Japan Workshop 2025, University of Tsukuba
On March 4 and 5, 2025, the workshop “The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action: Analyzing Imperial Dynamics - the Radius of Action and the Radius of Impact” took place at the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, Room 121. Presentations were given by the deputy director Robert Rollinger (The Achaemenid-Persian Army and Its Maximum Outreach. The 'Persian Wars' and the Problems with our Sources), faculty member Sebastian Fink (The Fall of Damascus and the Radius of Action of the Neo-Assyrian Empire) and colledge member Clemens Steinwender (The Sasanians and their Borderlands - Analyzing Imperial Dynamics Using the Example of the Arabian Peninsula). Several members of the Cluster of Excellence “Eurasian Transformations”, in which Robert Rollinger and Sebastian Fink are active as well, also took part in the workshop and gave substantial presentations. These were Tijana Krstic (Ottoman Methods of Conquest and Empire-Building Revisited, 14th-16th Centuries), Nina Mirnig (Around the Guptas: Indic Religio-political Strategies of Expansion between c.300-700 CE) and Ulrike Tanzer (Describing the Austrian-Hungarian Empire - 'The Crown Prince's Work' (1885-1902)). The lectures were accompanied by interesting discussions and valuable scientific insights were gained.