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Orient on Orient:
Images of Asia in Eurasian Countries
Date: July 7-9, 2010
Location: Room 403, Slavic Research Center, Sapporo
Official Language: English
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Program
Wednesday, July 7

15:30-17:30
Pre-conference Session: Sub-culture in China
Chair:
David WOLFF (SRC)
0-1
Takumasa SENNO (Waseda University)

"Where are we going now?—Cultural change observed in common phenomena in East Asian city culture, and the start and the end of modern culture"
0-2
 Qili LEI (East China Normal University, Shanghai)

"The Culture Politics of Micro-Media Era and Post-80's Generation"
0-3
Zheng GU (Fudan University, Shanghai)

"From Subculture to Contemporary Art: Cao Fei as a Case"
Discussant:
Yingjin ZHANG (University of California, San Diego)
17:45-19:00
Beer Party

Thursday, July 8

9:45
Opening remarks

Akihiro IWASHITA (SRC)
10:00-12:00
Session 1: Representation of Asia 1
Chair:
Tetsuo MOCHIZUKI (SRC)
1-1
 S. V. Srinivas (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore)

"Representing Asia: Indian Cinema from Bruce Lee to Chandni Chowk to China"
1-2
 Irina MELNIKOVA (Doshisha University)

"The Images of Native People of Siberia and the Far East in Russian Film"
1-3
 Yingjin ZHANG (University of California, San Diego)

"Contested Images of China, Japan and Russia: Landscape and Language in Purple Sunset (2001)"
Discussant:
Tadashi NAKAMURA (Yamagata University)

13:30-15:30 
Session 2 : Representation of Asia 2
Chair:
Motoki NOMACHI (SRC)
2-1
 Anna FLORKOVSKAYA (V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, the Russian Academy of Arts)

"The Spirit of the Orient in Art of Nonconformist Artists. 1960-1980s"
2-2
 Xiong YING (Hokkaido University)

"Becoming of 'Asia': Propaganda/Seduction and Narrative/Dancing in the Adaptations of a Popular Chinese Tale, The White-Haired Girl (Baimao Nü)"
2-3
 Kana TOMIZAWA (KITAZAWA) ((The University of Tokyo)

"Sympathy and Prejudice: Late 18th Century British “Orientalists” and Their Ambiguous Attitudes towards India"
Discussant:
Kyohei NORIMATSU (The University of Tokyo)

15:45-17:45 
Session 3 : West and East in Music
Chair:
Yoshio SUGIMOTO (National Museum of Ethnology [MINPAKU])
3-1
Takako INOUE (Daito Bunka University)

"The Reception of Western Music in South India around 1800"
3-2
Bennett ZON (Durham University)

"Representing Non-Western (Asian) Music in the Nineteenth-Century Britain"
3-3
 Norio UMETSU (Kogakuin University)

"Oriental Elements in Russian Music and the Reception in Western Europe:Nationalism, Orientalism and Russianness"
Discussant:
 Nobuhiro ITO (Osaka University)

18:30-20:30
Reception  at the Sapporo Aspen Hotel
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Friday, July 9

10:00‐12:00 
Session 4 :
Religion and Ideology
Chair:
Kimitaka MATSUZATO (SRC)
4-1
 Liudmila ZHUKOVA (Russian State University for the Humanities)

"Religion and Ideology in Modern Russia"
4-2
 Erik SCHICKETANZ (The University of Tokyo)

"Chinese Buddhism as Seen by Meiji and Taisho Period Japanese Buddhist Travelers and Scholars"
4-3
 Masayoshi SUMIKA (SRC)

"Travelers of One Hundred Years Ago: Social Darwinist Viewpoint of Liang Qichao and Nitobe Inazo"
Discussant:
Vadim ZHDANOV (Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany)

13:30-15:30 
Session 5 :
Writers beyond the Borders
Chair:
Go KOSHINO (SRC)
5-1
 Lisa Ryoko WAKAMIYA (Florida State University)

"Russian-American Writing in Transnational Perspective" July 5 Revised
5-2
 Hisae KOMATSU (SRC)

"Speaking about Desi : The Sense of Belonging in Contemporary British-Asian Writers"
5-3
 Naoko SUGIYAMA (Japan Women's University)

"Usable Past, Unspeakable Secret: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Use of Woman Warrior Characters"
Discussant:
Kumi MOURI (Hitotsubashi University)

15:45-17:45
Session 6 : Spirit of the Places
Chair:
Tomohiko UYAMA (SRC)
6-1
 Elza-Bair GUCHINOVA (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science)

"Post-Soviet Elista: A Corner of the Orient in the Occident"
6-2
 Tsypylma DARIEVA (University of  Tsukuba)

"Making a Place? The Spirit of Baku Promenade between Europe and Asia"
6-3
 Mark BASSIN (Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University, Sweden)

"Geographical Uncertainties: Four Theses on Russia, Europe and Asia"
Discussant:
Yukiko HAMA (Tsuda College)
Sanami TAKAHASHI (Hokkaido University)
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Saturday, 10 July
10:00-11:45
Special Seminar (Group 4)

Sunday, 11 July
10:00-12:00
Special Seminar (Group 3)
13:30-15:00
Special Seminar (Group 3)
13:30-17:30
Special Seminar (Group 6) "Another Eurasia" at Doshisha University
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Organizing Committee of the Symposium:

MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo (SRC)
KOSHINO Go (SRC)
GOTO Masanori (SRC)
tetsuo@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
gkoshino@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
goto@slav.hokudai.ac.jp

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