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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Case Study: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century) |
Key Researchers
Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
Balkan History | 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 | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Printing Knowledge, Circulating Ideas: Making Modernities in Early 20th Century Vernacular Newspapers from Central Asia | |
| Case Study: The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action: Analyzing Imperial Dynamics | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Impact on Eurasian Worldviews | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: From Samarkand to Bengal: Entangled Scribal Histories in Pre-modern Central Asia | |
| Case Study: Diplomacy Within and Between Empires: Russian-Ottoman Entanglements in the Age of Peter the Great | |
| 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 | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy from India to Tibet: the Agency of Change | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Dabanniepanjing 大般涅槃經: a lengthy fifth-century Chinese Buddhist | |
Islamic Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh) in Western, Central and South Asia, 6th/12th-9th/15th centuries | |
| 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 | |
Mediterranean Archaeology | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal | |
Social, economic and consumer history of the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Fictionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of "Oriental" Religions in Ancient Western Sources | |
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 | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia | ||
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 | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Communication in multilingual empires - the case of Egypt | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Ancient Christian Communities in South India - Manuscripts and Inscriptions | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeastern Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries' | ||
Case Study: Climate and socio-economic change between the global and the local in the longue durée | ||
Case Study: EurAsian Central Europe - between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires | ||
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) | ||
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: Religious identifications in Christian Europe and in Islamic countries Case Study: The True Believer - Dynamics of Religious Identification in Central/Eastern Europe, 14th-18th century | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to teh Present | ||
Case Study: Through the Lens of Coercion, Reassessing Medieval Labour and Power Relations | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cultural Brokerage in Multilingual Societies: Entangled Biographies of Persianate Muslim Dragoman-Diplomats (19th/early 20th Centuries) | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cities as Multi-lingual Communities: from Small Towns to Imperial Capitals | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan | ||
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 |
Ordinary Members
| Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
| Case Study: A carved history. Reappraising material culture from early Islamic Iran | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: "Writing EurAsia" Case Study: Mongolia Cluster | |
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| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: On the history of mantra repetition practices and the role they played in the formation of religious and social identity | |
Syriac Studies / Middle Eastern Studies / Manuscript Studies / History of Medicine. | ||
Ottoman Studies | Case Study: Ottoman Borderlands and Their Socio-Political Elites Case Study: Entangled Records of the Past: Archival Repositories of Christian Monastic Communities under Ottoman Rule | |
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processes of identity formation, ethnic terminology, geographical knowledge, master narratives | ||
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Early Modern History/Ottoman Studies | ||
Jan Odstrčilík |
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| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe | |
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Early China | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Scribal culture and literary forms of arguments in early Chinese technical manuscripts | |
| Case Study: The Origin of the Division into Continents | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Anantānandagiri’s Śaṅkaravijaya: or, How to Deal with Religious Plurality Case Study: dvayamantra, taking refuge, branding, ūrdhvapuṇḍras. On a “Śrīvaiṣṇava” section in the Padmapurāṇa Uttarakhaṇḍa Case Study: Strategies of Identification and Distinction in Medieval South India | |
Yazdan Safaee |
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Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Multilingualism in Venetian Dalmatia Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Early Modern Eastern Balkans and 'Ottoman Catholicsim': Translocal Catholic communities in the Ottoman Empire (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) | ||
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Unintentional Hereticalisation: Importing Dissident Ideas to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Christianisation and Local Pagan and Orthodox Responses to it in the proto-Reformation era | |
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Byzantine Studies, Caucasus Studies, Eastern (Orthodox) Christianity | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Westward Gazes on Eastern Rome: South Caucasus Perspectives on Byzantine Mobility | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Culture and Cultural Politics in Pahlavi Iran | |
