The Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
2007 Winter International Symposium
in Japanese
Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts
December 5–7, 2007
Place: Room 423, Slavic Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Official Languages: English and Russian. There will be simultaneous English-Russian translation for Sessions 2–7.
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Program
December 5 (Wed.)
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10:00–11:30
SES-COE Special Seminar [Room 420,SRC]
Papers:
Pavlo Kutuyev (Mykhaylo Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Ukraine )

The Cycles of Ukrainian Politics from 1996 to 2007

13:30–15:30
Fifth International Workshop for Young Scholars
Papers:
Akitsu Mayuzumi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

The Significance of the Treaty of Kyuchuk Kainardja for the Russian Advancement into the Black Sea

Xavier LE TORRIVELLEC (INALCO, Paris)

From Soviet Modernization to Local Nationalization Bashkiria in the 1960s-70s

Seungsoo Hyun (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul)

The Chechen Conflict as an Information War and the Role of the Kavkaz-Center

16:00–16:15
Opening speech

16:15–18:30
Session 1. 
Comparative Imperiology
Papers:
SUGIYAMA Kiyohiko (Komazawa University, Japan)

The Qing Empire in Its Central Eurasian Context: The Eight Banner System as a Governmental Structure

ASANO Toyomi (Chukyo University, Japan)

Between the Collapse of Japanese Empire and the Normalization of Post-war Japanese Relations with East Asian Countries: Repatriations, Reparations and External Assets Reconsidered

Ricarda VULPIUS (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

The Russian Empire's Civilizing Mission in the Eighteenth Century in Comparative Perspective
Discussant:
Michael KHODARKOVSKY (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
Chair:
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC)

18:30-
Beer Party

December 6 (Thu.)
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9:30-11:45
Session 2.: Russia's Expansion and the Transformation of Its Eastern Policies
Papers:
Michael KHODARKOVSKY (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

Rhetoric and Reality on Russia's Eurasian Frontiers

HAMAMOTO Mami (National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan)

Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia's Eastern Policies

Irina EROFEEVA (Institute of Nomadology, Kazakhstan)

Russian Policy toward the Ruling Elites of the Kazakh Nomads from the Mid-Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries: Problems of Integration and Transformation  Russian version English version
Discussant:
NISHIYAMA Katsunori (University of Shizuoka, Japan)
Chair:
KURYUZAWA Takeo (Hokkaido University, Japan)

13:00–14:45 
Session 3. Imperial Geography and Administration in Asiatic Russia
Papers:
Anatoly REMNEV (Omsk State University, Russia / SRC)

Asiatic Russia: Colonization and "Obrusenie" in Imperial Geography from the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (in Russian)

MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC)

Intra-Bureaucratic Debate around the Institution of Russian Governor-Generals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Discussant:
Virginia MARTIN (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Chair:
TAKENAKA Yutaka (Osaka University, Japan)

15:00–17:30  
Session 4. The Russian Empire and Muslim Networks: Competition or Collaboration?
Papers:
Gulmira SULTANGALIEVA (Aktobe State Pedagogical Institute, Kazakhstan / SRC)

The Russian Empire and the Intermediary Activities of Tatars in the Kazakh Steppe: Policies of Interaction and Repulsion, from the Second Half of the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (REVISED)(in Russian)

Robert CREWS (Stanford University, USA)

Russian Power and the Local Politics of Qajar Iran

NODA Jin (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Russo-Chinese Trade through Central Asia: Regulation and Reality
Discussant:
MAEDA Hirotake (SRC)
ONUMA Takahiro (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Chair:
UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC)

18:00- 
Reception at Century Royal Hotel (3rd floor, Elegance Hall)

December 7 (Fri.)
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9:30-10:00 
Special lecture


Akylbek Kamaldinov (Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Japan)

Kazakhstan on the Way of Modernization (in Russian)

10:00–11:45 
Session 5.
Russian Strategies and Intrigues in Northeast Asia
Papers:
Dmitry PAVLOV (Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, Russia / SRC)

Secret Operations of Russia in the Far East, 1904-1905: A. I. Pavlov and  His 'Shanghai Service'

Nikolay TSYREMPILOV (Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, SB RAS, Russia / SRC)

Open and Secret Diplomacy of the Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet and the Role of Agvan Dorjiev (1912-1925)
   English version  Russian version
Discussant:
David WOLFF (SRC)
Chair:
TERAYAMA Kyosuke (Tohoku University, Japan)

13:15–15:30 
Session 6. 
Social Change in Central Asia under Russian Rule
Papers:
Sergei ABASHIN (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Russia)

Empire and Demography in Turkestan: Population and the Politics of Calculation (in Russian)

Virginia MARTIN (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Kazakh Chinggisids and Their Lands in the 19th Century: A Case Study of  Syrymbet

KIMURA Satoru (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Sunni-Shi‘i Relations in Bukhara under the Russian Protectorate: With a Focus on the Local ‘Ulama's Perceptions
Discussant:
KOMATSU Hisao (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Chair:
AKIBA Jun (Chiba University, Japan)

15:45–18:00 
Session 7. Asiatic Russia as a Space for National and Revolutionary Movements
Papers:
James H. MEYER (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA)

Public Lives and Personal Connections: Muslim Intellectuals after 1905

Salavat ISKHAKOV (Institute of Russian History, RAS, Russia)

Political Activity of Muslims in Russian Turkestan in 1905–1916 (paper in Russian; presentation will be in English)

UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC)

The Alash Orda between Siberia, the Urals, and Turkistan: Imperial Legacy Surrounding the Kazakh National Movement
Discussant:
NAGANAWA Norihiro (SRC)
Chair:
IKEDA Yoshiro (Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Japan)
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Organizing Committee:
UYAMA Tomohiko  uyama(at)slav.hokudai.ac.jp
MATSUZATO Kimitaka
NAGANAWA Norihiro
David WOLFF
AOSHIMA Yoko  ses-coe(at)slav.hokudai.ac.jp

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