List of Conferences and Seminars 2017
April
■ SRC Lunch Talk ◆◇◆
Date & Time:12:00-13:00, Monday, April 24, 2017
Title: The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Zbigniew Wojnowski (Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University)
■SRC Special Lecture◆◇◆
Lecturer: Alexandr Alexandrov (Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences/SRC)
Title: В помощь исследователю: российские электронные ресурсы и научные библиотеки
Date & Time: 13:00-14:30, Thursday, 27 April, 2017
Place: Room 404, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido UniversityLanguage: in Russian
May
■ SRC Special Lecture ◆◇◆
Date & Time: 10:30-12:00, Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Title: Transnationalism and the Practice of Soviet History
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Zbigniew Wojnowski (Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University)
■ SRC/UBRJ Special Lecture ◆◇◆
Is the Latest US-Russia Reset Dead on Arrival?
Timothy J. Colton
(Professor of Government, Harvard University & Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore)Date & Time: 16.30 – 18.00, Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Place: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Room 403
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact: Jonathan Bull (j_e_bull*slav.hokudai.ac.jp) (replace * with @).
June
■ UBRJ Seminar
"Boundarization and Frontierization of the East-West Border in Europe: the Case of Kaliningrad Oblast – the Russian Exclave in the EU" ◆◇◆Date & Time: 2017.6.26 (Monday) 16.30-18.00
Place:Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Small Meeting Room (401)
Speaker: Jarosław Jańczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))
For details, please contact: Jonathan Bull (j_e_bull*slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
July
■ SRC Special Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time: 10 July (Mon.), 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Dr. Lidia Federica Mazzitelli (University of Cologne, Germany)
Title: Agentivity and Impersonal Constructions in Lithuanian, Polish and German
Place: Toyo University (Hakusan Campus), Bldg 5, Room 5201
Organized by: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) Grant Number 17H01641
Co-organized by: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University and The Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures (JSSSLL)
Contact: Motoki NOMACHI (mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp) ([at] should be @.)
■ UBRJ Seminar
"German-Polish Bilingualism: Bilingual Language Education and Language Policy – an Example of Słubice-Frankfurt (Oder) “Twin Town”" ◆◇◆Date & Time: July 20 (Thur) 2017, 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Alicja Jańczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
Venue:Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Language: English
Contact: Motoki NOMACHI (mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp) ([at] should be @.)
■ SRC special lecture◆◇◆
Date & Time: 14:45-16:15, July 25 (Tue), 2017
Speaker: Ilja Viktorov, Department of Economic History, Stockholm University
Title: Russia’s political economy: current tendencies, possibilities and risks
Venue: Room 401 (4F), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact: Shinichiro Tabata (shin*slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
■ SRC special lecture◆◇◆
Title: (Geo)political aspects of the post-Soviet Russian-language speculative fiction
Speaker: Mikhail Suslov (SRC/ Uppsala University)
Date & Time: 13:00-14:30, 27 July (Thu.)
Place: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Language: in English
Contact: Go Koshino (gkoshino[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp) ([at] should be @.)
August
■ SRC Lunchtime Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: 2 August (Wed) 12:40-13:30
Speaker: Клобукова Наталья Федоровна (Московская государственная консерватория им. П.И.Чайковского)
Topic: "Путешествие по православной Японии" (In Russian)
Venue: Room 401 (4F), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Questions are welcome in Japanese and English!
Contact: Sanami Takahashi
■ SRC special seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: 16:00-17:30, August 2 (Wed), 2017
Speaker: Ilja Viktorov, Department of Economic History, Stockholm University
Title: Russian financial markets: from the early 1990s until the 2014-15 crisis
Venue: Room 401 (4F), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact: Shinichiro Tabata (shin*slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
■ The Program of lnternational Conference ''Border History''◆◇◆
Date & Time:09.15-16.30, August 3 (Thursday),2017
09.15-18.00, August 4 (Friday),2017
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Conference Room (403)
For details of the speakers and paper titles please see the following poster .
For the abstract of the conference please see here .
For details, please contact Jonathan Bull (j_e_bull*slav.hokudai.ac.jp) (replace * with @)
■ NIHU Seminar “Development Paradoxes of the Russian Far East: Illusions and Disillusionment”
NIHU Seminar will be held on August 30, 2017. Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to join the seminar.
Date & Time: 16:00 – 17:30, August 30, 2017
Speaker: Dr. Natalia Ryzhova (Far Eastern Federal University)
Title: Development Paradoxes of the Russian Far East: Illusions and Disillusionment
Language: English
Venue: 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center,Hokkaido University
Contact: m-kato:slav.hokudai.ac.jp (replace * with @)
September
■ International workshop◆◇◆
on Slavic and East European Studies: New horizon of dialogues on relational and area studies between junior and senior scholars
Date: 11-14 September, 2017
Venue: Szeged and Budapest, Hungary
October
■SRC special seminar
Date & Time: 14:55-16:40, October 6 (Fri), 2017
Speaker: Danko Šipka (Arizona State U)
Title: Serbo-Croatian Lexicon: Inherited, Borrowed, and Engineered
Venue: U of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Bldg 1 Room 114
■ SRC Special Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: 12 Oct. (Thurthday), 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Paul Wexler (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Title: The new field of Afro-Eurasian (Silk Road) linguistics and the benefits for the reconstruction of Eastern and Western Slavic languages
Place: Room 401 (4F), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Organized by: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) Grant Number 17H01641
Contact: Motoki NOMACHI (mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp) ([at] should be @.)
