| Slavic
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| From
Empire to Regional Power, between State and Non-state |
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| Date:
July 4-6, 2012 |
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| Location:
Room 403, Slavic Research Center, Sapporo |
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| Wednesday,
July 4 |
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| 15:00-16:50 | International
Workshop for Junior Scholars |
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| Chair: |
Yoko
Aoshima (Aichi University) |
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| Papers: |
Keiji Sato
(Hokkaido University) |
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| "Social and Political Movements in South Ossetia,
Southern Moldova (Gagauzia), and Transnistria at the End of the Soviet
Era: A Prelude to Violent Conflicts along Ethnic Lines?" |
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| Dareg
Zabarah
(Humboldt University) |
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| "Autocephaly: a delayed transition from empire to
national state?" |
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| Nikola
Mirilovic
(University of Central Florida) |
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| "A Preliminary Theory of Contested International
Recognition of New States: the Case of Kosovo" |
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| 17:00-18:00 | Commemorative
Lecture |
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Theodore
Weeks (SRC/Southern Illinois University) |
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| "City, Cultures, Empire: Vilnius in the Russian
Empire and SSSR"
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| Moderator: |
David Wolff
(Hokkaido University) |
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| Thursday,
July 5 |
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| 9:45-12:00 |
Session 1: | Empires
and Political Geography |
| Chair: |
Ozan Arslan
(Izmir University of Economics) |
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| Papers: |
Empires and Seas/Oceans: Charles King (Georgetown University) |
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| "Can Seas Have Histories?" |
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| Empires and Steppe: Jin Noda (Waseda University) |
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| "Empires and the Steppe: A comparative study on
Qing and Russian empires" |
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| Empires and Mountains: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv University) |
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| "Land Made of Copper, Men Made of Steel. Empire and Mountains: the Case of Russia and the Caucasus" | ||
| Discussant: |
Toshiaki Oji (Emeritus, Kyoto University) | |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Session 2 : | Religious
Politics and Transnationalism |
| Chair: |
Kimitaka
Matsuzato (Hokkaido University) |
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| Papers: |
Norihiro
Naganawa
(Hokkaido University) |
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| "Drawing Russia as a Muslim Power? The Hajj from
Tatarstan and Daghestan in the Post-Soviet Era" |
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| Sana Haroon (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan) Cancelled | ||
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| Dumitru
Cotelea (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) |
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| "The Issue of the Russian Canonical Territory
between Ecclesiology and Geopolitics" |
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| Taro
Tsurumi (Hokkaido University) |
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| "Defending Monarchism for a Plural Society:
Daniel Pasmanik, a Russian Jewish Transnationalist" |
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| Discussant: |
So Yamane
(Osaka University) |
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| 15:45-17:45 |
Session 3 : | Conflicts
Spanning the Regional Powers' Peripheries and 'Near Abroad'
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| Chair: |
Keiji Sato
(Hokkaido University) |
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| Papers: |
The Caucasia: Arsene
Saparov (Michigan University) |
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| "Arbitrary Borders?The Logic of the Bolshevik
Boundary-Making in the South Caucasus 1921-1925 Abkhazia, South
Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh " |
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| Xinjiang:David
Brophy
(Australian National University) |
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| "Russian Muslim Writing on Xinjiang in the
Pre-revolutionary Period" |
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| India: Kazuya Nakamizo (Kyoto University) | ||
| "Peripheries Creating the ‘Indian’ Nation
－Border and Minority Questions Revisited －" |
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| Discussant: |
Keiichi
Kubo (Waseda University) |
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| 18:30- |
Reception at the Sapporo
Aspen
Hotel |
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| Friday,
July 6 |
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| 9:30‐12:00 |
Session
4 : |
Competitive
Authoritarianism: Theoretical Challenges |
| Chair: |
Nobuo
Shimotomai (Hosei University) |
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| Papers: |
Barbara
Junisbai (Pitzer College) |
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| "Unpacking the 'Competition': Variation in
Political Opposition under Competitive (and Not-So-Competitive)
Post-Soviet Authoritarianism" |
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| Ayame
Suzuki
(Fukuoka Women's University) |
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| "Strong Institutions and Weak Incumbents: Asian
Competitive Authoritarianism as an Exception?"
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| Fumiki
Tahara
(Tokyo University) |
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| "Competitive Client, Faithful Agent, or Lonely
Principal? The Political Implications of Village Leadership in India,
Russia and China" |
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| Discussant: |
Atsushi
Ishida (Tokyo University) |
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| 13:30-15:30 |
Session
5 : |
Regime
Change or Regime Dynamics? A Comparative Study of Backlashes |
| Chair: |
Yang Cheng(East
China Normal University) |
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| Papers: |
Georgia: Cory
Welt (George Washington University) |
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| "Institutional Reform and Single-Party Rule in
Georgia" |
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| Ukraine: Olexiy
Haran (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) |
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| "From the Orange Revolution to Russian Model of
'Stability'?"
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| Kyrgyzstan: Tomohiko
Uyama (Hokkaido University) |
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| "Party Politics and Premier-Presidentialism in
Kyrgyzstan after the Second
Revolution: Order in Disorder" |
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| Discussant: |
Hirotake
Maeda (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
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| 15:45-17:45 |
Session 6 : | Authoritarian
Leaders and Discourse of Regional Powers |
| Chair: |
David Wolff
(Hokkaido University) |
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| Papers: |
Tang Liang
(Waseda University) |
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| "One Party System's Strategy for Survival:
Promotion and Screening of Political Elites in China"
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| Gulnaz
Sharafutdinova (Miami University) |
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| "The Limits of Political Realism and Cynicism in
Contemporary Russia" |
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| Atsushi
Ogushi
(Osaka University of Economics and Law) |
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| "The Limitation and Failure of Dominant Party
Building: Russia and Ukraine in Comparative Perspective"
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| Discussant: |
Naoya
Izuoka (Keio University) |
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| Monday,
July 9 |
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| 13:30-17:00 | Regional
Powers Seminar (Group 5, Osaka) |
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| 16:30-19:30 | Regional
Powers Seminar (Group 2, Tokyo) |
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| Organizing
Committee of the Symposium: |
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| Kimitaka
Matsuzato
(SRC) Norihiro Naganawa (SRC) Go Koshino (SRC) Masanori Goto (SRC) Ryoko Abe (SRC) |
rp@slav.hokudai.ac.jp |
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