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

Two Professors Who Left the SRC

Prof. Arai Nobuo retired in March 2011.

Prof. Arai had worked for the SRC since May 2003. During his stay in the SRC, Prof. Arai worked on the changing socio-economic situation of the Russian Far East after perestroika. He also studied the history of Sakhalin post World War II. As a distinguished specialist in Russo-Japanese economic and fishery relations, he has contributed much to the development of scientific exchange between Japan and the Russian Far East.

Prof. Hayashi Tadayuki moved to Kyoto Women’s University in April 2011.

Prof. Hayashi had worked for the SRC since April 1994. He is an unique specialist in comparative politics of East European countries and the political history of Czechoslovakia. He has led the Japanese academic community to the research of European interwar diplomatic history. He was director of the SRC for two years since 1996, and vice-president of Hokkaido University from 2006 to 2011.

Mochizuki Tetsuo

Our Current Staff

Research Staff:

• IEDA Osamu:Professor, Economic History of Eastern Europe; Modern Hungarian History; Environment in Slavic Eurasia

• IWASHITA Akihiro:Professor, Russian Foreign Policy and Sino-Russian Relations

• MATSUZATO Kimitaka:Professor, Politics and History of Russia and Ukraine

• MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo:Professor, Russian Literature; director of the SRC

• NAGANAWA Norihiro:Associate professor, Modern History of Central Eurasia; Muslim Policies of the Russian Empire

• NOMACHI Motoki: Associate professor, Slavic Linguistics; General Linguistics

• TABATA Shinichiro: Professor, Russian Economics and Statistics

• UYAMA Tomohiko: Professor, History and Central Asian Politics

• WOLFF David: Professor, Russian, Soviet, and Emigre History; Siberia and the Far East; The Cold War; Northeast Asian Region Construction

• YAMAMURA Rihito:Professor, Comparative Economics; Russian Industry and Agriculture

Assistant Professor:

• FUJIMORI Shinkichi: Ukrainian Politics; CIS Relations

• FUKUDA Hiroshi: Modern and Contemporary History of Central Europe

• GOTO Masanori: Cultural Anthropology

• KOSHINO Go:Nineteenth-century Russian Literature; Belorussian Literature

Foreign Visitors Fellows 2011 (June) - 2012 (March)

• Elena Astafieva: The Russian Presence in Palestine-Syria: Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects (1840-1920)

• Tomasz Kamusella: The Triple Division of the Slavic Languages: A Linguistic Finding, a Product of Politics, or an Accident

• Taras Kuzio: Contemporary History of Ukraine

• Georgij Levinton:Mandelstam and Dostoevsky (Slavophilism, pochvennichestvo, anti-Semitism)

• Nona Shakhnazaryan:Old Habits Die Hard: A Comparative Study of Clientelism, Nepotism and Corruption in Three Post-Socialist Societies

• Vladimir Shishkin: Russian Statehood in Siberia and the Far East during the Great Wars and Revolutions, 1917-1922

Research Fellows:

• ADACHI Daisuke: Russian Romantic Literature

• Cheng Chierh: Acoustic Phonetics; Prosody; Taiwan Mandarin

• Chida Tetsuro: Soviet History

• Hanamatsu Yasunori: International Laws

• HIRAYAMA Akihiro: Modern and Contemporary History of Vietnam

• HOSHINO Masashi: Chinese Economy, Development Economies

• INOUE Satoko: German-Polish Trans-border Literature

• ITANI Hiroshi: Architectural History of Sakhalin and Karafuto

• KIKUTA Haruka: Cultural Anthropology; Muslim Society in Central Asia; Saint Worship in Uzbekistan

• Kiyama Katsuhiko: Archaeology of Northeast Asia

• KOMATSU Hisae: Hindi Literature; Indian Cultural Studies

• Maeda Shiho: Russian Literature

• MIYAZAKI Haruka: Polish Nationalism and the Catholic Church

• Miwa Hiroki: Indian Politics

• MORISHITA Yoshiyuki: Central and Eastern European History

• Paul Richardson: The Northern Territorial Issues

• TAKIGUCHI Junya: History of the Communist Party of the USSR

Library and Information Services Staff:

• OSUGA Mika: Research Associate, Publications

• TONAI Yuzuru: Associate Professor, SRC Head Librarian

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