Friday, September 22, 2023
1 – 1:15 PM | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
Teresa Shawcross, Princeton University
1:15 – 3 PM | Panel 1 | A Varied Landscape of Peoples
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
- Uli Schamiloglu, Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan | “The Mongol World Empire and Population Transformations in the Northern Black Sea Region”
- Dmitry Korobeynikov, University of Albany | “Peoples and Settlement around the Black Sea: The Travels of Ibn Sa’id al-Maghribi (d. c. 1286)”
- Eurydice Georganteli, Harvard University | “Money, Markets, and Identities in the Late Medieval Black Sea Region”
- Chair: Xin Wen, Princeton University
3 – 3:15 PM | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
3:15 – 4:30 PM | Numismatics Exhibition
Location: Firestone Library, Special Collections
Hosted by Alan Stahl and Elena Baldi, Princeton University Library
4:30 – 6 PM | Keynote Lecture
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
Introduction by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Princeton University
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center | “Hypoxemia – The Art of Exchange in the Medieval Black Sea”
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9 – 10:15 AM | Panel 2 | Empire and Imperial Strongholds across the Sea
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
- Dimiter Angelov, Harvard University | “The Black Sea and Theodore II Laskaris”
- Filip Van Tricht, Independent Scholar | “The Mesembria (1257) and Daphnousia (1261) Campaigns: The Black Sea Component in a Latin Imperial Restoration Strategy?”
- Chair: Matthew Delvaux, Princeton University
10:15 – 10:30 AM | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Panel 3 | Competition and Cooperation between Peoples
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
- Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study | “Global Encounters between Visions and Frictions: Revisiting the Crisis of 1343”
- Hannah Barker, Arizona State University | “What Makes a Community? Black Sea Diasporas in the Medieval Mediterranean”
- Reuven Amitai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | “Pride in Slavery – The Mamluks Look Back at their Slave Past and Qipchaq Steppe Origin” [via Zoom]
- Chair: Helmut Reimitz, Princeton University
12:15 – 1:30 PM | Lunch Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
1:30 – 3:15 PM | Panel 4 | A Place beyond Empire
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
- Rustam Shukurov, St Andrew’s University | “Trebizond: Exchanges, Transfers and Migrations”
- Nicholas S. M. Matheou, University of Edinburgh | “Armenia Maritima? Between Caucasia and Crimea in the Global Long Thirteenth Century“ [via Zoom]
- Rachel Goshgarian, Lafayette College | “The 13th-century Geography of Vardan Arevelts’i: A Window into Late Medieval Armenian Conceptions of Regions and Borders”
- Chair: Danai Thomaidis, Princeton University
3:15 – 3:30 PM | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
3:30 – 4:15 PM | Distinguished Lecture
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
Introduction by Pamela Patton, Princeton University
Michel Balard, Université de Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne | “Caffa in the XIIIth Century: Origins, Urban Landscape, Population and Trade”