January 31, 2014
GCOE-SRC Special Seminar "What's In a Language Name? The Case of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian"
| Time and Date | January 31, 2014 |
| Venue | The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, 1st floor, Bdg. 18, Media lab 2 |
| Program | 16:30-18:00 Bojan Belic (University of Washington) "What's In a Language Name? The Case of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian" |
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February 6, 2013
GCOE-SRC Special Seminar "Borders in Bulgaria in the Light of Areal Ethnolinguistic Studies: Christmas and Childbirth Ritual Complexes"
July 31, 2012
On the Road to BRIT XII: The Making of a Worldwide Community of Border Studies
| Time and Date | July 31, 2012 |
| Venue | Room 403, SRC |
| Program | 15:40-
17:10 One of the many ambitions of the Global COE program on border studies has been to bring the BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) conference to Japan. By co-hosting this event with one of its Asian neighbors, the aim is to enhance border studies across Eurasia and to expand Japan’s connections with the global network of border researchers. To that end, researchers from both Japan and abroad have been working assiduously in the build-up to BRIT XII. To be held in Fukuoka/Busan (Nov. 13-16, 2012), BRIT XII has already attracted around 200 presenters from 40 countries and includes many distinguished border studies experts and practitioners from Europe, North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Russia, and China. This Special Session, in collaboration with the Global COE summer school, follows the core principles of the Program and outlines the framework of the coming BRIT as a forum for encouraging productive debates on developing border-related practices and theories, while at the same time cultivating promising young researchers. Akihiro Iwashita, Coordinator of the BRIT XII, will moderate the session. Invited Speakers & Discussants: Paul Richardson, Assel Bitabarova, Hiroshi Fukuda, Akihiro Hirayama, Tetsuro Chida Participants are encouraged to watch beforehand the online video of the pre-BRIT event at the East-West Center in Washington: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/node/33528 |
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August 3, 2012
Young Researchers’ Workshop
July 31, 2012
On the Road to BRIT XII: The Making of a Worldwide Community of Border Studies
| Time and Date | July 31, 2012 |
| Venue | Room 403, SRC |
| Program | 15:40-
17:10 One of the many ambitions of the Global COE program on border studies has been to bring the BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) conference to Japan. By co-hosting this event with one of its Asian neighbors, the aim is to enhance border studies across Eurasia and to expand Japan’s connections with the global network of border researchers. To that end, researchers from both Japan and abroad have been working assiduously in the build-up to BRIT XII. To be held in Fukuoka/Busan (Nov. 13-16, 2012), BRIT XII has already attracted around 200 presenters from 40 countries and includes many distinguished border studies experts and practitioners from Europe, North America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Russia, and China. This Special Session, in collaboration with the Global COE summer school, follows the core principles of the Program and outlines the framework of the coming BRIT as a forum for encouraging productive debates on developing border-related practices and theories, while at the same time cultivating promising young researchers. Akihiro Iwashita, Coordinator of the BRIT XII, will moderate the session. Invited Speakers & Discussants: Paul Richardson, Assel Bitabarova, Hiroshi Fukuda, Akihiro Hirayama, Tetsuro Chida Participants are encouraged to watch beforehand the online video of the pre-BRIT event at the East-West Center in Washington: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/node/33528 |
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June 15, 2012
Maritime Border Issues in Northeast Asia
The
East West Center in Washington in cooperation with the Slavic Research
Center and Border Studies Program of Hokkaido University invite you to
an Asia Pacific Security Seminar:
| Time and Date | June 15, 2012 |
| Venue | East-West
Center in Washington 1819 L Street, NW, Washington, DC, Sixth Floor Conference Room |
| Program | 12:00
