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Workshop Report - Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages

November 7, 2025
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On November 6 and 7, we held the final workshop in the Multilingualisms workshop series, part of the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence. As a whole, the series built on the spatial turn in historiography and approached the multilingual challenge through the lens of Eurasian cities and towns as administrative, religious, and commercial centers. The final event in the series examined commercial languages and texts in a context that stretched from Ireland to Japan and spanned many centuries.

Mongols in Premodern Eurasia

November 6, 2025
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On Wednesday, November 5, we hosted a workshop on the history of Mongols in western Eurasia. After an introduction from PhD candidate Jack Wilson, Prof. Jozsef Laszlovszky gave an overview of the ways in which the Mongol invasion of Hungary can be seen in the historical record. He highlighted problems with recreating routes of travel and movements of individuals from surviving narrative and archaeological sources. Prof.

Festschrift Published for Prof. Istvan Perczel

October 10, 2025
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The Department of Historical Studies is delighted that a Festschrift for Prof. Istvan Perczel has now been published.

Emy Merin Joy Wins Prestigious Prize

September 22, 2025
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Our recent PhD graduate Dr Emy Merin Joy has won the 2025 Père Paul Scholarship for Eastern Christian Studies. The award encourages and rewards young scholars in Syriac Studies.

Three Marietta Blau Grants Awarded

September 18, 2025
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Following on from a successful round of applications last academic year, PhD candidates from the department have again been awarded three Marietta Blau Grants. These are given by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research to excellent PhD scholars at Austrian universities.