【Symposium（12/7・8）】SRC Winter Symposium 2023 "Borders, Boundaries and War across Eurasia: Cycles of Violence and Resilience"

Date

Dec. 7 & 8, 2023

Format

Hybrid

Venue

Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Registration

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvK_6T3sUEIOXvFPlo56RdGd1PwEg6dz5YnZpN0aWv7U7oTg/viewform

Registration deadline

24:00(JST) on Dec. 3

Contact

src222[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp（[at] read as ＠）

Program

December 7 Thu　Day 1 Borderlands, Gender and Migration

9:30-9:40 Opening Remarks

9:40-11:30 Panel 1: Neighbor’s Eyes on the Ukrainian War

Chair and Commentator:
Yoko Aoshima（SRC）

Presenters:
Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)

“Japan’s Geo-politics under the Russia’s War in Ukraine”

Joni Virkkunen and Minna Piipponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)

“Limits of Para-diplomacy: Multi-layered Geopolitics of Finland’s Eastern Border”

Noboru Miyawaki (Ritsumeikan University)

“Foreign Policy of Mongolia under the Russia’s War in Ukraine”

11:40-12:40 Keynote Lecture: Another Brick in the Wall:

B/Ordering through Othering in a World in Turmoil
Chair: Edward Boyle (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Presenter:
Elisabeth Vallet (CMR-Saint Jean and University of Quebec, Canada)

14:00-15:50 Panel 2: War and Feminists

Chair: Mie Nakachi (Hokusei Gakuen University)
Presenters:
Oksana Kis (Institute of Ethnology, Ukraine)

“Militant Beyond Military: Hybridization of Normative Femininity in Public Discourse During Russia’s War against Ukraine”

Ella Rossman (University College London, UK)

“Russian Feminism in the Last Decade: From Art-Activism and Civic Education to the Anti-War Movement”

Commentators: Paula Michaels (Monash University, Australia)
Ikuno Ochi (Tohoku University)

16:10-18:00 Panel 3: Anti-War Protests and the New Waves of Migration and LGBTQ

Chair: Norio Horie (University of Toyama)
Presenters:
Irina Meyer-Olimpieva (George Washington University, US)

“Volunteering instead of Protesting: Helping Ukrainian Refugees as a Covert Form of Antiwar Resistance in Russia”

Alexander Sasha Kondakov (University College Dublin, Ireland)

“Russia’s Sexual Sovereignty” (tentative)

Commentators: Mayu Michigami (Niigata University)
Hyunjoo Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University)

December 8 Fri　Day 2 Cold War History in Northeast Asia

13:00-15:00 Panel 4: Re-discovering Japan as Actor

Chair: David Wolff (SRC)
Presenters:
Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University) and Ayako Kusunoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

“The Korean War and Japan: Tokyo’s Stealth Activism in Security Policy”

Amy King (Australia National University) 【On Zoom】

“Reinterpreting the Past and Rebuilding the New: Constructing Unofficial Cold War Sino-Japanese Relations”

Masaya Inoue (Keio University)

“Negotiations on the Japan-China Aviation Agreement and LDP Politics, 1973-4”

Commentator: James Hershberg (George Washington University)【On Zoom】

15:20-17:20 Panel 5: Critical Junctures across the Region: Taiwan, Mongolia, Korea

Chair: Lee Jong Won (Waseda University)
Presenters:
David Wolff (SRC)

“Stalin and Taiwan: 1944-1953”　

Batbayar Tsedendamba (Institute of History and Ethnology, Mongolia / SRC)

“Mongolia’s struggle to join the United Nations: Great Power Rivalry and Mongolia’s Aspirations (1946-1961)”

Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University)

“South Korea’s Nordpolitik and Japan: Diplomatic Dynamics in Northeast Asia at the End of the Cold War”

Commentator: Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Italy) 【On Zoom】

17:20-18:00 Wrap-up Discussion

Organizing Committee

Akihiro Iwashita, David Wolff, Takehiko Inoue, Tomomi Murakami