P.M. – 2:00 P.M. Thomas Bickford, Center for Naval Analysis (TBC) Abraham Denmark, National Bureau of Asian Research Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido University Tony Payan, University of Texas at El Paso Martin Pratt, Durham University, UK Dr. Thomas Bickford is an Asia analyst in the China Security Affairs Group at the Center for Naval Analysis. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Chinese national security issues, including civil-military relations, defense economics, U.S. and Chinese policy towards Taiwan, professional military education, and internal security. Mr. Abraham Denmark is a Senior Project Director for Political and Security Affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). He also serves as an Asia-Pacific Security Advisor at the Center for Naval Analyses and is a Sasakawa Peace Foundation Nonresident Fellow at CSIS-Pacific Forum. He is a member of the National Committee on United States–China Relations, the U.S. Naval Institute, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Dr. Akihiro Iwashita is a professor at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University and representative of the Global COE program on “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies.” Dr. Iwashita is coordinating the upcoming Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) XII Conference in Fukuoka, Japan/Busan, Korea. In 2011, the 24th Regional Publishers Cultural Achievement Prize was awarded to his book entitled Japan’s Borders: How to break the “Spell” (in Japanese). Dr. Tony Payan, is an associate professor of Political Science, serving on the Graduate Faculty at The University of Texas at El Paso and the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez. Dr. Payan formerly served as President of the Association for Borderlands Studies, and has written numerous books and articles on the applicability of international relations theory to the U.S.-Mexico border and other border environments. Professor Martin Pratt is Director of Research at the International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University, in Durham, UK. and an adviser to the Task Force on International Boundaries of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group. He specializes in the analysis of sovereignty and jurisdictional disputes and has written on more than fifty international boundary disputes. |
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Seating is limited. Kindly send your reply by June 14. A light lunch will be served. |
September 2, 2011
SRC-OSW Seminar: Eurasia Borderlands Review
With
the support of the East West Center in Washington
| Time and Date | September 2, 2011 |
| Venue | Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw |
| Program | Session 1 Border issues in Northeast Asia (1)Satu Limaye (Director, East West 8Center in Washington) Asia Pacific, China and Russia: A View from the US (2)Hiroshi Itani (SRC) Sakhalin-Kuriles: The Prospects of the Japan Russia Border Changes (3)Marcin Kaczmarski (OSW) Russia's policy towards China and Japan on territorial issues - a Polish perspective Comment: Akihiro Hirayama (SRC) Chair: Adam Eberhardt (OSW) Session 2 Territorial challenges in the Black Sea Rim (1)Wojciech GxJ兌/span>recki (OSW) Prospects for Unresolved conflicts of Abkhazia and S.Ossettia (2)Witold Rodkiewicz (OSW) Prospects for Unresolved conflict of Transnistria (3)Shinkichi Fujimori (SRC) Business Interest around Transnistria Comment Wojciech KonoxJ夕/span>czuk (OSW), Nicolai Petro (University of Rhode Island) Chair: Paul Richardson (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Slavic Research Center) Session 3 Making and Unmaking the Border in Central Europe: Concourse of West and East Views (1)Akihiro Iwashita (SRC) (Moderator) Eurasia Border Review: In Search of a New International Orders (2)Tadatsu Mohri (Kobe Univ) Russia's foreign policy regarding images of World War II: European front and Japan (3)Hiroshi Fukuda (SRC) Central Europe as a Shifting Zone: Its Geographical Significance from a Historical Point of View (4)Marta Jaroszewicz (OSW) Border Barriers in Relations between the EU and its Eastern Neighbours: Visas and Mobility (5)Martin van der Velde (Radboud University) Euroepan Border Studies on Central Euorpe |
| No prior registration necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend. |
March 13, 2011
GCOE-SRC International Symposium
"Border Politics Surrounding North Korea"
| Time and Date | 13:30-18:00 March 13, 2011 |
| Venue | 4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Centre |
| Speakers, Discussants: |
Jongseok
LEE (Former Minister of the Ministry of Unification) Yoshinobu MORI (Saga University) Hyein HAN (Konkuk University) Ihkpyo HONG (KEIP) Youngseo BAIK (Yonsei University) Takashi KIMURA (Kyushu University) |
| Languages | Japanese,
Korean (simultaneous interpretation available) |
| Contact | Naomi
CHI (SRC)  |
| Admission is free, but prior registration necessary. | |
| Poster | N.Korea symposium [PDF] |
March 3, 2011
GCOE-SRC Special Seminar
Old Borders in New Contexts: On the Language Situation in Multinational
Companies Operating in Central Europe
| Time and Date | 16:30-18:00 March 3rd, 2011 |
| Venue | 4F Conference Room, SRC |
| Speaker | Jiri Nekvapil (Charles Univ.) |
| Language of Operation | in English |
| Contact | Motoki
Nomachi  |
| No prior registration necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend. |
Jan. 12, 2011
GCOE-SRC Special Seminar
World Refugee Year 1959-1960 and the history
of population displacement
| Time and Date | 17:00-18:30, Jan. 12, 2011 |
| Venue | 4F Conference Room, SRC |
