Sunday, June 29, 2014
10:00-10:15 Welcome: Michal Linial, Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies / Reuven Amitai, Dean, Faculty of Humanities

10:15-11:45 Modes of Migrations
Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Discussant: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Nikolay Kradin (Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok): Movement of Peoples, Empires, Technologies in the Mongol Empire: A View from the Far East
Stefan Kamola (Princeton University): The Probable Course of an Improbable Life: Migration, Rebellion, and Rashīd al-Dīn
David Robinson (Colgate University): Migration and Memory

12:15-14:00 Religious Exchange
Chair: Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX)
Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)
Jonathan Brack (University of Michigan): Sufi Ritual and the Mongols: the Sama’ in Ilkhanid Iran
Wonhee Cho (Yale University): The Mongol Rule of Taoists and Buddhists in Southern China: A Comparative Review
Charles Manson (EPHE Paris): Warrior Emperor and Ecclesiastic Thaumaturge: Relations between Möngke Qan and Karma Pakshi
Roman Hatuala (Independent Scholar): Latin Sources on Competing Catholic and Muslim Proselytizing Activity among the Golden Horde's Nomads in the First Half of the 14th Century

15:30-17:30 Rulers and Ruled in Transition: the United Empire and China
Chair: Liu Xiao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)
Miklós Sárközy (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London): The Dīwān-i Qā’imiyyāt–Aspects of Mongol-Nizārī Contacts in the Light of a Newly Discovered Literary Source
Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University): A Discussion before the Mongolian Campaign to the Volga Area and Eastern Europe 1235
Geoffrey Humble (University of Leeds & The Hebrew University): Centre, Periphery, Politics and Authority: Seeking Non-Chinggisid Court Networks in the Early Empire
Christopher Atwood (Indiana University Bloomington): Qubilai Qa’an’s Three Confucian Crises

18:30 Reception at IIAS lobby and greetings by Prof. Menachem Ben-Sasson, President of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Poster Session: Mobility and Transformations (during evening reception)

Monday, June 30, 2014

09:30-11:00 Law and Institutions
Chair: David Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Discussant: Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)
Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch): Törü: Ancient Turkic Law ‘Privatized’ by Chinggis Khan and his Descendants
István Vásáry (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest): A Multi-Cultural Institution of Mongol Eurasia: the Chancellery of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanid Iran
Stephen G. Haw (Independent Scholar): The Semu ren in the Yuan Empire – Who Were They?

11:30-13:30 Artistic Media on the Move
Chair: Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Queens College, City University of New York)
Discussant: Sheila Blair (Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University)
Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh): Draping a Body, Magnifying a Space: Textiles as Political Legitimacy and Cultural Identity in Mongol West Asia
Eiren Shea (University of Pennsylvania): Khitan and Uighur Sources of Yuan Court Dress
Jonathan Bloom (Boston College & Virginia Commonwealth University): The Role of Paper in the Arts of the Mongols
Roxann Prazniak (University of Oregon): Princess Sengge Ragi’s Historic Gathering: Thoughts on Art and the Mongol Khanates

14:30-16:30 The Mongol State in Central Asia in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University)
Discussant: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Peter Jackson (The British Academy): The Islamization of the Chaghadaids in Comparative Perspective
Sheila Blair (Boston College/ Virginia Commonwealth University): The Mongol Muslim Mausoleum - in Iran, Central Asia and China
Qiu Yihao (Fudan University, Shanghai): The Western Branch of the Chaghadaid Ulus Relating to the Eastern Frontier of Ilkhanate: a Comparative Study of an Inner-Mongol Conflict
Beatrice F. Manz (Tufts University): The Memory of the Mongols in Central Asia and the Islamic World 1300-1800

17:00-19:00 Economic Exchanges
Chair: Roman Pochekaev (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch)
Discussant: Peter Jackson (The British Academy)
Yasuhiro Yokkaichi (Waseda University & Keio University, Japan): Fars and Two Iraqs under Mongol Rule: Kish Merchants’ Trade Network in the Indian Ocean
Sussanne Reichert (University of Bonn): Karakorum as a Manufacturing City – Cultural Ties Evidenced by the Archaeological Record
Alexander Pachkalov (Financial University, Moscow): Numismatics as a Source for History of Golden Horde Cities
Lawrence Langer (University of Connecticut): Rus’ and the Economic World of the Mongol Empire

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

09:30-11:00 Science, Wisdom and Knowledge Transfer
Chair: Christopher Atwood (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Discussant: Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
George Lane (SOAS, University of London): The Chinggisids and their Intellectual Jousting Tournaments
Yoichi Isahaya (University of Tokyo/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science): Cross-Cultural Dialogue between a Chinese Sage and Muslim Polymath: Chinese Calendar in the Īlkhānīd Zīj as the Embodiment of the Astronomical Dialogue
Qiao Yang (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Like Stars in the Sky: Dynamic Networks of Astronomers in Mongol Eurasia

11:30-13:00 The Mongols and Maritime Asia
Chair: Valerie Hansen (Yale University)
Discussant: Morris Rossabi (Columbia University & Queens College, City University of New York)
Cecilia Levin (Harvard University): The Great Wave: The Influence of the Mongol Empire on Javanese Art
Ethan Segal (Michigan State University): Yuan Dynasty Policies and Their Impact on Early Medieval Japan
Francesca Fiaschetti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Mobility, Tributes and the Foundations of Qubilai’s Diplomacy - The Annam Example

13:00-13:30 General Discussion and Concluding Remarks