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No.13
, February 2006 |
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Essays by Foreign Fellows
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Elza-Bair Guchinova |
Matthew Lenoe |
50TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY OF SLAVIC RESEARCH CENTER
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Prof. ITO Takayuki on Speech
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The Slavic Research Center (SRC) is a national collaborating institution for comprehensive studies on Slavic Eurasian areas (former Soviet and East European areas).
The SRC’s history
goes back to 1953, when a coordinating body of researchers on Slavic
Eurasian Studies was created in Hokkaido University. The body was
officially recognized as a part of the Faculty of Law on July 1, 1955
and named the Slavic Institute.
On Saturday July 9, 2005, lectures and a celebration ceremony were held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the SRC. Ceremonial lectures were held in the Hokkaido University Conference Hall from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, and Prof. ITO Takayuki (Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University), a former member of the SRC, gave a lecture on “Between Discipline and Region.” After the lecture, a celebration ceremony was held in Faculty House “Trillium” from 6:30 pm.
The ceremony started
with a greeting from Dr. TABATA, Center Director, followed by
congratulatory speeches by Dr. NAKAMURA Mutsuo, President of Hokkaido
University, Mr. ASHIDATE Satoshi, Director of the Scientific Research
Institutes Division, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology, Prof. KAWABATA Kaori, Chairperson of the Japan
Council of Russian and East European Studies, and Mr. Leonid Shevchuk,
Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in Sapporo. The
following is the speech of Prof. NISHIMURA Yoshiaki, Vice President of
Hitotsubashi University.
HARA Teruyuki