- Department of Asian Studies & Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Mt. Scopus 91905, ISRAEL
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- History of the Mongol Empire, Central Asian History (Area Studies), Inner Asian History, Yuan Dynasty, Islamic Studies, Chinese history (History), and 48 moreLiao Dynasty (907-1125), Late Imperial China, Nomadism, Nomadic Peoples, Historical Migrations, Cultural Assimilation, Religious Conversion, Mobility/Mobilities, Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian History, Turco-Iranian World, Empires, Kitans (Khitans, Qidan), Qara Khitai, Qarakhanids, Cross-cultural transfers, Chaghadaid Khanate, post-Mongol, Mongolian Studies, Central Asia (History), Chinese minorities, Islam in China, Chinese Minority Education, Uyghurs, Xinjiang, Turkic & Altaic Studies, Central Asian Societies, Nationalism & Conflict, Ethnography, Medieval History, Abbasid History, Medieval Islam, Mamluk Studies, Turfan Texts, Inner Asian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Archaeology of Central Asia, Silk Road, Silk Road Studies, Empire, Chaghatai Khanate, Animals in Culture, Tangut, Archaeology of the Silk Road, History of the Silk Road, Cultural Brokerage, Cultural History, and Social Historyedit
The study reviews Islamic expansion into Central Asia (from eastern Iran to Gansu in north-west China) from the seventh to the 16th century, highlighting Muslim- Buddhist encounters. It first discusses an initial period of Islamic... more
The study reviews Islamic expansion into Central Asia (from eastern Iran to Gansu in north-west China) from the seventh to the 16th century, highlighting Muslim- Buddhist encounters. It first discusses an initial period of Islamic imperial military expansion into Central Asia, where Buddhism was only one, rather marginal, religion practiced among the sedentary population met by the conquerors. It then argues that further Muslim expansion into Central Asia from the late 10th century onwards was mainly due the Islamisation of nomadic or post-nomadic collectives who had adopted Islam primarily to acquire communal identity and legitimation. Around the same time, other nomadic and semi-nomadic groups in East and Central Asia adopted Buddhism as part of their state formation, for similar reasons. These Muslim and Buddhist polities were connected by trade and sometimes also marital and political alliances, but there is hardly any evidence for meaningful intellectual contacts prior to the Mongol conquest. The Mongol period (13th–14th centuries) not only resulted in a huge expansion of Islam, it also brought Islam and Buddhism under one rule and invigorated Muslim-Buddhist intellectual exchange. Under Mongol rule, Muslims and Buddhists became the major competitors for converting the Mongols, a process which eventually led to the division of the steppe between Islam and Tibetan Buddhism.
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This paper reexamines the sources used by N. Fancy and M.H. Green in "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)" (Medical History, 65/2 (2021), 157-177). Fancy and Green argued that the Arabic and Persian descriptions of the Mongol sieges in... more
This paper reexamines the sources used by N. Fancy and M.H. Green in "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)" (Medical History, 65/2 (2021), 157-177). Fancy and Green argued that the Arabic and Persian descriptions of the Mongol sieges in Iran and Iraq, and in particular, in the conquest of Baghdad in 1258, indicate that the besieged fortresses and cities were struck by Plague after the Mongol sieges were lifted. This, they suggested, is part of a recurrent pattern of the outbreak of Plague transmitted by the Mongol expansion across Eurasia. Fancy and Green concluded that the primary sources substantiate the theory driven by recent paleogenetic studies indicating that the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century set the stage for the massive pandemic of the mid-fourteenth century. The link between the Plague outbreak and the Mongol siege of Baghdad relies on three near-contemporaneous historical accounts. However, our re-examination of the sources shows that the main text (in Persian) has been significantly misunderstood, and that the two other texts (in Syriac and Arabic) have been mis-contextualized, and thus not understood properly. They do not support the authors' claim regarding Plague epidemic in Baghdad in 1258, nor do other contemporary and later Arabic texts from Syria and Egypt adduced by them, which we reexamine in detail here. We conclude that there is no evidence for the appearance of Plague during or immediately after the Mongol conquests in the Middle East, certainly not for its transmission by the Mongols.
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51. Michal Biran. 2024. “Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchange, Conversion, Consequences”. In Jörg Rüpke, Michal Biran and Yuri Pines,eds. Empires and Gods: The Role of Religions in Imperial History, 232-262. Berlin/Boston:... more
51. Michal Biran. 2024. “Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchange, Conversion, Consequences”. In Jörg Rüpke, Michal Biran and Yuri Pines,eds. Empires and Gods: The Role of Religions in Imperial History, 232-262. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111342009-011
The unprecedented expansion of the Mongol Empire was understood by the Mongols, as well as their subjects, enemies and neighbors, as Heaven’s will. Indeed it was Tengri, the sky god of the steppe, who conferred upon
Chinggis Khan the right to rule over earth and the charisma required for pursuing it. Understanding world religions as different paths to reach Tengri, the Mongols practiced a policy of religious pluralism. They mobilized the spiritual resources of their domains for the sake of the empire just as they did with their human and material resources, thereby promoting religious exchange on an unparalleled scale and transforming the religious landscape of Eurasia. This exchange also affected
the Mongols themselves who adopted universal religions: Tibetan Buddhism in China and Islam in the three western khanates. This chapter analyses the Mongols’ political theology and its role in the Empire’s expansion; the Mongols’ religious policies and their impact on the Empire; as well as the Mongols’ process of conversion, and its impact on Mongol and post-Mongol empires.
The unprecedented expansion of the Mongol Empire was understood by the Mongols, as well as their subjects, enemies and neighbors, as Heaven’s will. Indeed it was Tengri, the sky god of the steppe, who conferred upon
Chinggis Khan the right to rule over earth and the charisma required for pursuing it. Understanding world religions as different paths to reach Tengri, the Mongols practiced a policy of religious pluralism. They mobilized the spiritual resources of their domains for the sake of the empire just as they did with their human and material resources, thereby promoting religious exchange on an unparalleled scale and transforming the religious landscape of Eurasia. This exchange also affected
the Mongols themselves who adopted universal religions: Tibetan Buddhism in China and Islam in the three western khanates. This chapter analyses the Mongols’ political theology and its role in the Empire’s expansion; the Mongols’ religious policies and their impact on the Empire; as well as the Mongols’ process of conversion, and its impact on Mongol and post-Mongol empires.
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Michal Biran. 2023. “Mongols”. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception https://www.degruyter.com/database/EBR/entry/key_6e29d183-bb60-4d47-9839-4d3307e081e9/html 8 pp.
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Michal Biran. 2023. “Ilkhanid Baghdad (1258-1335): Between the Local and the Global.” In The Mongols in Global History and Art History, ed. Anne Dunlop, 185-215. Florence: I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance... more
Michal Biran. 2023. “Ilkhanid Baghdad (1258-1335): Between the Local and the Global.” In The Mongols in Global History and Art History, ed. Anne Dunlop, 185-215. Florence: I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Rome: Officina Libraria.
This paper highlights some of the transformations that took place in Baghdad following the Mongol conquest. The point of departure for this analysis is the prism of mobility—the ability of people,
ideas, and artifacts to move or be moved across both space and society—which I see as a main feature of Mongol rule. The essay thus explores the mobility of people, artifacts, and ideas in Ilkhanid Baghdad. More specifically, it deals with emigration and immigration, trade routes and local production, and inter-religious polemics compiled by Baghdadi residents.
This paper highlights some of the transformations that took place in Baghdad following the Mongol conquest. The point of departure for this analysis is the prism of mobility—the ability of people,
ideas, and artifacts to move or be moved across both space and society—which I see as a main feature of Mongol rule. The essay thus explores the mobility of people, artifacts, and ideas in Ilkhanid Baghdad. More specifically, it deals with emigration and immigration, trade routes and local production, and inter-religious polemics compiled by Baghdadi residents.
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Biran, Michal, Michael Shenkar, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Kunbolot Akmatov, and Valery Kolchenko. “The Kök-Tash Underground Mausoleum in North-Eastern Kyrgyzstan: the First-Ever Identified Qara Khitai Elite Tomb?” Journal of the Royal Asiatic... more
Biran, Michal, Michael Shenkar, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Kunbolot Akmatov, and Valery Kolchenko. “The Kök-Tash Underground Mausoleum in North-Eastern Kyrgyzstan: the First-Ever Identified Qara Khitai Elite Tomb?” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023, 1–33. doi:10.1017/S1356186322000621.
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Dunnell, Ruth, and Michal Biran. "Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019): Medieval Eurasia Reimagined." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 51 (2022): v-xvi. doi:10.1353/sys.2022.0000.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Russian Studies, Historical Anthropology, Globalization, Human-Animal Relations, and 9 moreChinese Studies, International Trade, Central Asian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Silk Road Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, and Central Eurasian Studies
Dunnell, Ruth, and Michal Biran. "Remembering Thomas T. Allsen (1940–2019): Medieval Eurasia Reimagined." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 51 (2022): v-xvi. doi:10.1353/sys.2022.0000.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Russian Studies, Historical Anthropology, Globalization, Chinese Studies, and 9 moreInternational Trade, Central Asian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Silk Road Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Central Eurasian Studies, Cross cultural studies, and Human Animal Relations
Biran. Michal. 2022. "Baghdad under Mongol Rule." In Baghdad: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century, ed. Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, 285-315. Leiden: Brill.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513372_012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513372_012
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Biran, M. (2021). The Mongol Imperial Space: From Universalism to Glocalization*. In Y. Pines, M. Biran, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared (pp. 220-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.... more
Biran, M. (2021). The Mongol Imperial Space: From Universalism to Glocalization*. In Y. Pines, M. Biran, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared (pp. 220-256). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108771061.008
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The Mongol Empire (1206-1368) had a tremendous impact on slavery across Eurasia. While slaves played a minor role in pre-Imperial Mongolia, the Mongols saw people as a resource, to be distributed among the imperial family and used for... more
The Mongol Empire (1206-1368) had a tremendous impact on slavery across Eurasia. While slaves played a minor role in pre-Imperial Mongolia, the Mongols saw people as a resource, to be distributed among the imperial family and used for imperial needs, like material goods. This view created a whole spectrum of dependency running from free men to full slaves. Specifically, the huge conquests of the United Empire (1206-60) resulted in huge supply of war captives, many of whom eventually sold in the Eurasian slave markets created by the Empire. With the dissolution of the Empire and the halt of its expansion, the demand for slaves remained high, and other means had to be sought for supplying it. The chapter discuss slavery among the pre-imperial Mongols; the general context of slavery caused by Mongol mobilization and redistribution policies; the various ways of becoming a slave in the Mongol Empire; and the slaves’ dispersion, uses, conditions as well as manumission mechanisms and opportunities for social mobility. It highlights the different types of slavery (extrusive versus intrusive) in China and the Muslim and Christian worlds and argues that in Mongol Eurasia slavery was not always a social death.
Biran, Michal. 2021. “Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368).” Chapter. In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, edited by Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson, 76–99. The Cambridge World History of Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139024723.004.
Biran, Michal. 2021. “Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368).” Chapter. In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, edited by Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson, 76–99. The Cambridge World History of Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139024723.004.
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The Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty (1124–1218) ruled in Central Asia in the period that preceded the rise of Chinggis Khan. Founded by Khitan refugees who escaped from north China when the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) vanquished... more
The Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty (1124–1218) ruled in Central Asia in the period that preceded the rise of Chinggis Khan. Founded by Khitan refugees who escaped from north China when the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) vanquished their Khitan Liao dynasty (907–1125), they soon carved out for themselves a multicultural empire in Central Asia that combined Chinese, nomadic, and Muslim elements. Vanquishing the Qarakhanids and the Seljuks and making the Khwārazm Shāhs, the Gaochang Uighurs, and various Mongolian tribes their vassals, at its height the Qara Khitai Empire stretched from the Oxus to the Altai Mountains (namely, from Uzbekistan to western Mongolia including most of Xinjiang, China). Their biggest victory in 1141 against the Seljuks even became the basis for the legend of Prester John. Practicing religious tolerance and mostly indirect rule—leaving local rulers largely intact apart from in their capital Balāsāghūn (Burana, Kyrgyzstan)—and, using their Chinese and nom...
