VSS | "Монголчуудын түүхэнд холбогдох 13-аас 14-р зууны армян сурвалж"by Dr. Bayarsaikhan Dashdongog

Event: ACMS Virtual Speaker Series Lecture

Title: "Armenian sources on the Mongols ( 13-14th century)"

Date: February 16 10:00 am (ULAT)

Speaker: Dr. Bayarsaikhan Dashdongog

Synopsis:
The thirteenth-fourteenth centuries formed one of the richest periods in Armenian historiography. It gave more than ten historians and chronologists, like Samuel Anets‘i, Mkhit‘ar Anets‘i, Matheos Urhayets‘i, Mkhit‘ar Ayrivanets‘i, Vardan Arevelts‘i, Kirakos Gandzakets‘i, Grigor Aknerts‘i, Vahram Rabuni, Smbat Sparapet, Het‘um Patmich‘, Step‘annos Orbelian, and etc. However, Armenian sources for the Mongols differ in their attitudes towards the Mongols, expressing both neutral and personal views and depending on where they have been written, in Greater Armenia or in Cilician Armenia.

About the speaker:

Dr. D.Bayarsaikhan received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Yerevan, Armenia in 1981. She had her master’s degree in Armenian studies from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in 2003, and her doctorate in Mongolian-Armenian Political History (1220-1335) from the University of Oxford in 2008. From 2010 to 2012, she conducted postdoctoral research on The Archival Documents of the Mongolian Administration (17th-19th centuries) at the Gerda Henkel Foundation, University of Bonn, Germany. She has published a total of 7 books in English and Mongolian, including “From Hulagu to Abu Sa’id” and “The Mongols and the Armenians”, and has published a total of 18 scholarly articles in the United States, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Taiwan and Mongolia. She has given more than 18 speeches and lectures abroad. She received the Polar Star in 2016, the Jack Weatherford Special Award in 2011, and the Oxford University Rector’s Award in 2007. She uses English, Russian, German, Armenian, Persian and Arabic in her research.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the American Center for Mongolian Studies, which is a non-political, non-profit organization of 501(c)(3) category.

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