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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/          

    SRC2024 Winter International Symposium “Languages, Nations and Standardization in Slavia: So Similar and Yet So Different” Date & Time : December 18-19, 2024 Venue : Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Room403 at Hokkaido University Detail : Please see  

Date & Time:Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 16:30～18:00 (JST)Venue:SRC Room403Speaker:Rouben Azizian (Professor of Affiliation: Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, New Zealand)Title:“Self-determination or territorial integrity? The impact of the Ukraine War on ethnic conflict in Post-Soviet Space”Language:English Contact:Akihiro Iwashita < iwasi[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp > ([at] read as @)  

Date & Time： Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 11:30-12:30Venue： Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido UniversityTitle： “Cooperation for Future Eurasia: Dialogue between Ukraine and Japan”Speaker： H.E. Dr. KORSUNSKY Sergiy (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan)Language： EnglishRegistration： Please register from here*Please register by October 16, 2024(The lecture will be limited to 40 people on a firstcome, first-served basis.)Organized by： Embassy of Ukraine, Research Unit for Ukraine and Neighboring Areas, Hokkaido UniversityContact： src＊slav.hokudai.ac.jp ([at] read as @)