Call for Papers
Language and Culture in the Borderlands
of the Eastern Silk Road
Wednesday, September 4 — Friday, September 6, 2024
Early Career Researcher Workshop
Saturday, September 7, 2024
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 disciplines concerned with this multidimensional heritage. The conference "Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road" is organized by multiple research units in Vienna ranging from linguistics, philology, history to the digital humanities with the aim of advancing interdisciplinary research questions and methodologies. We therefore cordially invite papers from all disciplines concerned with the Ancient Eastern Silk Road region and especially encourage contributions with a transdisciplinary approach.
The conference will take place at the main building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
There will be an online option for attending papers but not for presentations.
If you have any questions, please use the conference email address or contact the organizers directly: borderlandsconference2024.linguistics@univie.ac.at.
Detailed information about the conference is to be found on the conference website: viennaborderlandsconference.wordpress.com.
Keynote speakers
- Carmen Meinert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Georges-Jean Pinault, École Pratique des Hautes Études
- Imre Galambos, 浙江大学 Zhejiang University/University of Cambridge
Early Career Researcher Workshop
This workshop organized by the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is a networking event for early career researchers concerned with the languages cultures in the borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road. There will be two sessions with lightning talks and a general discussion; one wil be dedicated to "Digital Methods", the other to "Cultural Heritage".
Timeline
- Abstracts by March 31, 2024
- Peer review by international scientific advisory board
- Notification of acceptance by April 30, 2024
- Preliminary programme announced by May 15, 2024
Conference fee (including workshop)
- 50 euros until May 31, 2024
- 100 euros from July 1, 2024 onwards
- Conference dinner: 30 euros per person
- Online attendance only: 20 euros (registration fee)
On spot registration fees include coffee breaks and two evening receptions, but exclude conference dinner.
Organizers
- Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna
- Hannes A. Fellner, University of Vienna
- Robert Rollinger, University of Innsbruck
- Angelo Mascheroni, University of Vienna
Conveners
- Austrian Academy of Sciences Commission "Transformation Processes and Empire in the Ancient Afro-Eurasian Worlds"
- Excellence Cluster "EurAsian Transformations", Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna
- Young Academy of Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna
- Research Unit Digital Philology, University of Vienna
- FWF Project "A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM)" (FWF Y492 START-Program)
- FWF Project "The Characters that shaped the Silk Road (Tarim Brahmi)" (FWF Y1044 START-Program)