| Speaker | Peter Gatrell (Univ. of Manchester) |
| Language of Operation | English |
| No prior registration necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend. |
December 6, 2010
Toward Networking with World's
Border Studies:
Japan’s Borders in Global Perspective
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation has been supporting the project “Establishment of Japan’s Network on International Border Studies” promoted by the Slavic Research Center at the Hokkaido University as part of our project “Efforts to Ensure Peace and Security in the International Community”. This project is an effort toward establishing a forum for discussions among practitioners as well as academics regarding the policy challenges of Japan’s border (or borderland) communities and to network with the international community of border studies. While much of the media’s attention has focused only on sensational territorial issues such as the Senkaku Islands and the Northern Territories, we take a rather different approach to the matter by building and elaborating on previous discussions and works by international border studies experts while dealing with specific topics and themes that face practitioners and academics in Japan’s border regions. Through such relentless and persistent efforts, we hope to search for a breakthrough and/or new perspectives on relations with our neighboring countries as well as Japan’s national security.
The Hokkaido University Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies” together with the Japan Society for Island Studies, City of Tsushima, and Kyushu Association for Economic Cooperation co-hosted the “Borderlands Forum in Tsushima Island” on November 12-14, and representatives from 14 local governments including Busan City of Korea came together to present and discuss the challenges that face each local community, such as those that stem from territorial issues, friction in promoting economic or social exchanges with one’s neighboring countries, as well as issues of marine debris.
The aim of this seminar is to reconsider the policies of the
local governments through the recapitulation of the achievements at the
Tsushima Forum together with some international case studies for the
establishment of the border studies network in Japan. The seminar is
open to public and everyone is most welcome.
| Time and Date | 13:30-17:00, December 6th, 2010 (Mon.) |
| Venue | 2F
Conference Room, Japan Foundation (1-2-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo) |
| Language of Operation | English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation available |
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by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Japan and the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University. |
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| 15:30-17:00 | Part II: Border Disputes and Management: Case Studies from Around the World |
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October 7, 2010
GCOE・SRC Special Seminar
"Language Borders Within the Speaker :
Codeswitching Practices and Bi- and
Multi-lingualism in the Balkans"
| Time and Date | Oct. 7, 2010 (Thurs.) 16:30-18:00P.M. |
| Venue | 4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Center |
| Speaker | Victor Friedman (Univ. of Chicago) |
| Summary | This
lecture will focus on Turkish conjugation in Balkan Romani but also examine e.g. Romani and Macedonian, Macedonian and Judezmo, Albanian and Macedonian. It will challenge formalist approaches such as concepts of embedded versus matrix languages, single grammars of multiple languages, or so-called imperfect learning. concepts such as intertwining and code-compartmentalization will be discussed. |
| Language of Operation | English |
| Contact | Motoki
Nomachi |
September 27, 2010
GCOE Seminar “Vojvodina as a
Multilingual Society:
Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities”
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| Date and Time | Sept. 27, 2010 (Monday) 10:20-17:30P.M. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Venue | 4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SRC, ext. 3158, |
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September 25, 2010
Special Lecture “Slovaci v srbskej
Vojvodine
(lit. Slovaks in Serbia’s Vojvodina)”
| Sponsored by | Japan Society of West Slavic Studies |
| Co-sponsored by | Hokkaido University Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies” |
| Date and Time | Sept. 25, 2010 16:00-17:30P.M. |
| Venue | Rm.
7203, Bldg #7, Ikebukuro Campus, Rikkyo Univ. (JR: Tobu Toujo Line, Seibu Ikebukuro Line, Tokyo Metro “Ikebukuro” Station. 7 minutes walk from the West Exit) Access map→ http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/access/pmap/ikebukuro.html Campus map→ http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/access/ikebukuro/campus.html |
| Speaker | Miroslav Dudok (Univ.of Novi Sad / Comenius Univ.) |
| Language of operation | Slovak (interpretation available) |
| Contact | Motoki
Nomachi |
