The Mongols and the Silk Roads
Venue: May 10th–11th, 2018
University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts
(Szeged, Egyetem Street 2, 6722)
10.05.2018 Thursday
16:40 Welcome speeches (Dr. Klára Sándor, Vice dean of the Faculty of Arts; Prof. István Zimonyi, Head of the Department for Altaic Studies)
17:00 Keynote lecture by Prof. István Vásáry: The Mongol Period: Heyday of the Silk Roads.
18:00 Reception
11.05.2018 Friday
09:00 – 10:30 Marie Favereau (Oxford University): Money as a Medium of Exchange in the Fourteenth-Century Golden Horde
Aleksandar Uzelac (Institute of History, Belgrade): Jochids and the Crimea in the Second Half of the Thirteenth-Century
Csaba Göncöl (University of Szeged–MTA–SZTE–Ottoman Era Research Group): Tolu Bay, Emīr of Berdi Bek Khan
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 István Zimonyi (University of Szeged–MTA–ELTE–SZTE Silk Road Research Group): The Great Town – Men Kermen in “The Secret History of the Mongols”
Konstantin Golev (Institute for Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): The Cuman-Qïpchaqs, the Khwārazmshāhs and the Cities on the Lower Course of Syr Darya
Yihao Qiu (Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai): Postal System, Rabat (Inns) and Caravansaries on the Post-Mongol Silk Road. Accounts of the Routes linked the Ming Empire and Timurid Central Asia
12:30 – 14:30 – Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Francesca Fiaschetti (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Mongols at Sea: the maritime Silk Roads and mid-Yuan China
Phil Slavin (University of Kent): The Road to Hell: The Origins and Spread of Cattle Disease along the Silk Road, c.1280-1310
Márton Vér (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities): The ortak-Merchants in the Old Uyghur documents
16:00 16:30 – Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS/ Rikkyô University): Bīrūnī’s Revival along the Mongol Silk Roads
Szilvia Kovács (University of Szeged–MTA–ELTE–SZTE Silk Road Research Group): Friars on the road(s) in the Mongol world (13–14th centuries)
17:30 – 18:30 – Final discussion
18:30 – Reception