Research Interests: Ancient History, Chinese Studies, Mongolian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Islamic Studies, and 14 moreChina, History of the Mongol Empire, Seljuks (Islamic History), Central Asian History (Area Studies), Central Asia, Nomadism, Empire, Migrations, Population, Throne, Cross cultural studies, Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Qara Khitai, and Victory
The Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty (1124–1218) ruled in Central Asia in the period that preceded the rise of Chinggis Khan. Founded by Khitan refugees who escaped from north China when the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) vanquished... more
The Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty (1124–1218) ruled in Central Asia in the period that preceded the rise of Chinggis Khan. Founded by Khitan refugees who escaped from north China when the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) vanquished their Khitan Liao dynasty (907–1125), they soon carved out for themselves a multicultural empire in Central Asia that combined Chinese, nomadic, and Muslim elements. Vanquishing the Qarakhanids and the Seljuks and making the Khwārazm Shāhs, the Gaochang Uighurs, and various Mongolian tribes their vassals, at its height the Qara Khitai Empire stretched from the Oxus to the Altai Mountains (namely, from Uzbekistan to western Mongolia including most of Xinjiang, China). Their biggest victory in 1141 against the Seljuks even became the basis for the legend of Prester John. Practicing religious tolerance and mostly indirect rule—leaving local rulers largely intact apart from in their capital Balāsāghūn (Burana, Kyrgyzstan)—and, using their Chinese and nomadic cultural capital, the Sinicized Buddhist nomads ruled over their heterogeneous but mostly Muslim sedentary population in rare harmony. The aging dynasty, however, could not survive the repercussions of Chinggis Khan’s rise, which coincided with the bolstering of the Khwārazm Shāh’s power. In the early 13th century, after a Naiman prince who had escaped from Chinggis Khan usurped the Qara Khitai throne, the Mongols vanquished the Qara Khitai, incorporating most of their troops into the Mongol army and channeling their skilled subject population for imperial needs. A scion of the Qara Khitai established the Muslim Qutlughkhanid dynasty of Kirman (south Persia, 1222–1306) that ruled under Mongol and later Ilkhanid aegis.
Research Interests: Chinese Studies, Mongolian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Cross-Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, and 9 moreJin Dynasty (1115-1134), History of the Mongol Empire, Seljuks (Islamic History), Central Asian History (Area Studies), Central Asia, Nomadism, Migrations, Liao Dynasty (907-1125), and Qara Khitai
Biran, Michal. "3. Qutulun: The Warrior Princess of Mongol Central Asia". Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, edited by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Francesca Fiaschetti. Berkeley: University... more
Biran, Michal. "3. Qutulun: The Warrior Princess of Mongol Central Asia". Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, edited by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Francesca Fiaschetti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020, pp. 64-82. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520970786-007
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The destruction of the Baghdadi libraries has been a powerful image connected to the Mongol conquest of 1258, often claimed to have precipitated the decline of Mus-lim civilization. This study, however, challenges this claim by... more
The destruction of the Baghdadi libraries has been a powerful image connected to the Mongol conquest of 1258, often claimed to have precipitated the decline of Mus-lim civilization. This study, however, challenges this claim by reconstructing the state of libraries in Ilkhanid Baghdad, revealing a thriving intellectual community. Based on a close reading in Arabic biographical dictionaries and analysis of samāʿ and book lists, it elucidates the functions of libraries in Ilkhanid Baghdad, identifies channels of knowledge transmission, and offers a glimpse of the libraries' holdings. Finally, it analyzes the Mongols' role in invigorating local scholarship and the impact their rule had on Baghdad's intellectual life. Keywords Baghdad-libraries-Ilkhanate-Mongols in the Muslim world-intellectual history of the islamicate World
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Cultural History, History of the Book, Urban History, Migration, and 10 moreMongolian Studies, History of Reading and Writing, Islamic Studies, Knowledge Transfer, History of the Mongol Empire, Collective Memory, Islamic History, History of libraries, History of Baghdad, and Ilkhanate
The destruction of the Baghdadi libraries has been a powerful image connected to the Mongol conquest of 1258, often claimed to have precipitated the decline of Muslim civilization. This study, however, challenges this claim by... more
The destruction of the Baghdadi libraries has been a powerful image connected to the Mongol conquest of 1258, often claimed to have precipitated the decline of Muslim civilization. This study, however, challenges this claim by reconstructing the state of libraries in Ilkhanid Baghdad, revealing a thriving intellectual community. Based on a close reading in Arabic biographical dictionaries and analysis of samāʿ and book lists, it elucidates the functions of libraries in Ilkhanid Baghdad, identifies channels of knowledge transmission, and offers a glimpse of the libraries’ holdings. Finally, it analyzes the Mongols’ role in invigorating local scholarship and the impact their rule had on Baghdad’s intellectual life.
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The Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who by the time of Chinggis Khan numbered less than a million nomads, were... more
The Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who by the time of Chinggis Khan numbered less than a million nomads, were able to create and rule their huge empire was by fully mobilizing the resources—both human and material—from the regions under their control. This high measure of mobility fostered robust cross-cultural exchanges in various fields, resulting in a huge expansion of knowledge and connectivity, cultural relativism, and a common imperial culture—political, material, institutional—with regional variants. These developments set the stage for major transformations in world history. The introduction presents the articles included in this special issue, which tackle various case-studies of mobility and transformation while looking at the Mongol Empire in Eurasian perspective, and highlighting the impact of the Mongols’ indigenous culture on the proto-global ...
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The humanities and the social sciences have become increasingly aware of the significance of the interactions between animals and humans in the course of the past few decades. Anthropologists in particular have referred to this growing... more
The humanities and the social sciences have become increasingly aware of the significance of the interactions between animals and humans in the course of the past few decades. Anthropologists in particular have referred to this growing interest in the human–animal relationship as the “animal turn,” the “trans-species turn,” or the “post-human turn.” This new perspective is transforming our understanding of animals’ effect on the development of human society and culture as well as challenging our rigid hierarchy that places humans as rulers and the rest of the natural world as subordinates. While the “animal turn” itself began with a Western-centered bias, it has recently become evident in Asian Studies too, with monographs and articles published on this subject from an Asian perspective.
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Michal Biran, 2019. "The Mamluks and Mongol Central Asia: Political, Economic and Cultural Aspects," in Reuven Amitai and Stephan Connermann, eds. The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Global and Regional History, 367-389. Bonn:... more
Michal Biran, 2019. "The Mamluks and Mongol Central Asia: Political, Economic and Cultural Aspects," in Reuven Amitai and Stephan Connermann, eds. The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Global and Regional History, 367-389. Bonn: Bonn University Press
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Biran, M. 2018, Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contracts in Mongol Eurasia: Project Report, Medieval Worlds 8:135-154
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Michal Biran, 2018. "Violence and Non-Violence in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave and István Kristó-Nagy, eds. Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,... more
Michal Biran, 2018. "Violence and Non-Violence in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad," in Robert Gleave and István Kristó-Nagy, eds. Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018: 15-31
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Michal Biran, 2018 "Scholarship and Science under the Qara Khitai (1124-1218), in D. O. Morgan and S. Edwards, eds. The Idea of Iran: From the Seljuqs to the Mongols. 55-68. London: Tauris.
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This is the introduction to a special section in Asiatische Studien issue of December 2017: Michal Biran, ed. In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia, Asiatische Studien 71.4 (2017),1051-1245; 194pp.... more
This is the introduction to a special section in Asiatische Studien issue of December 2017: Michal Biran, ed. In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia, Asiatische Studien 71.4 (2017),1051-1245; 194pp.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/asia.2017.71.issue-4/issue-files/asia.2017.71.issue-4.xml
Abstract: The Mongol empire (1206–1368) caused massive transformations in the composition and functioning of elites across Eurasia. While the Mongols themselves obviously became the new Eurasian elite, their small number as compared to the huge territory over which they ruled and their initial inexperience in administrating sedentary realms meant that many of their subjects also became part of the new multi-ethnic imperial elite. Mongol preferences, and the high level of mobility—both spatial and social—that accompanied Mongol conquests and rule, dramatically changed the characteristics of elites in both China and the Muslim world: While noble birth could be instrumental in improving one’s status, early surrender to Chinggis Khan; membership in
the Mongol imperial guards (keshig); and especially, qualifications—such as excellence in warfare, administration, writing in Mongolian script or astronomy to name but a few—became the main ways to enter elite circles. The present volume translates and analyzes biographies of ten members of this new elite—from princes through generals, administrators, and vassal kings, to scientists and artists; including Mongols, Koreans, Chinese and Muslims—studied by researchers working at the project “Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The annotated biographies assembled here not only add new primary sources —translated from Chinese, Persian and Arabic—to the study of the Mongol Empire. They also provide important insights into the social history of the period, illuminating issues such as acculturation (of both the Mongols and their subjects), Islamization, family relations, ethnicity, imperial administration, and scientific exchange.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/asia.2017.71.issue-4/issue-files/asia.2017.71.issue-4.xml
Abstract: The Mongol empire (1206–1368) caused massive transformations in the composition and functioning of elites across Eurasia. While the Mongols themselves obviously became the new Eurasian elite, their small number as compared to the huge territory over which they ruled and their initial inexperience in administrating sedentary realms meant that many of their subjects also became part of the new multi-ethnic imperial elite. Mongol preferences, and the high level of mobility—both spatial and social—that accompanied Mongol conquests and rule, dramatically changed the characteristics of elites in both China and the Muslim world: While noble birth could be instrumental in improving one’s status, early surrender to Chinggis Khan; membership in
the Mongol imperial guards (keshig); and especially, qualifications—such as excellence in warfare, administration, writing in Mongolian script or astronomy to name but a few—became the main ways to enter elite circles. The present volume translates and analyzes biographies of ten members of this new elite—from princes through generals, administrators, and vassal kings, to scientists and artists; including Mongols, Koreans, Chinese and Muslims—studied by researchers working at the project “Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The annotated biographies assembled here not only add new primary sources —translated from Chinese, Persian and Arabic—to the study of the Mongol Empire. They also provide important insights into the social history of the period, illuminating issues such as acculturation (of both the Mongols and their subjects), Islamization, family relations, ethnicity, imperial administration, and scientific exchange.
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The Mongol empire (1206–1368) caused massive transformations in the composition and functioning of elites across Eurasia. While the Mongols themselves obviously became the new Eurasian elite, their small number as compared to the huge... more
The Mongol empire (1206–1368) caused massive transformations in the composition and functioning of elites across Eurasia. While the Mongols themselves obviously became the new Eurasian elite, their small number as compared to the huge territory over which they ruled and their initial inexperience in administrating sedentary realms meant that many of their subjects also became part of the new multi-ethnic imperial elite. Mongol preferences, and the high level of mobility—both spatial and social—that accompanied Mongol conquests and rule, dramatically changed the characteristics of elites in both China and the Muslim world: While noble birth could be instrumental in improving one’s status, early surrender to Chinggis Khan; membership in the Mongol imperial guards (keshig); and especially, qualifications—such as excellence in warfare, administration, writing in Mongolian script or astronomy to name but a few—became the main ways to enter elite circles. The present volume translates and...
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Encyclopedia of Islam Three entry on , Chinggis (Genghis) Khan (ca. 1162-1227), the founder of the Mongol Empire, whose career and legacy reshaped the medieval Muslim world.
Biran 2017. "Chinggis Khan," EI3, 4:24-28
Biran 2017. "Chinggis Khan," EI3, 4:24-28
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For about half of its recorded history, parts or all of imperial China were ruled by non-Han peoples, mainly from Manchuria or Mongolia. The dynasties they founded (mainly the Liao, Jin, Xia, Yuan, and Qing) contributed greatly to the... more
For about half of its recorded history, parts or all of imperial China were ruled by non-Han peoples, mainly from Manchuria or Mongolia. The dynasties they founded (mainly the Liao, Jin, Xia, Yuan, and Qing) contributed greatly to the shaping of late imperial and modern China's boundaries and ethnic composition. Yet until recently these non-Han dynasties were treated as the stepchildren of Chinese history, and were studied mainly through the prism of Sinicization, namely when and how they embraced the allegedly superior Chinese culture. The chapter reviews the reasons for the marginalization of these dynasties and the historiographical turns—in terms of both sources and historical frameworks—that, especially since the 1990s, led to their study in their own Inner Asian terms. Highlighting the 'New Qing History' that led this change, the chapter discusses the common political culture of the Inner Asian dynasties and reviews directions of current and future research.
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Barāq Ḥājib" [Baraq Hajib] (d. 632/1235) Founder of the Qara Khitai dynasty of Kirmān, also known as QutlughKhanids, that ruled in Kirmān in South Persia mostly under Mongol dominion from 1222-1306. This is his EI3 entry: Michal Biran .... more
Barāq Ḥājib" [Baraq Hajib] (d. 632/1235) Founder of the Qara Khitai dynasty of Kirmān, also known as QutlughKhanids, that ruled in Kirmān in South Persia mostly under Mongol dominion from 1222-1306.
