【Symposium(2/21-22)】Survival Strategies of Ukraine and Russia: A Year On from the Outbreak of War

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Symposium Website：https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/2023ssp/index.html

 

Date：February 21–22, 2023

 

Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, and online via Zoom

 

Language: English (except the Brainstorming Session in Japanese)

 

Program

 

February 21 (Tue)

 

Plenary Meeting of the Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies ＜生存戦略研究全体集会＞

10:00–11:00  Keynote Lecture

Odd Arne Westad (Yale University) “Chinese Empires since the 1890s” (Online)

Moderator: David Wolff (SRC) (Online)

 

11:15–13:00  Roundtable  Ends of Empire: Lessons from Russia

Alena Ledeneva (University College London) “Informality, Survival Practices, and Living with Uncertainty”

Diane Koenker (University College London) “How Far from Moscow? Soviet History and Its Challenges”

Norihiro Naganawa (SRC) “An Anarchist Turn? Toward a Transnational History of Russia’s Empire”

Moderator: Yoko Aoshima (SRC)

 

14:15–15:30  生存戦略研究ユニット会議  Brainstorming Session: Research Agenda at our Platform

岩下明裕（SRC）「地政治から考える生存戦略: コロナ、ウクライナと境界研究」

宇山智彦（SRC）「国家の生存と人々の生存：ロシア・ウクライナ戦争の世界史的意義に寄せて」

安達大輔（SRC）（題目未定）

 

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Symposium on Ukraine and Russia ＜ウクライナ・シンポジウム＞

16:00–16:10  Opening Remarks

Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)

 

16:10–18:10  Session 1  Politics in Wartime: The Survival of Ukraine and the Survival of Political Actors

Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University) “Ukraine’s Political Regime under the Test of War”

Silviya Nitsova (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “The Extremely Rich during the Politics of the Extraordinary: Oligarchic Networks of Influence and the Russia-Ukraine War”

Ararat Osipian (New University in Exile Consortium) “World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, War” (Online)

Discussant: Masatomo Torikai (Osaka University)

Chair: Hideya Matsuzaki (Tsuda University)

 

18:45–  Reception at Hotel Mystays Sapporo Aspen

 

February 22 (Wed)

 

9:30–11:30  Session 2  Russian Economy in Wartime: Demography, Gas and Foreign Trade

Sergey Zakharov (Nantes Institute for Advanced Study) “Demographic Trends in Contemporary Russia: The Era of ‘Black Swans’”

Vitaly Yermakov (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) “Russian Gas in 2022 and Beyond: Caught in the Geopolitical Controversy”

Michitaka Hattori (SRC) “Analyzing Russia’s Foreign Trade Performance with No Russian Official Statistics Available”

Discussant: Yuko Adachi (Sophia University)

Chair: Shinichiro Tabata (SRC)

 

13:00–15:00  Session 3  War, Art and Media: Survival Strategies of Ukrainian Culture

Amelia Glaser (University of California San Diego) “Our News Feed Is a Gallery of Loss: Translating and Archiving Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry”

Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) “‘Here’s your Language, Woman, Shoot from It’: Ukrainian Women’s Poetry During the War”

Ana Hedberg Olenina (Arizona State University) “A Quest for the Public Sphere: Ukrainian Documentary Cinema and Material Cultures of Solidarity”

Discussant: Daisuke Adachi (SRC)

Chair: Shiori Kiyosawa (SRC)

 

15:15–16:45  Session 4  The Present and Future of Historical Research in Ukraine

Volodymyr Potulnytskyi (M. Hruschevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine) “The Current Situation with Historical Science in Ukraine: Towards Conceptual, Methodological and Generational Aspects of the Problem” (Online)

Taissa Sydorchuk (Omeljan Pritsak’s Research Centre for Oriental Studies of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) “Preservation of the Unique Orientalist Collection of Omeljan Pritsak at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Conditions of War” (Online)

Gennadii Korolov (University of Warsaw) “Ukraine and Decolonization of the History of East Central Europe” (Online)

Chair: Yoko Aoshima (SRC)

 

17:00–18:10　General Discussion

Keynote Remarks:

Taras Kuzio (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) “The Kremlin’s Invasion of Ukraine: How It Has Fundamentally Changed Russia-Ukrainian Relations and Eurasian Studies”

Yoshihiko Okabe (Kobe Gakuin University) “The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Japan”

Chair: Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)

 

Organizer 

       Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

Co-sponsored by 

       JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 19H01243 (A Comprehensive Study on the Melodramatic Imagination in Russian             and Former Soviet Culture) and  18H03619 (Comparative Study of the Rise of Authoritarianism and Populism)

Supported by

      Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)

Organizing Committee

    Tomohiko Uyama, Norihiro Naganawa, Daisuke Adachi, Shinichiro Tabata, Michitaka Hattori, Tomomi Murakami,          Yoishi Isahaya