Seminars at SRC (2007)
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January


February
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SRC-COE Special Seminar
Papers: DDuckjoon Chang (Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea)
"Typologies of Modern Russian Political Culture"

Sang-Joon Lee (Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea)
"Russian Workers' Attitude toward the Market Reform: Personal Values, Perception of Workplace, and Expected Return"
Date & Time: February 2 (Friday), 2007, 10:00-12:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Contact:

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


The Final Century of Kievan Rus’: Movers and Shakers (in English with translation in Japanese)
Speaker: Daniela Hristova (The University of Chicago, USA)
Date & Time: February 2 (Fri.), 2007, 18:00-20:00
Place: Room 423 at the SRC
Language: in English with translation in Japanese
Contact:

OSUGA Mika (mika@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


21st Century COE
International Workshop
Russia as a Regional Power: Its International Status and the Elections in 2007-2008
Date & Time: 22-23 February 2007
Place: Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University
Program:

22 February
13:00-15:15
Session I: Political Regime in the Post-Putin Era
Papers:
  1. Vladimir Gel'man (European University, St. Petersburg)
    "The Transformation of Russia's Party System and Prospects for Dominant Party Building in Russia"

  2. Atsushi Ogushi (SRC, Sapporo)
    "From an Ad Hoc Party of Power to a Government-Party Regime: 'United Russia' in Perspective"

  3. Yuko Adachi (Sophia University, Tokyo)
    "Observations on Russia’s Long-Standing Efforts to Reform its Subsoil Regime"
 Chair:
Kimitaka Matsuzato (SRC, Sapporo)
Discussant:
Oleh Protsyk (European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg)

15:30-18:00
Session II: Russia's Federalism in the Post-Putin Era
Papers:
  1. Paul Goode (University of Oklahoma)
    "The Regional Dimension of Russia's 2007-2008 Elections"

  2. Yukiyasu Arai (SRC, Sapporo)
    "Reversing “Affirmative Action Empire”? A Study on “Special Status” in Newly Formed Federal Subjects"

  3. Tomila Lankina (De Montfort University, Leicester)
    "A Geographic Incremental Theory of Democratization: Territory, Aid, and Democracy in Post-Communist Regions"

  4. Naoya Hase (Keio University, Tokyo)
    "Federalism and the Politics of Pipeline Construction in Russia: the case of the East Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline"
Chair:
Atsushi Ogushi (SRC, Sapporo)
Discussant:
Vladimir Gel'man (European University, St. Petersburg)

18:30-20:30
Reception Party (Aspen Hotel)

23 February
9:30-12:00
Session III: Russia as an Energy Super Power  
Papers:
  1. Vitaly Yermakov (Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Moscow)
    "Russian Energy Outlook"

  2. Masumi Motomura (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Tokyo)
    "Russian Energy Outlook from the Viewpoint of  East Asia"

  3. Yugo Konno (Hokkaido University, Sapporo/ Mizuho Research Institute, Tokyo)
    "Russian Oil and Gas as Part of  Trade Relations with CIS Countries"
Chair:
Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)
Discussant:
Shinichiro Tabata (SRC, Sapporo)

13:15-15:15
Session IV: Cold War and Russo-Japanese Relations 
Papers:
  1. Sergey Radchenko (Pittsburg State University)
    "Perestroika and Japan"

  2. Konstantin Sarkisov (Yamanashi Gakuin University, Kofu)
    "Retrospective Review of the Two-island Compromise Formula and Some Questions of Dispute Resolution Methodology (REVISED)"
Chair:
Akihiro Iwashita (SRC, Sapporo)
Discussant:
David Wolff (SRC, Sapporo)

15:30-17:45
Session V: Unrecognized States in Host-States' Politics
Papers:
  1. Oleh Protsyk (European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg)
    "Addressing the Transnistrian Conflict: Stance of Moldova's Political Parties and Expert Community "

  2. Keiji Sato (Kyushu University, Fukuoka)
    "A Comparative Analysis of the Regional Potentiality of the "Unrecognized" Autonomos Regions: the cases of Gagauzia, Pridnester, and Polish-Lithuanian region"

