Seminars at SRC (2008)
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January
Special Seminar on the Caucasus in Sapporo:
Rethinking the Caucasian Frontier: Local Resistances against or Interactions with the Imperial Authority? 
Date: January 28 (Monday), 2008
Place: Room423, Slavic Research Center, Sapporo
Program:
13:00-15:30
  Roundtable A: Between Religion and State

Moderator: UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC)

Sean Pollock (Columbia University), The Science of Empire in 18th-Century Caucasia

Anatoly Remnev (Omsk State University, SRC), Caucasian Committee: In Search of Imperial Model for Rule (in Russian)

Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow), Daghestani Sharia Courts in Military Native Administration, 1860-1917

Michael Kemper (University of Amsterdam), Imam Shamil and His Networks


15:30-
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16:00-18:00
  Roundtable B: Between National and Imperial

Moderator: David Wolff (SRC)

Michael Reynolds (Princeton University), The Caucasus Army of Islam: Identity and Politics in the Post-Imperial Caucasus.

Thornike Gordadze (French Institute for Anatolian Studies), Imperial Medals and National Thoughts: the Ambivalence of Social Bearers of Georgian Nationalism in XIX-XX Centuries

Ronald Suny (The University of Michigan), Effects of Empire: Tsarism as Enabler and Constraint on the Peoples of Caucasia



 18:30-
 Reception (Sapporo Beer Garden)
Contact:

MAEDA (h-maeda@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)

February
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Западногрузинская церковь: из истории грузино-византийских взаимоотношений

*На русском с переводом по-японски
Лектор:
Buba Kudava  (Director, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts)
Date & Time: February 5 (Tue.), 2008, 18:00-20:00
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room No. 423
Contact:

OSUGA Mika ( Tel.: 011-706-2385 E-mail:mika@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


March
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SRC Special Seminar
Интересы и ценности молодежи во Владивостоке (на основе опроса в 2007 году)

(in Russian)
Лектор:
Лилия Ларина (Институт истории, археологии и этнографии народов Дальнего Востока ДВО РАН)
Date & Time: March 18  (Tue.), 2008, 10:00-11:30
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room No. 420 (4th floor)
Contact:

TABATA Shinichiro  ( Ext.: 3797 E-mail:shin@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)

April
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May
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June
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Slavic Research Center Summer International Symposium
Northeast Asia in the Cold War: New Evidence and Perspectives
Date & Time: July 26 (Thu.) - 27 (Fri.)
Place: Gakujutsu Koryu Kaikan, Hokkaido University, JAPAN
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

SRC (Tel:+81-11-706-2388)

July
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SRC Seminar
 "Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia: Perceptions and Policies from Yeltsin to Putin"
Speaker:
 Dr. Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Kingdom of  Thailand)
Date & Time: July 1 (Tue.), 2008, 16:30-18:05
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room No. 423 (4th floor)

There are three major perspectives by which the Russian elite perceive East
Asia- the Eurasianist, Economic, and Multipolarity perspectives. All three
reflect Russian aspirations to once again become a great power in East Asia.
This great power aim became more coherent and focused under Putin
administration.
Contact:

IWASHITA Akihiro  (E-mail:iwasi@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


SRC Seminar
"Политика Советского государства по развитию нефтяной промышленности в Казахстане (1917-1990 гг.)"
Speaker:
 Гулзат Кобенова (Актюбинский государственный педагогический институт)
Language:
 Russian
Date & Time: July 17 (Thu.), 2008, 16:30～18:00
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room No. 420 (4th floor)
Contact:

UYAMA Tomohiko (E-mail:uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)

August
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October
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SRC Special Seminor
Speakers:
1.　Sergey Yu. Vradiy
 "Сочинения китайских ученых первой половины XIX в. в Японии накануне реформации Мэйдзи"
2.　Liudmila I. Missonova
 "Оленеводство и идентичность уйльта Сахалина (советский и постсоветский периоды)"
Language:
 Russian
Date & Time: October 23, 16:30-18:30
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room 2-2
Contact:

YAMAMURA Rihito (E-mail:ry@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)

November
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December
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SRC Special Seminor
Date & Time: December 4(Thu.), 16:30-18:00
Place: Slavic Research Center, Bunkei-kyoyou building 2-2
Speaker:
Andrei Popov
Title:
The Impact of the South Ossetian Conflict on Moldovan Politics and the Transnistrian Problem
Language:
 English
Contact:

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (E-mail:kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


Post-Communist Transformations:
the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective
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Date&Time: 10:00-17:45, 5 December, 2008
Place: Centennial hall (Map), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Program:
10:00-12:00
 Atsushi Ogushi (SRC),　"From the CC CPSU to  Russian Presidency: Development of Semi-Presidentialism in Russia"

Richard Sakwa (University of Kent), “Subject or Citizens: Obstacles to the Exercise of Constitutional Sovereignty Rights in Contemporary Russia.”

Discussant: Kimitaka Matsuzato (SRC)


13:30-15:30
 Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), “Post-socialist States and the Evolution of a New Development Model: Russia and China Compared”

Akira Uegaki, (Seinan Gakuin University), “EU Integration and ‘Backwardness’ of New Member States: In Case of Romania and Bulgaria”

Discussant: Shinichiro Tabata (SRC)


15:45-17:45
 Martin Potucek (Charles University), "Welfare or Wild Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe?"

Manabu Sengoku (Seinan Gakuin University), “Welfare State Institutions and Welfare Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Background of Institutional Diversity”

Discussant: Takayuki Ito (Waseda University)
Contact:

HAYASHI Tadayuki (tad@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)



*
 Waseda Program
Date&Time:
 17:00-19:00, 8 December, 2008
Place:
 Hall 3, Room 229, Waseda University, Japan

Richard Sakwa (University of Kent at Canterbury), “Geopolitics of Democratization: Can Russia be a Great Power and a Democracy?
Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), “Is Russia's development model sustainable?”
Martin Potucek (Charles University), “Welfare or Wild Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe?"
Contact:
 Ito Takayuki (tito@waseda.jp)

Slavic Research Seminar
Date & Time: December 8 (Mon.), 17:00-18:30
Place: Slavic Research Center, Bunkei-kyoyou building 2-2
Title:
The Emergence of the Secular Jew in Russia
Speakers:
Yakov M. Rabkin, Professor, Department of History, University of Montreal

Professor Rabkin’s major publications: The Interaction of Scientific and Jewish Cultures in Modern Times (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995); Science between the Superpowers (Priority Press, 1988); Diffusion of New Technologies in Post-Communist Europe (Kluwer, 1997); L’Europe des sciences (Seuil, 2001); Science and Ideology (Routledge, 2003); A Threat from Within: a Century of Jewish opposition to Zionism (Zedbooks/Fernwood, 2006, originally published in French under the title Au nom de la Torah: une histoire de l’opposition juive au sionisme, PUL, 2004).
Contact:

Tetsuo Mochizuki (E-mail:tetsuo@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


SRC Special Seminor
Date & Time: December 22(Mon.), 16:30-18:00
Place: Slavic Research Center, Bunkei-kyoyou building 2-2
Speaker:
Boris Kuznetsov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Title:
Russian Economic Development: before and after the Crisis of  2008
Language:
 English

Boris Kuznetsov is Chief Researcher at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), and is currently in Japan for several months to conduct research at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University. He is a well-known specialist in enterprise performance, restructuring and corporate governance in Russia. As an expert on the micro aspects of the Russian economy, he has agreed to speak with us about the influence of the world financial crisis on the Russian economy, including its macro aspects.
Contact:

TABATA Shinichiro (E-mail:shin@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)



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