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|   | No.13
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| Mikhail Dolbilov | Elza-Bair Guchinova | Matthew Lenoe | 
SRC WINTER SYMPOSIUM IN 2004 (DEC.)
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              A scene from one of the sessions
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The SRC held its
      annual winter symposium on 8-10 December 2004.  The title was
      “Reconstruction and Interaction of
        Slavic Eurasia and Its Neighboring
        World.”  The academic meeting was one of a series of
      symposia for
      the five-year research program (21st century Center of Excellence
      program), “Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies,” starting in
      2003.  The key concepts are the meso-area and neighboring world in
      the program.  A book has been published and is available on the
      SRC site, which was edited to explore the concepts of another SRC
      symposium organized one year ago; K. Matsuzato, ed., Emerging
        Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories Revived or
        Improvised?, SRC, Hokkaido University, 2005.  The 2004
      symposium
      developed the concepts in theory and regarding specific regional
      issues. 
    
IEDA Osamu
    
SHIMA Sonoko (Showa Women’s
        University, Japan) 
      “Building and Developing ‘the Baltic’ as a Region”
SUGAHARA Junko (Nisho Gakusha
        University, Japan)  
      “The Spatial Concept in the Balkan Region”
AMANO Naoki (Hokkaido University,
        Japan) 
      “Recognition of Territory in Imperial Russia: Sakhalin in Imaginative
      Geography”
TSUKADA Tsutomu (Hokkaido
        University, Japan)  
      “Russian Old Believers in Hulunbuir District (in the north of the Inner
      Mongolia Province, China) from 1920s to 1950s”
OHSUKA Fumikazu (Kanagawa
        University, Japan) 
      “Nightmares of Exiled Philosophers: Dispute over Ivan Il’in’s Book On Resistance to Evil by Force”
KOHNO Wakana (Chiba University,
        Japan)  
      “Art after ‘Art’: Russia 1974-2004”
TAKAHASHI Kenichiro (Sapporo
        University, Japan) 
      “Discourse Space of ‘Soviet Newspeak’: On Mass Songs of the 1930s”
Henry Hale (Indiana University,
        USA) 
      “Institutions and Transitions: The Russian Federation and Ukraine”
Ildar Gabdrafikov (The Ufa Academic
        Center, Russian Academy of Sciences) 
      “Bashkortostan Politics under Putin: Collapse of Authoritarianism or
      Search for New Guidelines?”
Klaus Segbers (Free University of
        Berlin, Germany)  
      “Area Studies, Comparative Approaches: Is a Peaceful Co-existence
      Possible?”
Aleksei Voskressenski (The Moscow
        State Institute of International Relations [University], Russia) 
      “Regional Studies in Russia and Current Methodological Approaches for
      Social/Historical/Ideological [Re]construction of International
      Relations and Regional Interaction in Eastern Eurasia”
IEDA Osamu (SRC) 
      “East European Regional Identity: Vanishing Away and Re-created”
Alex Pravda (The University of
        Oxford, UK)  
      “Putin’s Leadership in Perspective” (Commemorative Lecture for the
      Academic Exchange Agreement between the Russian and Eurasian Studies
      Centre, the University of Oxford and the SRC, Hokkaido University)
Zoltán Kántor (Teleki László
        Institute, Hungary) 
      “The Status Law Syndrome and Regional/National Identity: Hungary,
      Hungarians in Romania, and Romania”
Steven Roper (US Air War College,
        USA) 
      “The Politicization of Education: Identity Formation in Moldova and
      Transnistria”
Constantin Iordachi (Central
        European University, Hungary)  
      “Citizenship and Nation-building in Post-Communist Central and Eastern
      Europe”
Paul Werth (SRC/University of
        Nevada, USA) 
      “The Armenian Catholicos and Projections of Imperial Russian Power”
MAEDA Hirotake (SRC) 
      “The Forced Migrations and Reorganization of the Regional Order in the
      Caucasus by Safavid Iran”
Victor Shnirelman (SRC/Institute of
        Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences) 
      “Politics of Name: Between Consolidation and Separation in the Northern
      Caucasus”
Vladimir Kushnirenko (Kievo-Mohyla
        Academy University, Ukraine) 
      “The Islam Factor in the Political Processes in the Republics of the
      Western and Central North Caucasus”
SUDA Masaru (Hokkaido University,
        Japan) 
      “The Politics of ‘Eastern Democracy’: Mahalla and NGOs in Uzbekistan”
INOUE Madoka (Tokyo University,
        Japan) 
      “Rethinking the Separation of Government and Religion: The Religious
      Education in Public Schools in Contemporary Russia”
AKIYAMA Tetsu (Hokkaido University,
        Japan) 
      “Reviving Shabdan Dzantaev: The Role of Kyrgyz Tribale Leaders in a
      Historical Perspective”
ARAI Yukiyasu (SRC) 
      “Integration and Separation of ‘Language’: Language Policies of
      Mongolian Peoples in the USSR and Mongolia in the 1920s to 1940s”
Svetlana Paichadze (Hokkaido
        University, Japan) 
      “Schools of the First Wave Russian Emigrants”
WAKAMIYA Lisa Ryoko (Florida State
        University, USA) 
      “When Exiles Return Home: (Trans)Nationalism and Contemporary Russian
      Literature”
MOURI Kumi (SRC) 
      “The Use of Photographs in Russian Exile Literature”
KANEKO Etsuko (Shikoku Gakuin
        University, Japan) 
      “Gallicisms of the Syntax Level in Pushkin’s Prose”
Sergey Afontsev (IMEMO, Russia) 
      “The Political Economy of Tariff Unification: The Case of Russia”
OHNO Shigeki (SRC) 
      “Oil, Gas and the Russian Banking Sector”