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
D-001
Friday, January 17, 2025
9:00 – 10:30
Introduction to the workshop series: Urban Multilingualism and its Multiple Spaces
Katalin Szende (Central European University)
Keynote: Polyvocality and the Medieval City: Mapping Spaces and Places of Urban Multilingualism
Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)
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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, 2025
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