  3. Yoko Hirose (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo)
    "Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh: Focusing on the Political Perspective"
Chair:
Tomohiko Uyama (SRC, Sapporo)
Discussant:
Kimitaka Matsuzato (SRC, Sapporo)
Contact: Kimitaka Matsuzato ( Tel.:011- 706-3629)
Atsushi Ogushi


March
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SRC-COE Seminar
"The Role of Civil Society in Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Lessons from Eastern and Central Europe" (in English)
Guest Speaker:
Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard University, USA/21st Century COE Program Foreign Visitor)
Date & Time: March 20(Tue.), 2007, 10:30-12:00
Place: Room W517

Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp  Tel:011-706-3629))



April
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SRC Seminar
The Mystery of the Mezhraionka (in English)
Papers: Ian Thatcher (Brunel uniiversity)
Date & Time: April 18 (Wed), 2007, 16:30-18:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC

Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)



May
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Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation: Russia and Energy Factor
IFANS-SRC Joint Conference
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Date: May 9, 2007
Place: Room 423 at the SRC
09:10-09:30
Registration
09:30-10:00 
Opening Session
  • Welcoming Remarks by Kimitaka Matsuzato, Director of SRC
  • Opening Remarks by Ju Heum Lee, Chancellor of IFANS

10:00-12:00
Session 1: Russia and Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation

  • Seon Jou Kang (IFANS) "Prospects and Necessary Conditions for Regional Cooperation in Northeast Asia"
  • David Wolff (SRC) "Can Russia Energize the Korean Settlement?"
Discussants:
Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)
Wongi Choe (IFANS)
Chair:
Seo Hang Lee (IFANS)

12:00-13:30
Lunch Break

13:30-15:30
Session 2: Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia

  • Jae Nam Ko (IFANS) "Russia’s Energy Diplomacy and Its Implications for Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia"
  • Masumi Motomura (Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation) "The Russian Energy Outlook and Its Influence on East Asia"
Discussants:
Nobuo Arai (SRC)
Seon Jou Kang (IFANS)
Chair:
Shinichiro Tabata (SRC)

15:50-17:50
Session 3: Issues in Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation

  • Wongi Choe (IFANS) "Korea-Japan FTA and Economic Cooperation in East Asia"
  • Norio Horie (Toyama University) "Russia's Labor Migration Management and Northeast Asia"
Discussants:
Nobuhito Suga (Hokkaido University)
Dok Ju Kim (IFANS)
Chair:
Rihito Yamamura (SRC)


*Cosponsored by 21st Century COE Program "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies"

Contact: TABATA Shinichiro ( Tel.:+81-11-706-3797)

If you want to participate in this conference, you need to be registered in advance. Those who want to join it, please contact us by email or telephone
(Tel: 011-706-4809).
If you are staff and students of Hokkaido University, you do not need any registration.

June
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SRC-COE Seminar
DIALOGUE with FINNISH SCHOLARS
from Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies
Speaker: Markku Kivinen
"Frames of Russian Energy Policy in Transition"

Elina Kahla
"The New Martyrs and Confessors of Holy Russia"
Date & Time: June 18 Monday 16:00-17:30
Place: Room 420 at the SRC

Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

TABATA Shinichiro (shin@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


SRC-COE Special Seminar
Speaker: Mark N. Katz (George Mason University, USA)
"Putin's Policy toward the Shanghai Cooperation Organization"
Date & Time: June 27 (Wed.), 2007, 16:30-18:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Contact:

IWASHITA Akihiro (iwasi@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


July
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SRC-COE Special Seminar
Speaker:  Dokju Kim (Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Korea)
"Korea-Russia Relations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
Date & Time: July 2 (Monday), 2007, 16:30-18:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Contact:

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


Slavic Research Center Summer International Symposium
Dirty, but Warm: Energy and Environment in Slavic Eurasia and Its Neighborhood
Date & Time: July 4 (Wed.) - 6 (Fri.)
Place: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, JAPAN
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

