About the Event:
The Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences at AUA and the Max Weber Stiftung Georgia Branch Office are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Thomas Ertl, titled “How Beautiful is Mobility? Armenians in the Global Middle Ages.”
The talk will examine the interest in Armenia within Western medieval studies, situating it within the “global turn.” It will question the enthusiasm for mobility in global history by contrasting celebratory narratives of far-reaching Armenian trade networks with the lived realities. By foregrounding Armenian experiences, the speaker will discuss both the bright and the dark sides of mobility — back then and today.
The talk is part of the MWF Global History Series and is jointly organized by the Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences at AUA and the Max Weber Stiftung Georgia Branch Office in cooperation with Zeit Stiftung Bucerius.
A reception will follow the lecture.
About the Speaker:
Professor Thomas Ertl is a professor of the history of the high and late Middle Ages at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a leading scholar in the global turn of medieval studies, focusing on the social and economic interconnectedness of the pre-modern world.