■ Book Talk "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia"◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：Monday, April 15, 2024, 16:00-17:30

Venue：SRC 403

Speaker：Jane Burbank (Professor Emerita, New York University)
Frederick Cooper (Professor Emeritus, New York University)

Language：English

Format：Hybrid

Registration for online participation：https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UekHqpY5SymrrCtk4-We7Q

Organized by：Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC

Contact：Norihiro Naganawa< luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)

 

 

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May

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■ Seminar "Heritage of Soviet Melodrama"◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 11:00-18:00 (EDT)

Venue：Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Room 709 (7th Floor)

Speaker：Daisuke Adachi (Hokkaido University)
Tatiana Efremova (Columbia University)
Junna Hiramatsu (University of Tokyo)
Yulia Kim (Columbia University)
Satoko Kitai (Osaka University)
Michiko Komiya (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Oleg Lekmanov (Princeton University)
Yuri Leving (Princeton University)
Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University)
Anastasiya Osipova (University of Colorado Boulder)
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University)

Language：English and Russian

Organized by：Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (SRC, Hokkaido University)
JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research), "Post-Socialist Melodramatic Culture"
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "A Comprehensive Study on the Melodramatic Imagination in Russian and Former Soviet Culture"

If you would like to attend, please contact：Dr. Daisuke ADACHI< adaisuke[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)

 

 

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June

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■ SPECIAL TALK "Australia-Japan cooperation in the Indo Pacific – Security, climate/energy, education, science and technology"◆◇◆

Hokkaido University’s Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center are pleased to announce a special talk event by H.E. Mr Justin Hayhurst, Australian Ambassador to Japan, on Monday 3 June 2024. The event is open to the public, and anyone interested in the topic is more than welcomed.

Date & Time: Monday, June 3, 2024, 14:00～14:50 (Venue opens at 13.30.)

Venue：Centennial Hall, Hokkaido University (N9 W6, Kita-ku, Sapporo)

Speaker：H.E. Mr Justin Hayhurst, Australian Ambassador to Japan
‘Australia-Japan cooperation in the Indo Pacific – Security, climate/energy, education, science and technology’
Dr. Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
‘Australia: an indispensable partner for Japan’

Language：English (no Japanese translation)

Registration：Not required

Admission：Free

Organized by：Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC

Contact： < taenau[at]oia.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

Organized by：Office for International Collaborations and Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC

https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/special-talk-justin-hayhurst-australian-ambassador-to-japan/

 

■ 10th Joint Symposium "Co-existence and Interdependence in Eurasia and East Asia."◆◇◆

 

Date & Time: Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 13:30～17:15

Venue：Seoul National University , H7-308

Program：
Opening Remarks
　　　Paik, Seung Moo (Director of IREEES, SNU)
Moderator
　　　Jung, Hakyung (SNU)

Session 1.：Dynamics of Contemporary Russian Culture Surrounding Power.
　　　• Adachi, Daisuke(SRC): Russian Melodrama after the War.
　　　• Hong, Jiyoung(Yonsei University): The Story of Light in the Struggle Against the Authorities: From Nikolai Gogol's Nevsky Prospekt to the Protest of Alexei Navainy's supporters.
　　　Discussant: Jung, Byungsam (Syracuse University)
Yoon, Seo Hyun (SNU)

Special Lecture.：Russian War in Ukraine Northeast Asian Geo-politics.
　　　Iwashita, Akihiro (SRC)

Session 2.：Russo-Ukrainian War and Refugees in Eurasia.
　　　• Chi, Naomi (HU): The Plight of Refugees in East Asia:Ukrainian Evacuees in Japan.
　　　• Slepchenko, Vadim (SNU): The Russo-Ukrainian War and Russian Draft Evasion Refugees.
　　　Discussant: Song, Jiyeoun (SNU)
Kang, Yoon Hee (Kookmin University)

Closing Remarks.
　　　Iwashita, Akihiro (SRC)

Organized by：Institute for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Seoul National University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center

Contact： < rusins[at]snu.ac.kr >([at] read as @)

 

■ Lunch Talk◆◇◆

Date & Time: Friday, June 14, 12:10-13:00

Venue：SRC Room403

Speaker：Siarhei Bohdan (University of Regensburg)

Title："The End of History: How I Study It in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia"

Contact：Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

■ UBRJ/EES Seminar◆◇◆

Date & Time: Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 16:30～18:00 (JST)

Venue：SRC Room403

Speaker：Serghei Golunov, (Professor of SDU University, Kazakhstan)

Title："Global perspectives on cross-border cooperation: where does Central Asia stand?"

Contact：Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

 

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July

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■ Online Seminar◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 16:30-18:00

Title：South East European Dissonant Heritage, Conflictual Memories and Contemporary Arts.

Speaker：Dr. Milena Dragićević-Šešić (Professor Emerita University of Arts, Belgrade Head of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management)

Language：English

Online Registration：https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkde6hqzotHdyQ1ifpoO8FoX3XuzwOsn1Y
*Please register by July 1, 2024, 23:59

Organized by：Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Contact：< gavrankapetan[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)

 

■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：Thursday, July 4, 2024, 16:30-18:00

Venue：Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido Universtiy, Room 401

Title：Roma Civic Emancipation before WWII: National and Transnational Dimension and the Problems of the Standardisation of the Romani Language

Speaker：Prof. Elena Marushiakova (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Veselin Popov (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Language：English

Organized by：Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Co-organized by：Platform for Exploration in Survival Strategies Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Contact：Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)

 

■ Special Seminar◆◇◆

Date & Time：July 9 (Tue) at 18:00-19:30 (JST, GMT+9)

Speaker：Mark Edele (University of Melbourne)

Prof. Mark Edele is Hansen Professor in History at Melbourne University and one of the world's leading historian on the Soviet Union at war.
In this event he will present from his latest book 'Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole History’ published in August 2023, which examines causes and implications of the ongoing conflict, while placing it into Ukrainian and Russian histories.

Book Talk："Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story"

Chair：Mie Nakachi (Hokusei Gakuen University)

Language：English

Online Registration：https://forms.gle/heMJ3kWdGPGZ1kTFA

*Deadline: July 7 (Sun) at 18:00 (JST, GMT+9)

Organizers：Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History;
Institute for Russian and East European Studies at Waseda University;
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University

Contact: Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：July 10 (Wed), 2024, 16:30–18:00

Venue：Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University

Speaker：Adrienne Edgar (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Title：Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia

Language：English

Organized by：Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC

Contact：Tomohiko Uyama < uyama[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

■ Book Talk◆◇◆

 

Date & Time：Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 17:00-18:30

Venue：Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido Universtiy, Room 403

Title：Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

Speaker：Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Language：English

Online Registration：https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E4MziJ-6SIK5OPBqWeGl5w

Organized by：Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC

Contact：Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

 

■ SRC2024 Summer International Symposium "The Crucible of a New World? Russia’s Borderlands at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century"◆◇◆

Date: July 18-19, 2024

Venue: SRC Room403

Detail: Please see this site

Contact: Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)

 

■ Survival Strategies Seminar◆◇◆

Date & Time: Monday, July 22, 16:00-17:30

Venue：SRC Room403

Speaker：Siarhei Bohdan (SRC / University of Regensburg)

Title："The Global History of Islamic Revolutionary Guards: (Post-)Soviet Episodes"

Contact：Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)