IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 919: Approaching Chinggisid Crises and Eurasian Responses: A Round Table Discussion
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 19:00-20:00
| Organisers: | Geoffrey Humble, School of Medicine, University of Leeds Márton Vér, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Geoffrey Humble, School of Medicine, University of Leeds |
| Abstract | Mongol expansion across Eurasia is often - understandably - portrayed as a cataclysmic crisis, as, perhaps paradoxically, has the dissolution of Chinggisid rule. Recent research on crises in Mongol-era Eurasia has been substantially enriched by focusing on environmental or epidemiological aspects. This round table, bringing together threads from our four sessions' employment of crisis as a lens on the Chinggisid phenomenon as a whole, incorporates these enriched perspectives while switching focus to social, administrative, military, and linguistic issues. Assessing the utility of crisis as a concept and picking up key strands from our papers, it will seek alternative ways to view change around the empire and integrate these into wider work on the Global Middle Ages. Participants include Enerelt Enkhbold (National University of Mongolia / Open University), Yiming Ha (University of California, Los Angeles), Gulsen Kilci (Université Paris-Cité), Martijn Knapen (Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie, Jena), Nicholas Matheou (University of Edinburgh), and Bulat Rakhimzianov (University College Dublin). |