Handlungsspielräume, Netzwerke und transregionale Kontexte
AGENCY, NETWORKS
AND TRANSREGIONAL
CONTEXTS
„Global Eurasia – Comparison and Connectivity“ is a joint initiative of the institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW) researching in various fields of humanities and social sciences. This workshop (from a series of three events) is devoted to the topics of agency, networks and transregional contexts in the past and present.
In four thematic sessions, a keynote by an invited specialist (of 40 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of discussion) is followed by contributions (of 20 minutes each) of members of the Global Eurasia-initiative presenting relevant aspects of their research at the OEAW. A general discussion will conclude each of the thematic sessions.
The aim is to identify joint research questions and methodological approaches as basis for further cooperation both within the Austrian Academy and with scholars across the globe.
Programme | PDF
Thursday, 12 May
Opening and Welcome
10:00 Welcome by Walter Pohl | IMAFO, OEAW
speaker of the Global Eurasia-Initiative
10:15 Welcome by Claudia Rapp | IMAFO, OEAW
on behalf of the organisers of the workshop
Infrastructures, routes, networks, spaces and social cohesion
Moderator: Claudia Rapp
10:30 Keynote | online:
Majid Labaf-Khaneiki | University of Nizwa, Oman
Irrigation in the Iranian Highlands: Inner-Territorial, Trans-Territorial and Inter-Regional Dynamics of Cohesion
11:30-12:30
Christine Nölle-Karimi | IFI, OEAW
The Oasis of Herat: Early Modern Concepts of Space
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller | IMAFO, OEAW
The stomach of the city and the limits of cohesion. Supply networks, urban metabolisms, climate change and social upheaval in three episodes from 11th century Byzantium, Egypt and China
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Religious mobilities from the local to the global scale
Moderator: Martin Slama
14:00 Keynote
Wilson Chacko Jacob | Concordia University, Montreal
(De)Territorializing Life: The Sufi, the State, and the Problem of Politics in a Religious World
15:00-16:00
Clemens Gantner | IMAFO, OEAW
From Italy to the Holy Land. The journey of Bernardus the Monk, c. 865
Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia | IKGA, OEAW
Networks and Agency in a Japanese Early Modern Village through the Lens of Religious Practice
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Border zones and boundaries: regions, languages, disciplines
Moderator: Max Diesenberger
16:30 Keynote
Jan Hasil | Institute for Archeology, CAS
Pre-Přemyslid Bohemia (7th to 9th centuries) at the cultural boundaries: the latest research at the Institute of Archaeology in Prague
17:30-18:30
Pavlina Rychterova | IMAFO, OEAW
Přemyslid Bohemia (10th-12th century) and the cultural boundaries: Textual sources and their interpretation
Mihailo St. Popović | IMAFO, OEAW
Historical Geography, Digital Humanities and Database Systems: an Approach to reconstruct “Sacred Landscapes” – the Case of Medieval Duklja and Raška (today’s Montenegro and Serbia)
18:30-19:00
Presentation of Global Eurasia-Videos
Max Diesenberger, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
19:30 Dinner for participants and invited guests
Friday, 13 May
The circulations of objects, people, styles and media
Moderator: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
10:00 Keynote:
Elizabeth A. Lambourn | De Montfort University, Leicester
“No importance and no value”? – Geniza sources on personal shopping and the forging of transregional trade networks
11:00-12:00
Martin Slama | ISA, OEAW
Networks and Marriage among Diasporic Hadhramis in Indonesia: From Pre-Digital to Social Media Contexts
Nikolaus Schindel | OEAI, OEAW
Gab es eine komnenische Münzprägung in Nordsyrien?
12:00 Farewell and Lunch
14:00 Optional city walk of the historical centre of Vienna for external guests
Guide: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller