International Conference!

The International Institute for Social History will organize the Tenth European Social Science History conference in Vienna, 23-26 April 2014.

University of Vienna

Early Medieval Migrations I & II 

Thursday 24 April 2014, 11-16:00 

Early Medieval Migrations I: 

Migrations in the Abbasid Caliphate - Iran - East Slavic Lands

Hörsaal 41 first floor

11.00 - 13.00

Chair: Johannes Koder

George Hatke: Aksumites in South Arabia: An Ethiopian Diaspora in Late Antique Yemen

Dirk Hoerder: Migration – Travel – Commerce – Cultural Transfer: The Complex Connections Byzantium-Kiev-Novgorod-Varangian Land, 6th-14th Century

Lucian Reinfandt: Regime Change and Elite Migration in the Islamic Caliphate (642-969 AD)

Early Medieval Migrations II: 
Migrations in Byzantium and Armenia
Hörsaal 41 first floor

14.00 - 16.00

Chair: Claudia Rapp
Alexander Beihammer: Turkish Migration Processes and Patterns of Cross-Cultural Permeation in Medieval Anatolia (Eleventh – Thirteenth Century)

Johannes Koder: Remarks on the Slavic Immigration and landnahme in the Byzantine Balkans

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller: Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean and Near East (6th to 11th century)

Ioannis Stouraitis: Migrating within Medieval Empire: Towards a Typology of Movement of People and Groups in Post-Seventh Century Byzantium