Talk by Prof Rossabi (Columbia University) on Chinggisid Crisis and the Fall of the Mongols

Cambridge Central Asia Forum invites you to a talk by

Morris Rossabi, Columbia University 

on

Chinggisid Crisis and the Fall of the Mongols

Date: 10 November 2023

Time: 11am-1pm

Venue: Room 138, Alison Richard Building and Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlfuqqpj8rHdGf7IdH4sg8Q5ueO9U1XSsN#/registration 

Abstract: All four Khanates that composed the Mongolian Empire underwent a crisis, and two, the Yuan dynasty of China and the Ilkhanate of West Asia, collapsed.  This seminar considers the political, economic, and social reasons for this breakdown of the largest contiguous land empire in world history.  

Biography: Professor Rossabi is a historian of China and Central and Inner Asia. He teaches courses on Inner Asian, East Asian, and Chinese history at Columbia. During the 2008–2009 academic year, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia. He and Mary Rossabi are involved in an oral history of 20th and 21st century Mongolia, which has led to the publication of Socialist Devotees and Dissenters; A Herder, a Trader, and a Lawyer; and The Practice of Buddhism in Kharkhorin and its Revival (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2010, 2012, and 2013). Author and editor of 25 books, he has helped organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He was on the advisory board of the Project on Central Eurasia and Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Soros Foundation. The author of numerous articles and speeches, he travels repeatedly to China, Central Asia, and Mongolia. In 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs awarded Professor Rossabi a Certificate of Merit at the Mongolian Embassy to the United Nations.

Everyone is welcome.