Annual Newsletter of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University		Japanese English	-->Annual Newsletter-->no.19
No.19, February 2012

The Fift h International Symposium of Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia “Alliances and Borders in the Making and Unmaking of Regional Powers”

Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies”

Joint International Symposium “Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in the Slavic Languages”

Session Entitled “Eurasianism Past and Present: Views from the East ” Held at the “Third East Asian Conference of Slavic-Eurasian Studies” in Beijing on August 27-28, 2011

Obituary: Prof. Anatoly Viktorovich Remnev

Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program

Two Professors Who Left the SRC Our Current Staff

Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects

Visitors from Abroad

Guest Lectures from Abroad

Publications (2011)

The Library

Essay

IWASHITA Akihiro

Visitors from Abroad

• Shamshad Khan (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India), December 2010 – March 2011: His research project at the SRC is “Indo-Japan Strategic Relations: India’s Search for Reciprocity.”

• El’za-Bair Guchinova (Japan Foundation fellow from Russia), June 2011 – April 2012: Her research project at the SRC is “Images of Captive Memory: Visual Memories of Japanese POWs of the Gulag.”

• Paul Richardson(JSPS postdoctoral fellow from UK), July 2011 – July 2012: His research project at the SRC is “Beyond Northern Territories Discourses: Japan’s Centerregional Politics and National Identity.”

• Kuralay Maksut (graduate student, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan), July-August 2011: Her research project at the SRC is “Relationships between EU Countries and Central European Countries.”

• Jeyhun Mahmudlu (Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan), September-October 2011: His research project at the SRC is “Relationships between Azerbaijan and Japan: Perspectives of Energy Cooperation.”

• Vesna Požgaj Hadži (JSPS fellow from Slovenia), October 2011: Her research project at the SRC is “A Contemporary Sociolinguistic Look at Former Yugoslavia.”

• Urazgali Selteyev (graduate student, L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan), November 2011.

• Sardaana Mukhina (Japan Russia Youth Exchange Center fellow from Russia), November 2011 – October 2012: Her research project at the SRC is “Russia-Japan: Trends in the Field of Economy and Energy.”

• Monika Chansoria (Center for Land Warfare Studies, India), January-March 2012: Her research project at the SRC is “China’s Rise in Asia: Implications for Regional Stakeholders.”

• Elena Ikonnikova (Sakhalin State University, Russia), January-March 2012: Her research project at the SRC is “Russo-Japanese comparative literature on Sakhalin.”

• El’mira Nogoibaeva (Analytical Center “Polis Asia,” Kyrgyzstan), January-March 2012: Her research project at the SRC is “Comparative Analysis of Political Elites of Kyrgyzstan and Japan.”

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