Présentation

Nicola Di Cosmo received his Ph.D. from the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (now Central Eurasian Studies) at Indiana University in 1991, and held research and teaching positions at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003. His main field of research is the history of the relations between China and Inner Asia from prehistory to the modern period. Within that broad area he has published on the early history of China's relations with steppe nomads (e.g., Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Powers in East Asian History, 2002) and on Mongol and Manchu history (e.g., Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest, 2003), and he has edited several books, including Military Culture in Imperial China, 2009, and The Cambridge History of Inner Asia, 2009. His most recent works explore the use of proxy data from climatology and other palaeosciences in the study of the history of China and Central Asia, with special reference to early Eurasian nomads, the Mongol empire, and the Qing dynasty.

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Conférences

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Christian Lamouroux, Lettrés, financiers et militaires : les figures de la décentralisation dans la Chine des XII^e et XIII^e siècles
How a small chieftain became an emperor: ideology and praxis in the construction of Manchu sovereignty
Mercredi 11 mai de 14h-16h
EHESS (salle 681) - 190, avenue de France - 75013 Paris

Dans le cadre du séminaire d'Etienne de la Vaissière, Mariage et maisonnée en Asie centrale d'après les documents bactriens et sogdiens
Reading history through science: the fall of the Ming Dynasty in the eyes of climatologists (and why historians may have a problem with that)
Vendredi 13 mai de 10h-12h
Collège de France (salle Lévi-Strauss) - 52, rue du Cardinal Lemoine - 75005 Paris

Connections between the early modern world and the Manchu conquest of China: building a circumstantial case
Key-note à la journée d’études sur Knowledge and the construction of empires in Eurasia (13^th-18^th c.), organisée par Catherine Jami (CECMC), Mandkhai Lkhagvasuren (Université de Tokyo/GHC) et Antonella Romano (CAK/GHC)
Mercredi 18 mai de 9h-18h30
EHESS (salle 15) - 190, avenue de France - 75013 Paris

Accueil et durée du séjour

• Invité par Christian Lamouroux et Silvia Sebastiani

• 1 mois (mai 2016)