2024: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations 1st Annual Conference

The Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations will hold its first annual conference next week, from November 20 to 22nd, 2024, with the title 2024: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. The conference will be held on the University of Vienna's campus, in the Aula Altes AKH, Hof 1. It will explore how to account for the many ways to cope with diversity in Eurasian history, and in modern scholarship and politics. Its goals are, first, to exemplify the cultural multiplicity of Eurasia, from Egyptian papyri and the Turfan documents to the exchanges along the Trans-Himalayan and other corridors, or the ambiguous policies of the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Second, it raises the question how this diversity was perceived, appreciated or rejected in different contexts, and strives to compare the patterns of these reactions. Third, it will address linguistic diversity and multilingualism, especially its various manifestations in Eurasian textual cultures. And fourth, it aims at discussing the present impact of the often-millennial traditions of cultural divides and exchanges, as cultural boundaries are increasingly being redrawn or negated with ideological purposes.

CEU's Prof. Tijana Krstić spoke on The Politics of Community- and Confession-Building in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire on Thursday, November 21. For the full description and program, please click here.