List of Conferences and Seminars 2025
April
■ Survival Strategy Study Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, April 10, 2025, 16:30-18:00
Venue : SRC 403
Speaker : Emmanuel Garnier (Research Professor at the Atomic Energy Commission (Université Paris-Saclay) and a Professor at Institut de France)
Title : "Siberian indigenous peoples facing environmental changes 17th-20th centuries"
Language : English
Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : Yoko Aoshima< yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
May
■ Lunch Talk◆◇◆
Date & Time : Friday, May 23, 2025, 12:10-13:00
Venue : SRC Room403
Speaker : Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) & Norihiro Naganawa (SRC)
Title : "Thinking through Area Studies Approaches to Russia and the Middle East"
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
June
■ Survival Strategies Seminar"Uzbekistan's Economy and Trade Relations with Russia" ◆◇◆
Date & Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 14:45-16:15
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Bakhtiyor Islamov (Visiting Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of the Tokyo University)
Format: Hybrid
Zoom meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/94438950976?pwd=fDip1pTrdRop8qdwMfnA0jyz7rSHCA.1
Language： English
Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC
Contact: Michitaka Hattori < hattori[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar "Prof. Edin Hajdarpašić on Nationalism and Religion in the Balkans" ◆◇◆
Date & Time: Lecture 1. 16:30–18:00, Tuesday, June 10, 2025 / Lecture 2. 16:30–18:00, Thursday, June 12, 2025
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Prof. Edin Hajdarpašić (Dept. of History, Loyola University Chicago / SRC)
Title: Lecture 1. Between Purity and Hybridity: Nationalism, Reform, and Arabic Script Use in South Slavic Languages
Lecture 2. Conversions to Islam and the Enduring Problem of Otherness in the Modern Balkans
Language： English
Registration for Online Participation: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/BK5T4556ShaSy70eVHgwaw
*Deadline: June 9 (Mon) at 24:00 (JST, GMT+9)
Organized by: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact: Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategies Study Seminar◆◇◆
Date : 15:00–16:30, Saturday, June 14, 2025
Venue : Collaboration Room 3, 4th floor of Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
Speaker : Samuel J. Hirst (SRC/ Bilkent University, Turkey)
Title : Negotiating Autonomy: Turkey between the US and the USSR, 1955–1965
Contact : Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC-Erasmus Plus Dialogue “Triangulating the War: the EU, Russia, and China”◆◇◆
Date & Time : Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 16:30~18:00 (JST)
Venue : SRC Room403
Presenter : Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University & SRC)
“China and Russia: Ideological Alignment?”Discussants : Joanna Skrzypczyńska, Paulina Pospieszna and Rafał Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Moderator : Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)
Language : English
Organizers : Eurasia Unit for Border Research (Japan) (SRC/UBRJ)
Co-Organizers : NIHU Global Area Studies Program “East Eurasian Studies” (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University/EES)
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (SRC/SRCW)Contact : Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ SRC Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 18, 16:30-18:00
Venue: Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Hyunhee Park (The City University of New York)
Title: Marco Polo and the Khataynameh: Tracing Cross-Cultural Currents from the Mongol Empire to Ming China
Language：English
Abstract: This talk examines two pivotal travel accounts—The Travels of Marco Polo and the Khataynameh (1516) by Seyyed ʿAli Akbar Khatayi—to explore how Eurasian understandings of China evolved from the height of the Mongol Empire to the early sixteenth century. Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century narrative captures a world newly opened under Mongol rule, introducing Europe to the wealth and complexity of Yuan China. In contrast, the Khataynameh, written more than two centuries later, reflects a shifting landscape of transregional interaction, presenting Ming China through the eyes of a Persian-speaking Muslim traveler. Khatayi’s detailed account conveys familiarity rather than awe, offering insights into Chinese governance, court rituals, and daily life from within an Islamic and Central Asian worldview. This comparative reading reveals how knowledge about China circulated and adapted across changing political and cultural conditions in Afro-Eurasia— including the environmental and political challenges that characterized parts of the fourteenth century. By juxtaposing these texts, the talk sheds light on the evolving contours of interregional exchange and the enduring legacies of cross-cultural encounter that shaped early modern perceptions of East Asia.
Format: Hybrid
Registration for Online Participation: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/Bp4v87BrSZms-XsjC_-tDg
Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-organized by: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Climate Changes, Plagues and Wars: The “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century” in the Afro-Eurasian Context”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Ecological Imagination in the Interface of Cultures”Contact: Yoichi Isahaya < yoichi.isahaya[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] reads as @）
■ SRC Special Seminar “Foreign Policy of China Under the Russo-Ukrainian War”◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, June 19, 2025, 16:30~18:00 (JST)
Venue : SRC Room403/Online
Speakers : Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University & SRC)
Chisako T. Masuo (Kyushu University)Moderator : Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)
Language : English (No translations)
Registration for Online Participation: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ojvvd7OlQ-u9SzO4x-Ub4g#/registration
Organizers : Eurasia Unit for Border Research (Japan) (SRC/UBRJ)
Co-Organizers : NIHU Global Area Studies Program “East Eurasian Studies” (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University/EES)
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (SRC/SRCW)
Research Center for Global Risk, Nagasaki University (CGR)Contact : Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Survival Strategy Study Seminar ◆◇◆
Date & Time : 16:30–18:00, Thursday, June 26, 2025
Venue : Room 403 at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Speakers : Prof. Alice Weinreb (Dept. of History, Loyola University Chicago)
Title: Communism in the Kitchen. Reconciling Women's Wage Labor and Domestic Labor in East Germany
Language： English
Registration for Online Participation: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/xuzhAjnETJGdc6PII-jCug
Organizers : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Co-Organizers : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Contact : Motoki Nomachi < mnomachi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
July
■ SRC2025 Summer International Symposium "Eurasia's Tectonic Changes: Past and Present"◆◇◆
Date : July 3-4, 2025
Venue : SRC Room403
Detail : Please see this site
Contact : Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
■ Special Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time: July 6 (Sat) at 15:00-17:00 (JST, GMT+9)
Venue: Hongo Satellite, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and online via Zoom
Speaker: Olena Palko (The University of Basel / SRC)
Title: Speaking in Tongues: The Soviet Nationalities Policy and Minority Protection in Interwar Europe
Olena Palko is a historian of Modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on minority history in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and a co-editor of Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing Borders in Twentieth Century (McGill Queen’s University Press, 2022), and Ukraine’s Many Faces. Land, People, and Culture Revisited (transcript Verlag, 2023).
Language：English
Registration: https://forms.gle/42p1Vqj6BG8iugUSA *Deadline: July 4 (Fri)
Organized by: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “Historical Narratives on the Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire: Imperial Perspectives and Regional Intellectuals”
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Recasting Modern Eurasian History: The Collapse of Empires and the Quest for a New Order in the Borderlands”Co-organized by: Association for East European Studies, Japanese Association for Ukrainian Studies, Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History
Contact: Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] reads as @）
■ EES/SRCW Seminar◆◇◆
Date & Time : Thursday, July 10, 2025, 16:30~18:00 (JST)
Venue : SRC Room403
Presenter : Irena Ristić (Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia)
“The War in Ukraine: Stabilising or Destabilising the Balkans?”Moderator : Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)
Language : English
Abstract : here
Organizers : NIHU Global Area Studies Program “East Eurasian Studies” (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University/EES)
Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies (SRC/SRCW)Co-Organizers : Eurasia Unit for Border Research (Japan) (SRC/UBRJ)
Contact : Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)
