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SRC Survival Strategies Studies Seminar Date and Time: February 12 (Thur), 2026, 17:00-18:00 (JST) / 19:00-20:00 (AEDT) Speaker: Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University, Australia) Title: “‘Ukrainian news / my dead father orders me / to pay attention’ Ukrainian Literature in Australia 1948-2025” Format: Online Registration for Online Participation : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8HfZ4ujwSLyk4i_SPatmBg Language : English Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC Co-Organized by : Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, at the SRC

SRC Special Seminar Date and Time: January 28, 2026, Wed., 16:30-18:00 Speaker: Yuliya Dzyabko, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Literature, Ibaraki Christian University Title: “Does Language Matter? Language Attitudes and Ideologies Among Displaced Ukrainians in Japan” Format: Online Registration for Online Participation : https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NRbb8xjBSg-9LuM69kkakg Language : English Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, SRC Contact : Yoko Aoshima < yoko.aoshima[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)

Survival Strategy Study Special Lecture “Зміни у співвідношеннях між тенденціями до аналітизму / до синтетизму на межі ХХ–ХХІ ст. (українська мова на загальнослов’янському тлі)” Date and Time: Tuesday, November 26, 2025, 16:30-17:30(JST) / 9:30–10:30 (EET) Speaker: член-кореспондент НАН України, професор Олександр Тараненко (Інститут мовознавства ім. О. Потебні) Registration for Online Participation : https://forms.gle/JCLV9zLucvLBUGgm6 *Deadline: November 24 (Mon), 2025 Language : Ukrainian Organized by : Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas (SRC) Co-Organized by : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University…

SRC Special Seminar Date and Time: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 16:30-18:00 Speaker: Valentyna Romanova (Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies – Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)) Title: “Foreign and local engagement in Ukraine’s resilience and recovery during wartime” Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University Registration for Online Participation : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85107082679?pwd=tZIDyvOiNfEl1uuKxHY9VmU04bg1pz.1 Language : English Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the SRC Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo…

Survival Strategy Study Special Lecture Date and Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 16:30-18:00 Speaker: Yakov M. Rabkin (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Montreal) Title: “Violence in Ukraine and Gaza: Causes and Consequences” Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University Registration for Online Participation : https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_niyYPIWwSHaexuB2Ii9T6g Language : English Organized by : Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign…

SRC Seminar Date and Time: Friday, July 18, 2025, 12:15–13:45 Speaker: Irina Valkova (Multimedia artist and curator, Bielefeld, Germany / Stockholm, Sweden) Title: Inhabiting Uncertainty: Multimedia Art Project Based on a Real Story of a Family from Odessa Fleeing the War and Striking Roots in Bielefeld (DE) Venue: Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University Language: English Organizers: Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido…

    SRC2025 Summer International Symposium “Eurasia’s Tectonic Changes: Past and Present” Date & Time : July 3-4, 2025 Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Room403 at Hokkaido University Detail : Please see  

Date & Time:July 6 (Sun) at 15:00-17:00 (JST, GMT+9)Venue:Hongo Satellite, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and online via ZoomSpeaker:Olena Palko (The University of Basel / SRC)Title:“Speaking in Tongues: The Soviet Nationalities Policy and Minority Protection in Interwar Europe” Olena Palko is a historian of Modern Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on minority history in Ukraine and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and…

“Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan“ Series： Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Author： Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham University, New York Published： April 2025 Availability：Available Format：Paperback ISBN：9781009607438

March 17, 2025 Professor Yoko Aoshima from the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, HU and Dr Iryna Skubii from the Faculty of Arts, UoM for their workshop hosted at UoM: “War, Migration, and Identity: Exploring New Agendas for Ukrainian Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region”   Hokkaido-Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund 2025 awardees | Hokkaido University  https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/hokkaido-melbourne-joint-research-workshops-fund-2025-awardees/