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Tibetan and Buddhist Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Life and Contribution of the Seventh Karmapa: Leadership and Scholarship in Tibetan Buddhism | |
Byzantine Studies / Ottoman Studies / History of Cyprus | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Cyprus and the Politics of Plurality | |
Central Asian Archaeology / Material Culture Studies | Case Study: A tale of pots and people. An unwritten material history of everyday life in the Bukhara Oasis during the long first millennium. | |
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Hüchtker Dietlind |
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| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: A Network of Consumption: The Distribution of Oriental Decorative Ceramics in Hungary and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period | |
Historical Linguistics / Silk Road Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions TWG5: Manuscript Studies in a Eurasian Context | |
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Early Modern Muscovy, Cultural & Diplomatic History | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muscovy's Search for China: Diplomatic and Cultural Entanglements in Muscoy's Eurasian Frontier, 1607-1689 | |
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Early Modern Russia, Early Modern Venice, Diplomatic History | ||
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Ottoman Empire, environmental history, military history | Case Study: DANFront: An Environmental History of the Early-Modern Ottoman Military Frontier in the Middle and Lower Danube | |
Syriac Studies | ||
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The Tangut manuscripts of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā | |
Mediterranean Archaeology | ||
Art History / Architectural History | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Reach and Limits of Silk Roads: Reinventing the Visual and Material Heritage of Eurasia
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Nuclear cultural heritage / Nation-building | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Kazakhstan's Nuclear Past: From Testing Grounds to Cultural Heritage | |
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Ancient History / Spatial Perception / Imperial Ideology in Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Digital Humanities | ||
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Islamic Art and Architecture; Garden and Palace Architecture; Cultural Transfer | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Travelling Gardens: Palace Gardens and Cultural Interactions between Khorasan and Lower Mesopotamia, 8th–12th C. | |
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Byzantine Studies, Eastern Christian Studies, Christianity and Manichaeism in Central Asia | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Christian Liturgical Manuscripts as ‘Sites’ of Collective Memory from Byzantine Antioch to Central Asia | |
Soviet Central Asia, Cultural History, Arts and Architecture | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Heritage and Empire: Negotiating Cultural Production in Soviet Uzbekistan (1930s-1940s) | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Multilingual liturgical books at the Library of Saint Catherine's (Sinai) | |
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| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: When Mukhamed Became Misha: Central Asia in World War II | |
Rustam Shukurov |
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Ancient Near Eastern Studies Linguistics | Case Study: Metaphorical Concepts of Absolute Space in the Ancient Near East and Central Asia | |
| Case Study: At the Boundary of Empires. Sasanian imperial Borderlands, their Networks and the Emergence of new power structures | |
Buddhist Philosophy | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy between India and China | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russia's global traditionalism and the heritage of Neo-Byzantinism: Uses of the past in contemporary Russian identity constructions | |
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| Case Study: Des Carpates traversées aux Carpates vécues. A History of the Southern and Eastern Carpathians from the 15th to the 17th Century | |
Case Study: Human mobility between Epirus and Istanbul in the 19th Century | ||
Historical Linguistics & Silk Road Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The Transmission and Transformation of Texts in the Tarim Basin: a corpus approach (4TB) | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples (4th-9th c.) | |
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| Case Study: The Golden Horde’s First ‘Time of Troubles,’: Political, Demographic and Environmental Crisis in the Jochid Ulus after the ‘Second Mongol Invasions’ of Hungary and Poland, 1280-1310 | |
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| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: “Linguistic Distances and Similarities of Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Varieties – The Application of Dialectometric and Quantitative Approaches to Historical Languages” | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The production of encyclopaedic texts in neo-Chinggisid Central Asia (1500-1747) |
Scientific Advisory Board
| Michal Biran |
| Nicola Di Cosmo |
| Jeroen Duindam |
| Monica Juneja |
| Diana Mishkova |
| Rahim Shayegan |
Coordinators
| Philipp Abel-Dunner | Project Manager | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Rita Garstenauer | Scientific Project Manager | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Jeanette Kilicci | Project Coordinator and Website Operator | University of Vienna |
| Kateryna Kovalchuk | Project Coordinator | Central European University |
| Astrid Rief | Project Coordinator | University of Innsbruck |
| Alex Stein | Social Media Coordinator | University of Innsbruck |