Director
Dr. Francesca Fiaschetti, BA MA
Teaching Staff
Classical Mongolian language:
Dr. Jargal Badagarov (Heidelberg University)
Chagatai (Eastern Turkic) language:
Csaba Göncöl (University of Szeged)
Researchers
Dr. Lkhagvademchig Jadamba
(affiliated researcher)
Dr. Mirko Sardelić
(Visiting fellow - November-December 2021)
Dr Mirko Sardelić is a historian of medieval and early modern cross-cultural exchange, especially between the Mediterranean world and Eurasian steppe. He is a Research Associate at the Department of Historical Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb), and also an Honorary Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions based at the University of Western Australia (2015-2021; 2021-2024).
In November and December 2021 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna, at its Mongolia Cluster, and at the Institute of Iranian studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institut für Iranistik der ÖAW). Under the general framework of the project ‘The Mongol Empire and 13th-century Europe: Mobility, Exchange, and Displacement’, Dr Sardelić carried on collaborative research (with Dr Francesca Fiaschetti) on cross-cultural approaches to othering (Christendom – the Mongol Empire – China); cross-cultural experience and expression of emotions, and different approaches to the concept of End of times and apocalyptic scenarios.