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	No.12 , December 2004	back to INDEX>>

From the Director	Japan Consorthium fro Area Studies and the 21st Century Program	SRC Winter Symposium 2004 (Jan.)	SRC Summer Symposium 2004	International Symposium: Where Are Slavic Eurasian Studies Headed in the 21st Century?		International Conference, "The Status Law Syndrome"
Agreement with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre of the University of Oxford Program		Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program	The 21st Century COE Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program	Obituary	Commemorative Lecture and Farewell Party for Professor INOUE Koichi's Retirement		Welcoming Mr. MAEDA Hirotake
Our Current Staff	Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects	Guest Lectures from Abroad	Visitors from Abroad	Publications (2003-04)	The Library	Web Site Access Statistics	At a Memorial Party

Essays

INOUE Koichi

Victor Shnirelman

Paul Werth

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Welcoming Mr. MAEDA Hirotake

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On August 1, 2004, the SRC welcomed MAEDA Hirotake as a Research Fellow (temporary lecturer). Mr. Maeda was born in 1971. In 1995, he graduated from the Dept. of Oriental History of the University of Tokyo and entered the graduate school of the same university. He is the first member of the SRC faculty both to have been born in the 1970s and to have graduated in oriental history. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Maeda studied at the Oriental Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. As part of his experience in the field, he has many contacts with political leaders in the region. Having completed his coursework requirements in 2003, Mr. Maeda took up a JSPS post-doc position at the Toyo Bunko and also worked as an Adjunct Professor in Persian at Sophia University. His field of research is the history of Iran in the Safavid age and Caucasian studies. He reads sources in many languages and his major publications include "The 'Gholams' of the Safavid Dynasty: The Case of Georgian Origin." He has also published on the contemporary politics of Georgia and has a broad interest in other regions of the Caucasus. He can be called one of the leaders of the recent growth in Caucasian studies. His hobbies include jazz and other music and movies. At the SRC he will be affiliated with the Division of Comparative Studies, but we hope that he will play a focal role in Central Asian and particularly Caucasian studies at the Center.

UYAMA Tomohiko

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