Program of the Slavic Research Center’s Winter Symposium“Ten Years after the Collapse of the USSR”
January 30, 2002
15:00-17:00: Keynote Speech
Ivan KOROTCHENYA (Executive Secretary of the CIS in 1993-1998)"Итоги десятилетней деятельности СНГ"SUZUKI Yuji (Hosei Univ.)"A Search of Post-Authoritarian Regime - Ten Years after the Cold War in Asia"
Chair: SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo (Hosei Univ.)
17:30-: Beer Reception (Room 328 of the SRC)
January 31, 2002
9:30-12:00: Session 1 "A New Iron Curtain between Europe and Eurasia? Differentiating'New Eastern Europe'"
Vyacheslav NOSEVICH (Belarusian Research Center of Electronic Records)"Transformation of the Population Structure in the Belarusian Countryside in the 2nd
half of the 20th Century"
Valentin YAKUSHIK (University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy)"Post-Communist Patrimony in Ukraine (the State-Clans-Parties)"
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC)"The Last Bastion of Unitarism? Local Reforms and Party Politics in Lithuania
1990-2001"
Discussants: YOSHINO Etsuo (Hokkaido Univ.); HAYASHI Tadayuki (SRC)
Chair: TABATA Shinichiro (SRC)
12:00-13:30: Lunch Break
13:30-15:30: Session 2-1 "Sub-regional Governance and Elites under Transition: an Attempt
at Political Sociology"
Zdenka VAJDOVA (Institute of Sociology, Prague)"Cooperation as a Tool of Urban Policy during the Period of Deficiency (1990-1998)"
Dmitry SELITSER (Tambov State Univ.)"Полигонназначенийи выборов: политическаятрансформацияисубрегиональная элита Тамбовской области в позднее советское и постсоветское
время"Discussants: UENO Toshihiko (Sophia Univ., Tokyo); SATO Yukino (Tohoku Univ.)
Chair: UDA Fumio (Sophia Univ., Tokyo)
13:30-15:30: Session 2-2 "Russian Intellectual Heritage: V.I. and G.V. Vernadskys"
Nikolai BOLKHOVITINOV (Institute of General History, Moscow/ SRC)"Жизнь и деятельность Г.В. Вернадского/ 1887 - 1973/ и его архив"KAJI Masanori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)"Vladimir Vernadsky and Geochemistry: the Formation of New Scientific Discipline
and the Society"
Discussants: KURIUZAWA Takeo (Hokkaido Univ.); OHSUKA Fumikazu (Yokohama National University)
Chair: NAKAMURA Yoshikazu (Kyoritsu Women's Univ.)
15:45-17:45: Session 3 "CIS: Transformation in Ten Years"
SUEZAWA Megumi (Japan Institute of International Affairs)"Falling Apart or Coming Together? Processes of Decentralization and Integration inthe CIS"
XING Guangcheng (Institute of East European, Russian & Central Asian Studies, Beijing/SRC)-77-"Проблема безопасности и Шанхайская организация сотрудничества"Discussants: YOKOTE Shinji (Keio Univ.); IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC)
Chair: KIMURA Hiroshi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
18:00-20:00: Reception at Hotel DynastyFebruary 1, 2002
10:00-12:00: Session 4 "Religious Revival and Collective Memory in the Former Soviet Union"
Levon ABRAHAMIAN (Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Yerevan/ SRC)
"Fighting with Memory and Monuments in the Post-Soviet Space"
Evgeniy ABDULLAEV (National Human Rights Center, Uzbekistan/ Yokohama NationalUniv.)"Central Asian Integration and Islamic Revivalism"
Discussants: KITAGAWA Seiichi (Tohoku Univ.); UYAMA Tomohiko (SRC)
Chair: HAKAMADA Shigeki (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)
12:00-13:30: Lunch Break
13:30-15:30: Session 5 "Different Approaches to Russia's Economic Crisis"
Stefan HEDLUND (University of Uppsala/ SRC)"Can They Go Back and Fix It? Reflections on Some Historical Roots of Russia's Current
Economic Troubles"
SHIOBARA Toshihiko (Kochi University)"A 'Marxian' Review of the Current Russian Economy"
Discussants: NISHIMURA Yoshiaki (Hitotsubashi Univ.); OHSAWA Masachi (Kyoto Univ.)
Chair: TABATA Shinichiro (SRC)
15:45-17:45: Session 6 "Interrelations between the Central and Eastern European Transition
Economies and the World Economy"Petr PAVLINEK (University of Nebraska/ SRC)
"Foreign Capital Driven Car Industry Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe"
WATANABE Hiroshi (Japan Association for Trade with Russia & Central-Eastern Europe)"Exchange Rate Policy and a Course of a Transition Economy in Central-Eastern
Europe: A Case Study of Poland"
Discussants: FUJIKAWA Tetsuma (Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co.); UEGAKI Akira (SeinanGakuin Univ.)
Chair: YAMAMURA Rihito (SRC)
February 2, 2002
Post-Symposium Seminar on Russia's Integration into the World Economy
10:00-11:30: "Problems of Russia's Accession to the WTO" (in Japanese)
12:45-14:45: "Security Problems in the CIS" (in Japanese)
15:00-17:00: "Federalism in Russia"
Larissa OUSMANOVA (Tatar-Japanese Center, Kazan/ Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)"'Феномен Татарстана' и дилемма 'унитаризм/федерализм' российской
государственности"Sergei CHUGROV (IMEMO, Moscow/ Hosei Univ.)"Российский бюджетный федерализм: политические факторы и общественное
мнение"Discussants: HYODO Shinji (National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo); NAKAMURA
Itsuro (Tsukuba Univ.)
Chair: MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC)-78-