This is his EI3 entry: Michal Biran . "Baraq Hajib". Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE, 2017 2:6-7.
This is his EI3 entry: Michal Biran . "Baraq Hajib". Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE, 2017 2:6-7.
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Michal Biran, 2016. "Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanid Circle of Musicians," in Bruno De Nicola and Charles Melville, eds. The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran.... more
Michal Biran, 2016. "Music in the Conquest of Baghdad: Safi al-Din Urmawi and the Ilkhanid Circle of Musicians," in Bruno De Nicola and Charles Melville, eds. The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran. Leiden: Brill, 131-154.
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Biran, Michal. "The Mental Maps of Mongol Central Asia as Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate," Journal of Asian History, Vol. 49, No. 1-2, Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views on Central Asia and Its Adjacent Regions... more
Biran, Michal. "The Mental Maps of Mongol Central Asia as Seen from the Mamluk Sultanate," Journal of Asian History, Vol. 49, No. 1-2, Chinese and Asian Geographical and Cartographical Views on Central Asia and Its Adjacent Regions (2015), pp. 31-51
This paper deals with mental maps of Mongol Central Asia as they were conceived in the Mamluk Sultanate. That is, it looks at the subjective spatial image of Central Asia under Mongol rule as viewed from Egypt and Syria in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, and presents this from two distinct perspectives: a biographical-scholarly perspective and a geographical perspective.
This paper deals with mental maps of Mongol Central Asia as they were conceived in the Mamluk Sultanate. That is, it looks at the subjective spatial image of Central Asia under Mongol rule as viewed from Egypt and Syria in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, and presents this from two distinct perspectives: a biographical-scholarly perspective and a geographical perspective.
Research Interests: Geography, Cultural Geography, Inner Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Mamluk Studies, and 15 moreHistory of Cartography, Islamic Studies, Egypt, History of the Mongol Empire, Mental Maps, Collective Memory, Syria, Spatiality (Cultural geography), Central Asian History (Area Studies), Central Asia, Images and history, Bukhara, Ulama and their impact, Hanafism, and Chaghadaid Khanate
Biran, M, " The Islamization of Hülegü: Imaginary Conversion in the Ilkhanate ", JRAS, Series 3, 26, 1-2 (2016), pp. 79–88 doi:10.1017/S1356186315000723
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Based on a large corpus of multi-lingual sources, this study aims to provide a preliminary analysis of the fate of captives in Mongol Eurasia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, both in the United Empire (1206-60) and in the four... more
Based on a large corpus of multi-lingual sources, this study aims to provide a preliminary analysis of the fate of captives in Mongol Eurasia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, both in the United Empire (1206-60) and in the four successor states centered in China, Iran, Central Asia and the Volga region. It seeks to explain who was taken captive, why and when? How were captives treated? How did captivity end? And what can be learnt from the captives' stories about Mongol society and social mobility under Mongol rule?
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Chinese Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, and 14 moreEurasian Nomads, Islamic Studies, Migration Studies, Islamic History, Central Asia, Cross-cultural studies (Culture), Chinese history (History), Ancient Trade & Commerce (Archaeology), Ancient Glass, Medieval Diplomacy, Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Al-Biruni, Kitans (Khitans, Qidan), and Qarakhanids
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Introduction to the volume Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors, edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran (Honolulu: Hawaii UP, 2015)
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9229-9780824839789.aspx
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9229-9780824839789.aspx
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Conference Program: Migrations in Mongol Eurasia: People, Ideas, Artifacts
for the full program, abstracts and details see
http://mongol.huji.ac.il/migrations-mongol-eurasia-december-18-20-2017
for the full program, abstracts and details see
http://mongol.huji.ac.il/migrations-mongol-eurasia-december-18-20-2017
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Globalization, Medieval History, Chinese Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, and 19 moreRefugee Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Migration, Iranian Studies, Mongolian Studies, World History, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Global History, Collective Memory, Migration Studies, Social History, Islamic History, Materiality (Anthropology), Central Asia, Black Death, Tribal studies, History of Sciences, and Medieval Asian Empires[mongol
The study of the Mongol Empire has made enormous strides in the past two decades, and its most notable impact is the shift of seeing the Empire not only in national or regional terms but from a holistic perspective, in its full Eurasian... more
The study of the Mongol Empire has made enormous strides in the past two decades, and its most notable impact is the shift of seeing the Empire not only in national or regional terms but from a holistic perspective, in its full Eurasian context. This focus, credited mostly to the works of Thomas T. Allsen, also means that the scholarly literature now gives more space to topics that interest world historians such as the cultural, economic, religious and artistic exchanges that prevailed in Mongol Eurasia, or the legacy that the Mongol Empire left for the early modern empires. Simultaneously, the Mongols' image begins to shift from the barbarian warriors obsessed with massacres and plunder, to the Mongols as active promoters of cross-cultural connections, who even brought about the transition from the medieval to the modern world. The paper reviews the major trends in the study of the Empire from world history perspective and argues that the nomadic civilization of the Mongols should be taken into account in world history surveys.
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In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural... more
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206–1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.
Available at
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/history/east-asian-history/cambridge-history-mongol-empire?localeText=GBR+United+Kingdom&locale=en_GB&query=&remember_me=on
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All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule ‘the entire world’, investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory. Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a... more
All major continental empires proclaimed their desire to rule ‘the entire world’,
investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory.
Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to
defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian
empires’ expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and
military considerations to changing composition of the imperial elites. Built around
a common set of questions, a team of leading specialists systematically compare a
broad set of Eurasian empires -from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han
China, via the Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans,
Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is a state-of-the
art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to
the early modern that discerns both commonalities and differences in the empires’
spatial trajectories.
investing considerable human and material resources in expanding their territory.
Each, however, eventually had to stop expansion and come to terms with a shift to
defensive strategy. This volume explores the factors that facilitated Eurasian
empires’ expansion and contraction: from ideology to ecology, economic and
military considerations to changing composition of the imperial elites. Built around
a common set of questions, a team of leading specialists systematically compare a
broad set of Eurasian empires -from Achaemenid Iran, the Romans, Qin and Han
China, via the Caliphate, the Byzantines and the Mongols to the Ottomans,
Safavids, Mughals, Russians, and Ming and Qing China. The result is a state-of-the
art analysis of the major imperial enterprises in Eurasian history from antiquity to
the early modern that discerns both commonalities and differences in the empires’
spatial trajectories.
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https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298750/along-the-silk-roads-in-mongol-eurasia During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending... more
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298750/along-the-silk-roads-in-mongol-eurasia
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations.
Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads.
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations.
Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads.
Research Interests: Military History, Intellectual History, Medieval History, Chinese Studies, Gender History, and 15 moreMobility/Mobilities, Medieval Studies, International Trade, Inner Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, World History, Eurasian Nomads, Silk Road Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, Social History, and Chinese history (History)
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real... more
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Page Numbers: 412
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: London: Palgrave Macmillan
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Page Numbers: 412
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: London: Palgrave Macmillan
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Michal Biran, Cengiz Han, tr. Ahmet Fethi Yildirim. Istanbul: VakifBank Kultur yayinlari, 2019.
This is the Turkish translation of Chinggis Khan 2007.
This is the Turkish translation of Chinggis Khan 2007.
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https://brill.com/abstract/journals/jesh/62/2-3/jesh.62.issue-2-3.xml The Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who... more
https://brill.com/abstract/journals/jesh/62/2-3/jesh.62.issue-2-3.xml
The Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who by the time of Chinggis Khan numbered less than a million nomads, were able to create and rule their huge empire was by fully mobilizing the resources—both human and material—from the regions under their control. This high measure of mobility fostered robust cross-cultural exchanges in various fields, resulting in a huge expansion of knowledge and connectivity, cultural relativism, and a common imperial culture—political, material, institutional—with regional variants. These developments set the stage for major transformations in world history. The various case studies in this double special issue- by Hodong Kim, Sheila Blair, Peter Jackson, Qiao Yang, Yashuhiro Yokkaichi, David Robinson and Michal Biran tackle various case-studies of mobility and transformation while looking at the Mongol Empire in Eurasian perspective, and highlighting the impact of the Mongols’ indigenous culture on the proto-global world of the 13th and 14th centuries.
The Mongol Empire is as an early example of the transformative role of mobility, celebrated in the contemporary social sciences. The only way in which the Mongols who by the time of Chinggis Khan numbered less than a million nomads, were able to create and rule their huge empire was by fully mobilizing the resources—both human and material—from the regions under their control. This high measure of mobility fostered robust cross-cultural exchanges in various fields, resulting in a huge expansion of knowledge and connectivity, cultural relativism, and a common imperial culture—political, material, institutional—with regional variants. These developments set the stage for major transformations in world history. The various case studies in this double special issue- by Hodong Kim, Sheila Blair, Peter Jackson, Qiao Yang, Yashuhiro Yokkaichi, David Robinson and Michal Biran tackle various case-studies of mobility and transformation while looking at the Mongol Empire in Eurasian perspective, and highlighting the impact of the Mongols’ indigenous culture on the proto-global world of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Michal Biran. Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia. 1997, X + 198pp, Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey . Kindle edition 2013.
https://www.amazon.com/Qaidu-Independent-Mongol-Central-Research/dp/1138984302
https://www.amazon.com/Qaidu-Independent-Mongol-Central-Research/dp/1138984302
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Michal Biran. The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. 2005, 2008 XVI + 279pp, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. This excpert includes ch.4: China... more
Michal Biran. The Qara Khitai Empire in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. 2005, 2008 XVI + 279pp, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
This excpert includes ch.4: China
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Qara-Khitai-Eurasian-History/dp/0521066026/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=
This excpert includes ch.4: China
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Qara-Khitai-Eurasian-History/dp/0521066026/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=
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Michal Biran. Chinggis Khan. 2007, x+182pp, One World Publications, Oxford, (in the series "The Makers of the Muslim World). Kindle edition 2012. This file lacks (very) few pages... more
Michal Biran. Chinggis Khan. 2007, x+182pp, One World Publications, Oxford, (in the series "The Makers of the Muslim World). Kindle edition 2012.
This file lacks (very) few pages
https://www.amazon.com/Chinggis-Khan-Selected-Readings-Makers-ebook/dp/B00C0TZQDK/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
This file lacks (very) few pages
https://www.amazon.com/Chinggis-Khan-Selected-Readings-Makers-ebook/dp/B00C0TZQDK/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. 2015. X+338 pp, Hawaii University Press ("New Perspectives on the Global Past" series), Honolulu.
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This is the program of the international conference "Forgotten Voices from Mongol Eurasia" that will take place at Ewha Womans University, Seoul on June 25-26, 2024. The conference aims to shed light on people, ideas and artifacts that... more
This is the program of the international conference "Forgotten Voices from Mongol Eurasia" that will take place at Ewha Womans University, Seoul on
June 25-26, 2024.
The conference aims to shed light on people, ideas and artifacts that have so far received less attention from historians or have been barely discovered, and yet can illuminate the economic and cultural exchange that took place under Mongol rule or the daily life of the Mongols and
their various subjects. By “Voices” we mean not only people (including diasporas, border communities, commercial or intellectual networks of various scales), but also cultural commodities (texts, images, paintings), as well as specific artifacts or trade goods (including plants, animals, slaves). We hope that such heretofore forgotten voices will enable us to get a “thicker description” of life under Mongol rule.
June 25-26, 2024.
The conference aims to shed light on people, ideas and artifacts that have so far received less attention from historians or have been barely discovered, and yet can illuminate the economic and cultural exchange that took place under Mongol rule or the daily life of the Mongols and
their various subjects. By “Voices” we mean not only people (including diasporas, border communities, commercial or intellectual networks of various scales), but also cultural commodities (texts, images, paintings), as well as specific artifacts or trade goods (including plants, animals, slaves). We hope that such heretofore forgotten voices will enable us to get a “thicker description” of life under Mongol rule.
