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From the Director	SRC Winter Symposium in 2005 (Dec.)	SRC Summer Symposium in 2006	Joint Seminars with the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University		Concluding an Agreement with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences		Concluding an Agreement with Sakhalin State University
Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program		The 21st Century COE Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program	Professor Hara Teruyuki Retires (March 2006)	Professor David Wolff Succeeds Professor Hara's Deeds	Professor Hayashi Nominated as Vice-President of Hokkaido University
Our Current Staff	Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects	Visitors from Abroad	Guest Lectures from Abroad	Publications (2005-06)	The Library	Web Site Access Statistics	Iwashita Akihiro Awarded an Asahi Shimbun Prize

Essays by Foreign Fellows

Sergei Kozlov

Póti László

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SRC Winter Symposium in 2005 (Dec.)

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An attentive audience in the rear of the hal

On December 14-16, 2005, the SRC Winter International Symposium was held under the title, "Regions in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present." This meeting was mainly sponsored by the Japan Foundation, as well as one of a series of symposia for the 21st century Center of Excellence program "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies," which started in 2003. Eight foreign scholars were invited as speakers from universities or institutes of Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece and Russia with eight Japanese scholars.

The aim of this symposium was to encourage discussion on topics related to "regions" of Central and Eastern Europe, namely how these various regions, or spatial consciousness, were perceived or "imagined" internally or externally in the past; how these perceptions and imagination have changed especially in modern history; what meanings these regions will have after the enlargement of the EU. The proceedings of the symposium will be published soon.

Hayashi Tadayuki

• Pertti Joenniemi (Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark)
  "Regionalisation as Europe- Making: The Case of Europe's North"


• Džemal Sokolović (University of Bergen, Norway)
  "Politics and Society in the Modern Era in the Balkans: Global and Regional Context"


• Koyama Satoshi (Kyoto University, Japan)
  "The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a Political Space: Its Unity and Complexity"


• Jacek Purchla (International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland)
  "Małopolska or Galicia. Crakow' Dilemmas in Central Europe"


• Jiří Vykoukal (Charles University, Czech Rep.)
  "Polish Reflection of Russia: Development and Structure"


• Mitani Keiko (Kyoto University, Japan)
  "Balkan as a Sign: Usage of Word Balkan in Language and Discourses of the ex-Yugoslav Peoples"


• Hayashi Tadayuki (SRC)
  "Masaryk's 'Central Europe' or 'Eastern Europe' during World War I"


• Eiki Berg (University of Tartu, Estonia)
  "Where East Meets the West? Baltic States in Search of New Identity"


• Shima Sonoko (Showa Women’s University, Japan)
  "Dimensions and Geopolitical Diversity of the 'Baltics'"


• Daniel Vojtěch (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences)
  "The 'Change in the Spirit of the Times' and the Decline of the Old World: A Czech Point of View"


• Shinohara Taku (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
  "Historical Consciousness and Civil Ethics: Debating the 'Painful Past' and Reviving 'Central Europe' among Dissident Circles in the 1980s"


• Numamo Mitsuyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  "Is There Such a Thing as Central (East) Euro Literature"


• Yoshioka Jun (Tsuda College, Japan)
  "Imagining Their Lands as Ours: Place-Name Changes on Ex German Territories in Poland after World War II"


• Alexander Sergunin (Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Russia)
  "Kaliningrad: Changing Perceptions"


• Antonis Liakos (University of Athens, Greece)
  "Historical Time and National Space in Modern Greece"


• Nakazawa Tatsuya (University of Fukui, Japan)
  "Slovak Nation as a Corporate Body"

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