List of Conferences and Seminars 2024
April
■ Book Talk "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia"◆◇◆
Date & Time : Monday, April 15, 2024, 16:00-17:30
Venue : SRC 403
Speaker : Jane Burbank (Professor Emerita, New York University)
Frederick Cooper (Professor Emeritus, New York University)Language : English
Format : Hybrid
Registration for online participation：https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UekHqpY5SymrrCtk4-We7Q
Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa< luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
May
■ Seminar "Heritage of Soviet Melodrama"◆◇◆
Date & Time : Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 11:00-18:00 (EDT)
Venue : Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Room 709 (7th Floor)
Speaker : Daisuke Adachi (Hokkaido University)
Tatiana Efremova (Columbia University)
Junna Hiramatsu (University of Tokyo)
Yulia Kim (Columbia University)
Satoko Kitai (Osaka University)
Michiko Komiya (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Oleg Lekmanov (Princeton University)
Yuri Leving (Princeton University)
Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)
Anastasiya Osipova (University of Colorado Boulder)
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)Language：English and Russian
Organized by：Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (SRC, Hokkaido University)
JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research), "Post-Socialist Melodramatic Culture"
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "A Comprehensive Study on the Melodramatic Imagination in Russian and Former Soviet Culture"If you would like to attend, please contact : Dr. Daisuke ADACHI< adaisuke[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
June
■ SPECIAL TALK "Australia-Japan cooperation in the Indo Pacific – Security, climate/energy, education, science and technology"◆◇◆
Hokkaido University’s Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center are pleased to announce a special talk event by H.E. Mr Justin Hayhurst, Australian Ambassador to Japan, on Monday 3 June 2024. The event is open to the public, and anyone interested in the topic is more than welcomed.
Date & Time : Monday, June 3, 2024, 14:00～14:50 (Venue opens at 13.30.)
Venue : Centennial Hall, Hokkaido University (N9 W6, Kita-ku, Sapporo)
Speaker : H.E. Mr Justin Hayhurst, Australian Ambassador to Japan
‘Australia-Japan cooperation in the Indo Pacific – Security, climate/energy, education, science and technology’
Dr. Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
‘Australia: an indispensable partner for Japan’Language : English (no Japanese translation)
Registration : Not required
Admission : Free
Organized by : Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact : < taenau[at]oia.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)
Organized by : Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/special-talk-justin-hayhurst-australian-ambassador-to-japan/
■ 10th Joint Symposium "Co-existence and Interdependence in Eurasia and East Asia."◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 13:30～17:15
Venue：Seoul National University , H7-308
Program :
Opening Remarks
Paik, Seung Moo (Director of IREEES, SNU)
Moderator
Jung, Hakyung (SNU)
Session 1.：Dynamics of Contemporary Russian Culture Surrounding Power.
• Adachi, Daisuke(SRC): Russian Melodrama after the War.
• Hong, Jiyoung(Yonsei University): The Story of Light in the Struggle Against the Authorities: From Nikolai Gogol's Nevsky Prospekt to the Protest of Alexei Navainy's supporters.
Discussant: Jung, Byungsam (Syracuse University)
Yoon, Seo Hyun (SNU)
Special Lecture. : Russian War in Ukraine Northeast Asian Geo-politics.
Iwashita, Akihiro (SRC)
Session 2.：Russo-Ukrainian War and Refugees in Eurasia.
• Chi, Naomi (HU): The Plight of Refugees in East Asia:Ukrainian Evacuees in Japan.
• Slepchenko, Vadim (SNU): The Russo-Ukrainian War and Russian Draft Evasion Refugees.
Discussant: Song, Jiyeoun (SNU)
Kang, Yoon Hee (Kookmin University)
Closing Remarks.
Iwashita, Akihiro (SRC)
Organized by : Institute for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Seoul National University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Contact : < rusins[at]snu.ac.kr > ([at] read as @)
■ Lunch Talk◆◇◆
Date & Time : Friday, June 14, 12:10-13:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Siarhei Bohdan (University of Regensburg)
Title : "The End of History: How I Study It in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ UBRJ/EES Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 16:30～18:00 (JST)
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Serghei Golunov, (Professor of SDU University, Kazakhstan)
Title : "Global perspectives on cross-border cooperation: where does Central Asia stand?"
Contact : Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
July
■ Online Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 16:30-18:00
Title : South East European Dissonant Heritage, Conflictual Memories and Contemporary Arts.
