The Ninth ICCEESWorld Congress
August 3 - 8, 2015
Makuhari
Preliminary Program(September 18, 2014)

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Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Program
Tuesday
AugustSession I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)
I-1-1 New Geopolitical Reality in the Making? Putting Ukrainian Crisis in a
Global Perspective I
Chair: Gaye Christoffersen, Johns Hopkins U, China
Papers: Rodney Bruce Hall, U of Macau, China“Constructing Secessionism in the Crimea and Irredentism in Russia”
Ted Hopf, National U of Singapore“China's Russian Problem”
Viacheslav Morozov, U of Tartu, Estonia“The Day After: What Are the Grounds for a Post-Crisis Settlement
between Russia and the West?”
Discussant: Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State U, USA
I-1-2 Hidden Threats and Risks to Eurasian Security and Ways to Overcome
Them
Chair: Oleg Vusatyuk, Kyiv National U of Culture and Arts, Ukraine
Papers: Oleg Vusatyuk, Kyiv National U of Culture and Arts, Ukraine“International Security Regime in the Zones Civilizational Fault Linesand in the Conditions of Civilizational Drift”
Alexander Golubev, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Soviet Society and Geopolitical Threats of Interwar Period: Retrospective Analysis of Actual Experience”
Karolina Gorditsa, Institute of Economy and Forecasting, National AS
Ukraine“Legitimacy of Property as a Factor of Economic Security: Ukrainian
Traditions and Perspectives”

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Discussant: TBA
I-1-3 Humanitarian Factors in International Relations
Chair: TBA
Papers: Robert Crane, Estonian Business School“Paving the Path to Peace in the CEE: the Role of Culture”
Marina Lebedeva, MGIMO, Russia“The Role of Education and Science in Integration of the Post-Soviet
Area”
Olga Lipkina, U of Eastern Finland“Borders and Trans-border Second Home Tourism”
Regan Treewater, University of Alberta, Canada“From Japanese ‘Picture Brides’ to the ‘Mail Order Brides’ of theFormer Soviet Union: A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Marriage
Immigration”
Discussant: Nona Shakhnazaryan, Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia
I-1-4 Migration, Education and Identity: Russian and Global Experience
Chair: Marina Martynova, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS
Papers: Arif Yunus, Institute for Peace and Democracy, Azerbaijan“Education Abroad and Its Inﬂuence on the Mental Set: an Azeri Case
Study”
Natalia Lapkina, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS“Mutual Cross-cultural Adaptation of Children:Practical Experience ofFormation of the General Communication Space”
Natalia O'Shea, Independent scholar, Switzerland“The Role of Traditional Storytelling in the Education of Multilingual
Children”
Discussants: Federica Prina, European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany;
Tokhir Kalandarov, Institute of Humanitarian Sciences, Tajik Academyof Sciences
I-1-5 The Inﬂuence(s) of Sound-Reproduction Technologies on Russian Art
and Science between about 1910 and 1940
Chair: Rieko Kamoika, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Masaru Ito, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Sounds of Russian Theatre in the 1920-30s”

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Valeriy Zolotukhin, Russian State Library“Sound Recording Technology in the Avant-garde Poetry and Russian
Formalism”
Lubov Pchelkina, State Tretyakov Gallery, Russia“Solomon Nikritin and a New Sound Culture of the Post-Revolutionary
Russia”
Discussant: Naoto Yagi, Waseda U, Japan
I-1-6 Adopting Digital Learning Techniques in CEE Studies (Roundtable)
Chair: Klaus Segbers, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Participants: Julia Gerlach, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany“Teaching Color Revolutions”
Georgiy Kasianov, Institute of the History of Ukraine“Dealing with Teaching Materials on 'Contemporary History'”
Dmitri Mitin, North Carolina State U, USA“Developing Digital Teaching Skills”
Andrey Makarychev, U of Tartu, Estonia“Online vs. On-site Teaching”
Kristina Klinkforth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany“Digital Learning Strategies in Global Politics”
I-1-7 Explaining Eurasian Regime Dynamics 1991-2015 (Roundtable)
Chair: Kimitaka Matsuzato, U of Tokyo, Japan
Participants: Vladimir Gel'man, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“Authoritarian Russia: Explaining Post-Soviet Regime Changes”
Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National U, Ukraine“The Puzzle of Ukrainian Political Regime Change”
Keith Darden, American U, USA“All Politics is Local: The Myth of Externally-Promoted Regime
Change”
Shairbek Juraev, OSCE Academy, Kyrgyzstan“Failing Political Regimes in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan”
Henry E. Hale, George Washington U, USA“Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics as Patronal Politics”
I-1-8 Political and Economic Elites in Comparative Perspective
Chair: TBA

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5Papers: Alexander Shatilov, Financial U under the Government of the RF“‘The Crimean Consensus’ of the Russian Elites and Perspectives of
the Eurasian Policy by Vladimir Putin”
Raphi Rechitsky & Hanna Soderbaum, European U at St. Petersburg,
Russia“From ‘Effective Businessmen’ to ‘Responsible Citizens:’ Representation of Economic Elites in Ukraine and Russia Before and After the
Maidan Revolution”
Marina Maximenkova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Political Leader and Elite in Perceptions of Current and Potential
Political Elite in Russia and France”
Discussant: TBA
I-1-9 Pushkin
Chair: Ji-Eun Sim, Hallym U, South Korea
Papers: Nigel Foxcroft, U of Brighton, UK“Visions of History: Chance and Certainty in A. S. Pushkin's The
Bronze Horseman and Boris Godunov”
Yuri Sugino, St. Andrews U, Japan“Reﬂections of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ in Pushkin’s ‘The Bronze
Horseman’"Anna Hlaváčová, Institute of Theatre and Film Studies, Slovakia“The Union of Florence and Pushkin’s Dramatic Representation ofTsar Dmitry”
Discussant: Shunsuke Miyoshi, Komazawa U, Japan
I-1-10 Contemporary Russian Literature I
Chair: Edith Clowes, U of Virginia, USA
Papers: Julia Vaingurt, U of Illinois at Chicago, USA“The Poetics of Weakness in Russian Prose of the 1960s”
Takashi Matsushita, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Empire of the Soul without Body: Transformation of the ‘Self’ in
the Creation of Yuri Mamleev”
Wu Ping, Beijing Normal U, China“Passive and Urgency Intellectual in Russia - Based on the Novel‘Kys’ by T. Tolstoy”
Discussant: Boris Lanin, Academy of Education of Russia

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Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

I-1-11 Minority Nations’ Issues Reﬂecting on Czechoslovak NewsPapers
Chair: Takashi Kawashima, Kyoto U, Japan
Papers: Hisashi Nakamura, Hokkaido U, Japan“Citizens of Austria, Nations of Judaea: Selbstwehr Unabhängige
jüdische Wochenschrift”
Shohei Saito, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Historical Impact of Eurasianism: An In-Depth Review ofN. S. Trubetzkoy’s ‘On Racism’ (1935) and Its Reception in the Prager
Presse”
Yoshiyuki Morishita, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Relation between the Language and National Membership: An
Analysis of Czech Silesian Newspaper”
Discussant: Scott Spector, U of Michigan, USA
I-1-12 The Eighteenth-Ninteenth Century Army in Comparative Perspective:
Russia and Japan (Roundtable)
Chair: Yoshihide Tanaka, Miyagi U of Education, Japan
Participants: Takeshi Matsumura, Daito Bunka U, Japan“Do Decembrists Dream of February 26?”
Koichi Toyokawa, Meiji U, Japan“The Military and Administrative Reform in Southern Urals Region
from the End of the Eighteenth to the Beginning of the NineteenthCentury: The Orenburg Cossack Host and Bashkiria”
Sergey A. Tolstoguzov, Hiroshima U, Japan“Takashima Shuhan and the Military Reform in Japan in the Tenpo
Period”
Aleksandr A. Tolstoguzov, Aomori Public U, Japan“The First Russian Impressions of the Japanese Military Reforms after
the Meiji Restoration”
I-1-13 Peoples and Confessions in the Russian Empire
Chair: Kenso Yamamoto, U of Shimane, Japan
Papers: Ryoko Isaka, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Missionary Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the
North Caucasus (18–19th Centuries)”
Pavel Shabley, Chelyabinsk State U, Russia“Problems of Formation of the Spiritual Administrations for Muslims

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in the Kazakh Region and Turkistan (the end of 19th - the ﬁrst quarterof 20th centuries): Comparative Analysis”
Aziza Shanazarova, Indiana U, USA“Turkistanning Uyghanish Tarikhi: A Neglected Source on Jadiddism”
Discussant: Alexander Polunov, Moscow State U, Russia
I-1-14 From the Great Reforms to the Russian Revolution
Chair: Noritaka Kennoku, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Yanfeng Tang, Northeast Normal U, China“Russian and Chinese Historiographies on the Abolition of Serfdom in
Russia in 1861”
Galina Lobacheva, Saratov State Technical U, Russia“Contemporary Historiography on the Last Decades of the Russian
Empire”
Leonid Troﬁmov, Bentley U, USA“The Question of the Russian Revolution’s Global Impact”
Discussant: Angelina Evdokimova, Bashkir State Pedagogical U, Russia
I-1-15 Soviet Society from the October to the 1930s
Chair: Jun Kumakura, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Pavel Vasilyev, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany“Revolutionary Law and Revolutionary Feeling: Emotions and theAdministration of Justice in the Early Soviet Period”
Oksana Pugovkina, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan“The Forms of Social Adaptation of Turkestan’s ‘Former People’ in
1917-30: The Strategies of Their Survival in a New Soviet Reality”
Takeo Hidai, Saitama Gakuen U, Japan“On Some Aspects of Soviet Kolkhoz Farmer’s Attitude toward theStalin Regime”
Discussant: Matthias Neumann, U of East Anglia, UK
I-1-16 The Problems of Identity in the Multinational Soviet Union
Chair: Tetsuro Chida, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Isabelle Kaplan, Georgetown U, USA“The Institution of the Dekada of National Art”
Jonathan Brunstedt, Utah State U, USA“The Myth of the Great Patriotic War and Ofﬁcial Conceptions of a

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Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Supraethnic Narod”
Takayuki Yoshimura, Waseda U, Japan“The Dual Armenian Nationalism in the 1960s”
Discussant: Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State U, Georgia
I-1-17 The Historical Aspects of the Eastern Europe Demographic Processes
Chair: Olga Kazmina, Moscow State U, Russia
Papers: Liliya Stepanova, Academy of Marketing and Social Information Technologies, Krasnodar, Russia“The Historical Conditions of Forming the ‘European’ and ‘Eastern
European’ Models of Wedlock”
Márta Font, U Pécs, Hungary“The History of the Dynastic Relationships in the Middle Ages in theCentral and Eastern Europe”
Maria Yelenevskaya, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology“Of Roots and Routes: Reconstructing Family Stories, Problematizing
the Past”
Discussant: Elena Nosenko-Stein, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS
I-1-18 The Emergence and Development of the “Jewish Question” in the
Far East
Chair: Hiromi Komori, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Takeshi Nakashima, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan“Russian Fascist Movement and Anti-Semitism in Harbin, 1931-1937”
Chizuko Takao, Tokyo Medical and Dental U, Japan“Anti-Semitism in the Russian Far East during the Civil War”
Mari Nomura, Kanazawa University, Japan“Inter-Ethnic Relations in Colonial Manchuria: Russians, Jews andJapanese”
Discussant: Viktoriya Romanova, First Moscow State Medical University, Russia

Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)
I-2-1 New Geopolitical Reality in the Making? Putting Ukrainian Crisis in a
Global Perspective II
Chair: Viacheslav Morozov, U of Tartu, Estonia

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9Papers: Artyom Lukin, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“The Ukraine Crisis, Russia-China-US Triangle and the Balance ofPower in Eurasia”
Gaye Christoffersen, Johns Hopkins U, China“Russia’s Eurasian Union and the Sino-Centric order: Convergences,
Divergences, and Fault Lines – Regionalisms as Hard and Soft Power”
Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State U, USA“Prospects for Sino-Russian Alliance: Ideational and Geopolitical
Factors”
Discussant: Ted Hopf, National U of Singapore
I-2-2 Security and Regional Integration in Eurasia: Searching A New Identity?
Chair: TBA
Papers: Timur Dadabaev, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Vision of Self/Other in the construction of New Eurasia”
Takeshi Yuasa, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan“Institutionalization of Russian-led Integration Process and Central
Asia”
Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercīlasun, Gazi U, Ankara, Turkey“Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Union: Discourse, Implications
and Challenges”
Discussant: TBA
I-2-3 Children in Russia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Merja Norros Ministry of Justice, Finland“Accession of Russia to the Hague Child Abduction Convention”
Tova Höjdestrand Lund U, Sweden“Fatherland, Faith and Family Policy: Parental Mobilization against
Children’s Rights in Contemporary Russia”
Discussant: TBA
I-2-4 Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube: EU Integration between
Slovakia and Hungary from a Local Border Perspective
Chair: Susumu Nagayo, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Barnabás Vajda, U of J. Selye, Slovakia“Transboundary Symbiosis over the River Danube during the Cold

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Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

War Era”
Tatsuya Nakazawa, U of Fukui, Japan“Boundary Mechanisms in the Formulation of National Identity:
A Case Study of Students at Selye János University in Komárno”
Yuko Kambara, U of Kitakyushu, Japan“Multi-Ethnic Experiences Concerning Nationalism and the Cultural
Right to Use the Minority Language: From Perspectives of Hungarian
Minority Elites in the Southern Slovakia”
Discussants: Tadaki Iio, Josai U, Japan;
Hiroshi Fukuda, Kyoto U, Japan
I-2-5 Eurasia Authentic: Concepts of Marginality and Mainstream in
Changing Cultural Spaces
Chair: Damira Umetbaeva, European U Viadrina, Germany
Papers: Emil Nasritdinov, American U of Central Asia, Sweden“Core Authenticity: Gangs, Jamaats and Friendship in the Changing
Urban Context”
Erica Feldman, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA“Self-Made Men: Gender and Other Transitions in Post-Soviet Bishkek”
John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan“Meandering Mainstreams and Essentialized Margins: Engagementswith Kazakh and Japanese Culture in Kazakhstan”
Discussant: Erika Alpert, Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan
I-2-6 Spectacular Currents: Live Television Events in the Soviet Union,
Czechoslovakia, and Romania
Chair: Keiko Mitani, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Masumi Kameda, U of Tokyo, Japan“Live Images of Cosmonauts: Soviet Television Broadcasts of Spaceﬂights, 1961-1965”
Misha Mazzini Grifﬁth, George Mason U, USA“Full Circle: The Short Strange Trip of Czechoslovak Television in
1968”
Dana Mustata, U of Groningen, Netherlands“Politicizing Romanian Television”
Discussant: Yoshiko Okamoto, U of Tokyo, Japan

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I-2-7 Early Russian Drama and Modernism
Chair: Mikhail Odessky, Russian State U for the Humanities
Papers: Kornelija Icin, Belgrade U, Serbia“A.Vvedensky's Drama between Tradition and Innovation”
Shin'ichi Murata, Sophia U, Japan“Paradox of the Russian Avant-garde Theatre”
Irina Shatova, Classic Private U, Ukraine“Cryptographical traditions in the Russian Avant-grade Theatre”
Discussants: Leonid Katsis, Russian State U for the Humanitites;
Willem G. Weststeijn, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands
I-2-8 Russian Religious Philosophy
Chair: Vladimir Zhidanov, Sapporo U, Japan
Papers: Josephien van Kessel, Radboud U Nijmegen, Netherlands“Sergei Bulgakov as the Ideal Type of Russian Religious Philosophical Culture?”
Horie Hiroyuki, Independent researcher, Japan“The Idea of the ‘Christian Sociality’ of Sergei Bulgakov as a Norm ofSocial Consciousness in Terms of Public Philosophy”
Sergey Kozin, U of Newcastle, Australia“Lunacharsky's Critical Theory of Religion”
Margarita Silantieva, MGIMO, Russia"Nikolai Berdyaev's Philosophy of Religious Culture in the Twentyﬁrst Century: the Poetry of the Post-modernity Thought"
Discussant: Fumikazu Osuka, Yokohama National U, Japan
I-2-9 Religiosity as a Category, Sociological Fact and Theoretical Concept(Case of Russian Religious Studies)
Chair: Evgeny Arinin, Vladimir State U, Russia
Papers: Natalia Markova, Vladimir State U, Russia“Religiosity and Religious Dimensions of War and Peace: Vladimir
Soloviev and interpretation of Catholicism”
Svetlana Martianova, Vladimir State U, Russia“Religious and Philosophical Roots of Crises of Humanism (on the V.
I. Ivanov`s Materials)”Georgy Gorbachuk, Vladimir State U, Russia“Religiosity as Individual and Social Phenomenon”

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Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Discussant: Sanami Takahashi, Hokkaido U, Japan
I-2-10 Conﬂicting Patriotisms in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Vladimir Gelman, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia
Papers: Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki, Finland“Strong State Bolstered up by Russian Patriotism”
Jussi Lassila, U of Helsinki, Finland“Aleksei Navalʼny and Liberal Nationalist Struggle with Corrupted
Patriotism”
Kaarina Aitamurto, U of Helsinki, Finland“Loyal and Patriotic Muslims for Russia”
Discussant: Julie Fedor, U of Melbourne, Australia
I-2-11 Political Transition in the Post-Soviet Countries (Roundtable)
Chair: Dmitriy Gladey, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the
CIS, Russia
Participants: Roman Amburtcev, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“The Origins and Development of Internal Political Conﬂict in Independent Ukraine”
Ilia Raskin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Electoral History of the Republic of Crimea in the Post-Soviet Period”
Edgar Vardanyan, The Armenian Center for National & International
Studies“Becoming and Development Democratic Society in the Republic of
Armenia”
Sergey Khrushchev, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Ethno-political Processes in the Post-Soviet States”
Andrey Baranov, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the
CIS, Russia“Development of International Election Monitoring in the CIS”
I-2-12 Political and Economic Elites in Russia and Ukraine: Structure andDynamics
Chair: Graeme Gill, U of Sydney, Australia
Papers: Olga Kryshtanovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences“Russian Elite Politics under Putin II”
Iryna Solonenko, European U Viadrina, Germany

