International Conference: "Mobility and Transformations: Economic and Cultural Exchange in Mongol Eurasia"

Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2013

Conference: June 29-July 1, 2014   |   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The conference will examine how various forms of mobility – of people, ideas and artifacts – were instrumental in creating economic social, cultural and intellectual exchanges in the realm ruled by the Mongol empire and its successor states (and beyond) in the 13th and 14th centuries, and what was the impact of these movements. Culture is meant here in a broad definition, including also reference to religious and artistic and exchanges.

The conference also aims to reconstruct and characterize commercial, religious and intellectual/scientific networks that operated in the Empire on a local, regional, and continental scale.

Papers, for instance, can also deal with a certain migrant groups, a cultural biography, the study of a text or artifact, or larger questions of an aspect of mobility that led to meaningful transformation. Papers dealing with the Mongol state in Central Asia (the Chaghadaid Khanate) or with the impact of Mongolian culture on the empire’s subjects and/or neighbors are especially welcome.

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