Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
Contact Linguistics in Ancient Iran, Pahlavi Papyri | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The “Sasanian Track”. Authority, loanwords, and administrative practices in Pahlavi Papyri | |
Mobility and Migration | ||
South Asian Studies / History of Medicine | ||
Iranian Studies, Persian Diplomatics | ||
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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Ancient History, Papyrology, AI and Digital Humanities | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Public Archives in Roman Egypt: Roman Archiving and Archival Agency Case Study: Decoding Antiquity: Unlocking the Hidden Archives of the Mediterranean Case Study: The First Multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek | |
| 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 | |
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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 | |
| 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 | ||
Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt / Papyrology / Late Antique Christianity / Religious Donation | ||
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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 | |
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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 | ||
| 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 | |
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) | |
Comparative Medieval History, Cultural History | 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) |