SRC (Tel:+81-11-706-2388)


SRC-COE Special Seminar
"Конфессиональная ситуация в постсоветской Туве"
Guest Speaker: Marina Mongush (Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian Researches / Russia)
Date & Time: July 23 (Monday), 2007, 15:00-16:30
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

MAEDA Hirotake (h-maeda@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)



August
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September
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SES-COE Special Seminar
"Courts’ Decisions and Collective Memory: How Courts’ Decisions Affect,
What We Remember and Forget about the Past "(in English)
Guest Speaker:
Marek Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Date & Time: September 3 (Mon.), 2007, 16:30-18:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

IEDA Osamu (ieda@slav.hokudai.ac.jp; Tel: 011-706-3786)


October
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SRC-COE Seminar
Guest Speaker:
Drago Roksandic (History Department, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
"Habsburgs, Ottomans, Venice, and the Military Borders"
Date & Time: October 3 (Wed.), 2007, 13:30-15:00
Place: Room 420 at the SRC
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact: IEDA Osamu (ieda@slav.hokudai.ac.jp; Tel: 011-706-3786)

Lecture
«Новые российские подходы к развитию Дальнего Востока,
и оценка его потенциального вклада в интеграционные процессы Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона»
Speaker:
Sergei Sevast'ianov (Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Russia)
Date & Time: October 22 (Mon.), 2007, 19:00-21:00
Place: Slavic Research Center, Room No. 423
Languages: in Russian with translation in Japanese
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact: OSUGA Mika (mika@slav.hokudai.ac.jp; Tel: 011-706-2385)

The Ongoing Dialogue between Central Europe and East Asia:
Toward New Perspectives on Eurasia
Date & Time: October 26 (Fri.), 2007, 10:00-18:15
Place: Room 420/3 at the SRC
10:00-12:00
Session 1: Energy Security in Eurasia

  • TABATA Shinichiro (SRC, Japan)
    "The Russian Economy and Its Relations with Japan and East Asia in the Era of High Oil Prices "
  • Ernest WYCISZKIEWICZ (PIIA, Poland)
    "Energy Factor in Russia-Central Europe Political and Economic Relations"
Chair:
HAYASHI Tadayuki (SRC, Japan)
Discussant:
Jacek FOKS (PIIA, Poland)
13:30-16:00
Session 2: Regional Cooperation and Strategy toward the New Eurasian Order

  • IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC, Japan / Brookings Institution, US)
    "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Japan: Moving Together to Reshape Eurasia"
  • DONG Xiaoyang (Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, CASS, China)
    "China's Five-year Strategy for Development in Eurasia "
  • Sławomir DĘBSKI (PIIA, Poland)
    "Russian Foreign Policy: A New Approach?"
  • Adam EBERHARDT (PIIA, Poland)
    "Developing Strategic Partnership with Russia: Challenges for Poland and the European Union"
Chair:
IEDA Osamu (SRC, Japan)
Discussant:
Lukasz KULESA (PIIA, Poland), Artur GRADZIUK (PIIA, Poland)
16:15-18:15
Session 3: Regional Integration in Eurasia

  • KO Sangtu (Yonsei University, Korea)
    "Middle Power Leadership and Regional Integration in East Asia"
  • Leszek JESIEŃ (PIIA, Poland)
    "Current Issues of European Integration: The Perspective of a New Member – Poland"
Chair:
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC, Japan)
Discussant:
IEDA Osamu (SRC, Japan)
Contact: HAYASHI Tadayuki

November
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December
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2007 Winter International Symposium
Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts
Date & Time: December 5 (Wed.) - 7 (Fri.)
Place: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, JAPAN
Everyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.
Contact:

SRC (Tel:+81-11-706-4809)


SRC Seminar
Speaker:
Suchandana Chatterjee (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, India)
"From the Past to the Present: An Indian Perspective of Central Asia and Siberia"
Date & Time:  December 18 (Tue.), 2007, 14:45-16:15
Place: Room 423 at the SRC
Contact:

UYAMA Tomohiko(uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)


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