| The
6th International Symposium of Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia Slavic Research Center Winter International Symposium |
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| Comparing
Modern Empires: Imperial Rule and Decolonization in the Changing World Order |
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| Date:
January 18-20, 2012 |
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| Venue:
Room 403, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
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Language: English |
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| Program |
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| January
18 (Wed.) |
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| 15:30-18:00 |
Pre-symposium lectures | |
| Papers: |
Taras KUZIO (University of Toronto / SRC)
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Ukraine at Twenty: Post Soviet or Neo-Soviet?
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Nona SHAKHNAZARYAN (Kuban Social and Economic
Institute / SRC)
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“Homo Sovieticus” through the Armenian
Diaspora’s Prism: Representations, Stereotypes, and Images
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Vladimir SHISHKIN (Institute of History,
Siberian Division, RAS / SRC)
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Перезагрузка Российской империи в 1917-1922
гг.: революции и войны как
инструмент модернизации (Rebooting the Russian Empire, 1917-1922: Wars and Revolutions as a Factor of Modernization) [in Russian with English translation] |
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| Chair: |
MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo (SRC)
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| 18:00– |
Beer party
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| January 19 (Thu.) |
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Opening Remarks |
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| 10:45-11:45 |
Keynote Lecture: | |
| Paper: | Jane BURBANK (New York University) | |
| Empire and Transformation: The Politics of Difference | ||
| Chair: | UYAMA Tomohiko(SRC) | |
| 13:15-15:15 | Session 1: | Imperial Rule: Structures and Technologies |
| Papers: |
Maria MISRA (University of Oxford) |
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| Aristocracies and Modernities: India after the Great Rebellion |
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| Willard SUNDERLAND (University of Cincinnati) |
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| Russian Ways of Empire, From the Kazan Conquest to 1917 |
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| ASANO Toyomi (Chukyo University) |
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| Nation State System and the System of Empire in Modern Japan |
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| Discussant: |
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC) |
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| Chair: |
NISHIYAMA Katsunori (University of Shizuoka) |
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| 15:30-17:30 |
Session 2 : | Empires and the “Others”: Mutual Relationships and Perceptions |
| Papers: |
UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC) | |
| Invitation, Adaptation, and Resistance to Empires: Cases of Central Asia | ||
| KAWASHIMA Shin (University of Tokyo) | ||
| The Image of Traditional World Order and Tribute Relations in Min-kuo China | ||
| Rudi MATTHEE (University of Delaware) |
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| Zar-o Zur: Gold and Force The Late Safavids as a Tributary Empire |
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| Discussant: |
NAGANAWA Norihiro (SRC) |
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| Chair: |
MORIKAWA Tomoko (Hokkaido University) |
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| 18:00- | Reception at Sapporo Aspen Hotel | |
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| January 20 (Fri.) |
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| 10:00-12:00 |
Session 3 :The Fall of Empires and State Reconstruction: Legacies and Changes | |
| Papers: |
Fatma Müge GÖÇEK (University of Michigan) | |
| The Ottoman Imperial Legacy | ||
| IKEDA Yoshiro (Tokyo University of Science) | ||
| Toward an Empire of Republics: Transformation of
Russia in the Age of Total War, Revolution and Nationalism |
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| Aditya MUKHERJEE (Jawaharlal Nehru University) |
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| Un-structuring Colonialism: The Nehru Years and Non-alignment | ||
| Discussant: |
HANZAWA Asahiko (Meiji Gakuin University) |
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| Chair: |
AKIBA Jun (Chiba University) |
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| 13:30‐15:45 |
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Decolonization: Regional and International Implications |
| Papers: |
AKITA Shigeru (Osaka University) |
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| Economic Diplomacy of Jawaharlal Nehru Administration
after Decolonization of South Asia |
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| Qiang ZHAI (Auburn University at Montgomery) |
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| Road to Bandung: China’s Evolving Approach to De-Colonization |
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| KAN Hideki (Seinan Jo Gakuin University) |
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| The Making of “an American Empire” and Its Reponses to Decolonization in the Early Cold War Years | ||
| Discussants: |
David WOLFF (SRC), Mridula MUKHERJEE (Jawaharlal
Nehru University) |
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| Chair: |
AWAYA Toshie (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) | |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Session
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New Empires? The United States and China |
| Papers: |
Rob KROES (University of Amsterdam) |
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| America: An Empire Among Empires? |
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| TSAI Tung-Chieh (National Chung Hsing
University, Taiwan) |
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| Is China Becoming an Empire? Strategic Tradition
and the Possible Choice for Contemporary China |
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| Discussant: |
FURUYA Jun (University of Tokyo) |
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| Chair: |
TABATA Shinichiro (SRC) |
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| 17:30–18:00 | General discussion | |
| Chair: |
UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC) |
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| January 21 (Sat.) |
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| 10:30–12:00 | Special Seminar (Group 3) "Russia’s Informal Economy and Entrepreneurship" | |
| January 22 (Sun.) |
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| 13:00–18:00 | International Workshop (Group 4) "Decolonization and Empires" | |
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Special Seminar (Group 4) "Policing the Empire" | |
| 15:00–18:00 | Special Seminar (Group 4) "The End of Empires: Safavid and Ottoman Experiences" | |
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| Organizing
Committee of the Symposium: |
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| Organizing
Committee:. |
Uyama Tomohiko,
Fukuda Hiroshi, Koshino Go, Goto Masanori, Abe Ryoko |
rp@slav.hokudai.ac.jp |