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Members
Board of Directors
| Name | Specialization | Research within the Cluster |
|---|---|---|
| Birgit Kellner | Tibetan and Buddhist Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Philosophical discourse, debate narratives and religious identification in late medieval South Asia (ca.7th to 13th c. CE) |
| Tijana Krstić
| Ottoman Studies | Case Study: Political and Religious Imagination of the Ottoman Slavs in the Confessional Age Node 3: Identites and Religions Case Study: Entangled Histories of Community- and Confession-Building in the Early Modern Ottoman period |
| Melanie Malzahn | Linguistics | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Entangled Literacies and Narrative Performance in Ancient Eurasia |
| Walter Pohl | Comparative Medieval History | Case Study: Empires and the Eurasian Steppe: Shifting Borderlands Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Emergence of New Strategies of Identification in the Christianisation of Europe Case Study: Dealing with Diversity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe Case Study: Resilient Identities and Distinctions in Eurasian comparison |
| Claudia Rapp | Byzantine Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: the Outside Perspective Case Study: Orthodox Christianity as a Conduit for the Dissemination and Adaptation of Religious Texts across Linguistic Traditions |
| Robert Rollinger | Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies | Case Study: Reconsidering the borderlands of the Achaemenid Persian empire Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Ancient Near Eastern Mental Maps, Greek Geographies, and the Conceptualisation of Afro-Eurasia |
| Oliver Schmitt | Eastern European History | Case Study: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century) Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Bridging Two Worlds. Multilayered Spatial Analysis of the Population in Western Asia Minor and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period. Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeast Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries |
Scientific Project Manager
Key Researchers
| Name | Specialization | Research within the Cluster |
|---|---|---|
| Grigor Boykov | Case Stude: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century) Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Bridging Two Worlds. Multilayered Spatial Analysis of the Population in Western Asia Minor and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period | |
| Jeanine Dagyeli | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Printing Knowledge, Circulating Ideas: Making Modernities in Early 20th Century Vernacular Newspapers from Central Asia | |
| Bruno De Nicola | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: From Samarkand to Bengal: Entangled Scribal Histories in Pre-modern Central Asia | |
| Jan Hennings | Case Study: Diplomacy Within and Between Empires: Russian-Ottoman Entanglements in the Age of Peter the Great | |
| Pascale Hugon | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy from India to Tibet: the Agency of Change | |
| Christopher V. Jones | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Dabanniepanjing 大般涅槃經: a lengthy fifth-century Chinese Buddhist | |
| Michael Jursa | Case Study: Silver Circulation from Anatolia across Mesopotamia into Central Asia and China from the 2nd Millennium BCE until about 200 CE: Structures and Agents | |
| Erich Kistler | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal | |
| Yavuz Köse | Social, economic and consumer history of the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye | Case Study: Nature, Environments and Societies in Ottoman and Turkish sources Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Entangled Scripts, Languages, and Literatures: The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitharist Congregation in Vienna |
| Naoise Mac Sweeney | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Claiming the Classical | |
| Irene Madreiter | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Fictionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of "Oriental" Religions in Ancient Western Sources | |
| Nina Mirnig | Case Study: Indic transregional practices of power and religion in frontier regions Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Trans-Himalayan Corridors as a Cultural Bridge between the Indo- and Sinosphere Case Study: Entangled Scribal Histories: Kathmandu Valley as a Transregional Hub for Manuscript Production and Trade Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: External religious signs and their use in the construction and politics of religious identity | |
| Wolfgang Mueller | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia | |
| Lukas Nickel | Case Study: Metropolitan hotspots of inter-imperial communication: Material evidence from China Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburgs and Asia: Projections of China in the 18th century | |
| Bernhard Palme | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Communication in multilingual empires - the case of Egypt | |
| István Perczel | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Ancient Christian Communities in South India - Manuscripts and Inscriptions | |
