Thursday, 3 May 2012
18.00 Welcome and introduction
18.15 Daniel Potts: “These are the lands which obey me": Reflections on the imperial instrumentarium”
Friday, 4 May 2012
09.00 Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum: Assyrien – Vom Territorialstaat zum Imperium
09.50 Jörg Klinger: Die Organisation territorialer Herrschaft im hethitischen Reich
-- 10.40 – 11.10 coffee break --
11.10 Dominik Bonatz: Perceiving Mittani imperial space: A material perspective
12.00 Kristin Kleber: The Neo-Babylonian Empire and the transition to Persian Rule
-- 12.50 – 14.00 lunch break --
14.00 Paul Kosmin: Seleucid Space
14.50 Laurent Capdetrey: The Seleucid Kingdom: Empire or patchwork?
-- 15.40 – 16.10 Uhr: coffee break --
16.10 Josef Wiesehöfer: Zentralismus vs. Regionalismus oder dynamisches Gleichgewicht? Raumwahrnehmung und Raumbeherrschung im Arsakidenreich
17.00 Ernst Baltrusch: Das Imperium Romanum – ein Imperium sine fine?
Saturday, 5 May 2012
09.00 Wouter Henkelman: Elam: Empire or imperial momentum?
09.50 Touraj Daryaee: Walls, Rivers and the sacred space: Sasanian Iranshar (224-651 CE)
-- 10.40 – 11.10 coffee break --
11.10 Reuven Amitai: From military slavery to the rulers of Bilad al-Islam: The early Mamluk Sultans and their Empire
12.00 Michal Biran: World conquest and imperial space in the Mongol empire
-- 12.50 – 14.00 lunch break --
14.00 Beatrice Manz: Imperial symbolism and administrative realism in the early Timurid state
14.50 Christine Nölle-Karimi: Projections of power: Iran in Safavid Times (1501-1722)
-- 15.40 – 16.10 Uhr: coffee break --
16.10 Rudi Matthee: The Safavid empire: Links between the center and the periphery
17.00 Malte Fuhrmann: The city of joy. Spatial relations of power in late Ottoman maritime Ccties”
17.50 Final discussion