Node Speaker: Irene Madreiter

Deputy: Jim Rheingans

Strategies of Identification and Distinction

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

Nina Mirnig

Philosophical discourse, debate narratives and religious identification in late medieval South Asia (ca. 7th to 13th c. CE)

Birgit Kellner

The Emergence of New Strategies of Identification in the Christianisation of Europe

Walter Pohl

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

Pavlína Rychterová

Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Ovidiu Olar

Entangled Histories of Community- and Confession-Building in the Early Modern Ottoman period

Tijana Krstić

Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to the Present 

Paolo Sartori

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

Christopher V. Jones

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

Jim Rheingans

Nomads as Agents of Change: ​Human Mobility, Group Identities, and Practices of Power in the Early Medieval Pannonian Basin​

Salvatore Liccardo

 

Diverstiy, Identity and Distinction in Late Antique and Medieval Europe - A Comparative Perspective

Dealing with Diversity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe

Walter Pohl

Resilient Identites and Distinctions in Eurasian comparison 

Walter Pohl

Cross reading Narratives of Origins in early Medieval Eurasia

Daniel Ziemann

 

Cultural appropriation and perception of the other

Ancient Near Eastern Mental Maps, Greek Geographies, and the Conceptualisation of Afro-Eurasia

Robert Rollinger

Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal

Erich Kistler

Ficitionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of 'Oriental' Religions in Ancient Western Sources

Irene Madreiter

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

Lukas Nickel

The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan

Ulrike Tanzer

The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Impact on Eurasian Worldviews

Julian Degen

 

Modern identity building and the uses of the past

Russia's global traditionalism and the heritage of Neo-Byzantinism: Uses of the past in contemporary Russian identity constructions 

Kristina Stöckel

Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia

Wolfgang Mueller

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

Konrad Petrovszky

Claiming the Classical 

Naoise Mac Sweeney

Imagined Legacies of the Nomads:​ Uses of the Past in Early to Mid-20th-Century Russian and Soviet Historiography

Salvatore Liccardo

The Reach and Limits of Silk Roads: Reinventing the Visual and Material Heritage of Eurasia

Yuka Kadoi