Annual Newsletter of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
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| No.18, February 2011 |
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| Remarks from the Director of the SRC |
| Global COE Program “Reshaping
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Speakers of the Symposium (Dec. 3–4,
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| Essays by Foreign Fellows |
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| Feng Yujun |
Alexander Morrison |
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Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program
2011–2012:
Six scholars have been selected as foreign fellows for 2011–12:
Astafieva, Elena (lecturer, École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE], France), Kamusella, Tomasz (associate professor, Institute of East Slavonic Philology, University of Opole, Poland), Kuzio, Taras (senior fellow, chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada), Levinton, Georgij (professor, Slavic Department of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia), Shakhnazaryan, Nona (associate professor, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Kuban Social and Economic Institute, Russia), and Shishkin, Vladimir (head of the Department of Social and Political Development, Institute of History, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
- Elena Astafieva is a Russian specialist in history and religious studies. The title of her research project at the SRC will be “The Russian Presence in Palestine-Syria: Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects (1840–1920).” She will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011.
- Tomasz Kamusella is a Polish specialist in the history of ideas and sociolinguistics. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “The Triple Division of the Slavic Languages: A Linguistic Finding, a Product of Politics, or an Accident.” He will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011.
- Taras Kuzio is a British specialist in political science. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Contemporary History of Ukraine.” He will stay in Sapporo from November 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012.
- Georgij Levinton is a Russian specialist in literary criticism. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Mandelstam and Dostoevsky (Slavophilism, pochvennichestvo, anti-Semitism).” He will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011.
- Nona Shakhnazaryan is a Russian specialist in social/cultural anthropology. The title of her research project at the SRC will be “Old Habits Die Hard: A Comparative Study of Clientelism, Nepotism and Corruption in Three Post-Socialist Societies.” She will stay in Sapporo from November 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012.
- Vladimir Shishkin is a Russian specialist in history. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Russian Statehood in Siberia and the Far East during the Great Wars and Revolutions
2010–2011:
Since one of the six candidates (see Slavic Research Center News no. 17), Professor Kuzio, was unable to visit the SRC, we selected these two scholars as alternative foreign fellows for 2010–11: Malikova, Maria (senior researcher, Institute of Russian Literature [Pushkinskii Dom], Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), and Ransel, David (director, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, USA).
- Maria Malikova is a Russian specialist in literature. The title of her research project at the SRC was “Anthropological Approach to Transitional Historical Period (NEP Mass Literature as a Test Case).” She stayed in Sapporo from October 4, 2010 through December 26, 2010.
- David Ransel is an American specialist in history. The title of his research project at the SRC is “Civic Identities in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia.” He is staying in Sapporo from January 12, 2011 through March 18, 2011.
2009–2010:
Since one of the five candidates (see Slavic Research Center News, No. 16), Professor Volkov, was unable to visit the SRC, we selected a scholar as an alternative foreign fellow for 2009–10: Kundakbayeva, Zhanat (associate professor, Department of History, Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi, Kazakhstan).
- Zhanat Kundakbayeva is a Kazakh specialist in history. The title of her research project at the SRC was “The Past in the Present: Memory and Representation of Empires in Contemporary Russian and Kazakh Academic Discourses.” She stayed in Sapporo from January 6, 2010 through March 31, 2010.