Conference: Mobility and Transformations: New Directions in the Study of the Mongol Empire

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute for Advanced Studies,  The ERC Project Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia,  The Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, and the Confucius Institute at the Hebrew University

Cordially invite you to attend

 Organizers: Michal Biran & Kim Hodong

All lectures will take place at the Center for the Study of Rationality,Feldman Building, Eilat Hall, The Edmond J. Safra Campus of The Hebrew University, Givat Ram

For Program and Abstracts see http://mongol.huji.ac.il/

Part A is open to the public, Part B for participants only.

Program:

Sunday, June 29, 2014

10:00-10:15

Welcome: Michal Linial, Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

                  Reuven Amitai, Dean, Faculty of Humanities

10:15-11:45

Modes of Migrations

Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Discussant: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Nikolay Kradin (Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok)

Movement of Peoples, Empires, Technologies in the Mongol Empire:  A View from the Far East

Stefan Kamola (Princeton University)

The Probable Course of an Improbable Life: Migration, Rebellion, and Rashīd al-Dīn

David Robinson (Colgate University)

Migration and Memory

12:15-14:00

Religious Exchange

Chair: Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX)

Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)

Jonathan Brack (University of Michigan)

Sufi Ritual and the Mongols: the Sama’ in Ilkhanid Iran

Wonhee Cho (Yale University)

The Mongol Rule of Taoists and Buddhists in Southern China: A Comparative Review

Charles Manson (EPHE Paris)

Warrior Emperor and Ecclesiastic Thaumaturge: Relations between Möngke Qan and Karma Pakshi

Roman Hatuala (Independent Scholar)

Latin Sources on Competing Catholic and Muslim Proselytizing Activity among the Golden Horde's Nomads in the First Half of the 14th Century

15:30-17:30

Rulers and Ruled in Transition: the United Empire and China

Chair: Liu Xiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)

Miklós  Sárközy (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)

The Dīwān-i Qā’imiyyāt–Aspects of Mongol-Nizārī Contacts in the Light of a Newly Discovered Literary Source

Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University)

A Discussion before the Mongolian Campaign to the Volga Area and Eastern Europe 1235

Geoffrey Humble (University of Leeds & The Hebrew University)

Centre, Periphery, Politics and Authority: Seeking Non-Chinggisid Court Networks in the Early Empire

Christopher Atwood (Indiana University Bloomington)

Qubilai Qa’an’s Three Confucian Crises

18:30

Reception at IIAS lobby and greetings by Prof. Menachem Ben-Sasson, President of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Poster Session: Mobility and Transformations (during evening reception)

 Na'ama O. Arom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“Our Word” – Foreign Advisers and the Western Diplomacy of the Early Ilkhans

Márton Gergő Vér (University of Szeged, Hungary)

The Provision Orders of the Postal System of the Chinggisid Empire

Haiwei Liu (University of Southern California)

Seeking Legitimation across Cultures: The Case of Prince Ananda and the Challenge of Mongol Rule over Muslim Subjects

Florence Hodous (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 

Cross-Cultural Influences on Law in the Ilkhanate and the Yuan dynasty

Hosung Shim (Indiana University Bloomington)

Transmission and Misconception: A Crooked Sense of Direction in Geographical Writings as Evidence of Mongols’ Agency in Cultural Exchange during the Mongol Empire

Tom Sinclair (Cyprus University)

Movement on the Ayas-Tabriz Road from the mid-1250s to 1337 A.D.: Products, Coin and Metal, and the Growth of Cities

Vered Shurany (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Islam and Buddhism in Mongol-Ruled Hexi

Eloise Wright (University of California, Berkeley)

Elite Reorientations under Mongol Rule in Dali, Yunnan

Monday, June 30, 2014

09:30-11:00

Law and Institutions

Chair: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)

Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch)

Törü: Ancient Turkic Law ‘Privatized’ by Chinggis Khan and his Descendants

István Vásáry (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)

A Multi-Cultural Institution of Mongol Eurasia: the Chancellery of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanid Iran

Stephen G. Haw (Independent Scholar)

The Semu ren in the Yuan Empire – Who Were They?

