Opening
09:00 – 09:10
John Shuttack, President and Rector of CEU, Budapest
09:10 – 09:30
Xinhua Li, Head of Education Section of the Embassy of the Peoples’ Republic of China in Budapest
09:30 – 09:45
Alice Choyke (CEU, Budapest) and Daniel Ziemann (Head of Medieval Studies Department, CEU, Budapest) – Introduction to the Conference
09:45 – 10:00
Introducing Beijing Normal University
Section 1: Links- chair: Alice Choyke
10:00 – 10:20
Béla-Zsolt Szakács (CEU, Budapest/Pázmány Péter Catholic Universiy, Piliscsaba): Fonthill Vase: Chinese Porcelain and the House of Anjou
10:20 – 10:40
Marianne Sághy (CEU, Budapest): An Italian in China: Giovanni Da Montecorvino and Trecento Perceptions of the Chinese Empire
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40
Zhen Zhao（赵贞, Beijing Normal University): Study on the Goods from Byzantium to China in Middle Age（中古时代传入中国之“拂菻”物品透视)
11:40 – 12:00
József Laszlovszky (CEU, Budapest): The Socio-economic and Ecological Impact of the Medieval Mongol Invasions. The European Viewpoint
12:00 – 12:20
Balázs Nagy (CEU, Budapest/Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): The Mongol Expansion and the Interaction of Various Civilizations in the Middle Ages
12:20 – 12:40
Niels Gaul (CEU, Budapest): Imperial Systems and Learning: the Case of Byzantium
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Section 2: Ideology
14:00 – 14:20
István Perczel (CEU, Budapest): Christian Buddhists in Kerala?
14:20 – 15:00
Shudong Hou（侯树栋, Beijing Normal University): What is Feudalism? The 20th-century Chinese Historians’ Main Explanation for Medieval Society（封建主义是什么？——20世中国史学家关于中古社会的基本解释）
15:00 – 15:20
Volker Menze (CEU, Budapest): Out of Mind: Syrian Saints in Late Antiquity
15:20 – 15:40
Daniel Ziemann (CEU, Budapest): Looking East. The discussion about the Asian Origins of Medieval Bulgars
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Section 3: Urban Life and Sources
16:00 – 16:20
Alice Choyke (CEU, Budapest): Introduction to the Medieval Animal Data-network
16:20 – 17:00
Sheng Zhang（张升, Beijing Normal University): Encyclopedia of Ancient China in Comparative Perspective（从中西比较的角度论中国古代的类书）
17:00 – 17:20
Gerhard Jaritz (CEU, Budapest/University of Salzburg): Social Dynamics in Medieval Visual Evidence
17:20 – 17:40 Coffee Break
17:40 – 18:00
Katalin Szende (CEU, Budapest): Do Town Plans Show the 'Ground Plans' of Society? - a Comparative Approach
18:00 – 18:20
György Endre Szőnyi (CEU, Budapest/University of Szeged): Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Urban Development of the Most Famous Renaissance City: Florence
18:20 – 19:00
Xin Ning（宁欣 - Beijing Normal University): Surrounding Areas of the City Gate and Town: Two Important Factors for Development in Medieval Chinese Cities（城关与市镇：中国中古城市化程的两要素）
19:00 – 19:20
Stephen Pow (Doctoral student - CEU, Budapest): Patterns of Mongol Warfare in the Written Records of Asia and Europe