SRC/GCOE International Summer Symposium
“Border Studies: Challenges and Perspectives in the Twenty-first Century”

  

DAY 1  Aug. 2 (Fri.)

9:30 Opening Remarks  Speakers Tetsuo Mochizuki(Deputy Director, Slavic Research Center) Akihiro Iwashita (Project Leader of Hokkaido University Global Center of Excellence) 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Introducing North American Borderlands Moderator Speakers Commentator Hisashi Aizawa (Hokkaido University) ･Paul Ganster (San Diego State University, US)  "Evolving Environmental Management at the U.S.-Mexican Border" ･Victor Konrad (Carleton University, Canada)  "Borders and Culture: Zones of Transition, Interaction and Identity in the Canada-United States Borderlands" ･Yuka Mizutani (Sophia University)  "Borders and Boundaries in Indigenous Life of Modern North America" Fuminori Kawakubo (ChuoGakuin University) 12:00-13:40 Lunchtime Special Sessions ･DVD “Border Regions in Transition XII: Fukuoka-Busan Conference 2012”  Moderator: Yasunori Hanamatsu (SRC) ･Special Lecture on “Border Studies in Africa”  Moderator: Akihiro Hirayama (SRC)  Speaker: Takanori Ohishi (Kyoto University) 14:30-17:30 Session 2: New perspectives on Eurasia’s Arctic Borderlands (in cooperation with Hokkaido International Exchange and Cooperation Center) (with Simultaneous Translation) Moderator/Discussant Speakers Shinji Hyodo (Institute for National Defense) ･Alexander Sergunin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)  "Paradiplomacy as a Capacity-Building Strategy:  the Case of Russia’s Arctic Subnational Actors" ･Lassi Heininen (University of Lapland, Finland)  "Security in the Arctic - new dimensions, global challenges and national policy responses" ･Klaus Dodds (University of London, UK)  "Managing Polar Orientalism: East Asia, Euro-Asia and the Arctic Region " ･Robert Huebert (University of Calgary, Canada) ･Fujio Ohnishi (Nihon University)  "The Struggle for Arctic Regional Order: Developments and Prospects of Arctic Politics" 18:30- Welcome Reception

DAY 2  Aug. 3 (Sat.)

9:30-12:00 Session 3: Borders and Language: Case Studies from the Slavic World Moderator Speakers Discussant Motoki Nomachi (SRC) ･Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University, New Zealand) "Fickle Nationalism: Slovakia’s Shifting Ethno-Linguistic Borders" ･Tomasz Kamusella (University of St. Andrews, UK) & Motoki Nomachi "When Is a Language? The Long Shadow of Border, or on (Non-)Recognizing Other Languages in an Officially Monolingual Ethnolinguistic Nation-State: The Cases of Kashubian and Silesian in Poland" ･Curt Woolhiser (Brandeis University, US) "Language Ideology, Borders, and Identity: Mapping Languages and Identities in Poland’s Podlasie Region" Susumu Nagayo  (Waseda University）   13:20-15:50 Session 4: Trans-border Environmental Issues: Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the World Moderator Speakers Discussant Osamu Ieda (SRC) ･Sergii Iegan　(State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine)  "Defence in Depth in Ukraine"  ･Roman Khalenko (State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine)  "Ukrainian emergency preparedness system" ･Shinji Kawano (Doshisha University)  "Defense in Depth for nuclear safety activities in Japan case" ･Mari Koyano (Hokkaido University)   "International law for Nuclear safety in East Asia" (tentative) Fumikazu Yoshida (Hokkaido University) 16:10-18:10 Session 5: Border Studies: A Compass towards a New World Politics? (Round Table)           Moderator             Speakers Akihiro Iwashita (SRC) Victor Konrad (Charleton University, Canada) Paul Ganster (San Diego State University. US) Jussi Laine (University of Eastern Finland) Paul Richardson (University of Manchester, UK)

Excursion  Aug. 4 (Sun.) 

Historical Museum of Hokkaido, Historical Village of Hokkaido