Research Interests: Buddhism, Cultural History, Russian Studies, Art History, Medieval History, and 12 moreChinese Studies, Animal Studies, History of Science, Korean Studies, Islamic Studies, Yuan Dynasty, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, Social History, Central Asia, Ilkhanate, and Mongolian Archaeology
Mongol Zoominar Presents Book Launch From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia By Peter Jackson British Academy Friday, May 31, 1430 IST/ 1330 CET/ 730 EDT Discussants Beatrice F. Manz (Tufts University) Michele... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents
Book Launch
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
By
Peter Jackson
British Academy
Friday, May 31, 1430 IST/ 1330 CET/ 730 EDT
Discussants
Beatrice F. Manz (Tufts University)
Michele Bernardini (University of Naples "L'Orientale")
Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
Link
https://huji.zoom.us/j/83371077200?pwd=THUzT0phRkduc1BjdEJybDlBN0ZLUT09
Meeting ID: 833 7107 7200
Passcode: 375028
Book Launch
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
By
Peter Jackson
British Academy
Friday, May 31, 1430 IST/ 1330 CET/ 730 EDT
Discussants
Beatrice F. Manz (Tufts University)
Michele Bernardini (University of Naples "L'Orientale")
Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
Link
https://huji.zoom.us/j/83371077200?pwd=THUzT0phRkduc1BjdEJybDlBN0ZLUT09
Meeting ID: 833 7107 7200
Passcode: 375028
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Mongol Zoominar Presents From Steles to Sons-in-law: 'Kinship' as a Lens for Understanding the Mongol Empire With: Tomoyasu Iiyama (Waseda University) Ishayahu Landa (University of Bonn) Christopher Atwood (University of... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents
From Steles to Sons-in-law: 'Kinship' as a Lens for Understanding the Mongol Empire
With:
Tomoyasu Iiyama (Waseda University)
Ishayahu Landa (University of Bonn)
Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania)
Organizer and Chair: Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies)
Friday, February 23, 2024, 15:00 IST/ 8:00 EST/ 21:00 CST
Zoom link
https://huji.zoom.us/j/81052748228?pwd=eEdHZmxUS0JDSldjaFFBZ2pFbWhRZz09
Meeting ID: 810 5274 8228
Passcode: 951494
From Steles to Sons-in-law: 'Kinship' as a Lens for Understanding the Mongol Empire
With:
Tomoyasu Iiyama (Waseda University)
Ishayahu Landa (University of Bonn)
Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania)
Organizer and Chair: Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies)
Friday, February 23, 2024, 15:00 IST/ 8:00 EST/ 21:00 CST
Zoom link
https://huji.zoom.us/j/81052748228?pwd=eEdHZmxUS0JDSldjaFFBZ2pFbWhRZz09
Meeting ID: 810 5274 8228
Passcode: 951494
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The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2024-2025. The fellowships are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2024-2025. The fellowships are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.
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The Kitan Network Annual Symposium Online 2024 Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Waseda University Friday, February 2nd 2024 \Join Zoom Meeting... more
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium Online 2024
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Waseda University
Friday, February 2nd 2024
\Join Zoom Meeting
https://huji.zoom.us/j/89426085794?pwd=bVowNTkwZHZOTTdEZ1JuTHpINk5HUT09
Session 1: 1400-1500 IST (GMT+2); 2100-2200 JST (GMT+9)
The Kitan Power Structure in the Liao
Chair: Lance Pursey (Waseda University)
Adrien Dupuis (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL): Behind the Surnames: The Dual Structure of the Kitan Nobility and the Significance of the “Yelü” and “Xiao” Patronyms
Zachary Hershey (Kenyon College): Administrative Terminology of the Liao in Kitan Language Inscriptions
Session 2: 1515-1615 IST; 2215-2315 JST
Sources of the Kitan and the Qara-Khitai
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
András Róna-Tas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Materials for the Decipherment of Kitan
V. Belyaev and S. Sidorovich (Independent scholars): Numismatics and Sigillography of the Western Liao: Current State and Development Prospects
Session 3: 1630-1730 IST; 2330-0030 JST
Walls and Settlements on the Steppe
Chair: Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen)
Ruowei Yang (Hong Kong Shue Yan University): Settlement Towns Built on the Northeastern Steppe of Inner Mongolia in Kitan-Liao (907-1125): A Brief Fieldwork Report
Gideon Shelach-Lavi (HUJI): New Archaeological Insights on the Kitan/Liao Long-Wall in Northeastern Mongolia
For the Zoom link please email: [email protected]
Organizing Committee: Lance Pursey and Michal Biran
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Waseda University
Friday, February 2nd 2024
\Join Zoom Meeting
https://huji.zoom.us/j/89426085794?pwd=bVowNTkwZHZOTTdEZ1JuTHpINk5HUT09
Session 1: 1400-1500 IST (GMT+2); 2100-2200 JST (GMT+9)
The Kitan Power Structure in the Liao
Chair: Lance Pursey (Waseda University)
Adrien Dupuis (École Pratique des Hautes Études PSL): Behind the Surnames: The Dual Structure of the Kitan Nobility and the Significance of the “Yelü” and “Xiao” Patronyms
Zachary Hershey (Kenyon College): Administrative Terminology of the Liao in Kitan Language Inscriptions
Session 2: 1515-1615 IST; 2215-2315 JST
Sources of the Kitan and the Qara-Khitai
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
András Róna-Tas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Materials for the Decipherment of Kitan
V. Belyaev and S. Sidorovich (Independent scholars): Numismatics and Sigillography of the Western Liao: Current State and Development Prospects
Session 3: 1630-1730 IST; 2330-0030 JST
Walls and Settlements on the Steppe
Chair: Joshua Wright (University of Aberdeen)
Ruowei Yang (Hong Kong Shue Yan University): Settlement Towns Built on the Northeastern Steppe of Inner Mongolia in Kitan-Liao (907-1125): A Brief Fieldwork Report
Gideon Shelach-Lavi (HUJI): New Archaeological Insights on the Kitan/Liao Long-Wall in Northeastern Mongolia
For the Zoom link please email: [email protected]
Organizing Committee: Lance Pursey and Michal Biran
Research Interests:
Mongol Zoominar presents:
The Mongols and Venice,
with Nicola Di Cosmo and Lorenzo Pubblici
Organizer and chair: Simone Ruffini
Friday, January 12th, 2024, 1430 IST 1530 CET
The Mongols and Venice,
with Nicola Di Cosmo and Lorenzo Pubblici
Organizer and chair: Simone Ruffini
Friday, January 12th, 2024, 1430 IST 1530 CET
Research Interests:
We are pleased to invite you to our second Zoominar for 2023/2024. Our next event will take place on Friday December 15th, 14:30-16:00, Israel Time (CET 13:30-15:00). On: New Perspectives on Economy in Mongol Eurasia with: Matsui Dai... more
We are pleased to invite you to our second Zoominar for 2023/2024. Our next event will take place on Friday December 15th, 14:30-16:00, Israel Time (CET 13:30-15:00).
On: New Perspectives on Economy in Mongol Eurasia
with:
Matsui Dai (University of Osaka): Economic Life of the Old Uyghurs in Turfan and Dunhuang under Mongol Rule
Chunyuan Li (Xiamen University): Contextualizing Numbers: A Study on Grain Prices in Yuan China, 1260-1350
Organizer and Chair:
Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Link:
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/68301812602?pwd=dlZjNGtCZnlkT0F6LzhYRC91SEFGUT09
ID: 683 0181 2602
Passcode: 090862
On: New Perspectives on Economy in Mongol Eurasia
with:
Matsui Dai (University of Osaka): Economic Life of the Old Uyghurs in Turfan and Dunhuang under Mongol Rule
Chunyuan Li (Xiamen University): Contextualizing Numbers: A Study on Grain Prices in Yuan China, 1260-1350
Organizer and Chair:
Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Link:
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/68301812602?pwd=dlZjNGtCZnlkT0F6LzhYRC91SEFGUT09
ID: 683 0181 2602
Passcode: 090862
Research Interests:
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2024 Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Deadline: December 8th, 2023 The third Kitan Network annual symposium will be hosted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will... more
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2024
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Deadline: December 8th, 2023
The third Kitan Network annual symposium will be hosted by the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will take place on Friday 2 nd February 2024. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines.
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by Friday 8th December 2023.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday 15 th December 2023.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Khitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected].
Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY (Waseda University) and Michal BIRAN (The
Hebrew University).
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Deadline: December 8th, 2023
The third Kitan Network annual symposium will be hosted by the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will take place on Friday 2 nd February 2024. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines.
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by Friday 8th December 2023.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday 15 th December 2023.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Khitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected].
Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY (Waseda University) and Michal BIRAN (The
Hebrew University).
Research Interests:
We are pleased to invite you to our first Zoominar meeting for 2023-24, that was postponed due to the war in Israel. We will be holding a book launch event for “An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in... more
We are pleased to invite you to our first Zoominar meeting for 2023-24, that was postponed due to the war in Israel. We will be holding a book launch event for
“An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia” (UC Press, 2023)
By Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)
Date: Friday, November 10th 2023: 14:30 CET/15:30 IST/8:30 EDT
Speakers:
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldmisths, University of London and IAS Princeton)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Louise Marlow (Wellesley College)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
New Zoom link is on the poster
“An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia” (UC Press, 2023)
By Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)
Date: Friday, November 10th 2023: 14:30 CET/15:30 IST/8:30 EDT
Speakers:
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldmisths, University of London and IAS Princeton)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Louise Marlow (Wellesley College)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
New Zoom link is on the poster
Research Interests:
At its height the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting east, west, north, and south, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World. Mobilizing people, ideas and artifacts in an unprecedented scale, the... more
At its height the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting east, west, north, and south, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World. Mobilizing people, ideas and artifacts in an unprecedented scale, the Empire promoted cross-cultural contacts, triggered the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities, and opened a new chapter in world history.
While the study of the Mongol Empire has made tremendous strides in the last decades, enabling us to portray the contours of the Empire’s political history and the Chinggisid exchange, there are still many voices that are yet to be heard. These are mainly the voices of the common people (nomads, farmers, sailors, slaves, women, artisans..), lesser elites, or people living at the empire’s peripheries. New sources (e.g. inscriptions, manuscripts), innovative techniques (e.g. micro-archaeology, aDNA) as well as a fresh look on our sources or new combinations of them, can now allow us to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Mongols and the life under their rule.
Our conference aims to shed light on people, ideas and artifacts that have so far received less attention from historians or have been barely discovered, and yet can illuminate the economic and cultural exchange that took place under Mongol rule or the daily life of the Mongols and their various subjects. By “Voices” we mean not only people (including diasporas, border communities, commercial or intellectual networks of various scales), but also cultural commodities (texts, images, paintings), as well as specific artifacts or trade goods (including plants, animals, slaves). We hope that such heretofore forgotten voices will enable us to get a “thicker description” of life under Mongol rule.
We especially welcome papers dealing with (but not limited to):
Micro-history
Cultural biographies of objects or sites
Slaves and slave trade
Daily life in the Mongol Empire- archaeological, visual or literary perspectives
Migrant and border communities
We plan to publish a selected number of the papers in an edited volume.
Practical details:
The conference will be held on June 25-26, 2024 in the Department of History at Ewha Womans University, Seoul and hosted by the Ewha Frontier 10-10 Project “Research in Global History for Peaceful Coexistence.” The hosts will provide three-nights’ accommodation (June 24-26) near Ewha Womans University, one of the most beautiful campuses in South Korea located in central Seoul. We also hope to be able to offer partial or full refund of airfare travel (economy ticket) to some of the presenters. if you wish to be considered for funding, please state so when submitting the abstract.
We welcome proposals of panels and/or individual papers. Please send abstracts (up to 250 words) together with a short (maximum 1 page) CV for individual papers in one file. Panel proposals should also include an abstract of the panel’s theme (up to 250 words) as well as abstracts of each paper, and CVs of the organizer/s and each panelist, all in one file.
Abstracts and CVs should be sent to: [email protected] by December 10, 2023.
For question please contact [email protected] or Michal Biran at [email protected]
Presenters will be notified of acceptance no later than February 1, 2024.
While the study of the Mongol Empire has made tremendous strides in the last decades, enabling us to portray the contours of the Empire’s political history and the Chinggisid exchange, there are still many voices that are yet to be heard. These are mainly the voices of the common people (nomads, farmers, sailors, slaves, women, artisans..), lesser elites, or people living at the empire’s peripheries. New sources (e.g. inscriptions, manuscripts), innovative techniques (e.g. micro-archaeology, aDNA) as well as a fresh look on our sources or new combinations of them, can now allow us to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Mongols and the life under their rule.
Our conference aims to shed light on people, ideas and artifacts that have so far received less attention from historians or have been barely discovered, and yet can illuminate the economic and cultural exchange that took place under Mongol rule or the daily life of the Mongols and their various subjects. By “Voices” we mean not only people (including diasporas, border communities, commercial or intellectual networks of various scales), but also cultural commodities (texts, images, paintings), as well as specific artifacts or trade goods (including plants, animals, slaves). We hope that such heretofore forgotten voices will enable us to get a “thicker description” of life under Mongol rule.
We especially welcome papers dealing with (but not limited to):
Micro-history
Cultural biographies of objects or sites
Slaves and slave trade
Daily life in the Mongol Empire- archaeological, visual or literary perspectives
Migrant and border communities
We plan to publish a selected number of the papers in an edited volume.