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13“Transformation of Ukrainian Oligarchy and Their Political Role:Diversity of Strategies of Wealth Defense”
Atsushi Ogushi, Keio U, Japan“Bureaucratic Elites in Russia and Ukraine: Modernity and Patrimonialism”
Discussant: Stephen White, U of Glasgow, UK
I-2-13 Russian Literature in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Shunsuke Miyoshi, Komazawa U, Japan
Papers: Luba Golburt, UC Berkeley, USA“The 1830s in Russia: On the Edges of Realism and Periodization”
Donna Oliver, Beloit College, USA“Narrative and Celebrity: Contested Memory in Turgenev’s ‘A Fire at
Sea’”
Tomoo Kanazawa, U of Tokyo, Japan"The Inﬂuence of German Culture on the Russian Periodicals of the
Early Ninteenth Century"
Discussant: Atsushi Sakaniwa, Waseda U, Japan
I-2-14 Nabokov I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Katherina Kokinova, Soﬁa U, Bulgaria“The Clash between the Implied Author and the Embodied Reader”
Kumi Mouri, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Nabokov Making Films: from Cinematizations of Life to a Film
Adaptation of His Own Fiction”
Nicole Svobodny, Washington U in St. Louis, USA“Vaslav Nijinsky in/as Lolita: The Word and the Body in Nabokov's
Novel”
Rusina Volkova, Independent post-doctoral scholar, USA“Echoes of the Russian-Japanese War in the Works of Vladimir
Nabokov”
Discussant: Alex Spektor, U of Georgia, Athens, USA
I-2-15 Contemporary Russian Literature II
Chair: Audun Johannes Morch, U of Oslo, Norway
Papers: Alexander Liusyi, Heritage Institute of the Ministry of Culture, Russia

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Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“Textual Revolution in Russia as Implementation of the Scheme of aCall and the Answer”
Liu Juan, Beijing Normal U, China“Features of Subjectivation Narrative in Contemporary Russian Women's Literature”
Mattias Ågren Stockholm U, Sweden“Three Literary Representations of the Russian Territory”
Discussant: Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: U of the South, USA
I-2-16 State and Society in the Eighteenth Century Russia
Chair: Yusuke Toriyama, Chiba U, Japan
Papers: Kenta Hayashi, Osaka City U, Japan“The Role of the First Printed Russian Newspaper Vedomosti”
Lena Marasinova, Russian Academy of Sciences“Capital Punishment in Eighteenth Century Russia: From the Block to
Penance”
Yoshihide Tanaka, Miyagi U of Education, Japan“The Relationship between the Regional Administrators and theRussian Local Societies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”
Discussant: Dmitrii Redin, Ural Federal U, Russia
I-2-17 Empires and Geopolitics in the Eighteenth-Ninteenth Centuries
Chair: Tomoyuki Hanada, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
Papers: Akitsu Mayuzumi, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Russian Annexation of Crimea (1783) in the Ottoman-Russian
Rivalry over the Black Sea”
Nigar Gozalova, Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences“British Diplomatic Missions in Qajar Iran in the First Quarter of theNinteenth Century”
Yaguchi Hiroaki, Tohoku U, Japan“Eastern Question (1828~1841) and Change of Russo-Austrian
Relation”
Discussant: Halit Akarca, Ipek U, Turkey

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I-2-18 Key Concepts of Russian Consciousness in the Past and Present:
Semantics, Perception, and Use
Chair: Igor Lukoianov, St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS
Papers: Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, U of Łódź, Poland“The Idea of Empire in the Russian Historical Policy”
Dmitrii Badalian, The National Library of Russia“The Concept ‘Zemsky Sobor’ and the Idea of Power in Russian Publicistic Writing in the 19th Century”
Marian Broda, U of Łódź, Poland“Russia and Russianness in Categories of ‘Soul’”
Discussants: Kiyoharu Miura, U of Electrocommunications, Japan;
Dmitrii Rudnev, U of Barcelona, Spain
I-2-19 Punishment, Memory and Politics: Settling Accounts with the Past
since World War II
Chair: Irmina Matonyté, The Lithuanian Social Research Center, U of Managementand Economics (Vilnius)
Papers: Pascal Bonnard, CERI, Sciences Po, Paris et ISP-CNRS Nanterre“Memory Studies Networks in Europe: An Institutionalization at the
Crossroads of Academic and Political Fields”
Cécile Jouhanneau, CERI, Sciences Po, Paris“Post-war Trials and Tribulations. Rendering Justice and Seeking
Reparation in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Zoﬁa Waslicka, Warsaw U and ISP-CNRS (Nanterre-France)“Writing about Extremes in a Museum Language, Comparison of Four
Nazi Camps”
Discussant: Amélie Zima, ISP-CNRS (Université Paris Ouest la Défense Nanterre)I-2-20 Stray Histories: Emigrés, Returnees, Orphans, Ruins. Case Studies
from Eastern Europe, China, and Japan during the Twentieth Century,
and Beyond
Chair: Thomas Lahusen, U of Toronto, Canada
Papers: Dan Dan-Canaan, Heilongjiang U, China“Glocalized Suitcase Memories: Imagined Communities Imagined
History Problems of Memory and Nostalgia in the Presentation ofHarbin”
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Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“‘Wolf Children’ in (Eastern) Europe and (Northeast) China”
Tong Lam, U of Toronto, Canada“Ruin Blues: Huai Jiu and Ostalgie in Post-Socialist China and Former
East Germany”
Larissa Ousmanova, Kazan Federal U, Russia“The Turk-Tatar Diaspora in Manchuria in the 1930s.: Life Experiencein Exile”
Discussant: Thomas Lahusen, U of Toronto, Canada
I-2-21 Analyzing a Complicated Empire – The Habsburg Monarchy and Its
Aftermath
Chair: Dai Anami, Toyo Gakuen U, Japan
Papers: Jana Osterkamp, Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich, Germany“The Cooperative Empire – Lessons from Late Habsburg
Austria-Hungary”
Barbara Klimek, U of Silesia in Katowice, Poland“Railways as a Trigger of Cultural and Social Modernization – Case of
Habsburg Railways in Galicia”
Yukino Sato, Tohoku U, Japan“Cooperation among Multinational Large Scale Land Owners ofInter-war Czechoslovakia: Interest Organizations and Nationalism”
Discussant: Taku Shinohara, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
I-2-22 Lexical and Grammatical Conceptualization of Boundary: Its Unity
and Diversity in the Slavic Languages (Roundtable)
Chair: TBA
Participants: Ljudmila Popović, Belgrade U, Serbia“Эксплетивное отрицание в конструкциях с союзом пока и егоаналогами в других славянских языках как переходное явление
между отрицанием и афирмативностью”
Karolína Skwarska, Institute of Slavonic Studies, Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic“Где кончается синтаксис и начинается семантика при описании
свойств славянского глагола?”Milivoj Alanović, U of Novi Sad, Serbia“Passive Voice in Serban: between Grammar and Lexical Semantics”
Anatolii Zagnitko, Donetsk National U

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17“Borders of Categories: Levels, Types and Directions of Transformations”
I-2-23 Sino-Russian Cross Border Economic Ties and Labor Migration
Chair: Masachika Shiotani, Tohoku U, Japan
Papers: Sergey Ryazantsev, Institute of Social-Politic Research, RAS“Chinese Migrants in the Russian Labor Market: Competitors or the
Driving Force of Economic Development?”
Norio Horie, U of Toyama, Japan“Chinese Agricultural Workers in Russian Far East”
Jungwon Cho, Inha U, South Korea“Mutual Investment and Border Trade between Far Eastern Russia andNortheastern China from 2013 to 2014”
Discussant: Seongjin Kim, Duksung Women’s U, South Korea
I-2-24 Jewish Acculturation in Germany and Hungary at the Turn of theTwentieth Century
Chair: Taro Tsurumi, Saitama U, Japan
Papers: Naoki Mukai, Kyoto U, Japan“Acculturation of German and Hungarian Jews: A Case of the Scholarsof the ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’”
Daniel Viragh, U of California, Berkeley, USA“Ignáz Goldziher, The National Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest andthe Creation of Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungarian”
Noriko Tsujikawa, Japan Society for Promotion of Science“Politics and Religion Through the Eyes of Intellectuals in Hungary at
the Turn-of-the-Century”
Discussant: Mitsuharu Akao, Osaka U, Japan

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Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
I-3-1 International Impacts of the Ukrainian Crisis I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Grigory Olekh, Novosibirsk State Academy of Water Transport, Russia“Ukrainian Events in 2014 through the Eyes of the Citizens of theRussian Federation”
Cristina-Maria Dogot, U of Oradea, Romania“Regional Leadership of Central and Eastern European EU Member
States in the Ukrainian post-Vilnius Crisis”
Maria Raquel Freire, U of Coimbra, Portugal“Fine-tuning the European Security Architecture? Transatlantic Relations in the Context and Aftermath of the Crisis in Ukraine”
Igor Gretskiy, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Ukraine's Foreign Policy and the Eurasian Integration”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-2 Maintaining Security in South and Central Asia on the basis of Conceptof Global International Policy
Chair: Akbota Zholdasbekova, Academy of Public Administration, Institute of
Diplomacy, Kazakhstan
Papers: Irfan Shahzad, Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan“Role of Pakistan in Deescalating Conﬂicts in Afghanistan”
Punit Gaur, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development,
Chandigarh, India“Indian Role in Creating in Security System in South Asia”
Aigerim Ospanova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Soft Power Policy as Instrument of Cooperation in Central Asia
States”
Discussant: Taissiya Marmontova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan
I-3-3 Unrecognized States
Chair: TBA
Papers: Sergey Minasyan, The Caucasus Institute, Armenia“The Nagorno Karabakh Conﬂict in the Context of the South CaucasianRegional Security Issue: New Trends and Old Obstacles”

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Hideya Matsuzaki, Sophia U, Japan“The Sustainability of Frozen Conﬂict and Peace Negotiations inTransnistria: From the Point of View of the Dispute Parties”
Nona Shakhnazaryan, Centre for Independent Social Research, Russia“International Migration and Friendship as a Resource of the Informal
Economy: The Case of Post-Conﬂict Nagorno Karabakh”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-4 The Reception of Leo Tolstoy`s Teachings in the United States andJapan
Chair: Yuichi Isahaya, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Irina Melnikova, Doshisha U, Japan“Japanese Christians and Leo Tolstoy: 1890-1910”
Andrew Kotchoubey, Tolstoy Foundation, Inc.
“The Tolstoy Foundation in Preserving Leo Tolstoy’s Legacy in the
20th-21st Centuries”
Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana“In Search of Utopia: Tolstoy and “Practical Christianity” in North
America”
Discussant: Tetsuo Mochizuki, Hokkaido U
I-3-5 A Comprehensive Study of Folklore through Multifaceted-aspect
Approaches: the Examples of Analysis of the Verbal and MusicalFolklore in the Central Region of European Russia (Roundtable)
Chair: Masahiro Nakahori, Keio U, Japan
Participants: Ichiro Ito, Waseda U, Japan“Chastushki Collected and Published in Japanese by Nikolai Nevsky:
an Attempt of Reconstruction”
Yoko Kumanoya, Keio U, Japan“The Collection of Chastushka of Kostroma Province, Nerekhta District (1909) by P. Florenskij and the Chastushka Tradition in the Area”
Kaori Yunoki-Oie, Kansaigaidai U, Japan“Problems and Perspectives in the Study of Musical Culture of theBalalaika”
Tatjana Viktorovna Kirjushina, State Center of Russian Folklore“The Peculiarity of Folk Music Tradition in the Border Area of
Yaroslavl and Kostroma Provinces”

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I-3-6 Russian Art in the Period of the Revolution: The Encounter and Intermixture of Theatre, Art and Literature
Chair: Gutova Ekaterina, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Emiko Hirano, U of Tokyo, Japan“‘The Magic Mirror’ by Marius Petipa and Alexandre Golovin”
Satoko Kitai, U of Tokyo, Japan“Two Zhenyas: The ‘New Woman’ of Pre- and Post-revolutionary
Russia”
Ibragimova Elena, Waseda U, Japan“Meyerhold’s ‘Proscenium Servants’ in the Calderon de la Barca’s‘The Devotion of the Cross’ Production (1910)”
Discussants: Kenichiro Takahashi, Sapporo U, Japan;
Jheewon Cha, Seoul National U, South Korea
I-3-7 Digital Rhetoric in Russian (Roundtable)
Chair: Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, UK
Participants: Gasan Gusejnov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Oblivious Transfer, or Why Are Some Rhetorical Traditions More
Virulent than Others?”
Dirk Uffelmann, U of Passau, Germany“Digital Rhetoric in Russian”
Vera Zvereva, U of Edinburgh, UK“The Discoursive Self-Construction of the Russian Middle Class on
Social Network Sites”
Natasha Rulyova, U of Birmingham, UK“The Changing Fabric of News: How New Media Practices Have
Transformed Ways in Which New Stories Are Received, Framed andDisseminated”
Marijeta Bozovic, Yale U, USA“Digital Brodsky Lab”
I-3-8 On Normative Consciousness in Russian Philosophy and Thought
Chair: Mitsuo Naganawa, Yokohama National U, Japan
Papers: On Oya, Sapporo U, Japan“The Development of Russian National Identity in the 19th Century”
Fumikazu Osuka, Yokohama National U, Japan“Normative Consciousness in Russian Religious Philosophy”

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Tomofumi Omata, Waseda U, Japan“Interpretation of N. F. Fedorov’s Thought from the Viewpoint of theNorms of Science”
Discussants: Aleksey Kozyrev, Moscow State U, Russia;
Vladimir Zhidanov, Sapporo U, Japan
I-3-9 Current Scholarship on Religion in Russia: A Critical Roundtable Discussion (Roundtable)
Chair: Paul William Werth, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Participants: Karin Vibeke Hyldal Christensen, U of Copenhagen, Denmark“The Existing Scholarship on the Russian Orthodox Church in
Post-Soviet Russia”
Ulrike Huhn, U of Bremen, Germany“Soviet Believers: Everyday Worship in an Atheist Society after
WW II”
Aleksandr Lavrov, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France“Church, Society and State in Russia, 1881-1905: Trends of Historiography”
Aleksandr Polunov, Moscow State U, Russia“Religion and Church in Russian Empire: the Ninteenth and Early
Twentieth Century”
Mami Hamamoto, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences“Muslims in Early Modern Russia: Recent Research Trends”
I-3-10 Advancing Slavic Eurasian Studies: Sources and Libraries
Chair: TBA
Papers: Katja Lentisaari, U of Helsinki, Finland“Russian Newspapers: in the Converged Environment”
Juergen Warmbrunn, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East
Central Europe, Germany“Libraries and Librarians in East Central Europe between 1945 and1989/90 – Propagators of Desirable and Gate-keepers for Undesirable
Information and Knowledge”
Edward Kasinec, Columbia U, USA“Globalization, The Disciplines and the Re-Invention of Post-Communist Area Studies”
Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the Czech

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Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Republic“History, Justice, and Politics: A Hazardous Combination in the Czech
Dealing with the Communist Past”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-11 Post-Communist Political Regimes I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Mikael Sandberg, Halmstad U, Sweden“Institutional Dimensions of Post-Communist Transitions”
Yuriy Dorozhkin, Bashkir Academy of PA and Management, Russia“The Political System of Contemporary Russia: Democracy or Authoritarianism?”
Ina Shakhrai, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany“Legitimation of Authoritarian Rule through the Construction of External Threats: the Cases of Belarus and Georgia”
Yu Tachibana, Hokkaido U, Japan“How to Rule a Country: A Comparative Analysis of Presidential
Decree Making in South Caucasus Republics”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-12 Public Administration in Russia and Ukraine
Chair: TBA
Papers: Alexander Obolonsky, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Why Is It So Difﬁcult to Reform Bureaucracy in Post-communist
Countries? (The Russian Case)”
Roman Amburtsev, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Ukraine: Reform of the State Apparatus”
Aadne Aasland, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research“Network Governance of Drug Rehabilitation Policy in Two Russian
Regions”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-13 Approaches to the History of Russian Literature in the 19th Century
Chair: Atsushi Sakaniwa, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Vsevolod Bagno, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), RAS“Eastern Literature in Russian Translation (The First Third of the 19th
Century)”

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Natalia Teplova, Concordia U, Canada“A.V. Nikitenko, Censor and Defender of Literary Translation in 19th
Century Russia”
Noriko Kasuya, Waseda U, Japan“Chekhov`s Adaptation from the 19th Century Russian Realistic
Novels and the Character’s Inner Life”
Discussant: Irina Reyfman, Columbia U, USA
I-3-14 Nabokov II
Chair: Julia Chadaga, Macalester College, USA
Papers: Natalia Kuznetsova, Independent Researcher, retired from Yaroslav-theWise Novgorod State U“Shift in Value Aspect: Vladimir Nabokov's Russian Short Story 'Natasha' and Its English Translation”
Marina Minskaya, Independent researcher, USA“‘Youth’ – A Discovery at the Berg Collection”
Naoya Sawa, Waseda U, Japan“Tragedy Put Out of Joint: Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense”
Nora Scholz, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany“‘Essence Has Been Revealed to Me...’ Nonduality in the Prose of
Vladimir Nabokov”
Discussant: Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, USA
I-3-15 Literary Education in Post-Soviet Countries
Chair: Susumu Nonaka, Saitama U, Japan
Papers: Boris Lanin, Academy of Education of Russia“Fights around Literary Education in Modern Russia”
Sergei Volkov, High School of Economics, Russia“The Role of a Magazine for the Teachers in Promoting Literary
Education”
Olha Nikolenko, Poltava National Korolenko Pedagogical U, Ukraine“The New Approaches to the Content and Structure of Literary Education in Ukraine”
Discussant: Hajime Kaizawa, Waseda U, Japan
I-3-16 History of Governance in States and Regions of Eurasia
Chair: Andrei Minakov, Orel Local History Museum, Russia

