Burgin, the visiting professor of the Cluster of Excellence, will be holding two classes at the Department for Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna. The aim of these classes is to introduce students to the "small" language of the…

Animal husbandry played an important role in PIE society and is often seen as a key factor in the spread of the IE daughter languages. Among the animals and their (secondary) products, horses, cattle, and sheep are usually given prominence in both…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Kriegsberichterstatterin Alice Schalek nutzte eine Reise nach Ostasien als Bühne für ihre Selbstinszenierung – sehr zum Unmut des Autors Karl Kraus. Im Gastblogbeitrag geht Komparatistin Christine Frank zwei…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Geschichte der tatarischen Familie Minnetoğlu begann im 15. Jahrhundert. Ein Nachkomme wurde Statthalter von Serbien und Bosnien. 1877/78 endete ihre Herrschaft. Im Gastblog berichtet Grigor Boykov,…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Eine der prominentesten Inschriften der Spätantike bezeugt eindrucksvoll die räumlichen Dimensionen seines Reiches. Sie illustriert die Bedeutung der "Borderlands" in Eurasien. Im Gastblog gibt Clemens Steinwender,…

Eastern Christian Art from Border Areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece)

Sound repetition and other text-structuring devices in early Chinese technical manuscripts. Talk at Wiener Sprachgesellschaft by Flaminia Pischedda

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Hühnerfleisch ist in der Fastfood-Kultur verankert, doch vor 2500 Jahren war es ein seltenes, prestigeträchtiges Nahrungsmittel, das Eliten nutzten, um Macht zu demonstrieren. Im Gastblog thematisiert Erich Kistler,…

Ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Russian, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian free of charge for students from COE EurAsia partner universities

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie frühe Denker in Griechenland und Mesopotamien religiöse Vorstellungen hinterfragten und den Grundstein für eine globale Geistesgeschichte legten. Im Gastblog ergründet Sebastian Fink, Senior Scientist am…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Humanist, Druckpionier und Diplomat: Wie ein Renaissancegelehrter zwischen Ost und West Brücken baute und ein Vermächtnis für die moderne weißrussische Identität schuf. Im Gastblog schildert die Historikerin Pavlína…

Unfolding an Unacknowledged Written Cultural Heritage: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts, Prints and Newspapers (6-9 August 2025)

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 other, sharing insights into current research…

Source Reading Workshop in the Series "Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond"

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Einblick in die transkulturellen Verflechtungen und imperialen Dynamiken der Antike – von den römischen Provinzen bis ins Partherreich. Im Gastblog gibt Robert Rollinger, Professor für Kulturbeziehungen und…

Key Note Lecture of the EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference

As part of the “Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Spaces” work package of the Eurasian Transformations Cluster of Excellence (ExCl), the collaborating institutions of the Cluster (Austrian Academy of Sciences,…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie Gerichtsentscheidungen im vormodernen Eurasien auch gesellschaftliche Wertvorstellungen und soziale Ungleichheiten widerspiegelten. Im Gastblog schreiben Altorientalist Michael Jursa und die Mediävistin Juliane…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Das römische Krisenjahr 238 nach Christus zeigt, wie weitreichend die Folgen veränderter politischer Rahmenbedingungen sein können und wie Verachtung, Hass und Gewalt entstehen. Im zweiten Teil seines Gastblogs zum…

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Politische Systeme sind nicht zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte im Umbruch. Ein Blick ins Römische Reich zeigt Parallelen zum US-Wahlkampf. Im Gastblog zeigt Robert Rollinger, Professor für Kulturbeziehungen und…

The Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck is searching for a University Assistant (Post-Doc)

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die österreichische Monarchin ließ chinesische Kabinette in Schönbrunn und im Schloss Hetzendorf errichten. Folgte sie damit einem modischen Trend, oder erfüllte das Einrichten vielmehr eine Aufgabe? Im Gastblog…

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

Spaces and Agents of Ottoman Conquest in Southeastern and Central Europe

Ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Russian, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian free of charge for students from COE EurAsia partner universities

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Eurasische Dimensionen des Imperium Romanum zwischen Antike und Mittelalter. Im Gastblog schreibt Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Byzantinist, Umwelt- und Globalhistoriker an der Österreichischen Akademie der…

Post-Doc Postition "Greater Iran" at the University of Innsbruck

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Kernelemente der eurasischen Theorie sind seit dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert erhalten geblieben, gewandelt hat sich ihr Charakter. Im Gastblog schreibt Wolfgang Mueller, Professor für Russische Geschichte an der…

The Cluster of Excellence offers pre- and post-doc positions at the Austrian Academy of Sciences 

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 Eastern Silk Road.

The cluster offers new opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral positions in the following areas:

An interview with Robert Rollinger

Post-Doc Position Modern German Literature / Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck

The Research Institute Brenner-Archiv is searching for a Project Assistant (Post-Doc) (40 h/week) (Employment for the period of three years, starting on October 1st, 2024)

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PhD Positions The Cluster of Excellence is pleased to announce the availability of up to eight PhD positions within the doctoral college (DC) "Entangled Antiquities" at the University of Innsbruck.

EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia

Grigor Boykov, Space, Architecture, and Population (14th–17th Century) (Schriften zur Balkanforschung, Vol. 5)

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 Georg-Coch-Platz 2 building in 1010 Vienna.

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 other colleagues interested in semantic analysis,…

Moral Meteorologies. The interpretation of celestial phenomena and climate anomalies in the global Middle Ages by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

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.

Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d): CEU’s Department of Historical Studies is announcing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”

About scratchings, scribblings and Buddhists in the west of the Indian ocean

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 color perception in antiquity has not ceased.

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 times.

New Perspectives in the Philological, Historical and Cultural Studies of EuraAsia: Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

International Workshop

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 brought together archivists and librarians with…

Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Digital Humanities (f/m/d)