The conference welcomes papers on the following and related topics:

• Imperial legitimacy and political ideology
• State governance and bureaucratic systems
• Economic structures and fiscal administration
• Military history and imperial expansion
• Law, religion, and social order
• Culture, arts, and courtly traditions
• Global trade networks and transregional connections
• Crisis, transformation, and imperial decline
• Sources, archives, and historiographical approaches
• Comparative and global imperial studies
• Digital humanities and new methodological approaches
• Space, regions, and imperial frontiers
• Social structures and everyday life
• Intellectual history and knowledge production
• Environmental and material history