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Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2025 Summer International Symposium
Eurasia's Tectonic Changes: Past and Present
Date: July 3-4, 2025
Venue: Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Room 403 Format: Hybrid (on site and online via Zoom webinar)
Language: English
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Program
July 3 （Thursday）
9:50- 10:00（GMT+9）	Opening Remarks
10:00-12:00（GMT+9）	Session 1: “The Fate of Minorities in Eastern Europe in the Interwar Period”
Speakers:		Olena Palko (The University of Basel / SRC) “Soviet Minorities Experiment in the Interwar Period: Motivations, Implementation, Challenges”
		Amber Nickell (Fort Hays State University) 【Online】 “The Gilded Cage of Nations: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Interwar Soviet Ukraine”
		Atsuto Anzai (The University of Tokyo) “Not Only National but Economic Questions: Polish Economic Legislations and Transformation of Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Interwar Eastern Galicia”
Discussant:		Yoko Aoshima (SRC)
Moderator:		Ihor Datsenko (SRC)
13:30-15:30（GMT+9）	Session 2: “Eurasian Approaches to International Law”
Speakers:		Julia Leikin (Royal Holloway, University of London) “Towards Codifying the Laws of Maritime Warfare”
		Aimee Genell (Boston University) “The Legal Work of Empire: Taming Autonomy through Law in the Late Ottoman Empire”
		Yudai Ri (Tokai University) “Subjecthood/Citizenship Freelancers and Capitulation in Eurasia: The Border Regions Between Imperial/Soviet Russia and Iran”
		Samuel Hirst (Bilkent University / SRC) “Liberalizing Trade Regimes: The Soviet Union and the Turkish Coup of 1960”
Discussant:		Norihiro Naganawa (SRC)
Moderator:		Viktoriia Antonenko (SRC)
16:00-18:00（GMT+9）	Session 3: “Bosnia-Herzegovina's Past Between the Duty and the Work of Remembering”
Speakers:		Emina Zoletić (University of Warsaw) 【Online】 “Intergenerational Perspectives on Mnemonic Processes and Transformations in the Context of the Homeland and Host Land: The Bosnian Families”
		Edin Hajdarpašić (Loyola University Chicago / SRC) “Srebrenica and the Genocide Denial Industrial Complex”
		Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić　(University of Sarajevo / SRC) “Anti-Muslim Bigotry in the SFRY and the 1983 Young Muslims Trial”
Discussant:		Marko Attila Hoare (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology) 【Online】
Moderator:		Motoki Nomachi (SRC)
July 4（Friday）
10:00-12:00（GMT+9）	SRC 70th Anniversary Roundtable: The Future of Slavic-Eurasian Studies (in Japanese)
13:30-15:30（GMT+9）	Session 4: “Human Mobility and Social Transformation in Central Asia”
Speakers:		Aksana Ismailbekova (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient / SRC) “Mobilization of Kinship in the Context of Welfare Decline, Financial Crisis, and Migration in Central Asia”
		Chieko Hirota (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / SRC) “Crossing Boundaries beyond Norms？A Case Study of the Transforming Kazakh Society in Mongolia”
		Mizuki Sakurama-Nakamura (The University of Osaka) “Crisis as Catalyst: Memory, Migration, and Identity Among Tatars in Post-2022 Kazakhstan”
Discussant:		Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University) 【Online】
Moderator:		Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)
16:00-18:00（GMT+9）	Session 5: “Cultivating a Fertile Field with New Tools: Interdisciplinary Approach to Long-Term Eurasia”
Speakers:		Martin Bauch (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe) “The Mid-1250s Samalas Eruption as a Eurasian Event: Synchronicities Across the Northern Hemisphere and the Favourable Conditions of Eastern Europe”
		Piotr Guzowski (University of Białystok)【Online】 “Unbalanced Social–Ecological Acceleration Led to State Formation Failure in Early Medieval Poland”
		Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study / SRC)【Online】 “The Little Ice Age from a Manchurian Perspective: Early 17th-century Climate Variability and the Rise of the Manchu State”
Discussant:		Yoichi Isahaya (SRC)
Moderator:		Ruslan Shakhmatov (SRC)

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Organized by:

・ Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Co-organized by:

・ JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Recasting Modern Eurasian History: The Collapse of Empires and the Quest for a New Order in the Borderlands" ・ JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "Russia and the Middle East in the Long Twentieth Century" ・ JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Climate Changes, Plagues and Wars: The “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century” in the Afro-Eurasian Context" ・ NIHU Global Area Studies Program “East Eurasian Studies” at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University ・ Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Supported by:

・ Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)

 

　 　　

Contact：Yoko Aoshima 　yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp ([at] reads as @）

 

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