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

Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program

2012-2013:

Six scholars have been selected as foreign fellows for 2012-13:

Bekus-Gonczarowa, Nelly (assistant professor, East Slavic European Studies Department, University of Warsaw, Poland),
Blyumbaum, Arkady (senior researcher, Russian Art History Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia);
Pang, Dongmei (associate professor, Russian Research Institute, Heilongjiang University, China);
Round, John (senior lecturer, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK);
Ryazantsev, Sergey (professor, Institute of Socio-Political Researches, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia);
Weeks, Theodore (professor, History Department, Southern Illinois University, US)

• Nelly Bekus-Gonczarowa is a Polish specialist in sociology. The title of her research project at the SRC will be “Belarusian Ethno-linguistic Nationalism versus Ideology of Russian Civilization: In the Search of Belarusian Development.” She will stay in Sapporo from November 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
  
• Arkady Blyumbaum is a Russian specialist in the history of Russian literature. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Aleksandr Blok: Literature and Politics (1905-1921).” He will stay in Sapporo from November 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
  
• Pang Dongmei is a Chinese specialist in criminal law and criminology. The title of her research project at the SRC will be “Countering the Crimes Committed by Nationals of the PRC on the Territory of the Russian Far East.” She will stay in Sapporo from November 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
  
• John Round is a British specialist in human geography and sociology. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Coping with the Uncertain Everyday: Everyday Life in Contemporary Russia.” He will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2012 through October 31, 2012.
  
• Sergey Ryazantsev is a Russian specialist in demography. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Ethnic Migrations and Formation of Diasporas in Frontier Regions in a Context of National Security of Russia.” He will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2012 through October 31, 2012.
  
• Theodore Weeks is an American specialist in history. The title of his research project at the SRC will be “Vilna, Wilno, Vilnius: History of a Multicultural City, 1795-2000.” He will stay in Sapporo from June 1, 2012 through October 31, 2012.

Osuga Mika

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