| Annual Newsletter of the Slavic Research Center,
            Hokkaido University | 
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|  No.12
            , December 2004 | 
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| INOUE Koichi | 
          Victor Shnirelman | 
          Paul Werth | 
        
      
          
          The 21st Century COE Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program
    
As a part of the 21st Century COE Program "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies," the SRC introduced a new fellowship program. This program invites the specialists of Slavic Eurasian studies who have been engaged in the topics of the 21st Century Program (see http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvf21coe/fvf21coe.html) and hope to stay at the SRC for from one to three months. This program requests the fellows to make a concrete contribution to the 21st Century Program in research activities and postgraduate education.
The second round of the fellowship is finishing. So far we have invited six fellows:
Tamara
        I. Hundorova
      Position: Department Head, Institute of Literature, Ukrainian Academy
      of Sciences
      Topics: Modern Ukrainian literature
      Term of Stay: 20 January — 16 April 2004
      Contributions: Seminar on Modern Ukrainian literature (March 16–18)
Stanislav
        Z. Lakoba
      Position: Professor, The Abkhaz State University
      Topics: The Abkhazian problem and international relations
      Term of Stay: 22 January — 18 April 2004
      Contributions: Publication of the selection "Abkaziia posle dvukh
      imperii" (Slavic Eurasian Studies, No.5); Paper at the international
      symposium (January 28–30); Talk at a seminar of the Hokkaido Society
      for Slavic Studies (April 12)
Yulia O.
        Novik
      Position: Associate Professor, Kamchatka State Pedagogical
      Topics: Ethnic minorities in the Russian Far East
      Term of Stay: 12 February — 14 April 2004
      Contributions: Talk at a seminar of the Hokkaido Society for Slavic
      Studies (April 12)
Leonid
        A. Taimasov
      Position: Associate Professor, Chuvashi State University,
      Russia
      Topics: Ethno-confessional history of the Volga-Ural Region
      Term of Stay: 12 January — 8 February 2004
      Contributions: Paper at the international symposium (January 28–30)
Andrei
        V. Grinev
      Position: Professor, St Petersburg Trade Union University for
      Humanities, Russia
      Topics: History of Alaska
      Term of Stay: 2 September — 29 November 2004
      Contributions: Seminar on Russian America (November 17–19); Paper at
      the annual congress of the Japanese Society for the Study of Russian
      History (October 22–24)
Nail' M.
        Mukhariamov
      Position: Professor, Kazan Energy University, Russia
      Topics: Tatarstan politics, Islam in the Volga Region
      Term of Stay: 28 September — 22 October 2004
      Contributions: Paper at the annual congress of the Japanese Society for
      the Russian and East European Studies (October 8–10)
MATSUZATO Kimitaka