Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2023 Summer International Symposium
 co-organized as 6th Meeting of the Mongol Empire Spring Series

The Phase of Catastrophe:

The Crisis of the 14th Century in Afro-Eurasian Context

Date: July 13-14, 2023

Venue: Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Room 403

Language: English
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Short Bios

 

 Program

 
 July 13 (Thursday)
 
9:30- 9:45(GMT+9) Opening Remarks
   
 
9:45-11:45(GMT+9) Session 1: Reconsidering the Crisis from the West.
 
Speakers: Toshio Ohnuki (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
“German Cistercian Monasteries and Climate Change in Transition to the Little Ice Age.”
  Ruslan Shakhmatov(SRC)
“The Effects of Key Climate and Historical Events on Rus’ Principalities in 14th Century: A Comparison of Historical Records and Climate Proxies.”
  Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
“Between the Adriatic and the Caspian Sea: Socio-Environmental Perspectives on the Crisis of the 14th Century from the Former Byzantine and Future Ottoman Imperial Spheres.”【Online】
Discussant: Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Chair: Yoko Aoshima (SRC)
 
13:30-15:30(GMT+9) Session 2: The Crisis in East Asia.
 
Speakers: Nobuhiro Uno (Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan)
“Climate Anomalies and Disasters in China in the 13th and 14th Centuries.”
  Ishayahu Landa (University of Bonn, Germany)
“Famines, State and the Stability of Mongol Eurasia: Preliminary Remarks.”
  Francesca Fiaschetti (University of Vienna, Austria)
“Against the Catastrophe: 14th Century Eurasian Intellectual Networks and Their Voices.”【Online】
Discussant: Soyoung Choi (Dongguk University, South Korea)
Chair: David Wolff (SRC)
 
15:50-17:50(GMT+9) Session 3: “New Methods to Calibrate the Crisis.”
 
Speakers: Takeshi Nakatsuka (Nagoya University, Japan)
“Multi-Decadal Climate Variability as a Key Factor to Activate Regime Shifts in Human Societies.”
  Yoko Nishimura (Toyo University, Japan)
“The late 8th century Uyghur droughts and Eastern Eurasia.”【Online】
  Yoichi Isahaya (SRC) & Takeshi Nakatsuka (Nagoya University, Japan)
“Snowfall in Baghdad: The Mongol Empire on the Threshold of the Little Ice Age.”
Discussant: Adam Izdebski (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany)【Online】
Chair: Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)
 
  July 14(Friday)
 
13:30-15:30(GMT+9) Session 4: “The Crisis from the Viewpoint of Connectivity.”
 
Speakers: Yasuhiro Yokkaichi (Rikkyo University, Japan)
“Reviewing Yuan Dynasty's History from the Perspective of Two Cycles: The Nomadic and Maritime Worlds.”
  Yihao Qiu (Fudan University, China)
“A Witness of Two Dynasties’ Decadence: The Life and Career of Arghūn Shāh al-Nāṣirī in the Shadow of 14th Century Crisis.”
  Philip Slavin (University of Stirling, UK)
“The Fourteenth Century Crisis and Transformation of Central Asia.”【Online】
Discussant: Wonhee Cho (Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea)
Chair: Mirlan Bektursunov (SRC)
15:50-17:50(GMT+9) Session 5: “Crisis in Northern World from Macro and Micro Perspectives.”
 
Speakers: Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University, France),
“Mongol Resilience in Times of Crisis: How the Jochids Adapted to the Afro-Eurasian Catastrophic Environment of the 14th Century and Reshaped the Horde.”
  Kazuyuki Nakamura (Hakodate University, Japan)
“On Cooling in the Lower Amur Basin in the 13th and 14th Century.”
  Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, USA)
“The Crisis of 1343 on the Black Sea: Causes, Context and Consequences.”【Online】
Discussant: Konstantin Golev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Chair: Norihiro Naganawa (SRC/ILCAA)


Organizing Committee:
 Yoichi Isahaya, Norihiro Naganawa, Ruslan Shakhmatov & Tomomi Murakami 

 

Sponsored by:
・ JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Interdisciplinary Approach to the "Crisis of the 14th Century"” 
・ Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
・ JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Generation of Millennium Atmospheric Reanalysis Product”

 

Supported by
 Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) 

 

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