Practical details:
The conference will be held on June 25-26, 2024 in the Department of History at Ewha Womans University, Seoul and hosted by the Ewha Frontier 10-10 Project “Research in Global History for Peaceful Coexistence.” The hosts will provide three-nights’ accommodation (June 24-26) near Ewha Womans University, one of the most beautiful campuses in South Korea located in central Seoul. We also hope to be able to offer partial or full refund of airfare travel (economy ticket) to some of the presenters. if you wish to be considered for funding, please state so when submitting the abstract.
We welcome proposals of panels and/or individual papers. Please send abstracts (up to 250 words) together with a short (maximum 1 page) CV for individual papers in one file. Panel proposals should also include an abstract of the panel’s theme (up to 250 words) as well as abstracts of each paper, and CVs of the organizer/s and each panelist, all in one file.
Abstracts and CVs should be sent to: [email protected] by December 10, 2023.
For question please contact [email protected] or Michal Biran at [email protected]
Presenters will be notified of acceptance no later than February 1, 2024.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Archaeology, Art History, Chinese Studies, Chinese Studies, and 15 moreKorean Studies, Korean Studies, Central Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies, History of Slavery, History of Slavery, World History, World History, Cross-Cultural Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, and Micro History
We are pleased to invite you to our first Zoominar meeting for 2023-24. We will be holding a book launch event for “An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia” (UC Press, 2023)... more
We are pleased to invite you to our first Zoominar meeting for 2023-24. We will be holding a book launch event for
“An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia” (UC Press, 2023)
By Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)
Date:
Friday, October 13th, 2023: 14:30 CET/15:30 IST/8:30 EDT
Speakers:
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldmisths, University of London)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Louise Marlow (Wellesley College)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
Link:
https://huji.zoom.us/j/86425026499?pwd=TlI1VTIvZHFOQ2krY2l4WFF3akVTUT09
Meeting ID: 864 2502 6499
Passcode: 914874
Looking forward to seeing you!
“An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia” (UC Press, 2023)
By Jonathan Brack (Northwestern University)
Date:
Friday, October 13th, 2023: 14:30 CET/15:30 IST/8:30 EDT
Speakers:
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldmisths, University of London)
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University)
Louise Marlow (Wellesley College)
Chair: Michal Biran (HUJI)
Link:
https://huji.zoom.us/j/86425026499?pwd=TlI1VTIvZHFOQ2krY2l4WFF3akVTUT09
Meeting ID: 864 2502 6499
Passcode: 914874
Looking forward to seeing you!
Research Interests:
With: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths University of London), Timothy May (University of North Georgia), and Dror Weil (Cambridge)
Time: Jun 25, 2021 02:30 PM IST (GMT+3)
Time: Jun 25, 2021 02:30 PM IST (GMT+3)
Research Interests:
The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Korean Studies. Candidates specializing in all research fields within Korean Studies are welcome to... more
The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Korean Studies. Candidates specializing in all research fields within Korean Studies are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to a specialization in the premodern era.
Research Interests:
Mongol Zoominar Presents: Ilkhanid Peripheries, Provinces and Dependencies Zara Pogossian (University of Florence), Sara Nur Yildiz (Berlin), and Edith Chen (Princeton and HU). Moderator: Jonathan Brack (BGU) Friday, March 12th,... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents:
Ilkhanid Peripheries, Provinces and Dependencies
Zara Pogossian (University of Florence), Sara Nur Yildiz (Berlin), and Edith Chen (Princeton and HU).
Moderator: Jonathan Brack (BGU)
Friday, March 12th, 14:30 (Israel time).
For details and link, please contact Jonathan Brack( [email protected]) or Wonhee Cho ([email protected])
The Mongol Zoominar, organized by Michal Biran (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (BGU) and Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies) and operating since April 2020 aims to bring together scholars from around the world who are interested in the Mongol Empire in an informal, informative, and friendly setting. We discuss work-in-progress, topics of common interest, and new directions in the field. Hosted and supported by the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asia Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Zoominar meets on zoom once a month, on Fridays afternoon (Israeli time)
The Zoominar welcomes new participants and presenters. If you would like to join our meeting (and future ones) and/or present a paper, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
Your email should include a brief introduction and the reasons for your interest in joining.
Ilkhanid Peripheries, Provinces and Dependencies
Zara Pogossian (University of Florence), Sara Nur Yildiz (Berlin), and Edith Chen (Princeton and HU).
Moderator: Jonathan Brack (BGU)
Friday, March 12th, 14:30 (Israel time).
For details and link, please contact Jonathan Brack( [email protected]) or Wonhee Cho ([email protected])
The Mongol Zoominar, organized by Michal Biran (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (BGU) and Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies) and operating since April 2020 aims to bring together scholars from around the world who are interested in the Mongol Empire in an informal, informative, and friendly setting. We discuss work-in-progress, topics of common interest, and new directions in the field. Hosted and supported by the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asia Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Zoominar meets on zoom once a month, on Fridays afternoon (Israeli time)
The Zoominar welcomes new participants and presenters. If you would like to join our meeting (and future ones) and/or present a paper, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
Your email should include a brief introduction and the reasons for your interest in joining.
Research Interests:
The Faculty of the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for the Khyentse Lectureship/Professorship in Buddhist Studies, a tenure-track position (open rank) in Buddhist Studies, with a preference for... more
The Faculty of the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for the Khyentse Lectureship/Professorship in Buddhist Studies, a tenure-track position (open rank) in Buddhist Studies, with a preference for Tibetan Buddhism.(in or outside Tibet namely also in Mongolia, China etc). Completed applications must be submitted by April 6, 2021
Research Interests:
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program of the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that focuses on various aspects of the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone. It addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states, as well as between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program's courses are taught in English. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are of the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,
Research Interests: Japanese Studies, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Japanese Language And Culture, Indian studies, and 11 moreSouth Asian Studies, Iranian Archaeology, Korean Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, Chinese archaeology, Chinese history (History), and Mongolian history
The Mongol Zoominar presents: A Roundtable: Environmental Histories of the Mongols with Philip Slavin (University of Stirling), Kenneth Linden (Indiana University), John Lee (Durham University) Friday, January 22th, 14:30 Israeli... more
The Mongol Zoominar presents:
A Roundtable:
Environmental Histories of the Mongols
with
Philip Slavin (University of Stirling), Kenneth Linden (Indiana University), John Lee
(Durham University)
Friday, January 22th, 14:30 Israeli time
For further details and the Zoominar’s link, contact:
Wonhee Cho [email protected]
The Mongol Zoominar, organized by Michal Biran (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (BGU) and Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean
Studies) and operating since April 2020 aims to bring together scholars from around the world who are interested in
the Mongol Empire in an informal, informative, and friendly setting. We discuss work-in-progress, topics of common interest,
and new directions in the field. Hosted and supported by the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asia Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the zoominar meets on zoom once a month, on Fridays afternoon (Israeli time)
The Zoominar welcomes new participants and presenters. If you would like to join this meeting (and future ones)
and/or present a paper, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
A Roundtable:
Environmental Histories of the Mongols
with
Philip Slavin (University of Stirling), Kenneth Linden (Indiana University), John Lee
(Durham University)
Friday, January 22th, 14:30 Israeli time
For further details and the Zoominar’s link, contact:
Wonhee Cho [email protected]
The Mongol Zoominar, organized by Michal Biran (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (BGU) and Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean
Studies) and operating since April 2020 aims to bring together scholars from around the world who are interested in
the Mongol Empire in an informal, informative, and friendly setting. We discuss work-in-progress, topics of common interest,
and new directions in the field. Hosted and supported by the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asia Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the zoominar meets on zoom once a month, on Fridays afternoon (Israeli time)
The Zoominar welcomes new participants and presenters. If you would like to join this meeting (and future ones)
and/or present a paper, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
Research Interests:
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China,... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
Research Interests:
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China,... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
Research Interests: Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, Japanese History, Central Asian Studies, and 10 moreMongolian Studies, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Asian History, East Asian Studies, Central Asia, Chinese archaeology, Contemporary China, Chinese history (History), Mongolian Archaeology, and Asian Art
invitation for participants and presenters
Research Interests:
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program's courses are taught in English. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
DEADLINE: March 31, 2020
https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/news/asian-sphere-trans-cultural-flows-program
DEADLINE: March 31, 2020
https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/news/asian-sphere-trans-cultural-flows-program
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Economics, and 15 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Social Sciences, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, South Asian Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, Social History, Central Asia, and Korean popular culture
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China,... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
Fellowships are granted for one academic year or one semester. The starting date of the visit should not be later than four years after receipt of the doctoral degree; the fellow must hold a valid doctoral degree no later than October 2020.
The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend (tax free) of $1,800, paid in Israeli currency and linked to the representative rate of exchange. Fellows are entitled to one airline ticket (economy class, up to $1,500) for a direct flight from their hometown to Israel and back. The fellows are expected to teach one semester-long course at the Hebrew University (for additional payment, according to the Hebrew University regulations). The ability to teach a course in Hebrew is welcome, but is not a prerequisite for attaining the fellowship. The fellows will also actively participate in the life and activities of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and will present their research at the seminar of the Department of Asian Studies, and possibly at other relevant forums. Any work outside the Hebrew University would be allowed only after specific approval by the Frieberg Center. Applicants should submit one hard copy and an electronic copy—in one file—of their application to the address below, no later than March 8, 2020.
The application must include:
1. CV
2. Research plan (up to 5 pages)
3. A sample of applicant’s publications (if relevant)
4. Two letters of recommendation
The applicant should indicate the names and positions of the recommenders, but the letters of recommendation should be sent by the recommenders directly to the email address below.
Please send materials to email: [email protected]
For questions and further info please contact [email protected]
To read more on the Department of Asian Studies: http://en.asia.huji.ac.il/; On the Frieberg Center https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/
Fellowships are granted for one academic year or one semester. The starting date of the visit should not be later than four years after receipt of the doctoral degree; the fellow must hold a valid doctoral degree no later than October 2020.
The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend (tax free) of $1,800, paid in Israeli currency and linked to the representative rate of exchange. Fellows are entitled to one airline ticket (economy class, up to $1,500) for a direct flight from their hometown to Israel and back. The fellows are expected to teach one semester-long course at the Hebrew University (for additional payment, according to the Hebrew University regulations). The ability to teach a course in Hebrew is welcome, but is not a prerequisite for attaining the fellowship. The fellows will also actively participate in the life and activities of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and will present their research at the seminar of the Department of Asian Studies, and possibly at other relevant forums. Any work outside the Hebrew University would be allowed only after specific approval by the Frieberg Center. Applicants should submit one hard copy and an electronic copy—in one file—of their application to the address below, no later than March 8, 2020.
The application must include:
1. CV
2. Research plan (up to 5 pages)
3. A sample of applicant’s publications (if relevant)
4. Two letters of recommendation
The applicant should indicate the names and positions of the recommenders, but the letters of recommendation should be sent by the recommenders directly to the email address below.
Please send materials to email: [email protected]
For questions and further info please contact [email protected]
To read more on the Department of Asian Studies: http://en.asia.huji.ac.il/; On the Frieberg Center https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/
Research Interests:
Workshop Program: Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 15, 2019
Key note speakers: Pamela K. Crossley and Nancy S. Steinhardt
Key note speakers: Pamela K. Crossley and Nancy S. Steinhardt
Research Interests: Military History, Cultural History, Economic History, Asian Studies, Art History, and 11 moreChinese Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Identity (Culture), Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Social History, and Migrations
CFP: Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era The Hebrew University of Jerusalem International Workshop, Sunday, December 15, 2019 Conveners: Michal Biran, Vered Shurany, and Jonathan Brack We are happy to... more
CFP: Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
International Workshop, Sunday, December 15, 2019
Conveners: Michal Biran, Vered Shurany, and Jonathan Brack
We are happy to announce the convening of a one-day workshop that will be held in conjunction with the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere (Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019). The workshop will be held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on December 15, 2019.
Papers might include the multifaceted and complex array of cross-regional Eurasian mobtilities, migrations, and transfers (human, material, cultural, scientific, artistic, textual and more); diplomatic, economic, and military relations, rivalries and comparisons; geopolitical and environmental transitions under Mongol rule in a comparative view; societies on the fringes of the empire; religious and cultural connectivities and tensions arising from Mongol rule; and more. We especially welcome studies focusing on one text, object or media as an arena of cross-cultural connections as well as papers dealing with specific cross-Asian networks (commercial, religious, scientific).
Practical details:
We will be accepting abstracts of entire panels or individual papers (up to 250 words); along with a short (maximum 1 page) CV by March 11, 2019.
