New Perspectives on Comparative Medieval History: China and Europe, 800-1600

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New Perspectives on Comparative Medieval History: China and Europe, 800-1600

Veranstalter
Research group "China and the Historical Sociology of Empire", Department of History, King's College London
Veranstaltungsort
Pembroke College
Ort
Oxford
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
30.09.2013 - 01.10.2013
Deadline
16.09.2013
Website
http://www.chinese-empires.ac.uk/events/conferences/international-workshop-new-perspectives-on-comparative-medieval-history-china-and-europe-800-1600/
Von
Julius Morche

The research group “China and the Historical Sociology of Empire” History Department, King’s College London) will host the international workshop “New Perspectives on Comparative Medieval History: China and Europe, 800-1600” at Pembroke College, Oxford (September 30 and October 1, 2013). The aim of the meeting is to discuss representations of medieval Chinese and European history in current comparative frameworks as well as key concepts and methodologies in cross-civilisational comparative research. The workshop will be organised in three sessions devoted to concepts of divergence, collaboration in comparative history, and current methodologies in the study of networks. For more information please visit http://www.chinese-empires.ac.uk/events/conferences/international-workshop-new-perspectives-on-comparative-medieval-history-china-and-europe-800-1600/

There is a limited number of places for guest participants. If interested please RSVP to Julius Morche (julius.morche@kcl.ac.uk) by Monday, 16 September 2013 and briefly explain why you would like to attend. We will notify you by Friday, September 20.

Programm

Monday, 30 September

09.00
Word of welcome: Hilde De Weerdt (King’s College London)

Session 1: Collaboration in Comparative History. Chair: Georg Christ
09.15
Peter Bang (University of Copenhagen): ’Holding a woolf by the ears’ – interdisciplinary discourse and comparative world history
09.45
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University): Herding cats: the challenge of collaborative comparative history
10.15
Discussion
10.45
Coffee
11.00
Catherine Holmes (Oxford University): Juggling with three balls: comparing the medieval west, china and byzantium
11.30
Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham): Another discipline, another place: approaches to collaborative work on the study of the global past
12.00
Discussion
13.00
End of session

13.15
Lunch

Session 2: Divergence. Chair: Peter Bang
14.45
Michael Puett (Harvard University): Divergence as a category of comparative history: the case of China in Eurasian history
15.15
R. I. Moore (Newcastle University): The first great divergence?
15.45
Discussion
16.00
Coffee
16.15
Jared Rubin (Chapman University): Legitimacy and economic outcomes in the Middle East and Europe
16.45
Debin Ma (London School of Economics and Political Science): Political regimes and great divergence: the case of china
17.15
Discussion
17.45
End of session

19.00
Conference dinner

Tuesday, 1 October

Session 3: Networks. Chair: Julius Morche
09.15
Peter Heather (King’s College London): The making of Europe: Western Eurasia in the first millennium AD
09.45
Janet Nelson (King’s College London): Social networks in the age of Charlemagne: friendship or dependence?
10.15
Discussion
10.45
Coffee
11.00
Georg Christ (University of Manchester): Comparative advantage? Venetian consular networks and information flows between India, the Mamluk Empire and Latin Europe (c. 1300-1500)
11.30
R. Bin Wong (University of California Los Angeles): Transmissions of belief and power: contrasting relations between religion and political authority in China and Europe, c. 1000-1800
12.00
Discussion
12.30
End of session

12.30
Lunch

13.45
Final roundtable discussion. Chair: Hilde De Weerdt
15.45
End of workshop

Kontakt

Julius Morche
King's College London, Department of History
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
00447780000576

julius.morche@kcl.ac.uk

http://www.chinese-empires.ac.uk/events/conferences/international-workshop-new-perspectives-on-comparative-medieval-history-china-and-europe-800-1600/