| Konrad Petrovsky | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeastern Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries' | |
| Johannes Preiser-Kapeller | Case Study: Climate and socio-economic change between the global and the local in the longue durée | |
| Robyn Dora Radway | Case Study: EurAsian Central Europe - between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires | |
| Jim Rheingans | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Constructing religious identities in the Tibetosphere: monasticism, yogic cultures, and institutional networks (late 14th–to early 17th century CE) | |
| Pavlína Rychterová | Case Study: The Idea of Empire and the Slavs, 860-1989 Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Multilingualism and Cultural Translation in Central and Eastern Europe 1300-1700 Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Religious identifications in Christian Europe and in Islamic countries Case Study: The True Believer - Dynamics of Religious Identification in Central/Eastern Europe, 14th-18th century | |
| Paolo Sartori | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to teh Present | |
| Juliane Schiel | Case Study: Through the Lens of Coercion, Reassessing Medieval Labour and Power Relations | |
| Florian Schwarz | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cultural Brokerage in Multilingual Societies: Entangled Biographies of Persianate Muslim Dragoman-Diplomats (19th/early 20th Centuries) | |
| Katalin Szende | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cities as Multi-lingual Communities: from Small Towns to Imperial Capitals | |
| Ulrike Tanzer | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan | |
| Daniel Ziemann | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Migration and competing power structures in the Eurasian Early Middle Ages Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Cross-reading Narratives of Origins in early Medieval Eurasia |
Ordinary Members
| Name | Specialization | Research within the Cluster |
|---|---|---|
| Viola Allegranzi | Case Study: A carved history. Reappraising material culture from early Islamic Iran | |
| Sebastian Fink | ||
| Grigory Kessel | ||
| Patrick McAlister | ||
| Jan Odstrčilík | ||
| Ovidiu Olar | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe | |
| Flaminia Pischedda | Early China | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Scribal Culture and Literary forms of Arguments in Early Chinese Technical Manuscripts |
| Florian Posselt | Case Study: The Origin of the Division into Continents | |
| Marion Rastelli | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Anantānandagiri’s Śaṅkaravijaya: or, How to Deal with Religious Plurality Case Study: dvayamantra, taking refuge, branding, ūrdhvapuṇḍras. On a “Śrīvaiṣṇava” section in the Padmapurāṇa Uttarakhaṇḍa | |
| Akane Saito | ||
| Robert Steele | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Culture and Cultural Politics in Pahlavi Iran |
Affiliated Members
| Name | Specialization | Research within the Cluster |
|---|---|---|
| Constanza Cordoni | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Tünde Fegyvári-Komori | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: A Network of Consumption: The Distribution of Oriental Decorative Ceramics in Hungary and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period | |
| Hannes Fellner | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions TWG5: Manuscript Studies in a Eurasian Context | |
| Marco Ferrante | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| János Galamb | ||
| Ephrem Aboud Ishac | ||
| Yue Ji | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The Tangut manuscripts of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā | |
| Mariya Kiprovska | Case Study: The Role of the Frontier Elites in the Ottoman State-Building Processes, Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries | |
| Calahan Morse | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Charles Shaw | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: When Mukhamed Became Misha: Central Asia in World War II | |
| Kristina Stöckl | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russia's global traditionalism and the heritage of Neo-Byzantinism: Uses of the past in contemporary Russian identity constructions | |
| Kata Tóth | Case Study: Des Carpates traversées aux Carpates vécues. A History of the Southern and Eastern Carpathians from the 15th to the 17th Century | |
| Sandra Wabnitz | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples (4th-9th c.) | |
| Michaela Wiesinger | ||
| Carsten L. Wilke | ||
| Jack Wilson | Case Study: The Golden Horde’s First ‘Time of Troubles,’: Political, Demographic and Environmental Crisis in the Jochid Ulus after the ‘Second Mongol Invasions’ of Hungary and Poland, 1280-1310 | |
| Patrick Zeitlhuber | ||
| Guglielmo Zucconi | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The production of encyclopaedic texts in neo-Chinggisid Central Asia (1500-1747) |
Scientific Advisory Board
Coordinators
| Name | Membership | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Rita Maria Garstenauer | Project Manager | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Anastasia Theologou | Project Manager | Central European University |
| Astrid Rief | Project Manager | University of Innsbruck |
| Jeanette Kilicci | Project and Website Manager | University of Vienna |