Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages

Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series Workshop 1: Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages

Veranstalter
Central European University; Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the Eurasian Transformations Excellence Cluster (Central European University)
Ausrichter
Central European University
Veranstaltungsort
Quellenstraße 51
Gefördert durch
FWF Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds excellent = austria
PLZ
1100
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
17.01.2025 - 18.01.2025
Deadline
15.01.2025
Von
Katalin Szende, Department of Historical Studies, Central European University

Workshop 1: Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages

Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series Workshop 1: Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages

As part of the “Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Spaces” work package of the Eurasian Transformations Cluster of Excellence, the collaborating institutions of the Cluster (Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck and Central European University) are organising three interdisciplinary workshops in 2025. The workshops build on the spatial turn in historiography and approach the multilingual challenge through the lens of Eurasian cities and towns as administrative, religious, and commercial centers. They explore key situations when language use in urban settings became an issue, a source of conflict, or an instrument of power.

The first workshop focuses on the languages of administration within the spatial dimension of the multilingual administrative centers of late antique, medieval, and early modern Eurasia. The geographic range of contributions will comprise selected cities in East Central Europe, the Balkan Peninsula and Central Asia. The overarching questions to be addressed include: To what extent does the use of multiple languages influence the functionality of administrative centers? Under what circumstances does the dominance of a single language prevail, and when is there room for negotiation and compromise? What are the specific spaces, places, and occasions where the use of multiple languages becomes not only possible but also necessary?

Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space (WP2024-1-18)

Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series

Workshop 1: Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages
Venue: Central European University, 1100 Vienna, Quellenstraße 51.

Programm

Friday, January 17

9:00 – 10:30
Introduction to the workshop series: Urban Multilingualism and its Multiple Spaces
Katalin Szende (Central European University)

Keynote lecture: Polyvocality and the Medieval City: Mapping Spaces and Places of Urban Multilingualism
Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30
Session 1
Chair: Bruno De Nicola (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Spaces of Governance, Languages of Power: Old Uyghur and Middle Mongolian in the Administrative Centres of Mongol Central Asia
Márton Vér (University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures)

Perso-Mongol Administrative Centres in the Ilkhanid Empire: A Study of Multilingualism and Governance
András Baráti (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Mongol Multilingualism: Script and Language in Administration, Diplomacy and Trade in the Golden Horde
Jack Wilson (Central European University)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00
Session 2
Chair: Pavlína Rychterová (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Languages in Egypt from the Ptolemies to the Umayyad Caliphate: Continuities and Changes
Bernhard Palme (University of Vienna)

Multilingual Practices in the Ottoman Cities of North Africa: Local Petitions and their Imperial Administrative Treatment
Nora Lafi (Max Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt)

Language Changes in the Administration of the Polish Royal Seat of Warsaw as a Result of the Polish-Saxon Union
Filip Emanuel Schuffert (University of Regensburg)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00
Session 3
Chair: Judit Majorossy (University of Vienna)

Languages in the Dominican Convent and Town Administration of Sibiu
Mirjam Theodora Wien (University of Erfurt)

Valachice est, non legitur? The Emergence of Old Romanian as a Language of Administrative Communication in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Cristian Gaşpar (Central European University)

Early Modern Upper Hungarian Royal Towns: Case of Local Centres and Multilingualism
Peter Benka (Comenius University, Bratislava)

18:00 – 20:00 Speakers’ dinner

Saturday, January 18

9:00 – 10:30
Session 4
Chair: Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

The Byzantine Imperial Chancery in Constantinople and its Adapted Bilingualism in Contact with (Latin) Westerners (13th-15th century)
Christian Gastgeber (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

The Space of Slavic in the Venetian Administration of Dalmatia (15th–16th century)
Lena Sadovski (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Written Communication Between Ragusa and Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century: Who Remembered, Who Wrote, Who Read, and Who Was Affected
Marijana Mišević (Central European University)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Closing discussion

Kontakt

Katalin Szende, szendek@ceu.edu

https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/multilingualism-eurasian-premodern-societies-social-hierarchies-and-space
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