Speaker : Dr. Milena Dragićević-Šešić (Professor Emerita University of Arts, Belgrade Head of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management)
Language : English
Online Registration : https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkde6hqzotHdyQ1ifpoO8FoX3XuzwOsn1Y
*Please register by July 1, 2024, 23:59Organized by : Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : < gavrankapetan[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, July 4, 2024, 16:30-18:00
Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido Universtiy, Room 401
Title : Roma Civic Emancipation before WWII: National and Transnational Dimension and the Problems of the Standardisation of the Romani Language
Speaker : Prof. Elena Marushiakova (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Veselin Popov (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)Language : English
Organized by : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by : Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Special Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : July 9 (Tue) at 18:00-19:30 (JST, GMT+9)
Speaker : Mark Edele (University of Melbourne)
Prof. Mark Edele is Hansen Professor in History at Melbourne University and one of the world's leading historian on the Soviet Union at war.
In this event he will present from his latest book 'Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole History’ published in August 2023, which examines causes and implications of the ongoing conflict, while placing it into Ukrainian and Russian histories.Book Talk : "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story"
Chair : Mie Nakachi (Hokusei Gakuen University)
Language : English
Online Registration : https://forms.gle/heMJ3kWdGPGZ1kTFA
*Deadline: July 7 (Sun) at 18:00 (JST, GMT+9)
Organizers : Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History;
Institute for Russian and East European Studies at Waseda University;
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido UniversityContact : Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : July 10 (Wed), 2024, 16:30–18:00
Venue : Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, and online via Zoom
Registration for online participation：https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtd-utrz8vGtwA8l3CnfqdpDbXmTVFgPyV
Speaker : Adrienne Edgar (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title : Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
Language : English
Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact : Tomohiko Uyama < uyama[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Book Talk◆◇◆
Date & Time : Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 17:00-18:30
Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido Universtiy, Room 403
Title : Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Speaker : Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Language : English
Online Registration : https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E4MziJ-6SIK5OPBqWeGl5w
Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC2024 Summer International Symposium "The Crucible of a New World? Russia’s Borderlands at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century"◆◇◆
Date : July 18-19, 2024
Venue : SRC Room403
Detail : Please see this site
Contact : Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Monday, July 22, 2024, 16:00-17:30
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Siarhei Bohdan (SRC / University of Regensburg)
Title : "The Global History of Islamic Revolutionary Guards: (Post-)Soviet Episodes"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Lecture Series 'Ukraine and the World in Crisis'◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, July 25, 16:30-18:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Dr. Olena Nikolayenko（Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Department of Political Science, Fordham University）
Title : "Women's Participation in the Russia-Ukraine War."
Language : English
Online Registration：Please register from here
Organizer : Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, Hokkaido University
Co-Organizer : Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : Michitaka Hattori < hattori[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
Archived Video: here
■ RCAST Security Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Monday, July 29, 2024, 15:00-16:30
Venue : RCAST Building 3, M2F floor, Seminar Room-1, The University of Tokyo, Komaba Research Campus
Speaker : Olena Nikolayenko, Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Department of Political Science, Fordham University
Title : "Women and Revolutions in Ukraine and Belarus"
Format : In-person
Language : English
Participation : Please register from here
Organizer : The Religion and Global Security Division of the RCAST of the University of Tokyo
Co-Organizer : The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University
August
■ SRC Seminar “From Wandering Jews to Rootless Cosmopolitans: Conceptual Foundations of Racist Othering in European, Russian and Soviet Culture.”◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 16:00-18:00
Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido Universtiy, Room 403 and online via Zoom (Hybrid format)
Speaker : Kirill Postoutenko (Bielefeld University, The University of Helsinki)
Remark : Roman Katsman (Bar-Ilan University/Hokkaido University)
“The Return of Wandering Jews to Jerusalem: De-othering in Russian-Israeli Literature.Language : English and Russian
Format : Hybrid format with online via Zoom
Registration for online participation : Please register from here
Organizers : This seminar is supported by the FY2024 JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan (Short-term).
Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)Contact : Naoto YAGI（naoto-yagi[at]twaseda.jp） [at] read as @
Daisuke ADACHI（adaisuke[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp） [at] read as @
September
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar "Diverged Fates of Tatars in the Far East"◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, September 5, 2024, 16:00-18:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Renat Bekkin (Independent Scholar)
"Turkic-Tatar Emigrants in the Far East and the Case of the Idel-Ural Committees (1936)"
Sayoko Numata (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"‘We are us, that’s all’: Tatar Migrants Practicing Culture as a Process of Home-Building in Turkey"
Format : Hybrid format with online via Zoom
Registration for online participation : Please register from here
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Lunch Talk◆◇◆
Date & Time : Friday, September 20, 12:00-13:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Renat Bekkin
Title : "Jihad in Official Islamic Discourse in Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian War"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
October
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, October 10, 16:30-18:30
Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Room 403 and online via Zoom (Hybrid format)
Title : Современный русский постколониальный роман
(дискуссия с участием писателя Рената Беккина (SRC), автора романа ≪Ак Буре. Крымскотатарская сага≫ и профессора Дайске Адати(SRC))Language : Russian
Format : Hybrid format with online via Zoom
Registration for online participation：Please register from here
Organizer : Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
Contact : Daisuke ADACHI < adaisuke[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 16:30-18:00
Venue : Conference Room, Faculty Office Building, Izumi Campus, Meiji University
Speaker : Siarhei Bohdan (SRC / University of Regensburg)
Title : "Where There Is More of God? Revolutionary Islamist Iran and Its Partners in Moscow and Pyongyang (1979-1991)"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, October 17, 2024, 16:45-18:15
Venue : Room 745, Faculty Office Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Speaker : Siarhei Bohdan (SRC / University of Regensburg)
Title : "No Place for Neutrality? Belarus and the Conflict in Eastern Europe (2014-2024)"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Симпозиум «Против стереотипов?: Проблемы драматизма и мелодраматизма в советской и постсоветской культуре»◆◇◆
Date & Time : Saturday, October 19, 2024, 14:00-17:30
Venue : Kyoto University, Yoshida Campus, Research Building No.2. Graduate School of Letters, Exercise Room 8
Программа : 14:00 Дайске Адати (на японском) Вступительное слово
14:10 Тадаши Накамура (на японском)
Соцреалистические элементы и анти-драматизм в кинофильме режиссера Довженко "Земля" (1930)
14:50 Мицухару Акао (на японском)
«Слуга Народу» как драма национального воспитания?
Перерыв
15:45 Роман Кацман (на русском)
Мелодрама в свете теорий Р. Жирара и Э. Ганса. Случай русско-израильской литературы
16:25 Дискуссия (на японском и русском)
Language : Языки симпозиума – японский и русский (Перевод: Евгений Ужинин)
Organizers : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research), “Post-Socialist Melodramatic Culture”
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Contact : Daisuke ADACHI < adaisuke＊slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Lecture by Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 11:30-12:30
Venue : Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University
Title : "Cooperation for Future Eurasia: Dialogue between Ukraine and Japan"
Speaker : H.E. Dr. KORSUNSKY Sergiy
(Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan)Language : English
Registration : Please register from here
*Please register by October 16, 2024
The lecture will be limited to 40 people on a firstcome, first-served basis.Organized by : Embassy of Ukraine, Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, Hokkaido University
Contact： < src[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Special Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 16:30～18:00 (JST)
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Rouben Azizian (Professor of Affiliation: Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, New Zealand)
Title : "Self-determination or territorial integrity? The impact of the Ukraine War on ethnic conflict in Post-Soviet Space"
Language : English
Contact : Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Oct. 30 (Wed), 2024, 16:30–18:00
Venue : Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University
Speaker : Dr. Davor Jankuloski (The Research Center for Areal Linguistics "Božidar Vidoeski", Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Title : Periphrastic Verbal Constructions with Have + Past Passive Participle in Dialect and Standard Macedonian
Language : English
Contact : Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
November
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Nov. 1 (Fri), 2024, 17:05–18:35
Venue : University of Tokyo (Komaba campus), Bldg. 19, Room 1926.
Speaker : Dr. Davor Jankuloski (The Research Center for Areal Linguistics "Božidar Vidoeski", Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Title : Cultural Influences in the Macedonian Lexicon (Dialectal Perspective)
Language : English
Contact : Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : 13:00-14:30, Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Venue : SRC Room 401
Speaker : Renat Bekkin (SRC)
Title : The National Movement of Crimean Tatars and Dissidents in the USSR: Allies, Fellow Travelers, or Enemies?
Language : English
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : 17:00-18:30, Thursday, November 7, 2024
Venue : Room 709, Third Building, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Speaker : Renat Bekkin (SRC)
Title : Archival Investigative Files as a Source for Studying the Everyday Life of Muslims in the USSR in the 1920s–1930s
Language : English
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
December
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : 16:30-18:00, Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Venue : SRC Room 403
Speaker : Renat Bekkin (SRC)
Title : How Islam was Governed in the USSR: The Institution of Muftiate and the Council for Religious Affairs
Language：English
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Online Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, December 13, 2024, 17:00-18:30
Venue : Online (Zoom)
Title : "Guardians of the Truth"
Speaker : Almasa Salihović (Srebrenica Memorial Center, Public Relations)Speaker
Azir Osmanović (Srebrenica Memorial Center, Head of Museum and Archive)Language : English
Registration for online participation：Please register from here
Organized by : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
In cooperation : Srebrenica Memorial Center
Contact： < gavrankapetan[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
