Plenary Meeting of the Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas 
                
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				Russia's War against Ukraine 
				and the Crisis in Eurasia 
				-Challenges for the Humanities
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                Date: February 8, 2024, 13:00-17:40
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                Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, and online via Zoom 
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              | Language: English | 
            
            
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                PROGRAM
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              |    February 8 (Thu) | 
            
            
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                13:00-13:10 (GMT+9)
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              Opening Remarks: | 
            
            
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                 Yoko Aoshima (SRC) 
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              |    13:10-15:50   Two Lectures on Ukraine | 
            
            
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                13:10-14:25 (GMT+9)
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                 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”  
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              | Moderator:  | 
              Tomohiko Uyama (SRC) | 
            
            
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                14:35-15:50 (GMT+9)
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                 Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University, USA)  
                “The History of Ukraine in the Light of Russia's War against Ukraine”  
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              | Moderator:  | 
               Norihiro Naganawa (SRC) | 
            
            
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              |  Roundtable: Humanities Before Humanitarian Crisis | 
            
            
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                16:10-17:40 (GMT+9)
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                 Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University, USA) 
                “Rising to the Occasion and Telling the Truth in Russia's War against Ukraine”  
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                 Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, Armenia) 
                “Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Cleansing as a Means to Achieve Territorial Integrity”  
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                 Aiko Nishikida (Keio University, Japan)  
                “Denouncing Human Rights Violations in Israel-Hamas War”  
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               Yoko Aoshima (SRC) | 
            
            
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                Organizer
               
              Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas 
              Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University 
              
              
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              |   Contact:Yoko Aoshima  yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp ([at] reads as @)   |