【Symposium（2/8）】Plenary Meeting of the Research Unit “Ukraine and Surrounding Areas” Russia's War against Ukraine and the Crisis in Eurasia-Challenges for the Humanities

February 8 (Thu), 2024, 13:00-17:40

13:00-13:10 Opening Remarks: Yoko Aoshima (SRC)

13:10-15:50  Two Lectures on Ukraine

13:10-14:25

Mykola Yuri Riabchuk (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine) “Mapping a “Nowhere Nation”: Imperial Knowledge and Challenges of Decolonization”

Moderator: Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)

14:35-15:50

Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University, USA) “The History of Ukraine in the Light of Russia’s War against Ukraine”

Moderator: Norihiro Naganawa (SRC)

16:10-17:40  Roundtable: Humanities Before Humanitarian Crisis

Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University, USA) “Rising to the Occasion and Telling the Truth in Russia’s War against Ukraine”

Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, Armenia) “Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh as a Means towards Territorial Integrity”

Aiko Nishikida (Keio University, Japan) “Denouncing Human Rights Violations in Israel-Hamas War”

Moderator: Yoko Aoshima (SRC)

Hybrid (in-person in Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center(SRC), Hokkaido University, and online via Zoom)

English

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Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Yoko Aoshima　yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp ([at] reads as @）