Imperial Mysticisms:
Piety and Power in Early Modern Empires from a Global Perspective
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE November 27–30, 2019
Central European University Center for Religious Studies Nádor utca 15, H-1051
Budapest, Auditorium B
November 27
5:00 p.m. Welcome by Michael Ignatieff (CEU President and Rector) 5:30 p.m. Keynote Lecture
Alan Strathern
(University of Oxford) Mysticism and
Empire: Towards a Global Comparative Analysis
November 28
9:30 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Panel 1: The Inner Empire: Political World Images in Mystical Thought
• Shahzad Bashir (Brown University)
• Carsten Wilke (CEU) Panel 2: Precedents:
Mystical Politics from Antiquity to Early Modernity
• Gábor Buzási (Eötvös Loránd University)
• Ilker Evrim Binbaş (Universität Bonn)
• Gábor Klaniczay (CEU)
4:20 – 7:10 p.m.
Panel 3: Mystic Rulers and Esoteric Courts
• Dewei Zhang (Jinan University)
• Martin Scheutz (Universität Wien)
• A. Azfar Moin (University of Texas at Austin)
• György Endre Szőnyi (University of Szeged)
November 29
9:30 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.
Panel 4: Mystical Networks in Imperial Space
• Dániel Siptár (Hungarian Jesuit Archives, Budapest)
• Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University)
• Rula Jurdi Abisaab (McGill University)
• Federico Palomo (Universidad Complutense)
• Tobias Winnerling (Universität
Düsseldorf)
Panel 5: Mystics as Cultural Brokers
• Ines Aščerić-Todd (University of Edinburgh)
• Ute Falasch (CEU) Panel 6: Mystics of Religious Minorities
• Orit Ramon
(The Open University of Israel)
• István Perczel (CEU)
November 30
9:30 a.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Panel 7: Subversive Mystics
• Jessica Fowler (IE University)
• Matthias Riedl (CEU) Panel 8: Decline and Periodization of Imperial Mysticism
• Derin Terzioğlu
(Boğaziçi University / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
• Ata Anzali
(Middlebury College) Final Discussion
Moderator: Tijana Krstić (CEU)
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Bichitr: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings (1618) Courtesy of Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution
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