Activities

Group 6 Culture : Activities

Forthcoming Conferences

Past Conferences

SRC Regional Powers Seminar

Date & Time: October 16 (Tue.) 16:30 -18:00
Title: The Character of the Russian in Slovak War-themed Literature
Lecturer: Jana Kuzmikova (Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Language: English
Place: Slavic Research Center, 4th Floor, Room 401
Contact: Koshino < gkoshino@slav.hokudai.ac.jp >

SRC Regional Powers Seminar

Date & Time: May 16 ( Wed.) 16:00-18:00
Title: Alexandr Evlakhov, a forgotten genius
Lecturer: Boris Lanin (Academy of Education of Russia)
Language: Russian
Place: Slavic Research Center, 4th Floor, Room 401

Group 6 Seminar

Date & Time: 15:00-17:00, April 28 (Sat.)
Title: The Dalit Feminism Literature in South India
Lecturer: S.Anandhi (Madras Institute of Development Studies)
Language: English
Place: Slavic Research Center, 4th Floor, Room 401
Contact: MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo

SRC-Regional Powers Seminar

Date & Time: March 8 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00
Title: Литература Сахалина и Курильских островов: поликультурная модель
Lecturer: Elena Ikonnikova (SRC/ Sakhalin State Univresity)
Place: Slavic Research Center, 4th Floor, Room 401

International Conference on Slavic Linguistics:

Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in Slavic Languages

Date: November 11(Fri.)-13(Sun.)
Place: Hokkaido University, Slavic Research Center, 4th Floor, Room 403
Program: Please see this site.

Conference in Bangalore 2011

Agenda：Comparative Aspects on Culture and Religion: India, Russia, China
Date: 15th and 16th September, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, CSCS (Center for the Study of Culture and Society), Bangalore,
1st day: Chaired by S. V. Srinivas and Ashish Rajadyaksha
Sessions expected:

1.Session I: Religion and Pluralism
	Sitharamam: Religious Pluralism, Cultural Rights and Social Justice: Looking Beyond the Minority Rights Paradigm Vadim Zhdanov: Manufacturing Religious Pluralism: Politics of Religion and Media Discourse in Contemporary Russia Sanami Takahashi: Religion as an object of science in atheistic society： The Historical Museum of Religion and Atheism in the late socialist Russia.
Coffee Break: 11:45-12:00
2.Session 2: Religion and Art 12:00-1:30
	Bennet Zon: Orientalism and the natural theology of Indian music Takako Inoue: Christian music in India
Lunch Break: 1:30-2:30
3.Cultural Interaction 2:30-4:45
	Saroj Giri: Maoism in India Tetsuo Mochizuki: Nonviolence by Tolstoy & Gandhi: Toward Comparison through Criticism Go Koshino: Images of China in Russian Literature

2nd day: Chaired by Takako Inoue and Tetsuo Mochizuki
Sessions expected:

4.Intellectual Property 9:30 am to 11:45
	Atsuko Kamiike & Takahiro Sato: The TRIPs Agreement and Pharmaceutical Industry: The Indian Experience Jinying Li: The Viral Life of An Alternative Public Sphere: Piracy, Circulation, and Cultural Control in Cyber-Age China
Coffee Break: 11:45-12:00
5.Popular Culture 12:00-1:30
	S. V. Srinivas: Stereotypes for Solidarity: A Hong Kong Film on India Yoko Takayama: Red Tourism in China
Lunch Break: 1:30-2:30
6.Gender and Culture 2:30-4:45
	Hisae Komatsu: Tell me what love is: a study of ' LOVE ' in early twentieth century　Indian women's narratives Radhika: Gender and Popular culture Anagha Bhat-Behere: M. Yu. Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of Our Times’ and Bela: Love in the times of Colonialism

FINDAS Seminar

NIHU Program: Contemporary India Area Studies
Date: July 14, 2010 (Wednesday) 18:00 -
Venue: The 3rd floor, Hongo Satellite Campus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Language: English
Home Page: Seethis site.

Presentation:	1. S. V. Srinivas (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore) Title:"Dancing Maharajas: Stardom in South India" 2. Bennett Zon (Department of Music, Durham University, UK) Title:"Mimicry and Musicology: Sourindro Mohun Tagore and the Evolution of Hindu Musical Identity
Commentators:	Junichi Fukao (Graduate School of Film Producing) Jun Obi (Daito Bunka University)
Contact:	Kiyoshi Sugimoto (kiyoshi_sugimoto@tufs.ac.jp)

Special Seminar "The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces of Culture: Another Eurasia"

Date: 13:30～17:30　11 July 2010
Place: Room 6A, 6th Floor, Kambaikan, Doshisha University, Kyoto

13:30-15:00	First Session: Culture, Border, Geography Chair: ISAHAYA Yuichi (Doshisha University) Mark BASSIN (Sodertern University) Lev Gumilev's Mental Map of Eurasia Lisa-Ryoko WAKAMIYA (Florida State University) The Rhetoric of Repatriation in Contemporary Russian Writing Anna FLORKOVSKAYA (V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute) Travels of soviet artists to the foreign East. 1950-80th.
15:15-17:30	Round Table : Toward a New Perception of Asia 15:15-17:30 Chair: MOCHIDZIKI Tetsuo (SRC) & Elza-Bair GUCHINOVA (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science) ZHANG Yingjin (University of California) Liudmila ZHUKOVA (Russian State University of the Humanities) Vadim ZHDANOV (Friedrich-Alexander University) Paul RICHARDSON (University of Birmingham)
Contact:	Secretariat of the Scientific Research on Innovative Areas rp@slav.hokudai.ac.jp