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Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Papers: George Anchabadze, Ilia State U, Georgia“Army and Military Organization of the Kingdom of Georgia in the
11th-13th Centuries”
Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“‘Supporting role” Persons at the Russian Steppe Frontier: Accredited
Plenipotentiary Representatives for Supervising over the Situation in
the Kalmyk Khanate, 1715-1771”
Olga Ermakova, Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of
Russian Academy of Sciences“The System of Special State Administration in the Sphere of Industrial Production in Eastern Russia (the Urals, the First half of the 19th
Century)”
Tomoyuki Hanada, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan“Russian Empire’s Rule over Caucasian Territory led by A.I. Chernyshev and M.S. Vorontsov”
Discussant: Takeshi Matsumura, Daito Bunka U, Japan
I-3-17 Dynasty, Empire, and Power
Chair: Noriko Tsujikawa, Japan Society for Promotion of Science
Papers: Alexander Filyushkin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Was the Empire the Only Possible Form of the State in Central-Eastern Europe in Early Modern Time?”
Jeremy Smith, U of Eastern Finland“Comparative Problems of Dynastic Succession in European and East
Asian Dynasties”
Ekaterina Boltunova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Emperor’s Throne and Power Affection in Contemporary Russia”
Discussant: Tatsuya Nakazawa, U of Fukui, Japan
I-3-18 Central Asia and the Russian Empire / USSR
Chair: Akifumi Shioya, U of Tsukuba, Japan
Papers: Akmal Bazarbaev, Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan“Rural Land in Jizzakh: Property Rights under Tsarist Rule”
Tomohiko Uyama, Hokkaido U, Japan“Understanding the Kazakh Autonomy of the Alash Orda Multidisciplinarily: Enlightenment, Post-Imperial Citizenship, and International
Contexts”

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Maxim Kim, Tomsk State U, Russia“The Problems of Food Supply of Workers: The Karaganda CoalBasin in the 1930s”
Yeshim Yelnur, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“History of Deported Peoples in Karaganda Region”
Discussant: Jörn Happel, U of Basel, Switzerland
I-3-19 Representing Stalinism and Soviet Authority Abroad in the 1920s-1950s
Chair: Peter Waldron, U of East Anglia, UK
Papers: Junya Takiguchi, Ryukoku U, Japan“Orchestrating Stalinism at the Comintern Congress”
Matthias Neumann, U of East Anglia“Youthful Internationalism in the Age of ‘Socialism in One Country’:
The Komsomol and the Idea of World Revolution, 1926-1941”
Yoko Tateishi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“Soviet Historians in Stalinism and ‘Thaw’”
Discussant: Yasuhiro Matsui, Kyushu U, Japan
I-3-20 POWs in the Soviet Union: Comparison of Germans and Japanese
Chair: Takeshi Tomita, Seikei U, Japan
Papers: Sergei Kuznetsov, Irkutsk State U, Russia“Japanese and German POW in Siberia: Common and Differences”
Andreas Hilger, U of Marburg, Germany“Soviet Policy and the Repatriation of German POWs to Divided
Germany”
Discussants: Kiyofumi Kato, National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan;
Andrew Barshay, UC Berkeley, USA
I-3-21 Regions and Nations in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: Transylvania
and Slovakia
Chair: Yoshiyuki Morishita, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Judit Pál, Babes-Bolyai U, Cluj-Napoca, Romania“Elections and Electoral Corruption in Transylvania in the Dualist
Period (1867-1918)”
Edita Bosak, Memorial U of Newfoundland, Canada“Živena and Its Place in the Slovak National Movement from 1869 to
1914”

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Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Takumi Ide, Waseda U, Japan“The Denominational Question in the Slovak Nationalist Movement in
the Early 20th Century: The Formation of the Slovak People’s Party in1905 and Its Reorganization in 1913”
Discussant: Susumu Nagayo, Waseda U, Japan
I-3-22 Questions of Doukhobors and Their Language
Chair: TBA
Papers: Gunter Schaarschmidt, University of Victoria, Canada“The Prestige Variable in Maintaining and Revitalizing Doukhobor
Russian in British Columbia, Canada”
Veronika Makarova, University of Saskatchewan, Canada"The Use of Doukhobor Russian in Saskatchewan Doukhobor Prayer
Services"
Discussant: TBA
I-3-23 Economic Growth and Productivity in Russia and China
Chair: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland
Papers: Andrei Yakovlev, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Incentives in Public Administration – Why Russia Has Not Achieved
What USSR Did Till the Late 1960s or China Has Been Doing sincethe 1980s?”
Ilya Voskoboynikov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“When High Growth Is Not Enough: Rethinking Russia’s Pre-crisis
Economic Performance”
Yasushi Nakamura, Yokohama National U, Japan“Technology Progress and the Transition to Market Economy: A
Comparison between Russia and China
Discussants: Harry X. Wu, Hitotsubashi U, Japan;
Laura Solanko, BOFIT Bank of FinlandI-3-24 Jewish History: New Sources, New Approaches
Chair: TBA
Papers: Svetlana Mishchuk, Institute for Complex Analysis of Regional Problems,
Far Eastern Branch, RAS“Migration Features in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast since the
Mid-Twentieth Century till the Present”

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Sergei Mikhalchenko, Bryansk State U“Jews in the Eastern Europe in the End of the 19th – the Beginningof the 20th Centuries (Based on Unpublished Memoirs by E. Spektorsky)”Andrei Rogatchevski, U of Tromsø, Norway“Russophone Periodicals in Israel: Is a Bibliography Possible?”
Discussant: TBA
I-3-25 Protestantism in Russia (Roundtable)
Chair: TBA
Papers: Natalia Potapova, Sakhalin State University, Russia“Russian-Ukrainian Evangelical Movement in the United States andCanada in the First Half of the Twentieth Century“
Alexey Gorbatov, Kemerovo State University, Russia“Jehovah’s Witnesses in Siberia: History and Modernity”
Dmitrii Vladimirov, Modern University for the Humanities (Vladivostok)“Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Religious Organizationsin the Contemporary Russia (Based on the Example of the Legal Proceedings in the Far East)”

Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
I-4-1 International Impacts of the Ukrainian Crisis II
Chair: Roman Horbyk
Papers: Swetlana Czerwonnaja, Nicolaus Copernicus U in Torun, Poland“The Russian Aggression into the Crimea (2014) and strategic Unionof the Crimean Tatars with Ukraine”
Tatiana Tairova, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Ukrainian Identity and Russian Empire: the Conﬂict of Interest in the
Eighteenth Century”
Matthew Frear, Leiden U, Netherlands“The Forgotten Side of the Slavic Triangle: Belarus-Ukraine Relations”
Serhy Yekelchyk, U of Victoria, Canada“How a Plaza Became the Maidan: A Spatial History of Celebration
and Protest in Modern Kyiv”
Discussant: TBA

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Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

I-4-2 Security in Central Asia I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Mirzokhid Rakhimov, The Institute of History AS Uzbekistan“Security Challenges in Central Asia and Perspectives of Inter-Asian
Partnership”
Svetlana Kozhirova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Three Levels of Security Threats in Central Asia”
Rustam Burnashev, Kazakh-German U, Kazakhstan“Securitization of Terrorism in Weak States: The Case of Central
Asia”
Discussant: Cristina-Maria Dogot, U of Oradea, Romania TBA
I-4-3 Chechnya
Chair: TBA
Papers: Yuliya Zabyelina, U of Edinburgh“Challenges of Post-Conﬂict Reconstruction in Chechnya”
Anne Le Huerou, Paris-Ouest Nanterre U, France“War Violence and War Experience is reVeterans and Civilians in the
Chechen Republic: How War Violence Is Reengaged and Transformedin the Post-war Context”
Discussant: TBA
I-4-4 Cross-border Cooperation and Transregionalisation in Central andEastern Europe
Chair: Stefan Garsztecki, Technical U Chemnitz, Germany
Papers: Jaroslaw Janczak, Adam Mickiewicz U, Poland“Border Twin Towns’ Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Between De-boundarization and Re-frontierization”
Garri Raagmaa, U of Tartu, Estonia“The Territorial Governance and Core-periphery Relations”
Mimi Kornazheva, U of Ruse, Bulgaria“Bulgarian-Romanian Cross-border Cooperation”
Discussants: Piotr Kocyba, Technical U Chemnitz, Germany,
Ilona Scherm, Technical U Chemnitz, Germany

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I-4-5 Traditional Folk Culture and Ethnological Studies through History,
Ideology and Religion
Chair: Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Laurent Fournier, Nantes U, France“The Inﬂuence of East-European Politics in the Conceptualization andin the Development of Anthropological Studies in France”
Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik, Scientiﬁc Research Centre, Slovenian Academyof Sciences and Arts
“The Politics of Tradition in Slovenia: Between Folk Culture andCultural Heritage”
Mare Koiva, Estonian Literary Museum“Ethnic Religion – Ideologies and Adaptation: The Estonian Case”
Discussant: Irina Sedakova, Institute for Slavic Studies, RAS
I-4-6 The Image of Enemy in Socialist War Films: Comparing the Soviet
Union, China, and Vietnam
Chair: Irina V. Melnikova, Doshisha U, Japan
Papers: Go Koshino, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Image of German Soldiers and of Belarusian Collaborators in
Belarusian-Soviet War Films”
Sun Bai, Renmin U, China“The Female Agent and the Intellectual Interpreter: Two Images ofInternal Enemy in Chinese War Films during the Socialist Period”
Naoya Sakagawa, Kyoto U, Japan“From Cold to Hot, Evolution of the Image of Enemy in Vietnamese
Cinema about the Anti-American Resistance War: A Study of Dang
Nhat Minh’s Films”
Discussant: Anastasia Fedorova, Hokkaido U, Japan
I-4-7 The Russian Futurist Poet Velimir Khlebnikov in the Context of Contemporary Russian Art
Chair: Andrei Romakhin (Rossomakhin), European U at St. Petersburg, Russia
Papers: Willem Weststeijn, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands“Khlebnikov's Free Verse”
Vera Miturich-Khlebnikova, Moscow Union of Artists, Russia“Family Archive Materials. Line on a Piece”
Arsen Mirzaev, Member of the International Federation of Russian Writers

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Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“Velimir Khlebnikov’s Literary and Artistic Portraits by the Eyes of
his Contemporaries”
Discussants: Stepan Botiev, Federation of Artists of Kalmykiya, Russia;
Alexander Vladimirovich Keba, Kamianets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko
National U, Ukraine
I-4-8 Aesthetics and Philosophy in Modern Society
Chair: TBA
Papers: Diana Prokofyeva, Ph.D, Russia“Man's Estrangement and Engagement in Modern Society”
Vladimir Przhilenskiy, Kutaﬁn Moscow State Law U, Russia“Reality: Its Meaning and Sense”
Christoph-Malte Maisch, European U Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, Germany“Poland's Critical Theorist: Intersections between Theodor Adorno's
and Ludwik Fleck's Asthetics of Science”
Miglena Dikova-Milanova, The International School of Business, Belgium“The Intimacy of Being in the World: Eastern Orthodox Attitudes to
the Self”
Discussant: TBA
I-4-9 Political Thought in the Russian Orthodox Tradition
Chair: Irina Kotkina, Södertörn U, Sweden
Papers: Thomas Bremer, Münster U, Germany“The ‘Strategic Alliance’ between the Russian Orthodox Church andthe Roman Catholic Church”
Mikhail Suslov, Uppsala U, Sweden“The Concept of Monarchism in the Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox
Church of Moscow Patriarchy”
Elena Namli, Uppsala U, Sweden“The Russian Orthodox Church and Politics – On Political Theology
and Corrupt Moralism”
Discussant: Kåre Johan Mjør, Uppsala U, Sweden
I-4-10 Slavic and East European Studies Collections
Chair: Yoshifuru Tsuchiya, Nihon U, Japan
Papers: Anatol Shmelev, Stanford U, USA“Hoover Institution’s Russian and Slavic Collections”

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Lea Leppik, U of Tartu, Estonia“Soviet Time Collections in Estonian Memory Institutions”
Eugene Petrov, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Archival Traditions of Compatriots in Russian Diaspora”
Discussants: Kirsti Ekonen, U of Helsinki, Finland;
Abdulla Daudov, St. Petersburg State U, Russia
I-4-11 Post-Communist Political Regime II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Viktor Rudenko, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Urals Division, RAS“Rule of Law, Democracy and Political Regimes in Central and East
European Countries”
Nicolas Hayoz, Fribourg U, Switzerland“Informal Networks of Power, Friends and Control of Deviation in
Post-Soviet Non-democracies”
Fuqi Xue, Chinese Academy of Social Scienses“Intermediate State – Some Aspects of Political Development in
Russia”
Tamara Nemchinova, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Conceptual Problem of Democracy in the Context of the Fourth
Wave of Democratization”
Discussant: TBA
I-4-12 Politics of Post-socialist/Neo-liberal Reforms in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Meri Kulmala, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Linda J. Cook and Martin Dimitrov, Brown U, USA“The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State
Capitalist Economies”
Andrey Starodubtsev, U of Helsinki, Finland“How Does an (Authoritarian) State Implement Unpopular Reforms?
Some Evidences from Social Policies in Russia”
Anna-Liisa Heusala, U of Helsinki, Finland“Interpretations of ‘Comprehensive Security’: A Comparison of
Security Thinking in Russia and Finland”
Discussant: Vladimir Gel'man, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia

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Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

I-4-13 Power and Society in Modern Dagestan: Political Perspectives in theContext of Forcing Militarization of Russia
Chair: Arbakhan Magomedov, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia
Papers: Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov, The Institute of History, Archaeology andEthnography, Dagestan Center of RAS“Migration as a Conﬂict-producing Factor in the Post-Soviet Dagestan
Republic”
Zaid Abdulagatov, The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Center of RAS“Military, Legal and Ideological Counteractions to the Religious andPolitical Extremism in Contemporary Dagestan”
Alkhas Alkhasov, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia“Islam and Politics in Contemporary Dagestan: Religious-Political
Networks”
Discussant: Marie Mendras, Centre National de la Recherches Scientiﬁc, France
I-4-14 Ainu Identity in Hokkaido and beyond: Past, Present and Future(Roundtable)
Chair: Jeff Gayman, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Koichi Inoue, Kansai U of Foreign Languages, Japan“Reconsidering B. Piłsudski’s 'Draft of Rules for the Establishment of
Authority over the Sakhalin Ainu' of 1905”
Mark Hudson, Nishi Kyushu U, Japan“Violence, Warfare and Identity in Premodern Ainu Society”
Ann-Elise Lewallen, Hokkaido U, Japan“Crafting Women Ainu’s Identity: Handcraft Production and Contemporary Ainu Indigeneity”
Tatsiana Tsahelnik, Hokkaido U, Japan“Transformation of Ainu Identity Meanings and Indigenous Culture
Experiences outside Hokkaido”
I-4-15 Russian Literary Travelogues of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Chair: Jheewon Cha, Seoul National U, South Korea
Papers: Kwangjin Seo, Seoul National U, South Korea“Genre of Literary Travel and D. Fonvizin’s ‘Letters from France(1777-1778)’”Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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Yusuke Toriyama, Chiba U, Japan“‘Patriotic War’ and ‘Foreign War’: Fyodor Glinka’s ‘Letters of a Russian Ofﬁcer’ and Travel Accounts during Napoleonic Wars”
Ji-Eun Sim, Hallym U, South Korea“Pushkin and Journeys”
Discussants: Daisuke Adachi, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan;
Mikhail P. Odessky, Russian State U for the Humanities
I-4-16 A Moral in Tow: Nabokov's Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics
Chair: Victoria Donovan, U of St Andrews, UK
Papers: Julia Chadaga, Macalester College, USA“Violence in the Void: Nabokov and Terrorism”
Jacob Emery, Indiana U, USA“Art and Advertising”
Alex Spektor, U of Georgia, Athens, USA“The Dangers of Aesthetic Bliss: Narrative Ethics in the Prose of
Vladimir Nabokov”
Discussant: Julia Vaingurt, U of Illinois at Chicago, USA
I-4-17 Culture and Literature in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia
Chair: Tsypylma Darieva, Friedrich Schiller U, Germany
Papers: Sanna Turoma, U of Helsinki, Finland“Central Asian Imaginings in Post-Stalin Cultural Production”
Roza Mussabekova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Problem of Freedom of the Creative Person in the Russian Literatureof Kazakhstan”
Yukiyasu Arai, Asia U, Japan“On Formation of the Literary Histories for National Minorities? Case
Studies on Mongolic Minority Literatures in Russia and China andTheir Relation to the History of Mongolian Literature in Mongolia”
Shafag Dadashova, Baku Slavic U, Azerbaijan“Temporal and Spatial Inﬂuences on Memory of Autobiographical
Writers”
Discussant: Elza-Bair Guchinova, Independent researcher, Armenia

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Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

I-4-18 What Level of Efﬁciency of Local Management of the Russian Empire
Was? (Roundtable)
Chair: Lyubichankovskiy Sergei, Orenburg State Pedagogical U, Russia
Participants: Redin Dmitry, Ural Federal U, Russia“The Problem of Efﬁciency of Local Government in the Era of Petrine
Reforms: Extraordinary Institutions in the System of Russian State
Machinery”
Górak Artur, U Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Poland“Gubernators in Gubernya’s Kingdom of Poland: Selection of Candidates and the Political Goals of the Russian Empire”
Minakov Andrei, Orel Local History Museum, Russia“The Governor's Power in the Post-reform Russia: New Scope of theCompetence and Efﬁciency Problem”
Uderbaeva Saule, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“Management of the Russian Empire Kazakh Steppe: The Process,Results, Effectiveness”
Kovalskaya Svetlana, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Efﬁciency of Regional Governance of the Russian Empire in theModern Historiography”
I-4-19 Politics in the Composite Space of Empire: Nationality, Locality andSupranational Identities in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union(Roundtable)
Chair: Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State U, Georgia
Participants: Jeremy Smith, U of Eastern Finland“The Absence of a Nationality Policy in the Soviet Union”
Ronald Suny, U of Michigan, USA“Dilemmas of the Damned: Dealing with ‘Internal Enemies’ in theImperial Crisis of World War I”
Alexander Semyonov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The Concept of Minority and Its Making in the Russian Empire of
the Duma Period”
Ivan Sablin, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Post-Imperial North Asia,
1905–1924”

