INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

MONGOL WARFARE BETWEEN STEPPE AND SOWN: MILITARY, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, 25-26 May 2017

Wep-page: http://mongol-warfare.cloudvps.bg/  

PROGRAMME

Day 1 (25 May)

17:30 Opening
17:45 – 19:00 Keynote lecture and discussion: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Chaghadaid Army in Comparative Framework

Day 2 (26 May)

Panel 1: MILITARY CULTURE OF THE MONGOL WORLD EMPIRE

Chair: Alexander Nikolov (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)

09:00 – 09:20 Mirko Sardelić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts/ ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions) – Emotional warfare in the 1241/42 Mongol campaign: accounts of Roger of Apulia and Thomas the Archdeacon

09:20 – 09:40 Qiao Yang (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Stars and the World Conquerors: The Role of Astrologers in Mongol Warfare

09:40 – 10:00 Szilvia Kovács (Turkological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged) – Rubruck’s Account on the Mongol Warfare

10:00 – 10:20 Konstatin Golev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”/Comenius University in Bratislava) – The Down of a World Empire: Culture Shock of a New Military Culture

10:20 – 10:50 Discussion

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break

Panel 2: THE JOCHID’S REALM:

A MONGOL KHANATE ON THE EDGE OF EUROPE

Chair: Alexei Kalionski (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)

11:10 – 11:30 Alexander Uzelac (Institute of History, Belgrade) – The Great War in the Pontic Steppes (1297-1300)

11:30 – 11:50 Marie Favereau (Oxford University) – The Golden Horde Economic Warfare

11:50 – 12:10 Discussion

12:10 – 14:00 Lunch

Panel 3: THE MONGOLS AND THE NEAR EAST

Chair: Pavel Pavlovich (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)

14:00 – 14:20 Sara Nur Yıldız (Reseasrch Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University) – Mongol Rule in Anatolia in the Light of the Ilkhanid-Mamluk Conflict, 1260-1277

14:20 – 14:40 Jonathan Brack (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Avenging Karbala in Mamluk Damascus? ‘Alid Loyalism in the Mongol Conquest of Syria (1299-1300)

14:40 – 15:00 Discussion

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break

Panel 4: THE MONGOL WARFARE IN THE HEART OF ASIA

Chair: Konstatin Golev (Sofia University /Comenius University in Bratislava)

15:20 – 15:40 – Yihao Qiu (Fudan University, Shanghai) – Conflict between Qaidu and Yuan Dynasty from the Perspective of Mamluk Sultanate

15:40 – 16:00 Márton Vér (Turkological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged) – The secret path. Documentary sources and the postal routes of the Mongol Empire in Central Asia

16:00 – 16:20 Discussion

16:20 – 16:40 Coffee Break

Panel 5: CHALLENGES FOR THE MONGOL MILITARY ART IN THE FAR EAST

Chair: Yihao Qiu (Fudan University, Shanghai)

16:40 – 17:00 – Francesca Fiaschetti (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Learning from the Enemy: Mongol Warfare in Southeast Asia

17:00 – 17:20 Vered Shurany (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – From Conquest to Collapse: Reexamining Biographies of Yuan Commanders

17:20 – 17:40 Ning Ya (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – The Cuman-Kipchak Warriors in the Thirteenth Century Hungary and Yuan China

17:40 – 18:00 Discussion

18:00 Closing