Organizers: Melanie Mahlzahn, Hannes A. Fellner, Robert Rollinger, Angelo Mascheroni, Viktoria Reiter


  Wednesday-Saturday, 4-7 September 2024

  Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna)

  The civilizations of the Ancient Silk Road networks are rightfully famous for their cultural multiplicity. Modern scholarship has likewise profited enormously from the collaboration of various disciplines concerned with this multidimensional heritage. The conference “Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road” is organized by multiple research units in Vienna ranging from linguistics, philology, history to the digital humanities with the aim of advancing interdisciplinary research questions and methodologies. 

Conference fee (including early career researcher workshop)

• 50 Euros until June 30, 2024
• 100 Euros from July 1, 2024 onwards
• Online attendance only: 20 Euros (registration fee)

  For more detailled information and of course the (preliminary) program, please visit the event page at
      https://viennaborderlandsconference.wordpress.com/.