Austria-Japan Round Table
The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the
Radius of Action
Understanding Imperial Expansion between East and
West
Date: October 6 [Sun.], 2024
Venue: Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Building A722,
Tsukuba Campus, Univ. of Tsukuba
Program
10:00
Greeting: Shigeo Yamada
Morning Session – Chair: Shigeo Yamada
10:05
Presentation 1: Robert Rollinger, Empire and Protoglobalization in the
First Millennium
11:05
Presentation 2: Sebastian Fink, The Radius of Action, and the
Expansion of Empires
Lunch break
Afternoon Session 1 – Chair: Robert Rollinger/Sebastian Fink
13:30
Presentation 3: Shigeo Yamada, Ideological, Administrative, and
Strategic Aspects of the Expansion of the Assyrian Empire
14:30
Presentation 4: Keisuke Iwata, Geographical and Linguistic Obstacles
to the Expansion of the Qing Empire towards Tibet
15:30
Presentation 5: Nina Mirnig, Imaginary Empires: Indic transregional
practices of power and their imperial limitations explored in the case
of early medieval Nepal
Coffee break
Afternoon Session 2 – Chair: Sanae Ito
15:45
Closing comments toward the workshop; Enhancing the radius of Action
(March 4–5, 2025) by Robert Rollinger, Sebastian Fink, and Shigeo
Yamada
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Open discussion and planning the workshop