Abstracts and CVs should be sent to:
Ms. Vered Shurany; Dr. Jonathan Brack; and Prof. Michal Biran at
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected].
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
International Workshop, Sunday, December 15, 2019
Conveners: Michal Biran, Vered Shurany, and Jonathan Brack
We are happy to announce the convening of a one-day workshop that will be held in conjunction with the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere (Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019). The workshop will be held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on December 15, 2019.
Papers might include the multifaceted and complex array of cross-regional Eurasian mobtilities, migrations, and transfers (human, material, cultural, scientific, artistic, textual and more); diplomatic, economic, and military relations, rivalries and comparisons; geopolitical and environmental transitions under Mongol rule in a comparative view; societies on the fringes of the empire; religious and cultural connectivities and tensions arising from Mongol rule; and more. We especially welcome studies focusing on one text, object or media as an arena of cross-cultural connections as well as papers dealing with specific cross-Asian networks (commercial, religious, scientific).
Practical details:
We will be accepting abstracts of entire panels or individual papers (up to 250 words); along with a short (maximum 1 page) CV by March 11, 2019.
Abstracts and CVs should be sent to:
Ms. Vered Shurany; Dr. Jonathan Brack; and Prof. Michal Biran at
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected].
Research Interests: Cultural History, Economic History, Asian Studies, Art History, Southeast Asian Studies, and 14 moreChinese Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Comparative History, History of Science, Central Asian Studies, Indian Ocean History, Silk Road Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, Social History, Nomadism, and Religious Studies
We are delighted to announce that the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere Program will take place on Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019, at the University of Haifa, Israel. The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the... more
We are delighted to announce that the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere Program will take place on Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019, at the University of Haifa, Israel.
The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the continent of Asia as a concept and as a reality. It aims at exploring and analyzing the numerous interconnections that have tied its people, cities, and nations. Our fifth conference is devoted to the complex relations between West Asia, also known as the Middle East, and other parts of the continent in the past and present. We are interested in particular in the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of the relations, their determinants, undercurrents, and trajectories, as well as in other external players in the region.
The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the continent of Asia as a concept and as a reality. It aims at exploring and analyzing the numerous interconnections that have tied its people, cities, and nations. Our fifth conference is devoted to the complex relations between West Asia, also known as the Middle East, and other parts of the continent in the past and present. We are interested in particular in the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of the relations, their determinants, undercurrents, and trajectories, as well as in other external players in the region.
Research Interests: Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Archaeology, International Relations, Political Economy, and 14 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Israel Studies, Indian studies, Strategic Studies, Political Science, Energy, Southeast Asia, Chinese Politics, China studies, Central Asia, Conferences, and Obor
Research Interests: Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Sinology, Mongolian Studies, China, and 9 moreHistory of the Mongol Empire, China studies, Chinese archaeology, Contemporary China, Chinese history (History), Late Imperial-Modern China, Graduate Programs, Classical Chinese Intellectual History, and Chinese Anthropology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is happy to host the 14th biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel. The conference will take place on May 23-24, 2018 @ Beit Maiersdorf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus campus.... more
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is happy to host the 14th biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel.
The conference will take place on May 23-24, 2018 @ Beit Maiersdorf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus campus.
We welcome you to take part in the largest event of this kind – with over 200 participants from all over the world, and 49 panels covering multiple fields – from China’s beauty industry to Jews in Central Asia, from Esoteric Buddhism to North Korean foreign policy from migration in Southeast Asia to the legacy of the Mongol Empire, from Japanese warrior culture to post-colonial India, contemporary China and much more… See http://asi18-huji.co.il/en/
The conference will take place on May 23-24, 2018 @ Beit Maiersdorf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus campus.
We welcome you to take part in the largest event of this kind – with over 200 participants from all over the world, and 49 panels covering multiple fields – from China’s beauty industry to Jews in Central Asia, from Esoteric Buddhism to North Korean foreign policy from migration in Southeast Asia to the legacy of the Mongol Empire, from Japanese warrior culture to post-colonial India, contemporary China and much more… See http://asi18-huji.co.il/en/
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, International Relations, and 23 moreEducation, Media Studies, Jewish Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Literature, Animal Studies, Indian studies, Environmental Studies, South Asian Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Korean Studies, Politics, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Energy and Environment, Migration Studies, Central Asia, Documentary Film, and Food Studies
A Humboldt Foundation International Workshop
Comparative Studies in Imperial History
in memory of S. N. Eisenstadt
Empires and Religions
Freie Universität Berlin, March 1-3, 2018
Comparative Studies in Imperial History
in memory of S. N. Eisenstadt
Empires and Religions
Freie Universität Berlin, March 1-3, 2018
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, Buddhism, European History, Ottoman History, and 14 moreMedieval History, Assyriology, History of Religion, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, Iranian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, Religious Conversion, Mughal History, Islamic Studies, Empires, History of the Mongol Empire, Ancient Near East, and Byzantium
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2018-2019. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the
year 2018-2019. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences
specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
Fellowships are granted for one academic year or one term The starting date of the visit should not be later than four years after receipt of the Doctoral Degree; the fellow must hold a valid Doctoral Degree no later than October 2018.
The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend (tax free) of $1,800, paid in Israeli NIS
and linked to the representative rate of exchange. Fellows are entitled to one airline ticket (economy class, up to 1500$) for a direct flight from their hometown to Israel and back.
The fellows are expected to teach one semesterial course at the Hebrew University (for additional payment, according to the Hebrew University regulations). The ability to teach a course in Hebrew is welcome, but is not a prerequisite for attaining the fellowship.
The fellows will also actively participate in the life and activities of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and will present their research at the seminar of the Department of Asian Studies, and possibly at other relevant forums. Any work outside the Hebrew University would be allowed only after specific approval by the Frieberg Center.
Applicants should submit one hard copy and an electronic copy- in one file- of their
application to the address below, no later than March 22, 2018. The application must include:
1. CV
2. Research plan (up to 5 pages)
3. A sample of applicant's publications (if relevant)
4. Two letters of recommendation
The applicant should indicate the names and positions of the recommenders, but the letters of recommendation should be sent by the recommenders directly to the email address below.
Please send materials to:
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
Rm 6300, The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
email: [email protected]
year 2018-2019. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences
specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia.
Fellowships are granted for one academic year or one term The starting date of the visit should not be later than four years after receipt of the Doctoral Degree; the fellow must hold a valid Doctoral Degree no later than October 2018.
The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend (tax free) of $1,800, paid in Israeli NIS
and linked to the representative rate of exchange. Fellows are entitled to one airline ticket (economy class, up to 1500$) for a direct flight from their hometown to Israel and back.
The fellows are expected to teach one semesterial course at the Hebrew University (for additional payment, according to the Hebrew University regulations). The ability to teach a course in Hebrew is welcome, but is not a prerequisite for attaining the fellowship.
The fellows will also actively participate in the life and activities of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and will present their research at the seminar of the Department of Asian Studies, and possibly at other relevant forums. Any work outside the Hebrew University would be allowed only after specific approval by the Frieberg Center.
Applicants should submit one hard copy and an electronic copy- in one file- of their
application to the address below, no later than March 22, 2018. The application must include:
1. CV
2. Research plan (up to 5 pages)
3. A sample of applicant's publications (if relevant)
4. Two letters of recommendation
The applicant should indicate the names and positions of the recommenders, but the letters of recommendation should be sent by the recommenders directly to the email address below.
Please send materials to:
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
Rm 6300, The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, Korean Studies, Japanese History, Mongolian Studies, and 9 moreEast Asian Studies, Chinese Art, East Asian Archaeology, History of the Mongol Empire, East Asian Cinema, Chinese history (History), East Asian History, Korean popular culture, and East Asian Art history
Conference Program: Migrations in Mongol Eurasia: People, Ideas, Artifacts
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem December 18-20 2017
see http://mongol.huji.ac.il/migrations-mongol-eurasia-december-18-20-2017
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem December 18-20 2017
see http://mongol.huji.ac.il/migrations-mongol-eurasia-december-18-20-2017
Research Interests: Medieval History, Chinese Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Refugee Studies, Inner Asian Studies, and 18 moreHistory of Science, Migration, Iranian Studies, Mongolian Studies, World History, Silk Road Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Global History, Collective Memory, Migration Studies, Materiality (Anthropology), Central Asia, Chinese history (History), Social Mobility, Black Death, Tribal studies, and Ethnicity and National Identity
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, with a specialization in Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World (ca.... more
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, with a specialization in Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World (ca. 1000-1700). The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree, and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2024.
Job requirements:
The position is open to highly qualified scholars with expertise in the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history of the Islamicate world in the relevant historical periods. Candidates are expected to have high research proficiency in the Arabic language. Knowledge of additional languages, such as Persian and Ottoman Turkish, is an advantage.
Responsibilities include the teaching of required and elective courses in the candidate’s field(s) of specialization (at the B.A. and M.A. degree levels). The candidate should also be able to develop undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with broad themes in the region and era, possibly relating to modern times. Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original research at the highest academic level, demonstrate academic leadership, compete for Israeli and international research grants, organize relevant conferences, and should display an ability to work cooperatively with colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and the University at large. Where pertinent and in accordance with academic needs, a joint departmental appointment or teaching sharing arrangement may be considered.
The Hebrew University’s primary language of instruction is Hebrew. However, the possibility of teaching one or more advanced courses in English may be entertained. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be expected to sufficiently master the language during the first three years following their appointment.
Qualified candidates will be invited for a campus visit, which will include a job talk, an interview and meetings with department members.
For further details, please contact the Head of the Department, Dr. Julia Rubanovich [email protected]
https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#
Additional information can also be found on the departmental website.
https://en.islamic-mideast.huji.ac.il/
Job requirements:
The position is open to highly qualified scholars with expertise in the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history of the Islamicate world in the relevant historical periods. Candidates are expected to have high research proficiency in the Arabic language. Knowledge of additional languages, such as Persian and Ottoman Turkish, is an advantage.
Responsibilities include the teaching of required and elective courses in the candidate’s field(s) of specialization (at the B.A. and M.A. degree levels). The candidate should also be able to develop undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with broad themes in the region and era, possibly relating to modern times. Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original research at the highest academic level, demonstrate academic leadership, compete for Israeli and international research grants, organize relevant conferences, and should display an ability to work cooperatively with colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and the University at large. Where pertinent and in accordance with academic needs, a joint departmental appointment or teaching sharing arrangement may be considered.
The Hebrew University’s primary language of instruction is Hebrew. However, the possibility of teaching one or more advanced courses in English may be entertained. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be expected to sufficiently master the language during the first three years following their appointment.
Qualified candidates will be invited for a campus visit, which will include a job talk, an interview and meetings with department members.
For further details, please contact the Head of the Department, Dr. Julia Rubanovich [email protected]
https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#
Additional information can also be found on the departmental website.
