The Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
2006 Winter International Symposium
in Japanese
Beyond the Empire: Images of Russia in the Eurasian Cultural Context
on 13 (Wed.) -15 (Fri.) December 2006
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Place: Room 423, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan

Official languages: English and Russian. There will be Simultaneous Interpretation except Sessions 1.
Program
December 13(Wednesday)

14:00
Opening addresses

Kimitaka Matsuzato(SRC)
Tetsuo Mochizuki(SRC)

14:15-16:45
Session 1.  Manipulating Russia's Images


Papers:
Boris Lanin (Russian Academy of Education)

Imaginary Russia in Modern Russian Anti-Utopias (in Russian)

Go Koshino (JSPS Research Fellow, SRC)

Nostalgia for Empire in "Alternative History" of Contemporary Russian Science Fiction (in Russian)

Kazuhisa Iwamoto (Wakkanai Hokusei U.)

Globalism and Localism in the Works of Viktor Pelevin (in Russian)

Tetsuo Mochizuki (SRC)
Kayo Fukuma (Osaka U. of Foreign Studies)

How Many Pictures Does a Roman Contain?: Vladimir Sorokin and Russian Landscape (in Russian)
Chairperson:
Kumi Mouri (SRC)
Discussant:
Mitsuyoshi Numano (U. of Tokyo)

17:00-18:00
Special Program 
Russia on the Big Screen

Introduction by David Wolff (SRC)

Film by Thomas Lahusen (U. of Toronto) and others

18:30-20:00
Beer Party

December 14(Thursday)

9:30-11:45
Session 2.
Imperial Knowledge, Orientalism and Post-Colonialism in Russia I


Papers:
Tadashi Nakamura (Yamagata U., Yamagata)

Literature and Borders: Caucasus in Russian Literature (in Russian)

Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley)

Chronotopes of the Symbol: Crosscultural Differentiation in the Russian and Georgian Modernism  (in English)

Kyohei Norimatsu (JSPS Research Fellow, U. of Tokyo)

Conditions of Colonial Representation in 19th Century Russian Literature (in Russian)
Chairperson:
Takashi Kimura (Kyoto U.)
Discussant:
Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)

13:00-15:15
Session 3.
Imperial Knowledge, Orientalism and Post-Colonialism in Russia II


Papers:
Sergei Kozlov (St. Petersburg State University; SRC visiting )

Russian Travellers in Modern Times: Imperial Approach or Cosmopolitan Perception? (in Russian)

Andrzej de Lazari (U. of Lodz, Poland)

Russians and Poles – Mutual Perceptions (in Russian)

Mitsuharu Akao (SRC)

"The Jewish Question" as a Russian Question: The Russian Intelligentsia's Attitudes toward Antisemitism during the Last Decades of Czarist Russia (in Russian)
Chairperson:
Atsuo Nakazawa (Toyama U.)
Discussant:
David Wolff (SRC)

15:30-17:45
Session 4.
Russia's Images in the light of Mental Geography


Papers:
Dmitry Zamyatin (RGGU, Moscow)

Geographical Images of Russia: The Basic Strategies of Representation and Interpretation  (in Russian)

Christopher David Ely (Florida Atlantic University)

The Reform-Era Russian City and the Limits of Visual Representation in Realist Art (in English)

Mark Bassin (U. of Birmingham)

EURASIANISMS "CLASSICAL" AND "NEO": CONTINUITY OR COOPTATION? (REVISED)(in English)
Chairperson:
Kimitaka Matsuzato (SRC)
Discussant:
Yusuke Toriyama (JSPS Research Fellow, Waseda U.)
Yukiko Hama (Tsuda College)

18:30-20:30
Reception

December 15 (Friday)

9:30-11:45
Session 5. Images of Russia and Russians Abroad


Papers:
Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt U.)

'V promezhutke ne zhutko': The Russian-speaking Diaspora and Russian Newspapers in Germany (in Russian)

Irina Novikova  (U. of Latvia)

The Image of "Russia" in the "New Abroad": The Russian-speaking Diaspora along the Baltic since 1991 (in English)

Keiko Mitani (Kyoto U.)

From Balkan with Love: Verbal Representation of Russia in Serbian Society (in English)
Chairperson:
Yuichi Isahaya (Doshisha U.)
Discussant:
Valerij Gretchko (U. of Tokyo)

13:15-15:30
Session 6.
Visual memory of Soviet Empire


Papers:
Evgeny Dobrenko (Nottingham U.)

The Soviet Spectacle: The Exhibition of the Accomplishments of the People's Economy of the USSR  (in Russian)

Hisashi Yakou (Hokkaido U.)

Pictorializing the Southern Kuril Islands – "Shikotan Group" and the Artists of the Russian Far East (in English)

Wakana Kohno (Chiba U.)

Soviet Society Seen by Jewish Artists (in Russian)
Chairperson:
Akifumi Takeda (Toyama U.)
Discussant:
Irina Melnikova (Doshisha U.)

15:45-18:00
Session 7.  Literature, Art, Education and the Formation of Russia's Images 


Papers:
Katya Hokanson (U. of Oregon)

In Defense of Empire:  "The Bronze Horseman" and "To the Slanderers of Russia" (in English)

Hajime Kaizawa (Waseda U.)

Literacy Education and the Formation of Russian National Identity (in Russian)

Boris Gasparov (Columbia U.)

Popolo di Pekino: The Image of Musorgsky's Muscovy in Twentieth-Century European Modernism (in English)
Chairperson:
Tetsuo Mochizuki (SRC)
Discussant:
Susumu Nonaka (Saitama U.)
Norio Umetsu (Tokyo International U.)

December 16(Saturday)



December 17(Sunday)



Organizing Committee:
Tetsuo Mochizuki  Tel.:011-706-3801
Tomohiko Uyama
David Wolff
Kumi Mouri  Tel.:011-706-4809

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