The final workshop in the Urban Multilingualisms series will take place on Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7 at CEU. The program will be as follows:
Thursday, November 6 - D-001
10:00 – 11:30
Introduction: Languages of Business and the Business of Languages
Katalin Szende (Central European University)
Keynote lecture: Many Tongues of Knowing: Xunzi, Tao Zongyi, and the Polyglot Histories of Skill
Dagmar Schäfer (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Session One
Chair: András Barati (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
From Blessing to Curse, from Trappings to Garments. Urban Vocabulary in the Sino-Mongol Bilingual Glossaries of the Yuan and Ming Eras
Ákos Apatóczky (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and Károli Gáspár University, Budapest)
Urban Multilingualism and Commerce along the Silk Roads: A Perspective from Within
Márton Vér (University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures)
Commercial Contacts and Languages of Trade in the Golden Horde
Jack Wilson (Central European University)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30: Session Two
Chair: Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)
Text, Image, Transport: Commercial Stained-Glass and the Late Medieval Vernacular
Jessica Knowles (University of Vienna)
Multilingualism and Long-Distance Trade: The case of Lviv/Lemberg
Olga Kozubska (Institut für Vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Münster)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00: Session Three
Chair: Alíz Horváth (CEU)
Babel is Everywhere. The Use of Language at the Bazaar in Calicut
Susanne Rau (University of Erfurt)
The Case of Dejima (1639-1863): A Needle Hole for International Trade with Japan during the Sakkoku-period of Isolationist Foreign Policy and its Challenges for Urban Multilingualism. Historical Reports and Literary Representations
Christine Frank (University of Innsbruck)
19:00 – 21:00 Speakers’ Dinner
Friday, November 7 - B-505
9:00 – 10:30: Session Four
Chair: Erich Landsteiner (University of Vienna)
What to Say when Talking Trade: Language Books and their Relevance for Trade Contacts between Germany and Italy in the Fifteenth Century
Michaela Wiesinger (University of Innsbruck)
Calculating for „Stubborn Hungarians” – The Hungarian Frisius and its Translation
Norbert Orban (University of Innsbruck)
Family Issues, Trade Business and Royal Administration: The Multilingual Written Context of Integration in the Case of Italian Merchants in Hungary in the 15th Century
Krisztina Arany (Austrian National Archives)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Session Five
Chair: Marijana Mišević (Central European University)
Asprokastrou: The Greek Legend of a Fifteenth-century Moldavian Coin
Ovidiu Cristea ("N. Iorga" Institute of History of the Romanian Academy) / Ovidiu Olar (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Selling Wares, Trading Words: Diachronical Sociolingustic Notes on the Vernacularization of Trade and Its Linguistic Impact
Cristian Gaşpar (Central European University)
A Greek Merchant from Sibiu/Hermannstadt and his Network of Customers at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Mária Pakucs-Willcocks (Nicolae Iorga Institute, Bucharest)
12:30 – 13:30
Closing discussion, led by Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)
15:00 (start time) – The Papyrus Museum Visit (Neue Burg, Heldenplatz 1010 Wien)