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I-4-20 The Search for Identity in the Twilight of the Russian Empire
Chair: Toshiyuki Shimosato, Joetsu U of Education, Japan
Papers: George Gilbert, Oxford U, UK“‘An Unbroken Evolution Towards a Depressive Cadence…’ Civic
Society, the Russian Right and conceptions of Renewing Russia in thelate Imperial period”
Halit Akarca, Ipek U, Turkey“Russia and the Scramble for Antiquities in the Ottoman Lands. 18901918”
Vassili Molodiakov, Takushoku U, Japan“Valery Bryusov as Political Analyst and Commentator”
Discussant: Ryo Nemura, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan
I-4-21 Rethinking the Great Terror
Chair: Takeo Hidai, Saitama Gakuen U, Japan
Papers: Peter Whitewood, York St. John U, UK“The Red Army and the Great Terror”
Arailym Mussagaliyeva, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“‘Great Terror’ in Kazakhstan in 1937-1938”
Noritaka Kemmoku, U of Tokyo, Japan“An Aspect of the Road to the End of the Great Terror: the Impact of
the Liushkov Scandal on Ezhov's Downfall”
Discussant: Michael David-Fox, Georgetown U, USA
I-4-22 The US and USSR’s Stance in Punishing Japan: The Tokyo andKhabarovsk Trials
Chair: Yaroslav Shulatov, Hiroshima City U, Japan
Papers: Viktoriya Romanova, First Moscow State Medical U, Russia“The Khabarovsk Trial and Its Place in the Soviet Strategy at the Far
East”
Nobuko Kosuge, Yamanashi Gakuin U, Japan“The Conﬂicts between the Soviets and the US at the IMTFE: theCase of Yosuke Matsuoka, the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet-Japan
Treaty”
Akina Kobayashi, Hosei U, Japan“The Soviet Policy toward the Japanese POW in Soviet Camps after
the World War II”

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Discussant: Shinji Yokote, Keio U, Japan
I-4-23 The Habsburg Empire Goes Beyond Borders
Chair: Hiroshi Fukuda, Kyoto U, Japan
Papers: Eiko Kuwana, U of the Sacred Heart, Japan“An Austro-Hungarian Diplomat in Meiji Japan: Count Heinrich Coudenhove's Encounter with Japan and East Asia”
Roman Holec, Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences“Nature without Borders, Borders in Heads (Environmental History in
the 19th Century Central-Europe)”
John C. Swanson, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA“Rethinking Ethnicity in Central Europe: the German Speakers of
Twentieth Century Hungary”
Discussant: Takumi Ide, Waseda U, Japan
I-4-24 Linguistic Violence in Russian Political Discourse (Roundtable)
Chair: Vera Zvereva, U of Edinburgh, UK
Participants: Holger Kuße, TU Dresden, Germany“Diffuse Messages as Violence. Examples from Political Discourse”
Weiss Daniel, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Power and Violence: a Pragmatic Portrait of V. Putin’s Speech”
Beatrix Kress, Hildesheim U, Germany“Pod lichnym kontrolem – the Semiotics of Violence in the Media
Presentations of Vladimir Putin”
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, U of Edinburgh, UK“Approaches to Linguistic Violence in Russian Discourse”
I-4-25 Demography of Russia – From Past to Future (1): Subjective Well-Being, Life-Work Balance and Vulnerability in Life in Russia
Chair: Yuka Takeda, Kyushu U, Japan
Papers: Ekaterina Selezneva, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,
Germany“Job Stability and Fertility in Russia during 1994-2012”
Tatiana Karabachuk, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The Second and Third Childbirth in Russia: Does Females’ Employment Matter?”
Kazuhiko Kumo, Hitotsubashi U, Japan

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37“Mortality Trends in Russia Revisited”
Discussant: Olga Popova, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,
Germany
I-4-26 Theorizing Russia’s Resources and Rules: Choices in Changing Global
Energy Markets
Chair: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Pami Aalto, U of Tampere, Finland“The Choices of Russian Actors in the New Natural Gas Markets”
Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall U/ Harvard U, USA“Between Materiality and Values: EU Rules and Russian Hydrocarbon
Exporters’ Choices”
Elena Shadrina, Meiji U, Japan“Institutional Analysis of Russia’s Eastern Gas Policy”
Discussant: Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido U, Japan
I-4-27 Jabotinsky and his Multiple Imperial Contexts
Chair: Mirja Lecke, Ruhr U Bochum, Germany
Papers: Marina Mogilner, U of Illinois at Chicago, USA“Inventing Modern Jewishness in the Russian Imperial Context: Jabotinsky’s Racialized Nationalism”
Mirja Lecke, Ruhr U Bochum, Germany“Jabotinsky’s Drama Chuzhbina (1908) and Its Multiple Contexts”
Alexis Hofmeister, Basel U, Switzerland“The Life of an Anti-imperial Jew? Jabotinsky’s Biography as Written
by Himself and Others”
Discussant: Taro Tsurumi, Saitama U, Japan

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Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Wednesday
AugustSession II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)
II-1-1 International Impacts of the Ukrainian Crisis III
Chair: Mark Teramae, U of Helsinki, Finland TBA
Papers: Oleksii Polegkyi, Antwerpen U, Belgium“Ukrainian Revolution 2013-2014: Battleground between East andWest?”
Mikhail Molchanov, St. Thomas U, Canada“The Clash of Regionalisms on Europe’s Eastern Frontiers: the European Association or the Eurasian Integration?”
Alla Kovalova, Independent researcher, Ukraine“Eurasian Alternatives of Ukraine and Russia in Historical, Cenceptual, and Political Dimensions”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-2 Security in Central Asia II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Irina Chernykh, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies“Radicalization in Central Asia in the Context of Societal Security”
Laura Issova, Al-Farab Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“CICA Role in Regional Security in the New Reality”
Baubek Somzhurek, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Military and Political Cooperation of Central Asian Countries as a
Factor of Stability of the Regional Security System”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-3 State-Building in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Chair: TBA
Papers: Branislav Radeljic, U of East London, UK

Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

39“European Community-Yugoslav Relations: Documents that Mattered(1980–1992)”
Elma Demir, Goldsmiths U of London, UK“‘To Somebody a Brother, to Others the war’: Political Economy ofTransitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Jelena Dzankic, European University Institute, Italy“Ties That Bind: Citizenship, Voting Rights and Nation-building in the
Post-Yugoslav Space”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-4 Citizenship in the Twenty-ﬁrst Century: Supranational Trends andChallenges in Europe and Euro-Asia
Chair: Gerard-René De Groot, U of Maastricht, Netherlands
Papers: Sergio Carrera, Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium“The Relation between Nationality, Citizenship and the Genuine Link
Reconsidered”
Kristine Kruma, Riga Graduate School of Law; and Constitutional Courtof Latvia“Principle of Non-discrimination: an Option to Extend EU Role in
Citizenship Related Issues”
Gerard-René De Groot, U of Maastricht, Netherlands“Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality: An Attempt to Develop Concrete Assessment Criteria”
Zvezda Vankova, Migration Policy Group, Belgium“Impact of the Europeanization Process on Access to Citizenship/
Nationality for Third Country Nationals in CEE Countries and Eastern
Partnership Countries”
Discussant: Noriko Yasue, Ritsumeikan U, Japan
II-1-5 Anthropology, the Volga-Ural Region
Chair: TBA
Papers: Rushan Gallyamov, Bashkir Agricultural U, Russia“Political and Confessional Elite as a Way for an Interethnic and Interfaith Dialogue in the Ural and Volga Macroregion”
Ildar Gabdraﬁkov, Institute of Ethnosociological Research, RAN“Volga Region as a Model of Interethnic and Interconfessional
Dialogue”

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Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Akira Sakurama, Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Uzbekistan“Seeking Authenticity: Politics on the Ancient Town of Bolgar in the
Republic of Tatarstan”
Venaly Amelin, Orenburg State U, Russia“Ethnic Culture as a Factor of Preservation of Identity”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-6 Russian Avant-garde Reimaged: Lissitsky, Tatlin, Malevich
Chair: Todd Armstrong, Grinnell College, USA
Papers: Aya Kawamura, Japan Society of Promotion of Science“Walls and Pages as a Plane: El Lissitsky’s Book and Space Designs”
Charlotte Bydler, Södertörn U, Sweden“Tatlin's Monument to the Third International at Stockholm Moderna
Museet”
Kimi Emura, Doshisha U, Japan“The Return of Past Images – Reconsidering the Post-Suprematist
Paintings of Kazimir Malevich”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-7 The Return of Nostalgia: Cultural Representations of the Soviet Union
in Post-Soviet Times
Chair: Anatoly Vishevsky, Grinnell College, USA
Papers: Rashmi Doraiswamy, Jamia Millia Islamia U, India“Imaging an Imagined Community: Central Asian and Russian Cinema and the Nostalgia for the Soviet Past”
Ranjana Saxena, U of Delhi, India“On Reading ‘Enchanted with Death’ by Svetlana Aleksievich: Narratives of Nostalgia and Loss”
Sumana Jha, Jamia Millia Islamia U, India“Rewriting the Past: Nostalgia in Mikhail Lazarov’s Librarian”
Discussant: Hélène Mélat, Paris-Sorbonne U, France
II-1-8 Questions of Russian Idealism
Chair: Naoto Yagi, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Igor Evlampiev, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Dostoevsky and German Idealism”
Toshiyuki Shnimosato, Joetsu U of Education, Japan

Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

41“N. I. Nadezhdin: From Christian–Platonist Criticism to Ethnology”
Atsushi Sakaniwa, Waseda U, Japan“The Ideal and Reality of Russian Philosophical Lyrics in the 18201840s”
Discussants: Aleksey Malinov, St. Petersburg State U, Russia;
Aleksandr Rybas, St. Petersburg State U, Russia
II-1-9 Religion and Religiosity in Ukraine and Russia: Institutions, Ideology,
and Values
Chair: Mayu Michigami, Niigata U, Japan
Papers: Ksenia Gatskova, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,
Regensburg, Germany“Religious Beliefs and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Ukraine andRussia"Miriam Frey, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany“Religious Environment and the Importance of Values and Norms in
Ukraine”
Olga Popova, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany“Paying for One’s Sins: Income Redistribution through the Lens of
Religiosity (joint paper with Ekaterina Selezneva)”
Discussant: Tatiana Karabchuk, Higher School of Economics, Russia
II-1-10 Power, Cleavages, and Minority Right
Chair: TBA
Papers: Mateusz Zatonski, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK“Cleavages and Co-operation in the Alcohol Industry in Poland”
Magdalena Ionescu, Reitaku U, Japan“Power, Government and the Discrimination of Roma in Romania: an
Alternative Explanation”
András Morauszki, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences“Minority Civil Society and Nonproﬁt Sectors in Eastern Central
Europe. Case Studies of Košice, Pécs and Timișoara”
Discussant: TBA

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II-1-11 Political Networks and Informal Practices in Southern Caucasus:
Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Chair: Nicolas Hayoz, Fribourg U, Switzerland
Papers: Alexander Iskandaryan, Caucasus Institute, Armenia“Networks of Power and Informal Institutions in Armenia”
Giga Zedania, Ilia State U, Georgia“Informality in the Political System: the Case of Georgia”
Rail Saﬁyev, Free U of Berlin, Germany“Neopatrimonial Rule in Azerbaijan: Informality as a Tool for Power
Elites to Exercise Extortion and Wealth Accumulation”
Discussant: Jonathan Wheatley, U of Zurich, Switzerland
II-1-12 The Welfare State and Families in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Linda J. Cook, Brown U, USA
Papers: Zhanna Chernova, Higher Schol of Economics, Russia“New Pronatalism? Family Policy in Contemporary Russia”
Meri Kulmala, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland“Who Cares for the Russian Families and Children? What Can Russian Family Policies Inform Us about the Emerging Welfare Regime
in the Country?”
Alla Varyzgina, Lobachevski State U, Russia“Strategies of Overcoming Poverty of Families with Children”
Discussant: Ann-Mari Sätre, Uppsala U, Sweden
II-1-13 Recognition, Legitimation and Representation in Insurgent Entities of
the Former USSR
Chair: Abel Polese, Tallinn U, Estonia
Papers: Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dublin City U, Ireland“Elections in de facto States: Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria”
Karolina Stefanczek, Dublin City U, Ireland“Gender and Representation in Recognized and Unrecognized States:
Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia after 1991”
Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, Dublin City U, Ireland“The Impact of Counter-recognition Policies on the External Legitimization of de-facto States”
Discussant: Rico Isaacs, Oxford Brookes U, UK

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II-1-14 Gendering the Nazi Occupation of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War
Chair: Michael David-Fox, Georgetown U, USA
Papers: Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary U of London, UK“Shaping and Gendering the Image of the Partisan in Soviet Cinema
1942–48”
Oleg Budnitskii, Higher School of Economics, Russia “Soviet Womenand German Soldiers, 1941-44”
Sergei Kapterev, All-Russian U of Cinematography, Moscow“Images of Soviet Partisan War in American and Soviet Films During
World War II”
Discussant: Diana Dumitru, Ion Creanga State U, Moldova
II-1-15 Dostoevsky I
Chair: Marcia Morris Georgetown U, USA
Papers: Ryoichi Tomarino, Waseda U, Japan“Vicissitudes of Literary Expression of ‘Dialogue between Long Talk
Characters and Silence Characters’ before and after Dostoevsky”
Satoshi Bamba, Niigata U, Japan“Crisis of Seeing in Bakhtin and Dostoevsky”
Veniamin Ten, Kyoto U, Japan“‘Metaphysical Abyss’ in the Thoughts of Grigory Pomerants: Considering F. Dostoevsky and His Works during 1864-1880 Period”
Géza Horváth, U of Pannonia, Hungary“Dostoevsky's Golden Age as an Anthropological, Poetic and Historico-Philosophical Concept (Besy to Podrostok)”
Discussant: Ikuo Kameyama, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan
II-1-16 New Myths, New Narratives: The Works of Liudmila Ulitskaia
Chair: Emily Finer, U of St. Andrews, UK
Papers: Edith Clowes, U of Virginia, USA“Teaching Tolerance: The Public Discussion of Liudmila Ulitskaia’sChildren’s Book Series, ‘Drugoi, drugie, o drugikh’”
Audun Johannes Morch, U of Oslo, Norway“The Matriarch and the Anti-National Myth: Liudmila Ulitskaia's‘Medea and Her Children’”Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: U of the South, USA"‘I Am the Narrator of My Time’: Liudmila Ulitskaia as Public44

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Intellectual”
Discussants: Alexandra Smith, U of Edinburgh, UK;
Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami U, USA
II-1-17 Space, Place, Territory: Exploring Russian and Soviet Symbolic Geographies (Roundtable)
Chair: Anindita Bannerjee, Cornell U, USA
Participants: Sara Dickinson, U of Genoa, Italy“Radishchev as Frontiersman”
Anne Dwyer, Pomona College, USA“Viktor Shklovsky's Geographies of Adaptation”
Katya Hokanson, U of Oregon, USA“Coring the Edges in Russian Imperial Discourse”
Ingrid Kleespies, U of Florida, USA“A New America? The Russian Frontier Mythos and its American
Roots”
Alexandra Yazeva, Irkutsk State U, Russia“Moroz and The Man: The Image of Winter and Siberian Identity in
Valentin Rasputin’s Works”
II-1-18 Economic History of the Modern Russian Empire
Chair: Katsumi Fujiwara, Osaka U, Japan
Papers: Igor Vernyaev, Saint Petersburg U, Russia“‘Inconspicuous Industry’: Russian Peasant Small Industry in Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Studies of the Late 18th ‒ Early 20th
Centuries”
Akifumi Shioya, U of Tsukuba, Japan“The Last Days of the Caravan: The Dynamics of Trade Between
Orenburg and Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century”
Beatrice Penati, Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan“Common-pool Resources, Conservation, and the Birth of Chemical
Industry in Shymkent (the 1870s-1920s)”
Discussant: Kye-hyeong Ki, Hanyang U, South Korea
II-1-19 History of Central Asia: Beyond National and Regional Narratives
Chair: Dmitry Vasilyev, Institute of State Management, Law and Innovative Technologies, Russia

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Papers: Svetlana Kovalskaya, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Historical Science of Modern Kazakhstan: Status and Prospects”
Saule Uderbayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“Formation of Kazakhstan National Narrative. 1991 – 2001”
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev, Elbilge Public Union, Kyrgyzstan“New Presentation of History of Traditional Communities in Central
Asia: Conceptualization of Sedentarism”
Discussant: Sergey Lyubichankovskiy, Orenburg State Pedagogical U, Russia
II-1-20 Medicine and Politics at the End of Imperial Russia, 1904-1917
Chair: Boris Kolonitskii, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia
Papers: Andrew Ringlee, U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA“The Challenge of Organizing Relief in Russia’s First Revolution: The
Russian Society of the Red Cross and the United Zemstvos During theFamines of 1905-1907”
Liudmila Bulgakova, St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS“A Russian German in the First World War”
Sergey Kulikov, St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS“The All-Russian Zemstvo and City Unions or the Russian Red Cross,
Whose Work Was More Effective?”
Discussant: Igor Lukoianov, St. Petersburg Institute of History, RAS
II-1-21 The Surveillant and the Surveilled in the Soviet Union
Chair: Junya Takiguchi, Ryukoku U, Japan
Papers: Zhanna Popova, International Institute of Social History, Netherlands“The Labour Camps for POWs in Western Siberia, ca.1914-1950”
Jeff Hardy, Brigham Young U, USA“Recruiting Compliance: Informant Networks in the Soviet Gulag,
1953-64”
Tomas Sniegon, U of Lund, Sweden“Making Sense of the KGB. A Historical Narrative by the Former
KGB-Chairman (1961-67) Vladimir Semichastny”
Discussant: Cynthia Hooper College of the Holy Cross, USA
II-1-22 “Small Individual” under the Pressure of the “Big Politics:” Russian
Speaking Diaspora in Manchucoo
Chair: Irena Vladimirsky, Achva Academic College, Israel

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Papers: Valentina Koroleva, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of
the Peoples of the Far East, the Far Eastern Branch of RAS“Looking for a Choice between the ‘Empire’ and the ‘Soviets:’ or a
Difﬁcult Tour of Russian Musicians to the Emigration”
Elena Aurilene, The Khabarovsk Frontier Institute“Russian Patriotism in Manchukuo: ‘Defenders’and ‘Defeatists”’
Maria Krotova, St. Petersburg State Economic U, Russia“Russian Diaspora in Manchuria in the 1920s-1930s”
Discussant: Irena Vladimirsky, Achva Academic College, Israel
II-1-23 The Impact of the World Wars on Central Europe
Chair: Kaori Kimura, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Science
Papers: Emily Gioielli, Central European U, USA“‘Home Is Home No Longer’: Counter-revolution in the Hungarian
Domestic Sphere, 1919-22”
Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern U, USA“Polish Experience in World War I through the Life of Józef Piłsudski”
Jiri Stepan, U of Hradec Kralove, The Czech Republic“Czechoslovak Exile to Scandinavian Countries after 1945”
Discussant: Jun Yoshioka, Tsuda College, Japan
II-1-24 Language Usage in Political Context
Chair: TBA
Papers: Weiss Daniel, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Verbal Aggression in the Russian State Duma”
Irina Sedakova, Institute for Slavic Studies, RAS“Protest Language in Russia and Bulgaria (2011-2013): Demands,
Values and Creativity”
Jekaterina Mazara, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Use of Irony in Czech and Russian Presidential Election Debates”
Discussant: TBA
II-1-25 Foreign Economic Relations of Russia, China and Japan
Chair: Kazuhiro Kumo, Hitotsubashi U, Japan
Papers: Qian Liu, China U of Petroleum, Beijing“Russia's New Energy Strategy and Sino-Russian Cooperation”
Andrey Belov, Fukui Prefectural U, Japan

Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

47“Over a Century of Political and Industrial Changes: How to Overcome Path Dependence in Japan–Russia Trade?”
Dmitry Didenko, State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign
Economic Affairs (Vneshekonombank)”“Russian Creative Economy Competitiveness Assessment Based on
Foreign Trade Statistical Data”
Discussants: Norio Horie, U of Toyama, Japan;
Elena Shadrina, Meiji U, Japan
II-1-26 Mobile Communities and Transition in the Former Soviet Southern
Republics
Chair: Joni Virkkunen, U of Eastern Finland
Papers: Paul Fryer, U of Eastern Finland“The ‘Mobile homes’ of Central Asian Labor Migrants in Russia”
Karli-Jo Storm, U of Eastern Finland“The Intersection of Language, Politics and National Identity: theEthnic Azeri Minority Community in Georgia”
Tolgonai Kozhoeva, U of Eastern Finland“Aspiration or Constraint: the Case of Female Adolescent Kyrgyz
Migration”
Discussant: Krista Goff, U of Miami, USA

Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)
II-2-1 International Impacts of the Ukrainian Crisis IV
Chair: Cristina-Maria Dogot, U of Oradea, Romania
Papers: Sergiy Fedunyak, Chernivtsi National U, Ukraine“Global and Regional Security Challenges of the Russia-Ukraine
Conﬂict”
Marius Mazziotti, U of Aberdeen / London School of Economics, UK“Old Approaches to New Problems? The Cold War Legacy of theEuropean Security Architecture 1990 – 2015”
Hong-yi Lien, National Chengchi U“Crimea: a Beginning or a Sole Target of Russian Annexation –The
Analysis of Russia-Ukraine Relations”
Discussant: TBA

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II-2-2 Eurasia’s Changing Security and Economic Landscape
Chair: Natsuko Oka, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade
Organization
Papers: Yang Cheng, East China Normal U“Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative and the Emerging Greater Eurasia
Supercontinental Region”
Neil Melvin, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,
Sweden“The Caucasus as a Regional War Complex”
Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA“Region out of Balance? Central Asia's Changing Security Environment Beyond-2014”
Discussant: Takeshi Yuasa, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
II-2-3 Trans-border Studies on the Far East
Chair: TBA
Papers: Ivan Peshkov, Adam Mickiewicz U, Poland“‘Bandits,’ ‘Mestizos,’ and ‘Backward Villagers.’ The Politicization of
Quasi-indigenousness at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border”
Daria Panarina, Freelancer, Russia“Frontier Phenomenon in Comparative American-Russian Studies”
Sergei Tkachev, Russia, Candidate of political science“Polyethnic Colonization of the Ussuri Area (the Mid-19th - Early
20th Centuries): The Interaction between Russian, Chinese, and Koreans in Developing New Landscapes”
Sergey Veadiy, Institute of History, RAS“The Inﬂuence of 19th Century Ch’ing Scholars Paper in Korea”
Discussant: TBA
II-2-4 Ethnosociolinguistic Aspects of Development of Ethnonational Relationships in the Ural-Volga Region
Chair: TBA
Papers: Elina Saﬁna and Diana Khusainova, Bashkir State U, Russia“Linguistic Situation as an Indicator of the Development of Ethnopolitical Processes in the Ural-Volga Region”
Fail Saﬁn, Institute of Ethnosociological Research, Ufa Science Center of
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49“Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethnonational Relationships in the
Ural-Volga Region”
Discussant: Xavier Le Torrivellec, Voronezh State U, Russia
II-2-5 Revisiting Yugoslavia, Resignifying Europe: The Memory of Socialist
Yugoslavia in Post-Yugoslav Literature and Art
Chair: Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: U of the South, USA
Papers: Natasa Kovacevic, Eastern Michigan U, USA“Specters of Yugoslavia and Europe to Come”
Dragana Obradovic, U of Toronto, Canada“Postsocialist Literature and Essayism: The Case of Dubravka Ugrešić”
Stijn Vervaet, Ghent U, Belgium“After Socialism: Želimir Žilnik and the Legacy of (Yugoslav) Socialism in Contemporary Europe”
Discussant: Tatjana Aleksic, U of Michigan, USA
II-2-6 Philosophical Culture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Continuity or
Break?
Chair: Vesa Oittinen, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Evert van der Zweerde, Radboud U, Netherlands“Philosophical Culture in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia –A Comparative Look”
Marina Bykova, North Carolina State U, USA“German Idealism and Marx in Post-Soviet Russia: Change of the
Perspective”
Regula M. Zwahlen, U of Fribourg, Switzerland“Discourse of Freedom in Post-Soviet Russia”
Discussant: Edward M. Swiderski, U of Fribourg, Switzerland
II-2-7 Encountering the New World: Emigration and Cross-cultural Adjustments
Chair: TBA
Papers: Georgiana Lolea West, U of Timisoara, Romania“The American City in Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar (Journal &Road Movie)”
Ksenia Kulakova, U of South Florida, USA“American Political System and Ethnic Russian Immigrants”
Discussant: TBA

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II-2-8 Nationalism and the Migration Issue in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Paul Goode, U of Oklahoma, USA
Papers: Henry E. Hale, George Washington U, USA“The Impact of Anti-Migrant Nationalism on Non-Democratic Regimes: Experimental Evidence from Russia”
Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State U, USA“Why Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion Are Asymmetric: Migration
Attitudes in Russia, 2005-2013”
Helge Blakkisrud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs“The Russian Exodus from the Stavropol: Fear-induced or Economically Driven?
Discussant: Pål Kolstø, U of Oslo, Norway
II-2-9 Restructuring the Social Service Provision in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Andrey Starodubtsev, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Anna Tarasenko, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“Changing the Social Policy – Challenging Civil Society: Russian
Case of Revising State-Society Relations in Welfare Provision”
Maija Jäppinen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Domestic Violence, Gender and Agency in the Working Practices of
Crisis Centres in Russia”
Jouko Nikula, U of Helsinki, Finland“Social Orphanshood and Transformation of Social Innovation”
Discussant: Meri Kulmala, U of Helsinki, FinlandII-2-10 Micro and Macro Aspects of (In)security in the Caucasus
Chair: Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dublin City U, Ireland
Papers: Giorgio Comai, Dublin City U, Ireland“Internet, Online Public Diplomacy and Place Branding in Post-Sovietde facto States”
Chiara Loda, Dublin City U, Ireland“Foreign Policy of Small States: Armenia and the Withdrawal fromthe Association Agreement Talks”
Huseyn Aliyev, U of Otago, New Zealand“Informal Networks as Sources of Human (In)Security in the South
Caucasus”
Discussant: Jeremy Morris, U of Birmingham, UK

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II-2-11 Gender Studies in Russian Culturology: Sex, Text, Social Practice
Chair: Michaela Bohmig, U of Naples, Italy
Papers: Natalia Pushkareva, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS“Two Approaches, Two Discourses in Russian Gender Studies”
Elena Troﬁmova, Moscow State U, Russia“On the Wings of Soviet Eros: Gender Aspects of Avant-gardism of
Alexandra Kollontai”
Rina Lapidus, Bar-Ilan U, Israel“Jealousy, Rivalry and Competition in the Guise of Romantic Relationships between Men and Women in 19th and 20th Century Russian
Literature”
Discussant: Ranjana Saxena, U of Delhi, India
II-2-12 Dostoevsky II
Chair: Nancy Workman, Columbia U, USA
Papers: Julian Connolly, U of Virginia, USA“Portraits of the Patriarchy in Dostoevsky's Early Fiction”
Ritsuko Kidera, Doshisha U, Japan“The Image of ‘Germany’ in Crime and Punishment”
Bruno Gomide, U of Sao Paulo, Brazil“Reading Russian Literature in a Dictatorship: the Reception of Dostoevsky during the ‘Estado Novo’ in Brazil”
Discussant: Deborah Martinsen, Columbia U, USA
II-2-13 Judaica Rossica - Rossica Judaica (Roundtable)
Chair: Helen Tolstoy, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel
Participants: Mikhail Weiskopf, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel“The Russo-Japanese War and the Jews”
Leonid Katsis, Russian State U for the Humanitites, Russia“Vladimir-Zeev Jabotinsky: an Israeli Founding Father as a Russian
Journalist”
Alexander Kulik, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel“Judeo-Slavica in the Intersection of Disciplines”
Andrei Rogachevski, U of Tromsø, Norway“Russophone Periodicals in Israel: Is a Bibliography Possible?”
Shin'ichi Murata, Sophia U, Japan“Jews and the Russian Theatre”

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II-2-14 East, West, and Russia: Literary Interactions
Chair: Katya Hokanson, U of Oregon, USA
Papers: Hong Jung Kim, Chung-Ang U, South Korea“Soviet Writer Roman Kim between Asian and European Cultures”
Zhongxian Xia, Beijing Normal U, China“Chinese Classical Literature and Its Relation to Carnivalization and
Folk Humor Culture”
Zhen Zhang, U of California, Davis, USA“Translated Socialist Aesthetics: Mikhail Sholokhov and Chinese
Socialist Realism in the 1950s”
Discussant: Takashi Kimura, Kyoto U, Japan
II-2-15 Social, Economic and Ecological Analyses of Rural Russia, the Seventeenth-Ninteenth Centuries
Chair: Steven Hoch, Russian Presidential Academy; Washington State U, USA
Papers: Sergey Kashchenko, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Implementation of Peasant Reform 1861 in the Russian North, NorthWest and Central Provinces. Comparative Quantitative Analyses”
Kye-hyeong Ki, Hanyang U, South Korea“Peasant Women Go to Court: Patriarchal Culture and Wife- Beatingin Nineteenth Century Russia”
Yuri Mizis & Valeri Kaishev, Tambov State U, Russia“Ecological History of Rural Russia in the Seventeenth – NinteenthCenturies”
Discussant: Steven Hoch, Russian Presidential Academy; Washington State U, USA
II-2-16 Kazakh Ofﬁcials (Chinovniki) since the Nineteenth Century to the
1920-30s: Positions, Ranks and Careers
Chair: Sergey Lyubichankovskiy, Orenburg State Pedagogical U, Russia
Papers: Gulmira Sultangalieva, Al-Faraby Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“Kazakh Ofﬁcials in the Nineteenth Century: Positions, Ranks andSocial Security”
Dina Amanzholova, Institute of History, RAN“Formation of the Kazakh Soviet Bureaucracy in the 1920s: Bolshevization or Ethnicization?”
Tamara Krasovitskaya, Institute of Russian History, RAS“National Elites as a Phenomenon of the Soviet Bureaucracy: CareerSession II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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Discussant: Tomohiko Uyama, Hokkaido U, Japan
II-2-17 Russian Society during War and Revolution (Roundtable)
Chair: Melissa Stockdale, U of Oklahoma, USA
Participants: Andy Willimott, U College London, UK“Urban Communes during War and Revolution”
Jon Oldﬁeld, U of Birmingham, UK“War, Revolution and Geography – the Commission for the Study of
Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS)”David McDonald, U of Wisconsin-Madison, USA“Reﬂections on Russian Society during War and Revolution, 19141924”
Peter Waldron, U of East Anglia, UK“Public Organisations during the First World War – The Union of
Zemstvo and Union of Towns”
II-2-18 Cultural Memory of Soviet Perpetrators
Chair: Jussi Lassila, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Julie Fedor, U of Melbourne, Australia“Sympathy for the Chekist: Remembering Soviet Perpetrators in Contemporary Russia”
Stephen Norris, Miami U, USA“Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory afterCommunism”
Daria Mattingly, U of Cambridge, UK“Cultural Memory of the Holodomor Rank-and-File Perpetrators”
Discussant: Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki, FinlandII-2-19 Women of Manchuria: A Case of Russian Émigrés
Chair: Hideaki Sakamoto, Tenri U, Japan
Papers: Michiko Ikuta, Osaka U, Japan“Women of ‘Manchuria’: Self-portrait of Japan Seen though the Visual
Media”
Naho Igaue, Chuo U, Japan“Representations of Russian Émigré Women in ‘Manchuria’ Provided
in Japanese Novels”

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Katsumi Fujiwara, Osaka U, Japan“Consumer Society and Women in Manchukuo from the Case ofHarbin”
Discussant: Irina Melnikova, Doshisha U, Japan
II-2-20 Galicia/Halychyna and Its Struggles from the 14th to the 20th Centuries
Chair: Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern U, USA
Papers: Stanisław Sroka, Jagiellonian U, Poland“Struggles for Ruthenia between Poland and Hungary in the Late
Middle Ages, (the 14th-15th Centuries)”
Jaroslaw Moklak, Jagiellonian U, Poland“Education in Galicia from the 18th to 20th Century”
Wojciech Rojek, Jagiellonian U, Poland“Eastern Galicia in International Relations, 1918-1921”
Discussant: Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern U, USA
II-2-21 Issues of Language Contact and Linguistic Change
Chair: TBA
Papers: Ken Sasahara, Reitaku U, Japan“The Constituent Order in Upper Sorbian – a Frequency Approach”
Natalia Ringblom, Stockholm U, Sweden“Russian as a Weaker Language in the Narratives of Bilingual Children”
Shuko Nishihara, Hokkaido U, Japan“A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of Iskusni Podrumar by Zaharija
Orfelin”
Nina Dubel, “Kazakhstanskaya pravda” Daily Newspaper“The Use of English Words in Russian-Language Media”
Discussant: TBA
II-2-22 Demography of Russia – From Past to Future (2): Gender andChanging Family Roles from Sociological Perspectives
Chair: Norio Horie, U of Toyama, Japan
Papers: Natalia Khodyreva, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Trafﬁcking and Violence against Women-migrants in Russia (theCase of St. Petersburg)”
Noriko Igarashi, Tenri U, Japan“Gender Situation in Russian Society: from the Perspective of a De-

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creasing Birthrate and an Aging of Population”
Mayu Michigami, Niigata U, Japan“Intergenerational Gap in Urban Housing and Family Life: Analysis
Based on RLMS, -2012”
Discussant: Ksenia Gatskova, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,
Regensburg, Germany
II-2-23 Ethnicities and Religions in Russian Regions
Chair: TBA
Papers: Tamara Litvinenko, Institute of Geography, RAS“Transformation of Human Settlements in Ethnic Regions of Eastern
Russia”
Anton Muzalyov, Saint-Petersburg State U, Russia“Ethnic and Religious Aspects of Regional Identity in the North Caucasus and Crimea”
John Round, U of Birmingham, UK“The Precarious Everyday of Moscow’s Labour Migrants: Rising
Xenophobia and the Struggle for ‘Legality’”
Discussant: TBA

Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
II-3-1 Central Asia and Global Powers
Chair: Ik Joong Youn, Hallym U of Graduate Studies, South Korea
Papers: Beom-Shik Shin, Seoul National U, South Korea“The Rise of China and the Responses from Central Asian Countries”
Zarina Kakenova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Kazakhstan and the U.S. Soft Power: Inﬂuence on Humanitarian
Dimension of Relations”
Farkhod Tolipov, Non-governmental Education Institution “Bilim Karvoni”, Uzbekistan“‘Power Being’ and ‘Power Projection’ of Russia in Central Asia”
Bakyt Ospanova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“The European Union Engagement in Central Asia”
Discussant: TBA

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Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

II-3-2 Comparative Studies between European Integration and East AsianRegional Cooperation
Chair: Valéria Szekeres, Obuda U, Hungary
Papers: Steven Roseﬁelde, U of North Carolina, USA“European Integration after Putin’s Ukrainian Gambit: Implications
for ASEAN”
Junichi Shibuya, Hosei U, Japan“Transnational Development in Asia and Europe: Focusing on Civil
Networks in the Mekong Region”
Quansheng Zhao, American U, USA“The US and American Policy and the Asian Regionalism”
Kumiko Haba, Aoyama Gakuin U, Japan“EU Policy toward the Asian Regional Cooperation and European
Reorganization”
Discussant: Ken Morita, Hiroshima Shudo U, Japan
II-3-3 Russia in China: Encounters and Translations
Chair: Stephen A. Smith, U of Oxford, UK
Papers: Olga Bakich, U of Toronto, Canada“Harbin Streets: What’s in a Name?”
Edward Tyerman, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA“‘I sing on behalf of the Chinese’: Sergei Tret’iakov’s Poem ‘Roar
China’ between Documentary and Myth”
Mark Gamsa, Tel Aviv U, Israel“Plague in Manchuria Revisited”
Discussants: Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati, USA;
Igal Halﬁn, Tel Aviv U, Israel
II-3-4 Soviet and Russian Cinema
Chair: Olga Pressitch, U of Victoria, Canada
Papers: Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK“Representation of Alexander Blok in the Soviet Cinema”
Henriette Cederlöf, Stockholm U, Sweden“Soviet Noir or a Spatial Mirror of Its Times: Grigori Kromanov’s
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979)”
Todd Armstrong, Grinnell College, USA“Valery Todorovsky’s Ottepel’ and Russian Nostalgia for the 1960s”

