| 2007 Summer International Symposium | in
Japanese |
| Dirty, but Warm: Energy and Environment in Slavic Eurasia and Its Neighborhood |
| Slavic
Research
Center, Hokkaido University 21st Century COE Program "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies" Co-sponsored by the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, and the Japan Consortium for Area Studies |
| July
4-6, 2007 |
| Place:
Room 423, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Official Languages: English and Russian. There will be simultaneous translation. |
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| Program |
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| July
4 (Wednesday) |
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9:30-15:00
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Registration Fourth International Workshop for Young Scholars |
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| 15:30-15:50 |
Opening
Ceremony |
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| 15:50-18:00 |
Session 1 : | Oil and Gas Pipelines between Russia and Asia |
| Papers: |
Matthew SAGERS (Cambridge Energy
Research Associates, USA) |
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| Russia's Oil and
Gas Pipeline Strategies and the
New Pipelines to Asia |
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| Ivan ARZAMASTSEV (Pacific Institute
of Geography, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia) |
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| The
Construction of the East Siberia - Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline[in
Russian, with English
translation excluding figures] |
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| ITOH Shoichi (Economic Research
Institute for Northeast Asia, Niigata) |
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| Russia's Energy
Diplomacy toward the
Asia-Pacific: Is Moscow's Ambition Dashed? |
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| Discussant: |
MOTOMURA Masumi (Japan Oil, Gas and
Metals National Corporation, Kawasaki) |
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| Chair: |
TABATA Shinichiro (SRC) |
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| 18:00- |
Beer Party at Slavic Research Center,
Room 420 |
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| July
5 (Thursday) |
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| 9:30-12:00 |
Session 2 : | Oil and Gas Pipelines between Russia and Europe |
| Papers: |
Jerzy NOWAKOWSKI (Warsaw University,
Poland) |
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| Russia's Influence in Central and Eastern Europe
Based on Its Monopoly in the Energy Market |
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| Gediminas VITKUS (University of
Vilnius, Lithuania) |
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| Russian Pipeline
Diplomacy: A Lithuanian View |
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| Margarita BALMACEDA (Seton Hall
University and Harvard University, USA) |
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| Corruption,
Intermediary Companies, and Energy
Security: an 'Inside Out' View of Russian Actors' Use of Energy for
Policy and Profit |
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FUJIMORI Shinkichi (SRC) |
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| Does Pipeline
Lead Ukraine to Europe? - The Fall
of "Energy-transit State" |
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| Discussant: |
Vitaly MERKUSHEV (Eurasian Political
Studies Network, Moscow, Russia) |
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| Chair: |
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC) |
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| 13:30-15:40 |
Session 3 : | Russia as an Energy Empire |
| Papers: |
Marshall GOLDMAN (Harvard University,
USA) |
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| Ukraine &
Gazprom: Some Hard Lessons for the
European Union |
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| SHIOBARA Toshihiko (Kochi University,
Kochi) |
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| Gazprom and the
Russian Government: concerning
Pipeline Policy |
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| Jessica ALLINA-PISANO (University of
Ottawa, Canada) |
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| The Oil-Land
Nexus: Privatization as a Path to
Nationalization in the Russian Federation |
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| Discussant: |
UEGAKI Akira (Seinan Gakuin
University, Fukuoka) |
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| Chair: |
HAKAMADA Shigeki (Aoyama Gakuin
University, Tokyo) |
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| 16:00-18:10 |
Session 4 : | Environmental History and Ecosystem of Central Asia:Jointly organized by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
| Papers: |
Vladimir AIZEN (University of Idaho,
USA) |
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| Climate and Water Resources Changes in Central
Asia and Possible Consequences |
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| FUJITA Koji (Nagoya University,
Nagoya) |
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| Ice core, tree ring
and human lives [English
abstract] |
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| MORIMOTO Yukihiro (Kyoto University,
Kyoto) |
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| Habitat Analysis
of Pelicans as an Indicator of
Integrity of the Arid Ecosystems of Central Asia |
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| Discussant: |
KUBOTA Jumpei (Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature, Kyoto) |
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| Chair: |
UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC) |
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18:40-
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Reception at Sapporo Aspen
Hotel |
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| July
6 (Friday) |
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| 9:30-12:00 |
Session 5 : | Environmental Problems in Northeast Asia |
| Papers: |
Victor KRYUKOV (Coordination
Committee for Sustainable Development of the Amur River Basin,
Khabarovsk, Russia) |
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| Possibility of
Sustainable Development of the
Basin of Amur River from Ecological Viewpoints [in Russian, with
English abstract] |
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| Sergey MASLENNIKOV (Institute of
Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia) |
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| Marine
Biological Resources along the Far Eastern
Coast: Their Rational Use from the Ecological and Economic Viewpoints
[in Russian with English
abstract] |
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| MITSUDERA Humio (Institute of Low
Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo) |
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| Environmental
Problems in the Pan Okhotsk Region |
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| KATAYAMA Hirofumi (J. F. Oberlin
University, Tokyo) |
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| Ecological
Modernization in Northeast Asia |
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| Discussant: |
ARAI Nobuo (SRC) |
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| Chair: |
HORIE Norio (Toyama University,
Toyama) |
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| 13:30-15:40 |
Session 6 : | Pollution
and the Rise of Environmental Consciousness in the Soviet Union |
| Papers: |
Donald FILTZER (University of East
London, UK) |
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| Poisoning the
Proletariat: Urban Water Supply and
River Pollution in Russia's Industrial Regions During Late Stalinism,
1945-1953 |
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| Ze'ev WOLFSON (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel) |
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| Environmental
Problems in the USSR - from the
1960s through the 1980s |
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| IMANAKA Tetsuji (Research Reactor
Institute, Kyoto University, Osaka) |
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| Radioactive
Contamination and Social Consequences
Caused by the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident |
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| Discussant: |
Marshall GOLDMAN (Harvard University,
USA) |
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| Chair: |
David WOLFF (SRC) |
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| 16:00-18:10 |
Session 7 : | Sea
and Land Security in Eurasia |
| Papers: |
SATO Koichi (J. F. Oberlin
University, Tokyo) |
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| China and the
Maritime Disputes: A Comparative
Study of the Spratlys and Senkaku Islands |
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| G. V. C. NAIDU (Institute for Defense
Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India) |
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| India and Security
of the Eurasian Outer Rim
Region |
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| Mohammad Hassan KHANI (Imam Sadiq
University, Tehran, Iran) |
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| Energy and Security
Arrangements in Eurasia: An
Iranian Perspective |
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| Discussant: |
Mark KATZ (George Mason University,
USA) |
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| Chair: |
IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC) |
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| Organizing Committee of the 2007 Summer
International Symposium: |
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| TABATA Shinichiro |
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| ARAI Nobuo |
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| YAMAMURA Rihito |
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| AOSHIMA Yoko |
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| E-mail: |
ses-coe@slav.hokudai.ac.jp |