Survival Strategies International Workshop
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Radius of Power in
Premodern High Eurasia
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Date: May 29-30, 2025
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Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, and online via Zoom
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| Language: English |
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PROGRAM
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Day1 : May 29 (Thu) |
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17:00-17:15 (GMT+9)
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Introduction |
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Yoichi Isahaya (SRC)
“Introduction: Radius of Power in Premodern High Eurasia.”
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17:15-18:45 (GMT+9)
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Session 1: Radii of Imagination in Premodern High Eurasia |
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1. Yuriko Yamanaka (National Museum of Ethnology)
“Radius of Knowledge: The Far North in Pre-Mongol Arabic Travelogues.”
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2. Yu Onuma (Doshisha University. ONLINE)
“Circumnavigation of Imagination: Two Radii of Power in Mandeville’s Travels.”
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Day2 : May 30 (Fri) |
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13:00-14:00 (GMT+9)
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Session 2: Imperial Radius in High-Eurasian Lands |
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1. Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study)
“Radius of Power of the Early Manchu State.”
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14:30-16:00 (GMT+9)
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Session 3: Pax Hephthalica and Beyond on the Silk Road Iconography |
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1. Etsuko Kageyama (Nagoya University)
“The Radius of Hephthalite Influence: Revisiting Iconography and Cultural Interactions in Central Asia.”
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2. Satomi Hiyama (Toyo University)
“Kucha in the Radius of Central Asian Great Powers: Buddhist Cave Temples and its Art in the Geopolitical Context.”
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16:30-18:30 (GMT+9)
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Session 4: Rus, Vikings and Mongols: Radius of Power in High-Eurasian Waters |
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1. Neil Price (University of Uppsala/Hokkaido University)
“The Radius of the Rus’: Scandinavia and Asia in the Viking Age.”
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2. Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo University)
“Radius of Ruling Power in Late Viking Age: Scotland and Sweden in Cnut’s imperium.”
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3. Yoichi Isahaya (SRC)
“Imperial Radius of the Golden Horde amid the Geopolitical Transformation of the Black Sea Region.”
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Organized by
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by
Grant-in-Aid for Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research “Tree Rings, Epidemics and Bullion: The “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century” in West Asia”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Shifting Political Centers and Water Systems: Formation and Expansion of Groups and States, and Metropolitan Areas in Afro-Eurasia”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Ecological Imagination in the Interface of Cultures”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “The Governance Systems and its Resilience of European Border States during the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period”
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| Contact：Yoichi Isahaya yoichi.isahaya[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp ([at] reads as @） |
