Gail Fondahl, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
President of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) (2011-2014)

“Indigenous Land Rights in the Russian Federation: A Quarter Century Onward”

Nosaka-Sahara Junko, Bilkent University
  "Rethinking 200 years of refugees and migrants on the Black Sea coast"
Basak Kale, Middle East University of Technology
   "Comparing Migration Management through the lenses of mass refugee movements: EU and Turkey" （online presentaion through Skype）
Endo Ken, Hokkaido University
   "The complexity of the EU challenges in the face of refugees"

Hans Carl von Werthern , Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Japan
Umehara Toshiya, The Asahi Shinbun, European Gerenal Bureau
Tsuneo Morita, Economist in Budapest
   "Reality seen from Hungary"
Nishikida Aiko, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
   "The choice to move:Palestinian refugees' migration to European countries"

Deha ERPEK （Minister Counsellor of Turkish Embassy)

Cloé DRIEU (French National Centre for Scientific Research),
“1916 Uprisings in Central Asia: A Historic Reappraisal through the Lens of Sociology of Social Movement”
Clare ANDERSON (University of Leicester),
“Social Change in East India Company South Asia and the 1857 Revolt”

"Why Arctic Security Matters Now: An Introductory Comment"
Fujio Ohnishi, Nihon University, Japan.   (Introduction both to the topic and to each Speaker)

"Reproductive States" brings together works by experts from around the world, illuminating the reproductive politics of some of the most populous countries in the world: Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, and Nigeria, as well as USSR/Russia, and the United States. Each chapter analyzes specific characteristics of national population policies after World War II. The demographic policies of these countries are often categorized differently in terms of the level of economic development (i.e. "developing," "developed" nations; or the "First," "Second," or "Third" worlds), and ideological, political, or religious orientations (capitalist, socialist, communist, Catholic, or Muslim). At the same time the book goes beyond the boundaries of these categories and demonstrates the common denominator of all reproductive policies--the perception of women's bodies as a political resource. 　　　　　
At the seminar Dr. Nakachi, coeditor, will present some of the key findings from this book project. She will also discuss the role of socialism in the contexts of Soviet/Russian and Chinese family and demographic policies, a subject that is often overlooked in the discussion of postwar development of World population control.

Language:Russian
This special seminar is organized in the frame of the inter-university agreement between Hokkaido University and University of Tartu. Also, this lecture is a part of the annual conference of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Slavic Apocrypha viewed from Inside and Outside the Slavic World
Moderator: Keiko Mitani

Participants and Presentations
Aleksandr Bobrov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature)
  “Новозаветные апокрифы в версиях Ефросина Белозерского”
Kiyoharu Miura (The University of Electro-Communications)
  “К вопросу о древнерусском мифотворчестве и религиозном воображении в мире славянских срендевековых апокрифов”
Fumiaki Hattori (Kyoto University)
  “Слово о двенадцати снах Шахаиши”

-- Coffee break --

Anissava Miltenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literature)
  “Medieval Texts with a Multilingual Tradition: Apocrypha”
Keiko Mitani (The University of Tokyo)
  “Apocrypha in Apocrypha: The Story about Twelve Fridays”

Discussion

Medieval Slavic Texts: Then and Now
Moderator: Keiko Mitani

Speakers and Talks
Aleksandr Bobrov
  “Культурное и политическое значение монастырских книжных центров Великого Новгорода”
Anissava Miltenova
  “The Workplace of the Medievalist and Information Technologies: Digital Editions and Electronic Corpuses”

Discussion
Fumiaki Hattori
Kiyoharu Miura