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Discussant: Rashmi Doraiswamy, Jamia Millia Islamia U, India
II-3-5 Popular Culture in the Former Yugoslavia
Chair: Matthias Neumann, U of East Anglia, UK
Papers: Richard Mills, U of East Anglia, UK“Serbia to Tokyo!” – Red Star Belgrade Football Club, Serbian Nationalism and the 1991 Intercontinental Cup Final”
Dragana Cvetanović, U of Helsinki, Finland“Yugospotting through Rhyme-Dropping: Social Engagement of the
Rap Scene in the Cultural Yugosphere”
Dario Brentin, U of Graz, Austria“Ban Zvonimir Boban – A National Hero of the Streets? Heroism,
Sport and National Identity in Post-socialist Croatia”
Discussant: TBA
II-3-6 Philosophy in Russia as Source and Object of Philosophical Thought
Chair: Evert van der Zweerde, Radboud U, Netherlands
Papers: Vesa Oittinen, U of Helsinki, Finland“‘The Devil of Königsberg’ – Kant and Russian Philosophical Culture”
Aleksey V. Gromov, The Ural Institute of State Fireﬁghting Service, Russia“Lev Lopatin's Metaphysics: Outlook from the Past for the Present
and Future”
Kare Johan Mjör, Uppsala U, Sweden“Between Universalism and Nationalism: The Historiography of
National Philosophies as a Challenge to the Marxist-Leninist Metaphilosophy of Soviet Philosophical Culture”
Discussants: Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College, USA;
Marina Bykova, North Carolina State U, USA
II-3-7 Religious Process in the Slavic Countries and Communities (Roundtable)
Chair: Svetlana Dudarenok, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia
Participants: Vakhit Akaev, H. I. Ibragimov Interdisciplinary Research Institute,
RAS“Islam in Modern Russia: the Relationship of Religious Traditions andInnovations”
Marina Danilova, Kuban State Agrarian U“Role of Religion in the Economics and Economic Life in Russia”

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Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Andrey Druzyaka, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Establishment of the Notary System is Vladivostok in 1880-1918”
Svetlana Mihaylovna, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“The Peculiar Features of Formation of Confessional Space in the
Russian Far East in the Post-Soviet period”
Oxana Fedirko, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“The Enlightenment and Education Activity of the Religious Organizations in the Russian Far East in the 1980s and 1990s”
Kathy Rousselet, Sciences Po – Paris, France“The Russian Orthodox Church and Family Today”
II-3-8 “Intellectual Access” to Revolutionized Russian Archives
Chair: Jaap Kloosterman, International Institute of Social History
Papers: Patricia Grimsted, Harvard U; International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, Netherlands“Promoting 'Intellectual Access' to Archives in Russia and the Potential Role of ArcheoBiblioBase”
Mikhail Afanasyev, State Historical Public Library of Russia“Keeping Track of Unpublished Sources Outside of Russian Federal
and Regional State Archives”
Leonid Borodkin, Moscow State U, Russia“Promoting the Information Potential of Recently Declassiﬁed Archival Fonds: Examples from the History of the Gulag”
Discussant: TBA
II-3-9 Russian Nationalism: the New Agenda
Chair: Helge Blakkisrud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Papers: Pål Kolstø, U of Oslo, Norway“Russian Nationalist Reactions to Euromaidan and the Crimean
Annexation”
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U, USA“Economic Nationalism and Russian National Identity”
Paul Goode, U of Oklahoma, USA“Everyday Nationalism among Russia's Youth”
Discussant: Henry E. Hale, George Washington U, USA

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II-3-10 Opportunities of Agency and Social Welfare in Contemporary Russia:
Viewing through Social Class, Gender and Local Communities
Chair: Maija Jäppinen, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Markku Kivinen, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland“Class and Inequality in Contemporary Russia”
Ann-Mari Sätre, Uppsala U, Sweden“Acting for Welfare: What Would Second Russia Be without Social
Mothers?”
Nina Ivashinenko, State U of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia; U of Glasgow, UK“Poverty Research in Russia: The Ofﬁcial Government Security System and Social Resources of an Integrated Society”
Discussant: Jouko Nikula, U of Helsinki, FinlandII-3-11 Politics of Religion and Ethnicity in Georgia
Chair: Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, Dublin City U, Ireland
Papers: Silvia Serrano, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centreeuropéen, France“Political Polarization and National Heritage in Post-soviet Georgia”
Denis Dafﬂon, U of Fribourg, Switzerland“Ethnic Policies in Post-Soviet States: How Inclusive is Georgia?”
George Sanikidze, Ilia State U, Georgia“Muslim Communities of Georgia: A Comparative Study”
Discussant: TBA
II-3-12 Fighting, Nursing and Lamenting Female Bodies and the Politics ofMemory in Postwar Soviet Union, Japan and China
Chair: Tetsuo Mochizuki, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Shiho Maeda, Tohoku U, Japan“Gender Hierarchy in Soviet Russian Memorial of the Great Patriotic
War”
Yoko Takayama, Asia U, Japan“Socialized Body in Modern China”
Anastasia Fedorova, Hokkaido U, Japan“Female Sexuality and the Class Struggle in ‘Socialist Realist’ Japanese Cinema”
Discussant: Takako Inoue, Daito Bunka U, Japan

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Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

II-3-13 Dostoevsky: Moral and Artistic Freedom
Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis U, USA
Papers: Irina Reyfman, Columbia U, USA“Selo Stepanchikovo: Demoting Gogol the General”
Deborah Martinsen, Columbia U, USA“Shame and Unfreedom in Dostoevsky's Work”
Ikuo Kameyama, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Hidden Quotations in The Brothers Karamazov”
Discussants: Marcia Morris, Georgetown U, USA;
Nancy Workman, Columbia U, USA
II-3-14 Parallel Worlds of Contemporary Russian Literature
Chair: Valerij Gretchko, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Ekaterina Gutova, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Experimental Literary Devices in Andrei Bitov’s Prose”
Satoko Takayanagi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“Intertextuality in T. Tolstaya’s Novel Kys’”
Kyoko Numano, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Menippean Satire in Ludmila Petrushevskaya’s Stories”
Discussant: Shin’ichi Murata, Sophia U, Japan
II-3-15 Russo-Japanese Literary Relations I
Chair: Kazuhiko Sawada, Saitama U, Japan
Papers: Shunichiro Akikusa, U of Tokyo, Japan“Russian Literature in the Anthologies of World Literature in Japan”
Yuko Arinobu, Doshisha U, Japan“Russian-Japanese Poetry Translation: ‘Send to Bring Chalk’ by
S. Makhotin”
Alexander Chantsev (Novikov), Japan Foundation, Japan“Yukio Mishima in Russia: Reception of His Aesthetics and Ideas”
Zhanna Nurmanova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“‘Muzicalization’ of Haruki Murakami's Fiction”
Discussant: Tadashi Nakamura, Yamagata U, Japan
II-3-16 Reforms and Modernization in the Russian Empire
Chair: Koichi Toyokawa, Meiji U, Japan

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Papers: Takeshi Matsumura, Daito Bunka U, Japan“The Decembrist Ethic and the Spirit of Constitutionalism”
Igor Tropov, Pushkin Leningrad State U, Russia“Phenomenological Approach and Prospects of Studying the Historyof Russian Reforms of the Second Half of the Nineteenth – Early
Twentieth Centuries”
Rıdvan Chitilov, Mehmet Akif Ersoy U, Turkey“‘Kirghiz Steppe Newspaper’ (1888-1902) and Modernization of the
Kazakh Society”
Discussant: Dmitrii Badalian, National Library of Russia
II-3-17 New Sources and Interpretations of the History of Central Asia
Chair: Timur Dadabaev, U of Tsukuba, Japan
Papers: Ziyabek Kabuldinov, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“The Major Annexation of Kazakh Lands in North Part of Kazakh
Khanate”
Gulchekhra Sultonova, The Institute of History, Uzbekistan“Ofﬁcial Correspondence Language of Central Asia: New Sources and
New Interpretations”
Gulnara Mussabalina, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“History of Kazakhstan: Elections in Kazakhstan. Participation of the
Population of the Semipalatinsk Region in the Elections”
Discussant: Hideyuki Naganuma, U of Tokyo, Japan
II-3-18 Russia and the First World War
Chair: Yurii Petrov, Institute of Russian History, RAS
Papers: Dmitry Pavlov, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Russo-Japanese Relations, 1914-1918”
Keith Neilson, Royal Military College of Canada“Russia and Her Allies in the First World War”
Nikolaus Katzer, German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia“From Great War to Civil War in Russia: Violence and Peacemaking
in Transition”
Discussants: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya U, Japan;
Sergey Kudryashov, German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia

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II-3-19 Experiencing the Sovietisation of Latvia
Chair: David Smith, U of Glasgow, UK
Papers: Geoffrey Swain, U of Glasgow, UK“'Ending the Fear of the Shadow of the Past': National Communists
and Developing the Communist Movement in Latvia”
Irena Saleniece, Daugavpils U, Latvia“Forming the Teaching Staff of Soviet Latvia: ‘Their’ Attitudes or‘Alien’ Attitudes (1944/5-1959)”
Sanami Takahashi, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Experience of Soviet ‘Modernization’ for Old Believers in Latvia”
Discussant: Hiromi Komori, Waseda U, Japan
II-3-20 Russian Diaspora
Chair: Takeshi Nakashima, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan
Papers: Ivan Bulatov, Saratov State Technical U, Russia“Preserving Our National Identity: Changing Ideology of Russian
Scouts in Exile”
Elena Rudnikova, Institute of History, Ethnography and Archaeology, Far
Eastern Branch of RAS“Russians in New Zealand”
Ianina Kruglikova, U of Turku, Finland“The Networking of the Russian Elite in Exile: Russian Liberation
Committee in 1919-1921”
Discussant: Elena Aurilene, The Khabarovsk Frontier Institute, Russia
II-3-21 Catastrophe and Utopia Hungarian Jewish Intellectual and BusinessElites in Central and Eastern Europe, 1918 to 1948
Chair: John Swanson, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
Papers: Ferenc Laczó, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany“Early Hungarian Jewish Responses to the Holocaust”
Tamás Scheibner, Eotvos Lorand U, Hungary“The Re-Emerging Utopia: A Family Story in the Age of Catastrophes”
Mate Rigo Cornell U, USA“The Economic Consequences of the Peace: Hungary, Romania andthe Fate of Investment in East-Central Europe after 1918”
Discussant: Dániel Virágh, U of California, Berkeley, USA

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63II-3-22 Cognitive and Linguistic Analysis of Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Marina Tashlykova, Irkutsk State U, Russia“On Cognitive Strategies of the Soviet Past Interpretation”
Anastasia Dubrovina Kokugakuin U, Japan“The Concept of FRIEND in Russian and Japanese: a Contrastive
Analysis”
Piotr Twardzisz, U of Warsaw, Poland“From the Term Eastern Europe to the Concept Eastern Europeanness.
A Cognitive Semantic Approach”
Discussant: TBA
II-3-23 New Approaches to the Statistical Analysis of the Russian and Former
Soviet Economy (1)Chair: Yasushi Nakamura, Yokohama National U, Japan
Papers: Masaaki Kuboniwa, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Global and International Comparisons of Material Intensity”
Byung-Yeon Kim, Seoul National U, South Korea“Shortages and the Informal Economy in the Soviet Republics:
1965-1989”
Yugo Konno, Mizuho Research Institute Ltd., Japan“Evaluating Trade Patterns in the CIS”
Discussants: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland;
Ilya Voskoboynikov, Higher School of Economics, Russia
II-3-24 Climate Change and Agrarian Lands in Russia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Renat Apkin, Kazan State Power Engineering U, Russia“Regularities of Distribution of Wetlands (Swamps) in the Tatarstan
Republic”
Nataliia Amburtceva, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Agrolandscape Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Countries at the West
Europe”
Brian Kuns, Stockholm U, Sweden“Swedish Black Earth”
Discussant: TBA

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Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
II-4-1 East Is East and West Is West. Shall the Twain Ever Meet in Russia?
Chair: Kirsti Ekonen, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Irina Petrova, U of Leuven, Belgium“Russia’s Structural Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Space: A New
Approach to the Foreign Policy Assessment”
Niels Smeets, KU Leuven, Belgium“Challenges of Energy Integration in the Eurasian Space: the Impact
of Ukraine’s Energy Re-orientation on Eurasian Energy Security”
Discussant: Elena Kashchenko, St. Petersburg State U, Russia
II-4-2 Eurasian Integration and Security
Chair: TBA
Papers: Laura-Anca Parepa. U of Tsukuba, Japan“A Step Toward a New Asian Security Architecture? Security Cooperation within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization”
Hiroyuki Fujimaki. Tokai U, Japan“Does the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Provide Regional Security Governance to the Member States?”Lei Yang. Nankai U, China“Conception of China on the Silk Road Economic Belt and EurasianRegional Cooperation”
Evgeny Treshchenkov. St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Epistemic Dimension of the Eurasian Integration”
Discussant: TBA
II-4-3 Russian Foreign Policy and the Effects of Ukraine Crises: Means andObjectives
Chair: Hanna Smith. U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Valentina Feklyunina. Newcastle U, UK“Wither ‘Soft Power’? The Ukrainian Crisis and Russia’s Soft Power”
Matthew Sussex. U of Tasmania, Australia“Russia’s Regional Primacy and the Ukrainian Crisis”
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65II-4-4 Russian “Travelogues” on Japan – from Imperial to New Russia
Chair: Petr Podalko, Aoyama Gakuin U, Japan
Papers: Evgeny Steiner, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Love’s Labor Lost, or the Russian Way from Japanophiles toJapanophobes”
Alexander Bukh, Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand“Japan Through Russian Eyes: Mechnikov, Pil’niak and Ovchinnikov”
Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City U, Japan“Does Gender Matter? Contemporary Women Writing on Japan”
Discussants: David Wells, Curtin U, Australia;
Susanna Lim, U of Oregon, USA
II-4-5 Separate, Unequal and Seeking Support: Ethnic Justice in Russia
Chair: Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Larisa Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki, Finland“Prison Ethno-politics and Practices in the Post-reform Russian
Empire”
Elena Katz, U of Oxford, UK“‘If I Complain I Will Receive My Husband in a Cofﬁn:’ Dilemmas ofContesting the System by Ethnic Prisoners and their Relatives”
Paul Becker, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity, Germany“Syrian Refugee Seekers in Russia: The Issue of Deportation and
Corruption in the Refugee Application Process”
Discussant: Judith Pallot, U of Oxford, UK
II-4-6 Film and Video Studies: Cross-Cultural Intersection
Chair: TBA
Papers: Olga Pressitch, U of Victoria, Canada“Language, Class, and Nation in a Soviet Ukrainian Blockbuster Comedy (Chasing Two Hares, 1961)”
Jana Dudková, Slovak Academy of Sciences“Between the Center, the East and the West – The Case of Slovak
Cinema in the Light of Selfcolonisation”
Henry Ludwig, Friedrich Schiller U, Germany“The Use of Language in Image Videos of the Tourism Branch: Are
There Similar Patterns within the Southeast European Countries?”

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Discussant: Masumi Kameda, U of Tokyo, Japan
II-4-7 The Role of Media in Conﬂict-prone Countries of the Post-communist
Space
Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng, U of Tampere, Finland
Papers: Nino Abzianidze, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Who Forges Conﬂict? Analysis of Nationalist Appeals in Georgian
Print Media”
Svetlana Pasti, U of Tampere, Finland“Conﬂict and Resistance: Journalistic Online Start-ups in RussianMedia System”
Ešref Rašidagić, U of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina“The Role of Print Media in Refugee Return in Bosnia: Lessons for
Post-conﬂict Countries?”
Doreen Spörer-Wagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland“Media and Conﬂict: Changing Patterns of Local Media in Post-Soviet
Georgia and Azerbaijan”
Discussant: Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Wroclaw U, Poland
II-4-8 Russophobian Myth “Slavism”: the Search for Truth
Chair: Alexander Shirinyants, Moscow State U, Russia
Papers: Sergey Perevezentsev, Moscow State U, Russia“Prehistory of Panslavism”
Anna Myrikova, Moscow State U, Russia“The Genesis of the Idea of Pan-Slavism as Slavic Reciprocity”
Boris Prokudin, Moscow State U, Russia“The Idea of Slavic Reciprocity at the Turn of Nineteenth – TwentiethCenturies: Concepts and Institutionalization”
Discussants: Alois Woldan, U of Vienna, Austria;
Alexander Dubowy, U of Vienna, Austria
II-4-9 The Russian Orthodox Church and Inter-church Politics
Chair: TBA
Papers: Andrii Krawchuk, U of Sudbury, Canada“Russian Orthodoxy in Ukraine since the Euro-Maidan of 2014: Ecclesial Identity and Political Loyalty”
Karen Hamada, U of Tokyo, Japan

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67“Ecumenism or Expansionism? –Theological Discourses on the Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Christian Caucasus andMiddle East”
Discussant: TBA
II-4-10 Education of History and Memory Politics in Russia
Chair: Haruki Wada, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Gennadij Bordyugov, Association of Researchers Russian Society(AIRO-XXI)“The Cult of the Past, or the Instrumentalization of History and Memory
by the Authority”
Tatiana Filippova, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS“Positive Identity. Who Makes the New History Textbooks and How?”
Liudmila Gatagova, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Problems of Ethnocentrism in New ‘National’ Histories of the Russian Federation and Post-Soviet states”
Discussant: Takeshi Tomita, Seikei U, Japan
II-4-11 Politics of Immigration
Chair: TBA
Papers: Andrei Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U, USA“Governing Regional Migration Systems: A Comparative Perspective”
Caress Schenk, Nazarbaev U, Kazakhstan“The Politics of Immigration Control in Russia”
Bhavna Dave, U of London, UK“Central Asian Migrants: the Documentary Path to Citizenship in
Russia”
Discussant: TBA
II-4-12 Social Welfare in Post-socialist Local Communities: Exclusion andInclusion; Boundaries and Belongings
Chair: Nina Ivashinenko, State U of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia; U of Glasgow, UK
Papers: Alexander Soldatkin, State U of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia“Networks of Exchange of Resources between Regional Center andSmaller Towns”
Ildikó Asztalos Morell, Uppsala U, Sweden“Negotiating Poverty: Models for Poverty Reduction in Rural Hungary”