https://en.islamic-mideast.huji.ac.il/
Research Interests: Cultural History, Economic History, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Mamluk Studies, and 10 moreAyyubid history, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Early modern Ottoman History, Social History, Fatimids, Medieval Islamic History, Abbasids (Islamic History), Seljuq history, and Early Ottoman Times
Conference program: The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled: "Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clan, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia" The workshop includes many excellent presenters and two... more
Conference program:
The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled:
"Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clan, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia"
The workshop includes many excellent presenters and two keynotes:
Tuesday, June 13th, 18:00:
Alan Strathern (Oxford), “Sacred Kingship and Collective Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective”
Wednesday, June 14th, 17:00:
Azfar Moin (University of Texas at Austin), “The Islamization of Mongol Sovereignty: Long Term Patterns and Collective Sovereignty”
Organizing Committee: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Michael Shenkar
The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled:
"Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clan, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia"
The workshop includes many excellent presenters and two keynotes:
Tuesday, June 13th, 18:00:
Alan Strathern (Oxford), “Sacred Kingship and Collective Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective”
Wednesday, June 14th, 17:00:
Azfar Moin (University of Texas at Austin), “The Islamization of Mongol Sovereignty: Long Term Patterns and Collective Sovereignty”
Organizing Committee: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Michael Shenkar
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies, and 15 moreMongolian Studies, Mamluk Studies, Mughal History, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, History of Political Science, Central Eurasian Studies, Timurids (Islamic History), Nomadism, Religious Studies, Ancient Iran, Scythians, Sacred and divine kingship, Islamization, and Turkic & Altaic Studies
Mongol Zoominar Presents Alcohol and Botany: Cross-cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia with Hyunhee Park, City University of New York, Soju, Korea, and Cross-cultural Exchange in the Mongol Period Chunxiao Chen, Chinese Academy of... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents
Alcohol and Botany: Cross-cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia
with
Hyunhee Park, City University of New York, Soju, Korea, and Cross-cultural Exchange in the Mongol Period
Chunxiao Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Chinese Plants in the Āsār va Aḥyā’, Exploring Rashīd al-Dīn’s Chinese Knowledge and Agricultural Practice
Organizer and Chair: Qiao Yang, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
June 23, 14:30-16:00 Israel time
Zoom link:
https://huji.zoom.us/j/85431211884?pwd=TjlNUXRNcDQ2ZVh5VEdwZ1lGRk1Udz09
Alcohol and Botany: Cross-cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia
with
Hyunhee Park, City University of New York, Soju, Korea, and Cross-cultural Exchange in the Mongol Period
Chunxiao Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Chinese Plants in the Āsār va Aḥyā’, Exploring Rashīd al-Dīn’s Chinese Knowledge and Agricultural Practice
Organizer and Chair: Qiao Yang, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
June 23, 14:30-16:00 Israel time
Zoom link:
https://huji.zoom.us/j/85431211884?pwd=TjlNUXRNcDQ2ZVh5VEdwZ1lGRk1Udz09
Research Interests:
Mongol Zoominar Presents Mongol Maritime Networks and Shipwrecks April 28th, 2023, 16:30-18:00 Israel time with John Chaffee (Binghamton University, NY), "Song Defectors and Early Yuan Maritime Affairs" Amanda Respess (Ohio State... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents
Mongol Maritime Networks and Shipwrecks
April 28th, 2023, 16:30-18:00 Israel time
with
John Chaffee (Binghamton University, NY), "Song Defectors and Early Yuan Maritime Affairs"
Amanda Respess (Ohio State University), "Yuan Shipwrecks: Tracing the Wreckage of Mongol Maritime Networks"
Hannah Barker (Arizona State University), "Was There a Mongol Diaspora in the Mediterranean?"
Organizer and Chair: Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://huji.zoom.us/j/84005627749?pwd=MDE4Y2FTdWZQcENTL1lCQXAwTzAyZz09
Mongol Maritime Networks and Shipwrecks
April 28th, 2023, 16:30-18:00 Israel time
with
John Chaffee (Binghamton University, NY), "Song Defectors and Early Yuan Maritime Affairs"
Amanda Respess (Ohio State University), "Yuan Shipwrecks: Tracing the Wreckage of Mongol Maritime Networks"
Hannah Barker (Arizona State University), "Was There a Mongol Diaspora in the Mediterranean?"
Organizer and Chair: Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://huji.zoom.us/j/84005627749?pwd=MDE4Y2FTdWZQcENTL1lCQXAwTzAyZz09
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The Mongol Zoominar Presents: New Directions in Mongol Art and Material Culture with: Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center): “Sign and Design: Corporate Branding in the Long Thirteenth Century” Yong Cho (University of California,... more
The Mongol Zoominar Presents:
New Directions in Mongol Art and Material Culture
with:
Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center): “Sign and Design:
Corporate Branding in the Long Thirteenth Century”
Yong Cho (University of California, Riverside): “Artisan, Workshop, and
Taxonomy of Art in the Yuan Court”
Organizer and Chair: Wonhee Cho
Friday, January 20th 2023, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET
https://huji.zoom.us/j/87992111867?pwd=UEZRTWYvSG0rRXIxNXh0MGdPeklrdz09
New Directions in Mongol Art and Material Culture
with:
Ittai Weinryb (Bard Graduate Center): “Sign and Design:
Corporate Branding in the Long Thirteenth Century”
Yong Cho (University of California, Riverside): “Artisan, Workshop, and
Taxonomy of Art in the Yuan Court”
Organizer and Chair: Wonhee Cho
Friday, January 20th 2023, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET
https://huji.zoom.us/j/87992111867?pwd=UEZRTWYvSG0rRXIxNXh0MGdPeklrdz09
Research Interests:
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2023-2024. The fellowships are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in... more
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2023-2024. The fellowships are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.
Research Interests:
Kitan Network Annual Symposium Online 2023 At Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Friday, January 13th, 2023 New York 07:00 - 11:00; Jerusalem 14:00 - 18:00; Tokyo 20:00 - 00:00 Session 1: New interpretations of... more
Kitan Network Annual Symposium Online 2023
At Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Friday, January 13th, 2023
New York 07:00 - 11:00; Jerusalem 14:00 - 18:00; Tokyo 20:00 - 00:00
Session 1: New interpretations of Kitan and Liao culture
New York 07:00 - 08:30; Jerusalem 14:00 - 15:30; Tokyo 20:00 - 21:30
Introductory Remarks and Chair: Lance PURSEY, Waseda University
Wedding Ceremony of A Liao Princess: New interpretations of the corridor murals of Kulun No. 1 Liao Tomb and the identity of its occupants
Hang LIN, Hangzhou Normal University
Kitan and Tangut Buddhism in Northern China, 11-12th centuries
Kirill SOLONIN, Renmin University of China and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The Newly Integrated Empire: Liao Taizong’s Rule over the Middle Kingdom
Soojung HAN, Southwestern University
Session 2: Textual and literary legacies of the Liao
New York 08:45 - 09:45; Jerusalem 15:45 - 16:45; Tokyo 21:45 - 22:45
Chair: Tomoyasu IIYAMA, Waseda University
Forging Liao History: Yao Shilin 姚士粦 (1559-1644) and An Account of Burned Pepper (Fenjiao lu 焚椒錄)
Olivia MILBURN, Hong Kong University
The Afterlife of Kitan Liao Literati Community Under Jurchen Rule
Lili XIA, Princeton University
Session 3: Turkic threads in the history of the Kitan and Qay
New York 10:00 - 11:00; Jerusalem 17:00 - 18:00; Tokyo 23:00 - 00:00
Chair: Michal BIRAN, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inner Asia through the Perspective of Hu Qiao’s 胡嶠 Xianluji 陷虜記
Hayrettin İhsan ERKOÇ, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Naming People: Qai Identity in the Liao
Zachary HERSHEY, Kenyon College
To register either please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/mZfaeGqFWL4ZaESJ8
or email "REGISTER" to [email protected]. Please include your name, affiliation and career stage in the email.
Registered persons will get a Zoom link on January 13th.
The Organizing Committee: Michal Biran, Tomoyasu Iiyama, Lance Pursey, Gideon Shelach-Lavi
At Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Friday, January 13th, 2023
New York 07:00 - 11:00; Jerusalem 14:00 - 18:00; Tokyo 20:00 - 00:00
Session 1: New interpretations of Kitan and Liao culture
New York 07:00 - 08:30; Jerusalem 14:00 - 15:30; Tokyo 20:00 - 21:30
Introductory Remarks and Chair: Lance PURSEY, Waseda University
Wedding Ceremony of A Liao Princess: New interpretations of the corridor murals of Kulun No. 1 Liao Tomb and the identity of its occupants
Hang LIN, Hangzhou Normal University
Kitan and Tangut Buddhism in Northern China, 11-12th centuries
Kirill SOLONIN, Renmin University of China and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The Newly Integrated Empire: Liao Taizong’s Rule over the Middle Kingdom
Soojung HAN, Southwestern University
Session 2: Textual and literary legacies of the Liao
New York 08:45 - 09:45; Jerusalem 15:45 - 16:45; Tokyo 21:45 - 22:45
Chair: Tomoyasu IIYAMA, Waseda University
Forging Liao History: Yao Shilin 姚士粦 (1559-1644) and An Account of Burned Pepper (Fenjiao lu 焚椒錄)
Olivia MILBURN, Hong Kong University
The Afterlife of Kitan Liao Literati Community Under Jurchen Rule
Lili XIA, Princeton University
Session 3: Turkic threads in the history of the Kitan and Qay
New York 10:00 - 11:00; Jerusalem 17:00 - 18:00; Tokyo 23:00 - 00:00
Chair: Michal BIRAN, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inner Asia through the Perspective of Hu Qiao’s 胡嶠 Xianluji 陷虜記
Hayrettin İhsan ERKOÇ, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Naming People: Qai Identity in the Liao
Zachary HERSHEY, Kenyon College
To register either please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/mZfaeGqFWL4ZaESJ8
or email "REGISTER" to [email protected]. Please include your name, affiliation and career stage in the email.
Registered persons will get a Zoom link on January 13th.
The Organizing Committee: Michal Biran, Tomoyasu Iiyama, Lance Pursey, Gideon Shelach-Lavi
Research Interests:
The Mongol Zoominar Presents Early History of the Black Death in Central Asia Friday, November 25th, 14:30 IST (13:30 CET) Dr Philip Slavin (University of Stirling) Dr Maria Spyrou (University of Tübingen) Chair: Jonathan Brack... more
The Mongol Zoominar Presents
Early History of the Black
Death in Central Asia
Friday, November 25th, 14:30 IST
(13:30 CET)
Dr Philip Slavin (University of Stirling)
Dr Maria Spyrou (University of
Tübingen)
Chair: Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev)
Early History of the Black
Death in Central Asia
Friday, November 25th, 14:30 IST
(13:30 CET)
Dr Philip Slavin (University of Stirling)
Dr Maria Spyrou (University of
Tübingen)
Chair: Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev)
Research Interests:
Call for Papers: The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clans, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev,... more
Call for Papers:
The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled
Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clans, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, June 13-15, 2023
The conference will be the first academic forum to systematically examine the connections between joint sovereignty and sacred kingship. Several leading experts already confirmed their participation, but we are also looking for additional papers concerned especially- but not limited to- the cases of the Uighur Empire, the Khazars, the Tang Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and Muscovy.
Submission of Abstracts:
Please send abstracts- up to 250 words- and short CV to [email protected] until November 1, 2022.
Funding:
The conference will cover accommodation (up to 4 nights in Jerusalem) and-hopefully- depending on existing funding- at least part of the travel expenses.
For queries please contact Michal Biran at [email protected] or Jonathan Brack at [email protected]
The Organizing committee: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Michael Shenkar
The Humanities and Social Sciences Fund Conference titled
Collective Sovereignty, Royal Clans, and Sacred Kingship in pre-Modern Central Eurasia
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, June 13-15, 2023
The conference will be the first academic forum to systematically examine the connections between joint sovereignty and sacred kingship. Several leading experts already confirmed their participation, but we are also looking for additional papers concerned especially- but not limited to- the cases of the Uighur Empire, the Khazars, the Tang Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and Muscovy.
Submission of Abstracts:
Please send abstracts- up to 250 words- and short CV to [email protected] until November 1, 2022.
Funding:
The conference will cover accommodation (up to 4 nights in Jerusalem) and-hopefully- depending on existing funding- at least part of the travel expenses.
For queries please contact Michal Biran at [email protected] or Jonathan Brack at [email protected]
The Organizing committee: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Michael Shenkar
Research Interests: Russian Studies, Chinese Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Political Science, Gender, and 12 moreTang Dynasty, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Central Eurasian Studies, Qing Dynasty (Ch'ing Dynasty), Central Asia, Theories of Sovereignty, Nomadism, Khazar archaeology and history, Sacred and divine kingship, History of Muscovy, and Turkic & Altaic Studies
Mongol Zoominar Presents: Book Launch: Nomads of the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Friday, October 7th 2022, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET/8:30 ET with: Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University) Evrim... more
Mongol Zoominar Presents: Book Launch: Nomads of the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Friday, October 7th 2022, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET/8:30 ET
with:
Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University)
Evrim Binbaş (Bonn University)
Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Response: Beatrice Manz (Tufts University)
Chair: Reuven Amitai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
https://zoom.us/j/95892872186?pwd=aVBKNmgwM2FTMThDTGVyaE5kZG9kUT09
Meeting ID: 958 9287 2186
Passcode: 952064
Friday, October 7th 2022, 15:30 IST/14:30 CET/8:30 ET
with:
Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University)
Evrim Binbaş (Bonn University)
Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Response: Beatrice Manz (Tufts University)
Chair: Reuven Amitai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
https://zoom.us/j/95892872186?pwd=aVBKNmgwM2FTMThDTGVyaE5kZG9kUT09
Meeting ID: 958 9287 2186
Passcode: 952064
Research Interests:
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2023 Hosted by Waseda University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Call for Papers After the success of the Kitan Studies Symposium online 2022 hosted by the University of Aberdeen, the... more
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2023
Hosted by Waseda University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Call for Papers
After the success of the Kitan Studies Symposium online 2022 hosted by the University of Aberdeen, the second symposium will be jointly hosted by Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will take place on Friday, January 13th, 2023 on Zoom. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines.
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by October 1st, 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by November 1st, 2022.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Khitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected].
Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY and Tomoyasu IIYAMA (Waseda University) Michal BIRAN and Gideon SHELACH-LAVI (The Hebrew University).
Hosted by Waseda University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Call for Papers
After the success of the Kitan Studies Symposium online 2022 hosted by the University of Aberdeen, the second symposium will be jointly hosted by Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will take place on Friday, January 13th, 2023 on Zoom. The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines.
Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by October 1st, 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by November 1st, 2022.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Khitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected].
Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY and Tomoyasu IIYAMA (Waseda University) Michal BIRAN and Gideon SHELACH-LAVI (The Hebrew University).
Research Interests:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites interested candidates to submit applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in the HUJI Faculty of Humanities, with a specialization in Islam in South Asia, and in the Islamicate World... more
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites interested candidates to submit applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in the HUJI Faculty of Humanities, with a specialization in Islam in South Asia, and in the Islamicate World 1000-1700.
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree; and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2023.
For details: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#’ ;
In addition,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a half-time position in the teaching of Sanskrit in the Department of Asian Studies.
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Master’s or Ph.D. degree and possess teaching experience.
For details: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/Sanskrit-Eng (Sanskrit)
For queries and more details, please contact : Islam in South Asia: Michal biran at [email protected]
Islamicate World 1000-1700: Julia Rubanovich at [email protected]
Sanskrit: Yigal Bronner at [email protected].
DEADLINE FOR APLICATIONS: September 11, 2022
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree; and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2023.
For details: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#’ ;
In addition,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a half-time position in the teaching of Sanskrit in the Department of Asian Studies.
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Master’s or Ph.D. degree and possess teaching experience.
For details: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/Sanskrit-Eng (Sanskrit)
For queries and more details, please contact : Islam in South Asia: Michal biran at [email protected]
Islamicate World 1000-1700: Julia Rubanovich at [email protected]
Sanskrit: Yigal Bronner at [email protected].
DEADLINE FOR APLICATIONS: September 11, 2022
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The Department of Asian Studies is happy to announce scholarships for MA students in Chinese Studies (all areas of and subjects within this broadly defined field are eligible). The scholarship is in the sum of 50,000 NIS per year, for two... more
The Department of Asian Studies is happy to announce scholarships for MA students in Chinese Studies (all areas of and subjects within this broadly defined field are eligible). The scholarship is in the sum of 50,000 NIS per year, for two years pending on the successfully passing the requirements of the first year and on our ability to receive funding for the continuation of this program. Conditions and Eligibility: The scholarship is open for students who will be registered to an MA program at the Hebrew University in the academic year of 2022-2023. Preference will be given to first year MA students in the Department of Asian Studies, but candidates from other departments and those that already started their MA can apply. The scholarship will be awarded according to academic merits. To receive the scholarship for the second year (pending our ability to get funding for it) the students will need to submit a progress report, to have been accepted to the research oriented (with a thesis) MA program, and have an MA advisor who will approve their progress and the subject of their MA thesis. Candidates should send, in one file, the following documents to the secretary of the Department of Asian Studies
Research Interests: Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Studies, Chinese Art, Jin Dynasty (1115-1134), Yuan Dynasty, and 10 moreModern Chinese History, Chinese Politics, China studies, Chinese archaeology, Contemporary China, Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Chinese art history, Chinese Economy, Education in China, and Chinese Political Thought
The Mongol Zoominar Presents: Buddhist and Daoist Networks and Material Culture Under Mongol Rule Friday, May 13th 2022, 15:30 IST (8:30 EDT/ET; 14:30 CET) With: Jinping Wang (NUS) and Susan Huang (Rice University) Organizer and... more
The Mongol Zoominar Presents:
Buddhist and Daoist Networks and Material Culture Under Mongol Rule
Friday, May 13th 2022, 15:30 IST (8:30 EDT/ET; 14:30 CET)
With:
Jinping Wang (NUS) and Susan Huang (Rice University)
Organizer and Moderator: Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Buddhist and Daoist Networks and Material Culture Under Mongol Rule
Friday, May 13th 2022, 15:30 IST (8:30 EDT/ET; 14:30 CET)
With:
Jinping Wang (NUS) and Susan Huang (Rice University)
Organizer and Moderator: Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Research Interests:
The Mongol Zoominar Presents: Rashid al-Din: New Perspectives, Unanswered Questions Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 IST With: Francesco Calzolaio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)... more
The Mongol Zoominar Presents:
Rashid al-Din: New Perspectives, Unanswered Questions
Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 IST
With:
Francesco Calzolaio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Golriz Farshi (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Michal Biran, (The Hebrew University)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Rashid al-Din: New Perspectives, Unanswered Questions
Friday, April 8th 2022, 15:30 IST
With:
Francesco Calzolaio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Golriz Farshi (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Michal Biran, (The Hebrew University)
For details and link:
[email protected]; [email protected]
Research Interests: Chinese Studies, History of Medicine, Historiography, Inner Asian Studies, History of Science, and 11 moreIranian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Jewish History, Islamic Studies, Knowledge Transfer, History of the Mongol Empire, Islamic History, Islamic Historiography, Rashid al-Din, China-Iran relations, and Ilkhanids
The Mongol Zoominar presents: Daily Life in the Mongol Empire with Susanne Reichert (University of Michigan) "A Day at Karakorum: The City and Its People" Alicia Ventresca Miller (University of Michigan) "Life in the Northern... more
The Mongol Zoominar presents:
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
with
Susanne Reichert (University of Michigan)
"A Day at Karakorum: The City and Its People"
Alicia Ventresca Miller (University of Michigan)
"Life in the Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire"
Organizer and Moderator: Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Friday, February 18, 2022, 15:30 (IST time, GMT+2)
For Details and link:
Jonathan Brack: [email protected]
Wonhee Cho: [email protected]
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
with
Susanne Reichert (University of Michigan)
"A Day at Karakorum: The City and Its People"
Alicia Ventresca Miller (University of Michigan)
"Life in the Northern Realms of the Mongol Empire"
Organizer and Moderator: Qiao Yang (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Friday, February 18, 2022, 15:30 (IST time, GMT+2)
For Details and link:
Jonathan Brack: [email protected]
Wonhee Cho: [email protected]
Research Interests:
The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China
Gideon Shelach-Lavi (HUJI)
Friday, April 23, 2021 1430 Israeli time (summer!)
Gideon Shelach-Lavi (HUJI)
Friday, April 23, 2021 1430 Israeli time (summer!)
Research Interests:
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, funded by the Humanities Fund and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year + full tuition for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Art History,
Research Interests: History, Geography, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Archaeology, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Southeast Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Korean Studies, Political Science, Indonesian Studies, East Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asian Studies, China, Japan, Scholarships for Master and Phd Degree, and Archeology
Research Interests: History, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and 16 moreEthnography, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, Immigration, Indonesian Studies, South Asia, Jewish History, Southeast Asia, East Asian Studies, Indonesia, Philippines, Minority Studies, Hong Kong, Burma Studies, Modern Jewish History, and Jewish Cultural Studies
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real... more
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24363-0#toc
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24363-0#toc
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Research Interests: History, Zoology, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, and 15 moreArchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Animal Studies, World History, East Asian Studies, Food and Nutrition, Global History, Cultural Anthropology, Animals in Culture, Prehistory, East Asian History, and Anthopology
Biran, Michal. Review of “The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources Edited and Translated by Christopher Pratt Atwood, with Lynn Struve (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2021), Journal of Chinese History 6, no. 2 (2022):... more
Biran, Michal. Review of “The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources Edited and Translated by Christopher Pratt Atwood, with Lynn Struve (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2021), Journal of Chinese History 6, no. 2 (2022): 365–367
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
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Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Harvard Historical Studies 158. 8 halftones, 1 map. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780674026568 (hbk.). $49.95. Margaret Meserve's... more
Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Harvard Historical Studies 158. 8 halftones, 1 map. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780674026568 (hbk.). $49.95. Margaret Meserve's book is a work of impressive erudition and ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... XV; Paris, 1995), p. 17.15. -20-. emperor/of the world, Munku Qa'an. ... 20, Vardan Arewelcʿi, The Historical Compilation of Vardan Arewelcʿi, trans. by Robert W. Thomson, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43 (1989), 217, 218, 220, and... more
... XV; Paris, 1995), p. 17.15. -20-. emperor/of the world, Munku Qa'an. ... 20, Vardan Arewelcʿi, The Historical Compilation of Vardan Arewelcʿi, trans. by Robert W. Thomson, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43 (1989), 217, 218, 220, and 221. 21, Juvaynī/Qazvīnī, vol. ...
Research Interests:
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2023 Hosted by Waseda University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Call for Papers After the success of the Kitan Studies Symposium online 2022 hosted by the University of Aberdeen, the... more
The Kitan Network Annual Symposium (online) 2023 Hosted by Waseda University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Call for Papers After the success of the Kitan Studies Symposium online 2022 hosted by the University of Aberdeen, the second symposium will be jointly hosted by Waseda University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will take place on Friday, January 13th, 2023 on Zoom.
The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by October 1st, 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by November 1st, 2022.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Kitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected]. Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY and Tomoyasu IIYAMA (Waseda University) Michal BIRAN and Gideon SHELACH-LAVI (The Hebrew University).
The symposium aims to bring together scholars working on Kitan and/or Liao-related topics from across the world and disciplines. Interested scholars are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in English and a short bio to [email protected] by October 1st, 2022.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by November 1st, 2022.
If you are not interested in presenting a paper but are interested in receiving more information about the symposium and Kitan-related issues, namely want to join the Kitan network, please send an email with the subject subscribe to the same address [email protected]. Any inquiries can also be sent to the email address above.
The Organizing committee: Lance PURSEY and Tomoyasu IIYAMA (Waseda University) Michal BIRAN and Gideon SHELACH-LAVI (The Hebrew University).
Research Interests:
The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Korean Studies. Candidates specializing in all research fields within Korean Studies are welcome to... more
The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Korean Studies. Candidates specializing in all research fields within Korean Studies are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to a specialization in history (broadly defined).
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree, and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2023.
Job requirements:
Responsibilities include the teaching of required and elective courses in the candidate’s field(s) of specialization (at the B.A. and M.A. degree levels). Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original research at the highest academic level, organize conferences, demonstrate academic leadership, compete for Israeli and international research grants, and should display an ability to work cooperatively with colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and the university at large. Where pertinent and in accordance with inter-departmental needs, a joint departmental appointment or teaching sharing arrangement may be considered.
The Hebrew University’s primary language of instruction is Hebrew. However, the possibility of teaching one or more advanced courses in English may be entertained. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be encouraged to sufficiently master the language during the initial years following their appointment.
Qualified candidates will be invited for a campus visit, which will include a job talk, an interview and meetings with department members.
For further details, please contact the Head of the Department, Prof. Yigal Bronner: [email protected]
Additional information can also be found on the departmental website: https://en.asia.huji.ac.il/?fbclid=IwAR1LOBCJ_9ZnL7j2rGDfTBell3uxHlezhg86lwJlsyxbBJdr9FpKNuAYVvc
The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree, and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2023.
Job requirements:
Responsibilities include the teaching of required and elective courses in the candidate’s field(s) of specialization (at the B.A. and M.A. degree levels). Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original research at the highest academic level, organize conferences, demonstrate academic leadership, compete for Israeli and international research grants, and should display an ability to work cooperatively with colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities and the university at large. Where pertinent and in accordance with inter-departmental needs, a joint departmental appointment or teaching sharing arrangement may be considered.
The Hebrew University’s primary language of instruction is Hebrew. However, the possibility of teaching one or more advanced courses in English may be entertained. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be encouraged to sufficiently master the language during the initial years following their appointment.
Qualified candidates will be invited for a campus visit, which will include a job talk, an interview and meetings with department members.
For further details, please contact the Head of the Department, Prof. Yigal Bronner: [email protected]
Additional information can also be found on the departmental website: https://en.asia.huji.ac.il/?fbclid=IwAR1LOBCJ_9ZnL7j2rGDfTBell3uxHlezhg86lwJlsyxbBJdr9FpKNuAYVvc
Research Interests:
International conference to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), between 12 to 15 June. The conference is held under the auspices of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Israel Academy for Sciences and... more
International conference to be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), between 12 to 15 June.
The conference is held under the auspices of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
Organizing committee: Michael Shenkar (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University), Michael Biran (HUJI) and Reuven Amitai (HUJI)
The conference is held under the auspices of the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
Organizing committee: Michael Shenkar (HUJI), Jonathan Brack (Ben-Gurion University), Michael Biran (HUJI) and Reuven Amitai (HUJI)