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                 Program
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              |  July 5 (Monday) | 
            
            
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              | 16:30-18:00(GMT+9) | 
              Session 1: Diplomacy and Trade in the History of Central Eurasia | 
            
            
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              | Moderator: | 
              Norihiro Naganawa (SRC) | 
            
            
              | Papers: | 
              Ulfat Abdurasulov(Post-Doc Fellow, University of Hamburg, Germany / SRC) 
                “Allahshukur Bay vs Vorontsov Brothers: On the Local Occurrences and Global Dimensions of the Russian-Khivan Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century.”
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              Mami Hamamoto(Osaka City University) 
                “The Russian Empire’s Penetration into the Xinjiang Market in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries.”
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              | Commentator:  | 
               Akifumi Shioya (University of Tsukuba) | 
            
            
              | Registration: | 
              
                https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkce6pqj8pHdTD9unSQ6GIGTu2BMgDizGl 
                (contact: Tomohiko Uyama e-mail: uyama[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)([at] read as @)
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              | 20:00-22:00(GMT+9) | 
              Session 2: Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Virtuality in Russian Culture (co-sponsored by School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) | 
            
            
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              | Moderator:  | 
              Seth Graham (UCL, UK)
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              | Papers: | 
              Daisuke Adachi (SRC) 
                “Nature’s Mistake: Gogol’s Writing as Self-Reflection of Photography.”
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              Alyssa DeBlasio (Dickinson College, US / SRC)  
                “An End and a Beginning: The Virtuality of Evgenii Bauer's Aesthetics of Melodrama.”
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              Ana Hedberg-Olenina (Arizona State University, US / SRC) 
                “Between Empathy and Estrangement: Sergei Eisenstein’s Views on Spectators’ Identification and Narrative Immersion.”
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              | Commentators: | 
              Rachel Morley (UCL, UK) Muneaki Hatakeyama (Seigakuin University) | 
            
            
              | Registration: | 
              
                https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpf-qgqz8uGtGtxNHApn0FHVjFYm5PKTYG 
                (contact: Daisuke Adachi e-mail: adaisuke[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)([at] read as @)
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              |   July 6(Tuesday) | 
            
            
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              | 15:00-16:30(GMT+9) | 
              Session 3: Mutual Gazes: Russian Views of, and Viewed from, Japan and South Korea | 
            
            
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              | Moderator: | 
              Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University) | 
            
            
              | Papers: | 
              Dmitry Streltsov (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)  
                “Russian View of Japan and South Korea.”
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              Alexander Bukh (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) 
                “Russia in the Construction of National Identities in Japan and South Korea.”
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              | Commentator: | 
              David Wolff (SRC) | 
            
            
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                https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5-o0RAovRdyN0e5TV3PlSw 
                (contact: Akihiro Iwashita e-mail: iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)([at] read as @)
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              | 17:30-19:00(GMT+9) | 
              Session 4: Sovereignty and Space: Russia in International Law and Political Geography | 
            
            
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              | Moderator:  | 
              Edward Boyle (Kyushu University) | 
            
            
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              Lauri Mälksoo (University of Tartu, Estonia / SRC) 
                “Post-Soviet Eurasia, Uti Possidetis and the Clash between Universal and Russian-Led Regional Understandings of International Law.”
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              Paul Richardson (University of Birmingham, UK) 
                “Prisoners of Geography?: Enduring Geopolitical Myths and (Mis)reading Russia.”
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              | Commentator: | 
              Yu Koizumi (University of Tokyo) | 
            
            
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                https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_skkPFc6KQUSPxM_79kDTTw 
                (contact: Akihiro Iwashita e-mail: iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)([at] read as @)
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              |   July 7(Wednesday) | 
            
            
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              | 16:30-18:00(GMT+9) | 
              Session 5: Reappraisal of Ethnic Issues in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space (Languages: English and Russian) | 
            
            
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              | Moderator:  | 
              Tomohiko Uyama (SRC) | 
            
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            Alexander Osipov (International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Czech Republic / SRC) 
              “The Soviet Nationalities Policy during and after Perestroika: Was It a Failure?”
              
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              Igor Savin (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia / SRC) 
                “Основные тенденции межэтнических отношений в современном Казахстане.”
                
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               Natsuko Oka (Institute of Developing Economies) | 
            
            
              | Registration: | 
              
                https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdOGrqDgjG9Jc9_G7J0XYg0vIFIIF__ly 
                (contact: Tomohiko Uyama e-mail: uyama[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp)([at] read as @)
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