■SRC Special Lecture
Date & Time: 16:30-18:00, October 16 (Mon), 2017
Speaker: Danko Šipka (Arizona State U)
Title: Lexical Layers of Slavic Cultural Identity
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
November
■SRC Special Seminar
Date & Time: 16:30-18:00, November 17(Fri), 2017
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker1: Aisulu Khairuldayeva (PhD Student, Faculty of History, Kazakh National University)
Современная казахстанская историография про взаимоотношения Казахстана с Кокандским ханством в XVIII - первой половине XIX вв.Speaker 2: Kuanysh Murzakhojayev (PhD Student, Faculty of History, Kazakh National University)
Образование джадидского движения в Казахстане.Language: in Russian
■ Luncheon Seminar◆◇◆
Date. 12:00-13:00, 30 November (Thursday)
Room. 403 (4th Floor)
Speaker. Camillo Breiling
Title: The Lipovans: Russian Old-Believers as a religious, cultural and linguistic minority in the Romanian and Ukrainian part of the Danube-Delta
December
■ UBRJ Seminar on ‘Cooperation under the One Belt One Road and the Eurasian Economic Union’◆◇◆
Presenter: Professor Yonghui Li (Institute of East European, Russian and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Date: 1 December 2017 (Friday) Time: 17.00-18.30
Place: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Small Meeting Room (401)
Enquiries to: Jonathan Bull (j_e_bull<at>slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
Please note this presentation will be in Russian.
■ ArCS International Symposium
"International Symposium on Environment, Development and International Relations in the Arctic"Date & Time:11-12 December 2017
Venue:Centennial Hall, Hokkaido University
Program:
11 December
13:30 Opening
13:40-14:10 Keynote speech Keiji Ide, Ambassador in charge of Arctic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
14:10-16:10 Session One: Recent Development of International Relations in the Arctic: Who Will Be the Key Game Maker in Coming Years?
Chair: Juha Saunavaara, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speakers:
Sebastian Knecht, Making the game or changing the rules? Networks of power and the power of networks in Arctic governance
Hiroshi Yamazoe, Regional Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies
Fujio Ohnishi, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido UniversityDiscussants:
Nikolas Sellheim, Polar Cooperation Research Center, Kobe University
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Department of Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
16:30-18:30 Session Two: Frontier of Economic Development: The Case of Yamal Peninsula
Chair: Elena Shadrina, Waseda University
Speakers:
Masumi Motomura, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)
Andrei Golovnev, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
Arbakhan Magomedov(Ulyanovsk State University), Arctic Resources, Aborigine Land and Political Economy of Current Russian Political Regime: National and Local Dimensions.Discussant:
Florian Stammler, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland18:30- Reception
12 December
10:00-12:00 Session Three: Arctic Societies in Anthropocene: Biocultural Survival, Indigenous Knowledges, and Scientific Networks
Chair: Shirow Tatsuzawa (Hokkaido University)
Presenters:
Shiaki Kondo (Hokkaido University), Multi-Keystone-Species Ethnography Anthropocene and Salmon-Human Entanglements in Alaska
Keiichi Omura (Osaka University), The Earth Multiple: Toward Sympoietic Development of Multiple Worlds in Post-Anthropocene
Florian Stammler (University of Lapland),Aytalina Ivanova (North Eastern Federal University), Diversity for sustainability: human-animal partnerships as base for resilient Arcic SocietiesDiscussants:
Hiroki Takakura (Tohoku University)
Heather A. Swanson (Aarhus University)
12:00-12:10 Closing
Organized by Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS), People and Community in the Arctic: Possibility of Sustainable Development (Theme7)
Co-organized by Slavic-Eurasian Research Center; Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Organizing committee: Shinichiro Tabata, Fujio Ohnishi, Shiaki Kondo, Masanori Goto
Inquiry: goto<at>slav.hokudai.ac.jp
January
■ International Workshop "History and Memory in Post-socialist Eurasia" (University of Tsukuba)◆◇◆
Date & Time:14:30 - 16:30, 26 January (Friday), 2018
Venue:Room 110, Laboratory of Advanced Research A, University of Tsukuba
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/access/map_central.html
14:30 Introduction: Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba), Akifumi Shioya (University of Tsukuba)
14:40-15:20 Azim Malikov, "Collective memory and history of "holy groups" of the Zarafshan Valley in Soviet and post-Soviet periods" (SRC, Hokkaido University / Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan)
15:20-16:00 Takayuki Yoshimura (Waseda University), "Soviet Armenian National Integration Policy on the 1965 Commemoration of the Armenian Massacres during WWI"
16:00-16:30 Discussion
Sponsored: Special Program for Central Asian Countries, University of Tsukuba
Co-sponsored:Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
■ Tobunken-seminar “Holy Groups” of the Zarafshan Valley in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Century: Social Transformations◆◇◆
Date and Time: 27 January, 2018, 14:00-16:15 (lecture: 14:05-15:05; comment: 15:15-15:35)
Venue: Room 304, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken),University of Tokyo (Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access/index.html
Speaker: Professor Azim Malikov (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan / Visiting Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
Lecture Title: “Holy Groups” of the Zarafshan Valley in the Second Half of the 19th - Early 20th Century: Social Transformations
Commentator: Dr. Yayoi Kawahara (JSPS Research Fellow RPD; Chuo University)
Contact Person: Kazuo Morimoto (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Co-sponsored by the Research Project “Studies on the Persianate World,” Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Tobunken Seminar); Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University; and Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Japan Office (Gilas Lecture).