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Heini Puurunen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Boundaries and Belonging in Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian
Borderlands from Minority and Gender Perspective”
Discussant: Kaarina Aitamurto, U of Helsinki, FinlandII-4-13 Politics of Norms and Culture in the Former Yugoslav Countries andBulgaria
Chair: TBA
Papers: Ivor Sokolic, U College London“Heroes, Courts and Normative Clashes: How Are Domestic War
Crimes Trials Affecting Norm Building in Croatia?”
James Dawson, U College London“Evaluating Cultural Dimensions of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria”
Florian Bieber, U of Graz, Austria“The Yugosphere as an Example of Transnational Social Interaction”
Discussant: TBA
II-4-14 Islam, Community, and State
Chair: Johan Engvall, Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Papers: Laliya Yakhyaeva, Florida Gulf Coast U, USA“Conﬂict Between Uzbek State Policy, Ofﬁcial Islam, Islamic Revivalism and Everyday Islam
Timur Alexandrov, U of Cambridge, UK“Changing Nature of Associational Life at the Local Level: the Case
Study of Mahalla, Neighbourhood Communities in Modern Uzbekistan”
Xavier Le Torrivellec, Voronezh State U, Russia“Islam in Contemporary Russia: the Case of Volga Ural Region”
Discussant: Timur Dadabaev, U of Tsukuba, Japan
II-4-15 Continuity and Change: Masculinity Patterns in Contemporary Europe
Chair: Marina Malysheva, Institute on Socio-Economic Studies of Population, RAS
Papers: Radmila Svarickova-Slabakova, Palacky U Olomouc, the Czech Republic“Masculinity and Fatherhood in Oral Narratives: the Case of the
Czech Republic”
Carmen Doncel, Complutense U of Madrid, Spain“‘If You Want People to Respect You, It’s Not Enough to Do Good:’Fight Stories and the Construction of Gypsy Masculinity”

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Olga Tabachnikova and Natalia Vinokurova, Central Economics & Mathematics Institute, RAS“New Russian 'Macho' between Literature and Life”
Discussants: Marta Součková, U of Novi Sad, Slovakia;
Marcin Filipowicz, Warsaw U, U of Hradec Králové, Poland
II-4-16 Russian Expatriate Literature
Chair: Kornelija Icin, Belgrade U, Serbia
Papers: Helen Tolstoy, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel“Between Metropolis and Exile: Borderline Cases”
Michail Weiskopf, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel“The Theme of Secret Knowledge in Nabokov's The Gift”
Leonid Katsis, Russian State U for the Humanities“Jabotinsky's Reconstructed Memoirs”
Discussant: Dmitry Nikolaev, Institute of the World Literature, RAS
II-4-17 The Translation of Literary Works: Texts Contrast with Visual Arts
Chair: Masaki Tanaka, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Hikaru Ogura, U of Tokyo, Japan“19th Literature in 20th Artworks: Modernistic Interpretation of Classic Literature through Drawing and Calligraphy of A. M. Remizov”
Daisuke Adachi, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan“Back to the Future?: Rethinking Affect in Gogol’s Writings through
Their Film Adaptations”
Tokiko Ono, Utsunomiya U, Japan“Gogol’s Works and Adaptation in the 19th Century”
Discussant: Marina Sidorova, Moscow State U, Russia
II-4-18 Russo-Japanese Literary Relations II
Chair: Natalia Teplova, Concordia U, Canada
Papers: D. Brian Kim, Stanford U, USA“Chasing Fairies: Translating the Japanese Soul”
Kana Matsueda, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Image of Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in the Articles andNotes by Vas. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko: Through His Relationship withTwo Japanese Journalists and Writers Futabatei Shimei and Oba Kako”
Koji Sakurai, Waseda U, Japan

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Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“Russian ‘Nihilists’ in Traditional Japanese Imagination”
Discussant: Yuichi Isahaya, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan
II-4-19 Print Capitalism in the Russian Empire and Beyond: Making Public
Sphere Imperial, National, and Transnational
Chair: Martn Aust, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany
Papers: Yukiko Tatsumi Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Non-Russian Publishers in the Russian Empire: the Russian Press inthe Late Nineteenth century”
Taro Tsurumi, Saitama U, Japan“Jewish Nationalism in the Russian Language: Zionist Publication at
the Time of Empire Collapse”
Melissa Stockdale, U of Oklahoma, USA“Mobilizing the Nation: the Russian Press in the Great War, 1914-1918”
Discussant: Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido U, Japan
II-4-20 The Uses and Limitations of Political Violence for Understanding
Modern Central European and Russian/Soviet History (Roundtable)
Chair: Oleg Budnitskii, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Participants: Jan Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam & Humboldt U Berlin, Germany“Violence after Stalin: Afghanistan and Beyond”
Michael David-Fox, Georgetown U, USA“Cadres of Violence under Stalinism and German Occupation”
Peter Holquist, U of Pennsylvania, USA“The Epoch of Violence: 1905-1924”
Liudmila Novikova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Grass-Root Violence in the Russian Civil War”
György Péteri, Norwegian U of Science and Technology“From Purge to Scandal. Changing Political Culture and Intra-Party
Conﬂict Resolution in Communist Hungary, 1956-1974”
II-4-21 Remembering and Reassessing the 1916 Central Asian Revolt
Chair: Tetsu Akiyama, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Jörn Happel, U of Basel, Switzerland“Fears, Rumours, Violence. The Tsarist Regime and the Revolt of theNomads in Central Asia, 1916”

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Aminat Chokobaeva, Australian National U“Ideology and the Soviet Historical Consciousness in Interpretationsof the 1916 Revolt”
Cloé Drieu, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientiﬁque, Paris, France“Early Soviet Cinema and the 1916 Revolt”
Discussant: Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan
II-4-22 Socialist Aid to the Third World: Ideas, Challenges, and Perceptions
Chair: David Engerman, Brandeis U, USA
Papers: Alessandro Iandolo, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK“The Worth of Peanuts. Soviet-Malian Economic Cooperation and theMaking of a Financial Crisis”
Vanni Pettinà, El Colegio de Mexico“Trying to Evade Bipolarity: Mexican-Soviet Political-economic
Encounters during the 1960s”
Ela Drazkiewicz, NUI Maynooth, Ireland“Polish Aid to the Decolonizing World During the Cold War: Political
Machinery, or an Avant-Garde Lifestyle for Polish Intellectual Elites?”
Discussant: Artemy Kalinovsky, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands
II-4-23 Russians in the Asia Paciﬁc Rim
Chair: Patricia Polansky, U of Hawaii, USA
Papers: Amir Khisamutdinov, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Russian Waves on the Paciﬁc”
Jean Young Kim, Yonsei Univeristy, South Korea“White on White: Russian Émigrés through Korean Eyes”
Kazuhiko Sawada, Saitama U, Japan“Russian Émigrés in Japan”
Discussant: Rene Guerra, l’Association pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine culturel
russe en France
II-4-24 The Second World War and its Aftermath in Central Eastern Europe
and the Balkans
Chair: Jun Yoshioka, Tsuda College, Japan
Papers: Andrej Kotljarchuk, Södertörn U, Sweden“The Nazi Genocide of Roma in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus”
Piotr Wawrzeniuk, Södertörn U, Sweden

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Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“Roma Genocide in Distrikt Galizien 1941-1944”
Kaori Kimura, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Science“Political Émigré from Tito’s Yugoslavia and Its Role in Anti-Yugoslav (anti-Tito) Propaganda Campaign in the USSR and the Countries
of People’s Democracy (1948 – 1954)”
Discussants: Adam Slaby, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany;
Jonathan Waterlow, U of Oxford, UK
II-4-25 Issues of Language, Identity and Society
Chair: TBA
Papers: Alicja Fajfer, U of Eastern Finland“Negotiating Linguistic Identities. Ukrainians and Belarusians in
Poland”
Liudmila Rychkova, Grodno State U, Belarus“Socio-cultural Phenomena Seen through the Language Landscape of
the Regional Belarusian Mass-media”
Nami Odagiri, Kansai U, Japan“Code Switching and Identity: The Case of Russian and Kyrgyz
Languages”
Discussant: TBA
II-4-26 New Approaches to the Statistical Analysis of the Russian and Former
Soviet Economy (2)Chair: Laura Solanko, BOFIT Bank of Finland
Papers: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland“How Does Monetary Policy Transmit in Russia?”
Akira Uegaki, Seinan Gakuin U, Japan“Macro Structure of the Russian Economy: Comparative Analysis of
SNA Statistics”
Yulia Vymyatnina, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“Government and Private Debt in Russia: Statistical Analysis”
Discussants: Michael Rochlitz, Higher School of Economics, Russia;
Yasushi Nakamura, Yokohama National U, Japan
II-4-27 Between Brussels and Moscow: Domestic Dimension of Foreign Policy
Making in Eastern Europe
Chair: Kataruna Wolczuk, U of Birmingham, UK

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Papers: Alla Leukavets Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences,
Germany“Playing Two Level Games with EU and Russia: Domestic Dimensionof the Integration Policy in EaP Countries”
Katerina Bosko (Malygina), U of Bremen, Germany“Debates on Gas Dependency on Russia in Ukraine: How the InternalPower Struggles Determine the Foreign Policy Course”
Yauheni Preiherman, Centre for Analytical Initiatives, PA Discussion andAnalytical Society Liberal Club, Minsk, Belarus“The Paradox of Diverging Public Opinion and Policy Choices overIntegration Alternatives in Belarus”
Discussant: Richard Sakwa, U of Kent, UK
II-4-28 Pictorial Formulas – the East European Arena (Roundtable)
Chair: Sabine Hänsgen, U of Bremen, Germany
Participants: Susanne Frank Humboldt, U Berlin, Germany“‘Dead mother’ – a European ‘Pathos Formula’ with Long Traditionsin War Representations and Its Geocultural Transformations”
Magdalena Marszałek, U of Potsdam, Germany“From the Archives of Eye Witnesses: Text – Picture – Reenactment”
Sylvia Sasse, U of Zurich, Swetzerland“Formula of Evidence”
Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, USA“I Saw It: Soviet Literature and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the
Shoah”David Shneer, U of Colorado, USA“Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust”

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ThursdayAugustSession III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)
III-1-1 Russia's Asia Pivot: Domestic, Regional, and Global Factors
Chair: Elizabeth Wishnick Montclair State U, USA
Papers: Sergey Sevastyanov, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Russian Partnership with Japan and the Republic of Korea in the‘Post-Crimea Era’”
Tamara Troyakova, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“The Role of the Russian Far East in Russia's Policy in Northeast Asia”
Rouben Azizian, Asia-Paciﬁc Center for Security Studies, USA“Russia’s Strategy and Diplomacy in Northeast Asia”
Discussant: Gaye Christoffersen, Johns Hopkins U, China
III-1-2 Borders in Central Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Assel Bitabarova, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Tajik-Chinese Relations: A View from Tajikistan”
Svetlana Huusko, U of Oulu, Finland“Indigenous Adolescents’ Identities: Understanding the Societal Environment in the Northern Buriatiia, Russia”
Valentina Dianova, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“The Mongolian-speaking People in the Territory of Russia: Featuresof Formation and Preservation of Ethno-cultural Originality”
Discussant: TBA
III-1-3 Across the Borders. Transnational Mobility in Europe and Eurasia,
the Ninteenth – Twentieth Centuries
Chair: Christopher J. Ward, Clayton State U, USA
Papers: Jan Musekamp, European U Viadrina, Germany

Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

75“Between National Identity and Cosmopolitanism. Cross-border
Travelers in 19th Century Europe”
Andreas Keller, Ural Federal U, Russia“The North-Express Train St. Petersburg-Madrid, 1884-1914. Transfer
of Knowledge and Technology between Germany and Russia”
Andreas Röhr, European U Viadrina, Germany“The Work of the Georgian Construction Assembly Train ‘GruzstroyBAM’ in Siberia from 1975-1989”
Discussants: Asada Masafumi, Tohoku U, Japan;
Alexandra Bekasova, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia
III-1-4 National Identity and Space: Rethinking Dialectics of Self-designation
in South Eastern Europe
Chair: Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Goldsmiths, U of London, UK
Papers: Josip Kesic, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands“The Paradox of National Identity in Supranational Space: on CroatianSelf-Images as ‘European border region’”Katarina Lezova, Goldsmiths, U of London, UK“Role of National Identity and Special Designation in the Case of
Slovak Non-recognition of Kosovo's Statehood”
Aya Hino, Goldsmiths, U of London, UK“Consolidating the Spatial: Regionalism and Reconciliation in theFormer Yugoslav States”
Discussant: Marko Zivkovic, U of Alberta, Canada
III-1-5 Reinterpreting the Socialist Past
Chair: Yuya Suzuki, State Institute of Arts, Russia
Papers: Birgitte Pristed, Independent scholar, Germany“Post-Soviet Memorials, Monumental Culture and Roadside Architecture”
Kristian Feigelson, Sorbonne Nouvelle U, France“Visual Representations of the Gulag”
Irina Kotkina, Södertörn U, Sweden“Conservative Modernization and Russian Culture: Reopening of the
Bolshoi Theater Historical Stage in 2011”
Discussant: Junna Hiramatsu, Kanazawa U, Japan

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III-1-6 New Trends in Contemporary Russian Film
Chair: Anastasia Federova, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Maria N Hristova, Yale U, USA“The New Pilgrims: Nature and Society in New Russian Film”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College, USA“Screening the Future: Aleksandr Zeldovich’s Target”
Daria Ezerova, Yale U, USA“In Search of a New Sacred: the ‘Fantastic Realism’ Aleksei Balabanov’s Me, Too (2012)”
Discussant: Anthony Anemone, USA, The New School
III-1-7 Philosophy in the Age of Globalization
Chair: Soo-Hwan Kim, Hankuk U of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Papers: Valery Goryunov, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical U, Russia“The Problem of the End of History in Relativist Model of Society”
Irina Frolova, Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“Internet Communities as a Phenomenon of a Globalizing World: thePhilosophical Comprehension”
Svetlana Bezklubaya, Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia“East – West: Problems of Interpretation of Culture”
Discussant: TBA
III-1-8 Historical Memory and Current Politics in Ukraine and Belarus
Chair: Aya Fujiwara, U of Alberta, Canada
Papers: Oleg Manaev, European Humanities U, Belarus“Soviet Historical Memory and Current Politics in Belarus”
David Marples, U OF Alberta, Canada“Historians and the Politicization of History in Ukraine and Belarus”
Tanya Zaharchenko, U of Cambridge, UK“Dissidents and Deserters: Imagining east Ukraine before and after the
Maidan”
Discussant: Go Koshino, Hokkaido U, Japan
III-1-9 Russian Politics: Putin’s Strategy for the Hurdles Ahead
Chair: Ilkka Liikanen, U of Eastern Finland
Papers: Carolina Vendil Pallin, Swedish Defence Research Agency

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77“Russian Policies to Counter Political Mobilization”
Bo Petersson, Malmo U, Sweden“Shortcut to Popularity: Legitimation Problems and Potential Crises ofSuccession in Contemporary Russia”
Geir Flikke, U of Oslo, Norway“Micro-opportunities and Mobilization: the Russian Opposition and
the State”
Discussants: Anna Tarasenko, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia;
Derek Hutcheson, Malmo U, Sweden
III-1-10 Russia’s Welfare Reforms and Political Stability
Chair: Aadne Aaasland, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research
Papers: Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research“The Reform of Primary and Secondary Education in Russia: Actors,
Motivations, Interactions and Outcomes”
Jørn Holm-Hansen, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research“Controversies over Russia’s Housing and Utilities (ZhKKh) Reform –to What Extent Is It a Political Factor?”
Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Inequality and Social Policy in Russian Press, 1992-2013”
Discussants: Markku Kivinen, U of Helsinki, Finland;
Linda Cook, Brown U, USA
III-1-11 Russia and the BRICS after Ukraine: Turning to the East? (or South?)(Roundtable)
Chair: Mikhail A. Molchanov, St. Thomas U, Canada
Participants: Andrei Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U, USA“The BRICS Members and the International Migration: In the Searchof a Common Ground”
Richard Sakwa, U of Kent, UK“BRICS and the End of Greater Europe”
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U, USA“Russia, the BRICS and the Global Economy”
Georgy Toloraya, MGIMO, Russia“Russian Vision of BRICS' Global Role”
Mikhail A. Molchanov, St. Thomas U, Canada“Russia’s Leadership of Regional Integration in Eurasia”

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III-1-12 Social Movements and International Conﬂicts in the Baltic States
Chair: Igor Zevelev, MacArthur Foundation, Russia
Papers: Jolanta Aidukaite, Södertörn U, Sweden; Lithuanian Social ResearchCentre“The Role of Leadership in Urban Movements: the Case of Lithuania”
Anna Korhonen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Russian-speaking Minority and External Engagement in Estonian
Nation-building 2000-2011”
Eugene Goncharko, Independent researcher, Russia“Analysis of Economic Relations within the Baltic Region in theConditions of Changing Russian Foreign Policy and Legislative Base”
Discussant: Neil Melvin, The Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteIII-1-13 Changing Identities of Transition and South Caucasus Discourse(Roundtable)
Chair: Geybullayeva, Rahilya, Baku Slavic U, Azerbaijan
Participants: Bella Musayeva, Moscow State Linguistic U, Russia“Basic Trends of the Azerbaijan Dramaturgy in the Pre-Perestroika
Period (the 1980-90s)”
Fidana Musayeva, Moscow State U (Baku Branch), Azerbaijan“Splitting Identities and Contemporary Ethnic Conﬂicts in Literary
Text”
Rahila Kuliyeva, Baku Slavic U, Azerbaijan“Moral Discourse of Azerbaijani Prose during Transition of Soviet
Thaw (ottepel’) (the Second Half of the Twentieth Century)”
Eva-Maria Auch, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany“The Sources of Islam Self-Enlightenment among Young Muslims in
the Eighteenth Century”
III-1-14 Andrei Bely: At the Crossroads of East and West. The 135th Anniversary (Part 1) (Roundtable)
Chair: Shin’ichi Murata, Sophia U, Japan
Participants: Henrieke Stahl, Trier U, Germany“Bridge to the Spirit: Andrei Bely’s Meditative Experience in 'The
History of the Self-Consciousness-Soul’s Becoming'”
Monika Spivak, Museum of Andrei Bely, Russia“East, West and Russia in the Historiosophic Concept of Andrei Bely’sSession III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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Diaries of the 1930s”
Vladimir Belous, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“The Thematization of the ‘Political’ in Andrei Bely's ‘History of the
Self-Consciousness-Soul’s Becoming’”
Mikhail Odessky, Russian State U for the Humanities“‘East – West’ and the ‘Arabian Theme’ in the ‘History of the
Self-Consciousness-Soul’s Becoming’”
III-1-15 Russian Writers in their Youth
Chair: Daria Makhneva, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Tomoyuki Takahashi, U of Tokyo, Japan“The ‘Wandering’ of Young Grigor’ev”
Takehiko Seki, U of Tokyo, Japan“Joseph Brodsky in His Youth”
Hiroshi Sasayama, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Pelevin and ‘Counter-culture’ in the Soviet Union”
Discussants: Yuji Kajiyama, U of Tokyo, Japan;
Yuri Nagura, U of Tokyo, Japan
III-1-16 Texts of Russian Literature in Modern Russian Theater
Chair: Hikaru Ogura, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Marina Sidorova, Moscow State U, Russia“Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ vs Bogomolov’s ‘Karamazovy:’ How Open Is the Structure?”
Masaki Tanaka, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Representation of A.S. Pushkin’s Texts in the Theater of Petr
Fomenko”
Elena Gordienko, Moscow State U, Russia“Text Interpretation in Theatre-narrative Adaptations of Non-dramatic
Texts on Russian Stage”
Discussant: Kyoko Numano, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
III-1-17 Women in the Late Russian Empire
Chair: Adam F. Kola, Nicolaus Copernicus U, Poland
Papers: Galina Ulyanova, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Female Entrepreneurs as Board Directors and Stakeholders of theBiggest Russian Joint-stock Companies, 1870-1914”

