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SRC Winter Symposium in 2006 (Dec.)
The SRC 2006 Winter International Symposium "Beyond the Empire: Images of Russia in the Eurasian Cultural Context" was held from December 13 (Wed.) to 15 (Fri.), 2006, under the auspices of the 21st Century COE Program "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies" as well as the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of JSPS "Dialogue and Confrontation: The East-West Paradigm in the Slavic and Eurasian World."
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The main aim of the symposium was to reexamine the cultural identity of Russia as a Eurasian superpower in the context of globalization. Topics of the separate sessions were: "Manipulation of images of Russia in contemporary literature," "The Russian version of orientalism and post-colonialism," "Images of Russia in the light of mental geography," "Images of Russia and Russians abroad," "Visual memory of the Soviet Empire," and "Formation of images of Russia in Art and Education."
Twenty-four scholars from seven countries (Russia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, England, USA, and Japan) gave their papers in the sessions and took part in the quite intensive and fruitful discussions. There was also the presentation of a unique film about the history of Soviet cinema culture by Prof. Thomas Lahusen and others.
The conference made us recognize that Russia is now reviewing and assessing the whole history of her identity problem, and the very concepts of "Russia" and "Russians" are going through redefinition in that process, which will require reconsideration of the methodology and framework of our research itself.
The results of the symposium will be published as a book in the near future.
MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo
Speakers of the Symposium
- Boris Lanin (Russian Academy of Education) "Imaginary Russia in Modern Russian Anti-Utopias"
- Koshino Go (JSPS Research Fellow, SRC) "Nostalgia for Empire in an 'Alternative History' of Contemporary Russian Science Fiction"
- Iwamoto Kazuhisa (Wakkanai Hokusei Univ., Japan) "Globalism and Localism in the Works of Viktor Pelevin"
- Mochizuki Tetsuo (SRC), Fukuma Kayo (Osaka Univ. of Foreign Studies, Japan) "How Many Pictures Does a Roman Contain?: Vladimir Sorokin and the Russian Landscape"
- Nakamura Tadashi (Yamagata Univ., Japan) "Literature and Borders: Caucasus in Russian Literature"
- Harsha Ram (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) "Chronotopes of the Symbol: Crosscultural Differentiation in the Russian and Georgian Modernism"
- Norimatsu Kyohei (JSPS Research Fellow, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) "Conditions of Colonial Representation in 19th Century Russian Literature"
- Sergei Kozlov (St. Petersburg State Univ., Russia, SRC) "Russian Travelers in Modern Times: Imperial Approach or Cosmopolitan Perception?"
- Andrzej de Lazari (Univ., of Lodz, Poland) "Russians and Poles: Mutual Perceptions"
- Akao Mitsuharu (SRC) "'The Jewish Question' as a Russian Question: The Russian Intelligentsia's Attitudes toward Antisemitism during the Last Decades of Czarist Russia"
- Dmitry Zamyatin (Russian State Humanitarian Univ., Russia) "Geographical Images of Russia: The Basic Strategies of Representation and Interpretation"
- Christopher Ely (Florida Atlantic Univ., USA) "The Reform-Era Russian City and the Limits of Visual Representation in Realist Art"
- Mark Bassin (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) "Eurasianisms 'Classical' and 'Neo': Continuity or Cooptation?"
- Tsypylma Darieva (Humboldt Univ., Germany) "'V promezhutke ne zhutko': The Russian-speaking Diaspora and Russian Newspapers in Germany"
- Irina Novikova (Univ. of Latvia) "The Image of 'Russia' in the 'New Abroad': The Russian-speaking Diaspora along the Baltic since 1991"
- Mitani Keiko (Kyoto Univ., Japan) "From Balkan with Love: Verbal Representation of Russia in Serbian Society"
- Evgeny Dobrenko (Nottingham Univ., UK) "The Soviet Spectacle: The Exhibition of the Accomplishments of the People's Economy of the USSR"
- Yakou Hisashi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) "Pictorializing the Southern Kuril Islands: 'Shikotan Group' and the Artists of the Russian Far East"
- Kohno Wakana (Chiba Univ., Japan) "Soviet Society Seen by Jewish Artists"
- Katya Hokanson (Univ. of Oregon, USA) "In Defense of Empire: 'The Bronze Horseman' and 'To the Slanderers of Russia'"
- Kaizawa Hajime (Waseda Univ., Japan) "Literacy Education and the Formation of Russian National Identity"
- Boris Gasparov (Columbia Univ., USA) "Popolo di Pekino: The Image of Musorgsky's Muscovy in Twentieth- Century European Modernism"