Program

3.5.2010
18:00
Welcome and introduction
3.5.2012
18:15
"These are the lands which obey me": Reflections on the imperial instrumentarium
Daniel Potts
4.5.2012
09:00 - 09:50
Assyrien – Vom Territorialstaat zum Imperium
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
09:50 - 10:40
Die Organisation territorialer Herrschaft im hethitischen Reich
Jörg Klinger
11:10 - 12:00
Perceiving Mittani imperial space: A material perspective
Dominik Bonatz
12:00 - 12:50
The Neo-Babylonian empire and the transition to Persian rule
Kristin Kleber
14:00 - 14:50
Seleucid Space
Paul Kosmin
14:50 - 15:40
The Seleucid kingdom: Empire or patchwork?
Laurent Capdetrey
16:10 - 17:00
Zentralismus vs. Regionalismus oder dynamisches Gleichgewicht? Raumwahrnehmung und Raumbeherrschung im Arsakidenreich
Josef Wiesehöfer
17:00 - 17:50
Das Imperium Romanum – ein Imperium sine fine?
Ernst Baltrusch
5.5.2012
09:00 - 09:50
Elam: Empire or imperial momentum?
Wouter Henkelman
09:50 - 10:40
Walls, Rivers and the Sacred Space: Sasanian Iranshar (224-651 CE)
Touraj Daryaee
11:10 - 12:00
From military slavery to the rulers of Bilad al-Islam: The early Mamluk sultans and their empire
Reuven Amitai
12:00 - 12:50
World Conquest and Imperial Space in the Mongol empire
Michal Biran
14:00 - 14:50
Imperial symbolism and administrative realism in the early Timurid state
Beatrice Manz
14:50 - 15:40
Projections of power: Iran in Safavid times (1501-1722)
Christine Nölle-Karimi
16:10 - 17:00
The Safavid empire: Links between the center and the periphery
Rudi Matthee
17:00 - 17:50
The city of joy. Spatial relations of power in late Ottoman maritime cities
Malte Fuhrmann