Members of the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations" aim to showcase the Cluster by exploring the histories of selected representative objects.
Restless skies at the turn of the first Millennium AD. Climate fluctuations, astronomic phenomena and socio-political turbulences in 10th and 11th century Byzantium and Japan in comparative…
Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the…
The cluster members will present their current research results in a poster session, aimed at facilitation exchange and discussion and generating interest among researchers. All interested parties are…
Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-18th Centuries) by Grigor Boykov
The significance of studying urban life and cities in the Balkans under Ottoman rule has long been recognized by modern…
The conference will follow and reconstruct the essential steps and developments in the creation of this new worldview that can be characterized as a major heritage of the ancient Near East towards our…
Evolution or Diffusion?
Since the postulation of the international blue blindness of antiquity by the later English Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1859, the debate about color concepts and…
Adam Izdebski and Georgios Liakopoulos, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (“Palaeo-Science and History” Research Group)
The event is organised on short notice to take advantage of the…
Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d): CEU’s Department of Historical Studies is announcing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”
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Ann Cotten will be giving a poetry lecture in May at the Literaturhaus am Inn/Brenner Archive in cooperation with the Institute of German Studies and the Cluster of Excellence.
A joint initiative of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Jesuit Library and Archives of Greece: The first international workshop on Frangochiotika…
The workshop brings together scholars of the recently launched Cluster of Excellence on "EurAsian Transformations" with members of the COST Action "Words of Related Coercions in Work" (WORCK) and…
The Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences invites you to a workshop that will take a fresh look at the Orientalist, translator and homo politicus Joseph von…
On Monday, 17 June, 2024, 17:00-18:30, our Guest professor, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, will deliver a lecture at the Austrian Academy of Scieces, Seminar room 1, located on the third floor of the…
We often hear that people used to believe that the earth was a disc. But is this true? What did people know about the world 1,000 years ago and beyond? What images did they have of the Earth? And how…
PhD Positions
The Cluster of Excellence is pleased to announce the availability of up to eight PhD positions within the doctoral college (DC) "Entangled Antiquities" at the University of Innsbruck.
The Research Institute Brenner-Archiv is searching for a
Project Assistant (Post-Doc) (40 h/week)
(Employment for the period of three years, starting on October 1st, 2024)
The cluster offers new opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral positions in the following areas:
19.08.2024
Summer Academy
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is hosting a Summer School within the "EurAsian Transformations" Summer Academy. The Summer School will focus on the specific languages of the…
The civilizations of the Ancient Silk Road networks are rightfully famous for their cultural multiplicity. Modern scholarship has likewise profited enormously from the collaboration of various…
The Cluster is pleased to share its latest EurAsian blog entry in DerStandard: Von der Ideologie zum Gewaltaufruf: Der russische Eurasismus by Wolfgang Mueller
Als Leopold III. Friedrich Franz, Herzog von Anhalt-Dessau, seinem weitläufigen Gartenreich chinesisch inspirierte Prunkräume, eine Pagode, ein Teehaus und Brücken hinzufügte, folgte er einer Praxis,…
This Summer Academy offers a research-based rigorous philological training program for exploring Sanskrit manuscripts and epigraphical material preserved in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. By combining text…
This workshop aims to open a comparative perspective on the origin myths of Eurasian peoples and polities, and particularly their metahuman foundations. Such often ancient myths have been transmitted,…
The objective of this workshop is to convene the foremost experts in Pahlavi studies and related fields of papyrology in Vienna. The intention is to establish a foundation for the practical…
The HISU department offers 2credit elective courses specifically designed for academic purposes, free of charge for CEU students and students from institutions participating in the Cluster.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists on various aspects of the production of state-sponsored writing (documents, but also inscriptions or manuscripts) and the edition and analysis…
Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for topdown state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or…
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