For more details: http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/news.php?id=MonDec251154362017
■ CIRAS Eurasia Seminar◆◇◆
Speaker: Azim MALIKOV (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan / SRC, Hokkaido Univ.)
Title: "Holy groups" in Central Asia: Translocal Links and Identity Variations
Date and Time: 10:30-12:00, 29 January (Monday), 2018
Venue:Room 213, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/access/
Sponsored :Asia-Pacific Area Studies Project, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Co-sponsored:Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
■ SRC Special Seminar on Eurasian Geopolitics◆◇◆
Date & Time: 16:30-18:30, January 31 (Wed.), 2018
Speaker 1: Досым Сатпаев (Группа оценки рисков, Казахстан)
Вызовы для Центральной Азии: гибридные угрозы и мягкая сила
Speaker 2: Александр Габуев (Московский Центр Карнеги)
Поворот России к Азии при Путине 4.0: чего ожидать?
Discussant: Miki Wajima (Institute for Russian & NIS Economic Studies, ROTOBO)
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Language: Russian
February
■ SRC Special Seminar on the Caucasus◆◇◆
Date and Time: 16:30-18:00, February 2 (Fri), 2018
Speaker: Richard Giragosian (Director, Regional Studies Center, Armenia)
Title: A Region at Risk: Dynamic Trends in the South Caucasus
Venue: Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
■ UBRJ / NIHU Seminar ◆◇◆ "Borderland People"
- 'The limits of Koreanness: Korean encounters at a three-way border'
Ed Pulford (JSPS Fellow/SRC) - 'Between nationalization and transnationalization: the politics of belonging among Dungans in post-Soviet Kazakhstan'
Assel Bitabarova (Doctoral student/Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University)
Date: 22 February 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 16.00-18.00
Place: Room 403 (Large Conference Room), Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
For details, please contact: Jonathan Bull (j_e_bull[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
March
■ Seminar & Lecture
Transtextuality in Medieval Slavonic Literature ◆◇◆ Marcn 7-9, 2018 Sapporo-Tokyo
Seminar in Sapporo: March 7, 2018 [15:00-17:00] Moderator: Fumiaki Hattori (Kyoto University) Speaker1: Keiko Mitani (University of Tokyo) Speaker 2: Ljubica Jovanovic (American Public Discussion
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Lecture in Tokyo: March 9 2018 [14:00-16:00] Moderator: Keiko Mitani Speaker: Dr. Ljubica Jovanovic (American Public University System) Discussants: Fumiaki Hattori, Keiko Mitani |
■ SRC Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time:16:30-18:00, March 13 (Tue), 2018
Title:Два портрета времен восстановления российско-японских дипломатических отношений (1925 г.): посол Танака Токити и полпред Виктор Копп
Language: Russian
Speaker:Sergey Kuznetsov(Irkutsk State University/SRC)
Venue:The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Room 401
Inquiry: David WOLFF urufu <at>slav.hokudai.ac.jp.
■ SRC Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time:13:00-15:00 March 19, Monday, 2018
Venue:Room 401, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Nikita Bochkarev (Yakut Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences)
Competitivness inside the Russian economy: Case of the regional insurance market
Tuyara Gavril'eva (Institute of Engineering & Technology, North-Eastern
Federal University in Yakutsk)
Sustainability and survivability of the Arctic communities
Language:English
Contact: goto<at>slav.hokudai.ac.jp
■ SRC Special Seminar
Date & Time:14:45-15:45, March 28 (Wed), 2018
Speaker: Jasmina Grković Major (U of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Title: Future Tense in South Slavic: Diachrony and Typology
Venue: Room 113, Faculty of Law and Letters Bldg. 1, University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
Contact: Motoki Nomachi mnomachi<at>slav.hokudai.ac.jp
This seminar is organized as part of the annual meeting of Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures (JSSSLL)