Mongols, Chinese and Europe: Contacts and Interactions

Department of Medieval Studies
Central European University
Nádor utca 91051 Budapest

Type: Workshop 

                                                                                                                                             Audience: Open to the Public

Speaker: 

Balázs Nagy  József Laszlovszky

                      Organizer: 

Balázs Nagy

                                                              Building: 

Nador u. 9, Monument Building

Room: 

201

                                                          

Moderator: József Laszlovszky

13:00-13:30: Konstantin Golev (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia), Witch-Hunt in the Court of the Great Khan (Magic, Superstition and their Political Usage in the Mongol Empire during the Thirteenth Century)

13:30-14:00: Dorottya Uhrin (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Monstrous Humans in the Mongolian Empire: Franciscan Accounts on the Mongolian Tribes

14:00-14:30: Stephen Pow (Central European University, Budapest), Comparing and Contrasting the Fortifications and Defensive Strategies in China and Europe during the Thirteenth-Century Mongol Invasions

14:30-14:45: Coffe & Tea

Moderator: Balázs Nagy

14:45-15:15: Liao Jingjing (Beijing Normal University, Beijing), The Research of Taiyuanyin and the Northern Nomads in Tang Dynasty

15:15-15:45: Tünde Komori (Central European University and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Prestige Object or Coffee Cup: Problems of Identifying and Dating Chinese Porcelain Unearthed in Buda

15:45-16:15: Ning Ya (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), The Memory of Mongol-Yuan domination in Twentieth Century Chinese Historiography

Respondents: Ágnes Birtalan (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Gergely Salát (Pázmány Péter Catholic University), István Vásáry (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

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