11:30-13:30

Artistic Media on the Move

Chair: Morris Rossabi   (Columbia University & Queens College, City University of New York)

Discussant: Sheila Blair   (Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University)

Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh)

Draping a Body, Magnifying a Space: Textiles as Political Legitimacy and Cultural Identity in Mongol West Asia

Eiren Shea (University of Pennsylvania)

Khitan and Uighur Sources of Yuan Court Dress

Jonathan Bloom (Boston College & Virginia Commonwealth University)

The Role of Paper in the Arts of the Mongols

Roxann Prazniak (University of Oregon)

Princess Sengge Ragi’s Historic Gathering: Thoughts on Art and the Mongol Khanates

14:30-16:30

The Mongol State in Central Asia in Comparative Perspective

Chair: Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University)

Discussant: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Peter Jackson (The British Academy)

The Islamization of the Chaghadaids in Comparative Perspective

Sheila Blair (Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University)

The Mongol Muslim Mausoleum - in Iran, Central Asia and China

Qiu Yihao (Fudan University, Shanghai)

The Western Branch of the Chaghadaid Ulus Relating to the Eastern Frontier of Ilkhanate: a Comparative Study of an Inner-Mongol Conflict

Beatrice F. Manz (Tufts University)

The Memory of the Mongols in Central Asia and the Islamic World 1300-1800

17:00-19:00

Economic Exchanges

Chair: Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch)

Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)

Yasuhiro Yokkaichi (Waseda University & Keio University, Japan)

Fars and Two Iraqs under Mongol Rule: Kish Merchants’ Trade Network in the Indian Ocean

Sussanne Reichert (University of Bonn)

Karakorum as a Manufacturing City – Cultural Ties Evidenced by the Archaeological Record

Alexander Pachkalov (Financial University, Moscow)

Numismatics as a Source for History of Golden Horde Cities

Lawrence Langer (University of Connecticut)

Rus’ and the Economic World of the Mongol Empire

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

09:30-11:00

Science, Wisdom and Knowledge Transfer

Chair: Christopher Atwood (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Discussant: Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

George Lane   (SOAS, University of London)

The Chinggisids and their Intellectual Jousting Tournaments

Yoichi Isahaya (University of Tokyo/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 

Cross-Cultural Dialogue between a Chinese Sage and Muslim Polymath: Chinese Calendar in the Īlkhānīd Zīj as the Embodiment of the Astronomical Dialogue

Qiao Yang (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  

Like Stars in the Sky: Dynamic Networks of Astronomers in Mongol Eurasia

11:30-13:00

The Mongols and Maritime Asia

Chair: Valerie Hansen (Yale University)

Discussant: Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Queens College, City University of New York)

Cecilia Levin (Harvard University)

The Great Wave: The Influence of the Mongol Empire on Javanese Art

Ethan Segal (Michigan State University)

Yuan Dynasty Policies and Their Impact on Early Medieval Japan

Francesca Fiaschetti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Mobility, Tributes and the Foundations of Qubilai’s Diplomacy - The Annam Example

13:00-13:30

General Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Tuesday July 1, 2014

18:00-20:00

Keynote Address

Chair: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Kim Hodong   (Seoul National University)   The Mongol Imperial Institutions and the Empire's Unity

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

9:00-11:00                   Liu Xiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)     

Reading the Yuan Dianzhang (Sinologists only)

11:30-13:00                Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Queens College, City  University of New York)

                                    Mongolia in the Mongol Empire                    

14:00- 16:00                Christopher Atwood (Indiana University Bloomington)                                                     New Directions in Yuan History

16:30- 18:30                David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

                                    New Directions in the Study of the Ilkhanate

 Thursday, July 3, 2014

9:00-10:30                 Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Peterburg                                   New Directions in the Study of the Golden Horde                                                       

11:00-12:30               Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

                                   The Mongol Middle Kingdom: New Directions in the Study of  the Chaghadaid Khanate                                                                                                                              

 14:00-16:30                 Peter Jackson            (The British Academy)                                                        Some Early Western Sources on the Mongol Advance

                                       Liu Xiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)                                                   Chinese Sources on the Mongol Empire

17:30-18:30                 Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Arabic Sources: The Mongols and the Mideast   

Friday, July 4, 2014

9:00-10:30                   Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University,   Dallas)                        Religion and the Mongols

11:00- 12:30                Sheila Blair (Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University)                  Visual Sources on the Mongols

12:45-13:30                 General discussion

Dinner at the Old City for Summer School Participants

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Trip to the North