List of Conferences and Seminars 2025
April
■ Survival Strategy Study Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, April 10, 2025, 16:30-18:00
Venue : SRC 403
Speaker : Emmanuel Garnier (Research Professor at the Atomic Energy Commission (Université Paris-Saclay) and a Professor at Institut de France)
Title : "Siberian indigenous peoples facing environmental changes 17th-20th centuries"
Language : English
Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : Yoko Aoshima< yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
May
■ Lunch Talk◆◇◆
Date & Time : Friday, May 23, 2025, 12:10-13:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) & Norihiro Naganawa (SRC)
Title : "Thinking through Area Studies Approaches to Russia and the Middle East"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
June
■ Survival Strategies Seminar"Uzbekistan's Economy and Trade Relations with Russia" ◆◇◆
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 14:45-16:15
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Bakhtiyor Islamov (Visiting Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of the Tokyo University)
Format: Hybrid
Zoom meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/94438950976?pwd=fDip1pTrdRop8qdwMfnA0jyz7rSHCA.1
Language： English
Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact: Michitaka Hattori < hattori[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar "Prof. Edin Hajdarpašić on Nationalism and Religion in the Balkans" ◆◇◆
Date & Time: Lecture 1. 16:30–18:00, Tuesday, June 10, 2025 / Lecture 2. 16:30–18:00, Thursday, June 12, 2025
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Prof. Edin Hajdarpašić (Dept. of History, Loyola University Chicago / SRC)
Title: Lecture 1. Between Purity and Hybridity: Nationalism, Reform, and Arabic Script Use in South Slavic Languages
Lecture 2. Conversions to Islam and the Enduring Problem of Otherness in the Modern Balkans
Language： English
Registration for Online Participation: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/BK5T4556ShaSy70eVHgwaw
*Deadline: June 9 (Mon) at 24:00 (JST, GMT+9)
Organized by: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact: Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date : 15:00–16:30, Saturday, June 14, 2025
Venue : Collaboration Room 3, 4th floor of Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
Speaker : Samuel J. Hirst (SRC/ Bilkent University, Turkey)
Title : Negotiating Autonomy: Turkey between the US and the USSR, 1955–1965
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 18, 16:30-18:00
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Hyunhee Park (The City University of New York)
Title: Marco Polo and the Khataynameh: Tracing Cross-Cultural Currents from the Mongol Empire to Ming China
Language：English
Abstract: This talk examines two pivotal travel accounts—The Travels of Marco Polo and the Khataynameh (1516) by Seyyed ʿAli Akbar Khatayi—to explore how Eurasian understandings of China evolved from the height of the Mongol Empire to the early sixteenth century. Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century narrative captures a world newly opened under Mongol rule, introducing Europe to the wealth and complexity of Yuan China. In contrast, the Khataynameh, written more than two centuries later, reflects a shifting landscape of transregional interaction, presenting Ming China through the eyes of a Persian-speaking Muslim traveler. Khatayi’s detailed account conveys familiarity rather than awe, offering insights into Chinese governance, court rituals, and daily life from within an Islamic and Central Asian worldview. This comparative reading reveals how knowledge about China circulated and adapted across changing political and cultural conditions in Afro-Eurasia— including the environmental and political challenges that characterized parts of the fourteenth century. By juxtaposing these texts, the talk sheds light on the evolving contours of interregional exchange and the enduring legacies of cross-cultural encounter that shaped early modern perceptions of East Asia.
Format: Hybrid
Registration for Online Participation: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/Bp4v87BrSZms-XsjC_-tDg
Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Climate Changes, Plagues and Wars: The “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century” in the Afro-Eurasian Context”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Ecological Imagination in the Interface of Cultures”Contact: Yoichi Isahaya < yoichi.isahaya[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] reads as @）
July
■ SRC2025 Summer International Symposium "Eurasia's Tectonic Changes: Past and Present"◆◇◆
Date : July 3-4, 2025
Venue : SRC Room403
Contact : Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