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Valentina Veremenko, Pushkin Leningrad State U, Russia“Professional Employment of Intelligent Women and the Problemsof Secondary Education in Russia in the Second Half of Nineteenth –Early Twentieth Centuries”
Sanavar Shadmanova, Academy Science of Uzbekistan“Muslim Woman of Turkestan and Imperial Medicine: Accepted or
Rejected (In the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)”
Discussant: Nobuya Hashimoto, Kwansei Gakuin U, Japan
III-1-18 Imperial Power and Ethnic Minorities in late Imperial Russia: Education, Religion, Culture
Chair: Ekaterina Pravilova, Princeton U, USA
Papers: Heather Coleman, U of Alberta, Canada“Ministering in the Contact Zone: The Kiev Parish Clergy and theMulti-ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century”
Irina Paert, U of Tartu, Estonia“Teaching Orthodoxy to the Lutherans: Religious and Educational
Imperial Policy in the Baltic Provinces 1840-1917”
Alexander Polunov, Moscow State U, Russia“In Search of the Belovodie Land: Russian Empire, Orthodox Church,
and the Remote ‘Exotic’ Peoples of Asia and Africa in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century”
Discussant: Igor Khristoforov, Higher School of Economics, Russia
III-1-19 Revisiting the Eastern Front: A Centenary Perspective on Russia’s
Great War (Roundtable)
Chair: Louise McReynolds, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Participants: Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, Cambridge U, UK“The Origins of Russia's Great War”
Yoshiro Ikeda, U of Tokyo, Japan“Russian Health Resorts and Visions of an Empire during the FirstWorld War”
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock U, USA“What Russia Wanted in the Great War”
Yaroslav Shulatov, Hiroshima City U, Japan“Russia's Great War on the Paciﬁc”
Tatiana Filippova, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

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81“Caricaturing Russia's Great War”
III-1-20 The Memory of Communism (Part 1): Actors, Norms, Institutions
Chair: Laure Neumayer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Papers: Georges Mink, CNRS-ISP, College of Europe, France“Is There a New Institutional Response to the Crimes of Communism?
The Case of National Memory Ofﬁces in Postcommunist Countries”
Bartlomiej Rozycki, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of
Science“Confronting the Past in Symbolical Aspects: Lieux de Mémoire of
Past Dictatorships. Case Study of the Communist Poland”
Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague,
The Czech Republic“History, Justice, and Politics: a Hazardous Combination in the Czech
Dealing with the Communist Past”
Discussants: Irmina Matonyté, Lithuanian Social Research Center; ISM Universityof Management and Economics, Lithuania;
Bonnard Pascal, CERI, Sciences Po, Paris et ISP-CNRS Nanterre,FranceIII-1-21 “Yellow Peril” – Anti-Asian Sentiments in a Comparative Perspective
Chair: Yukiko Hama, Tsuda College, Japan
Papers: Victor I. Dyatlov, Irkutsk State U, Russia“Exoticization and Enemy Stereotypes of the “Yellow Peril” Syndromein Pre-revolutionary Russia”
Kenso Yamamoto, U of Shimane, Japan“Michael Bakunin’s Paradoxical Version of the ‘Yellow Peril’”
Sören Urbansky, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany“Faces of Fear. The ‘Yellow Peril’ Syndrome in the American Westand Russian Far East”
Discussants: Andreas Renner, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany;
Vladimir G. Datsyshen, Siberian Federal U, Russia
III-1-22 Memories of Ethnic Cleansings and Lost Cultural Diversity in Today’s
Eastern and Central Europe (Roundtable)
Chair: Tadayuki Hayashi, Kyoto Women's U, Japan
Participants: Eleonora Narvselius, Lund U, Sweden

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Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)“Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for the Construction of aMulticultural Heritage in L’viv”
Tomas Sniegon, Lund U, Sweden“Old Animosity or New Mourning? Post-Communist Memorials to the
Murdered Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia after WW II”
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Lund U, Sweden“The Phantom Pain of Amputated Memory. The Memory of German
Breslau in Polish Wroclaw”
Niklas Bernsand, Lund U, Sweden“Memories of Ethnic Diversity in Local Newspapers: the Sixth Centennial of Chernivtsi”
III-1-23 Cross-cultural Communication between East and West: Speech Act
Patterns and Discourse Strategies
Chair: Swetlana Mengel, Martin Luther U Halle Wittenberg, Germany
Papers: Elizaveta Kotorova, U of Zielona Góra, Poland“Initiative and Reactive Advice in Russian, Polish and German Discourse: Pragmatic and Linguo-structural Peculiarities”
Bernhard Brehmer, Greifswald U, Germany“When East and West Collide: Politeness in Russian-German Bilingual
Discourse”
Ievgeniia Karpilovska, Institute of Ukrainian Language, National AS
Ukraine“Stereotypes of Other Cultures in Modern Ukrainian Mass Media”
Discussants: Vadim Dementev, Saratov State U, Russia;
Hitoshi Yamashita, Osaka U, Japan
III-1-24 The Restructuring of Russia's Mono-company Towns and the Role ofForeign Direct Investments
Chair: Byung-Yeon Kim, Seoul National U, South Korea
Papers: Fumikazu Sugiura, Teikyo U, Japan“The Role of Foreign Direct Investments in Restructuring Mono-company Town: the Case of Togliatti”
Kazuho Yokogawa, Kanagawa U, Japan“Public Service Provision in Mono-company Town in Russia”
Nina Ershova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Japanese Business in Russia: Local Challenges and Adaptation”

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Discussant: Yuko Adachi, Sophia University, Japan
III-1-25 Former Soviet States and South East Europe: Confrontation andCooperation
Chair: Akira Uegaki, Seinan Gakuin University, Japan
Papers: Remzi Bulut, Mehmet Akif Ersoy U, Turkey“The Ethnic Identity, Economy and External Links of Gagauzian
Turks Living in the Republic of Moldova”
Rimma Chernyaeva, Financial U under the RF Government“About the Changes of Transition of Great Black Sea Region From a
Scene of Confrontation to Regional Cooperation”
Ievgeniia Cherniavska, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National U“To the Origins of the Social Crisis of 2013-2014 in Ukraine”
Discussant: Shigeo Mutsushika, University of Shizuoka, Japan
III-1-26 Affects of War: Challenging Representation (Roundtable)
Chair: Konstantin Bogdanov, Institute of Russian Literature, RAS, St. Petersburg
Participants: Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Traces in the Memory of Afghan Veterans and Their Memorial
Societies”
Polina Barskova, Hampshire College, USA“Representations of the Besieged Leningrad: Competition of the
Utopias”
Ilya Kalinin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Poetics of Defamiliarization: War, Surgery, Representation”
Serguei Oushakine, Princeton U, USA“Interacting Wars: Web-Art and Web-Prose of Russia’s Veterans”
III-1-27 State and the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia in the Second Halfof the Twentieth Century (Roundtable)
Chair: TBA
Irina Maslova, Penza State University, Russia“The Council for Affairs of Religions at the Council of Ministers of
the USSR in 1965-1991: Policy of Control”
Maria Serdyuk, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia“Orthodoxy in the Far East Russia (1991-2013)”
Olga Shimanskaya, Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“The Crisis of the Russian Civilization and the Concept of the ‘Russian World’ of the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church”

Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)
III-2-1 Putin’s Asia-Paciﬁc Policy: New Challenges to US and China?
Chair: Atsushi Ogushi, Keio U, Japan
Papers: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London“Russian Regional Thinking on Asia-Paciﬁc in Light of the Ukraine
Crisis and Its Implications for Russia’s Far Eastern Regions”
Ik Joong Youn, Hallym U of Graduate Studies, South Korea“New Developments of Russo-North Korean Relations under Putin :within the Context of Russo-Chinese Relations in Northeast Asia”
Mihoko Kato, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“What is the Role of Russia in the Growing Regional Tensions between China and Its Neighbors?”
Discussant: HiroshiYamazoe, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
III-2-2 Conﬂict in Big East Asia (Roundtable)
Chair: Gregory Cleasong, U of New Mexico, USA
Participants: Mirzokhid Rakhimov, The Institute of History, AS Uzbekistan“Security Challenges in Central Asia and Perspectives of Inter-Asian
Partnership”
Svetlana Kozhirova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan“Xinjiang in Relations of Kazakhstan and China”
Khazmuratova Aigul, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan“Drug Trafﬁcking in Golden Crescent: the Current Situation”
Taissiya Marmontova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan“Soft Power Policy as Tool of Security Saving in Central Asia”
Issaliyeva Axamal, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan“Islamic Factor in Central Asian Region: History, Dynamics andEvolution”
III-2-3 Eurozone Enlargement: Prospect of New EU Member States for Euro
Adoption
Chair: Yoji Koyama, Niigata U, Japan

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85Papers: Ryszard Rapacki, Warsaw School of Economics“The Institutional Underpinnings of the Prospective Euro Adoption in
Poland”
Michal Mejstrik, Charles U, the Czech Republic“Czech Republic – the Present Situation of Prospective Eurozone
Member, Current Challenges”
Yoji Koyama Niigata U, Japan“Croatia’s Challenges Toward the Euro Adoption”
Discussant: Hiroshi Tanaka Ritsumeikan U, Japan
III-2-4 Re-bordering the Cultural Space: Identity Construction and the
Mechanism of Ex/inclusion at the Baltic Borderlands
Chair: TBA
Papers: Alina Baravykaite, U of Greifswald, Germany“Translated Feature Films in Lithuania: Linguistic Border-crossing or
Cultural Re-bordering?”
Baiba Tetere, U of Greifswald, Germany“‘Latvian Types’: Hybridized Visions of Rural Life in Latvia in 1890s”
Inge Christensen, Greifswald U, Germany“The Political Dimension of Border Formation and Dissolution”
Discussant: Tatsiana Asrouskaya, U of Greifswald U, Germany
III-2-5 Anthropology, Ukraine
Chair: TBA
Papers: Deborah Jones, U of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA“Paper with Potential: Land Rights and the Wait for 'Rule of Law' in
Ukraine”
Laada Bilaniuk, U of Washington, USA“Playing with Language and Identity: the Power of Standards andNon-standards in Ukraine”
Catherine Wanner, Penn State U, USA“Religion, Place and Religion in Ukraine”
Discussant: TBA
III-2-6 Design and Ideology under Socialism
Chair: Birgitte Pristed, Independent scholar, Germany
Papers: Akiko Honda, Hokkaido U, Japan

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Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“A New Vision on/of Architecture: Ivan Leonidov’s Designs and the
Camera’s Eye”
Anna Katsnelson, Boston U, USA“Funny or Die: Visual Laughter in WWII USSR”
Yuya Suzuki, State Institute of Arts, Russia“Soviet Pavilion at New York World's Fair in 1939 – Soviet National
Architectural Style on the Base of the Interchange with American
Architecture”
Discussant: TBA
III-2-7 New Media and Globalism
Chair: TBA
Papers: Assima Ishanova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian University, Kazakhstan“Literary and Media Types of Games and Narrative”
Aigerim Alzhanova, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan“The Youth Usage of New Media and Social Networks in Conﬂict
Situations”
Yelena Kondaurova, Kazakh National Conservatory“Identity and Multi-ethnicity in Arts and Culture in a Context of
Globalization”
Discussant: Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, U of Helsinki, FinlandIII-2-8 Post-Soviet Social Thought in Russia
Chair: Marina Bykova, North Carolina State U, USA
Papers: Alisa Vusatyuk, Center for Humanitarian Education, National AS Ukraine“Eurasian Social Mythology of the Information Age”
Jukka Pietilainen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Modernization in Post-Soviet Russian Social Thought: From Historical Materialism to Conﬂict of Values”
Ekaterina Gainutdinova, Astrakhan State Technical U, Russia“Bases of Positive Motivation as a Factor of Formation of Institutionsof Civil Society”
Discussant: Lev Gudkov, Levada-Center, Russia
III-2-9 Problems of Religiousness
Chair: TBA
Papers: Vldimir Glagolev, MGIMO, Russia

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87“Religious Axiology in the Russian Philosophical Discourse: Methodological Priorities”
Miglena Dikova-Milanova, The International School of Brussels, Belgium“The Intimacy of Being in the World : Eastern Orthodox Attitudes to
the Self”
Elena Sycheva, MGIMO, Russia“The Fate of Early Christianity in Japan in Modern Anime and Manga”
Daria Tatarskaya, MGIMO, Russia“The Concept of the Soul in Japanese and Russian Culture”
Discussant: TBA
III-2-10 Electoral Reform and Political System in Russia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Maria Ivanova, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The Effects of Electoral Law Changes on Representation in RussianState Duma”
Kenneth Wilson, Dongguk U-Seoul, South Korea“How Opposition Parties Strengthen Electoral Authoritarianism: theCase of Putin’s Russia”
Mizuki Chuman, Japan Association for Trade with Russia and NIS(ROTOBO)“Changes in Politics of Russia after 2012 – Focusing on Return of
Direct Elections of Regional Leaders”
Ilya Raskin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“The Evolution of Electoral Systems in Post-Soviet States”
Discussant: TBA
III-2-11 Contemporary Russia: the Value Foundations of Political Processes
Chair: Elena Shestopal, Moscow State U, Russia
Papers: Elena Shestopal, Moscow State U, Russia“Political Values of Russian Society vs. Values of Political Parties”
Tatiana Evgenyeva, Moscow State U, Russia“Value Foundations of National Identity in Contemporary Russia”
Antonina Selezneva, Moscow State U, Russia“Political Values in Contemporary Russian Mass Consciousness:
Psychological Analysis”
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III-2-12 Russian Public Diplomacy after Crimea: Hard or Soft Power?
(Roundtable)
Chair: Kåre Johan Mjør, Uppsala U, Sweden
Participants: Sirke Melina Mäkinen, U of Tampere, Finland“Education as a resource in Russia’s Soft Power?”
Mikhail Suslov, Uppsala U, Sweden“The 'Russian World' Project after Crimea: Discoursive Transformations and Institutional Changes”
Viacheslav Morozov, U of Tartu, Estonia“Russia's Defence of Traditional Values: Ideological, Instrumental or
Eurocentric?”
Greg Simons, Uppsala U, Sweden“Ukraine, Russian Soft Power and Public Diplomacy: An Abrupt End
or a New Beginning?”
Irina Kotkina, Södertörn U, Sweden“Russia's Cultural Policy on the Post-Soviet Space in the Aftermath ofEuromaidan”
III-2-13 State-Business Relations in Contemporary Russia
Chair: Holly Nielsen, Baring Vostok Capital Partners, Russia
Papers: Tina Jennings, U of Oxford, UK“Russian Big Business: Effects of Ukrainian Crisis”
Xin Zhang, East China Normal U“State-Capital Interaction and Energy Statecraft in Eurasia”
Yuko Adachi, Sophia U, Japan“State Capitalism Russia-style?: Observation on the State Policies andBusiness Interests of ‘National Champions’ in Russia”
Discussant: Stanislav Markus, U of Chicago, USA
III-2-14 Three Generations of Russian Women’s and Gender Activism, the1970s – the 1990s – the 2010s: Comparison and Critique
Chair: Hélène Mélat, Paris-Sorbonne University, France
Papers: Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Russian Union of Journalists/MSU, Russia“Independent Women’s Movement in Russia (1991-2015). Old
Heritage and New Trends. Russian and Western Feminisms and its
Reﬂection in the Media”
Irina Zherebkina, Kharkov National University, Ukraine

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89“Politics vs. Policy in Soviet and post-Soviet Women’s Activism”
Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn University, Sweden“The Women Club Maria in Leningrad, 1980s: An Antifeminist Feminist Initiative in a Triple Underground”
Discussant: Yulia Gradskova, Stockholm University, Sweden
III-2-15 Andrei Bely: At the Crossroads of East and West. The 135th
Anniversary (part 2)
Chair: Monika Spivak, Museum of Andrei Bely, Russia
Papers: Wakana Kono, Chiba U, Japan“East and West in Andrei Bely’s Novels ‘Silver Dove,’ ‘Petersburg’and ‘Moscow’”
Hye-Kyung Park, Hallym U, South Korea“The Inﬂuence of Russian Symbolism and Andrei Bely in Korean
Literature of the 1920s and 1930s”
Jotaro Ohta, Kumamoto-Gakuen U, Japan“Andrei Bely in Japan: The History of the Reception and Translationof his Works”
Discussant: Henrieke Stahl, Trier U, Germany
III-2-16 “Remnants of Kolyma”: The Text and the Space
Chair: Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami U, USA
Papers: Olga Cooke, Texas A&M U, USA“The Roads We Did Not Choose: Performance Art on Women in
Kolyma”
Joseﬁna Lundblad-Janjic, U of California, Berkeley, USA“Idealism and Symbolism Meet Kolyma: Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as
the Intertext for the Duck Motif in Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales”
Laura Kline, Wayne State U, USA“Territory of Terror: Remnants of the Kolyma Landscape in the Texts
of Victims of the Stalinist Gulag”
Discussant: Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union, USA
III-2-17 Russian Poetry I
Chair: Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY, USA
Papers: Maria Gonzharova, Saint-Petersburg State U of Technology and Design,
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Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“Language Personality of Alexander Blok. Based on Manuscripts fromthe Archives of Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom)”Sun Yung Park, Chungbuk National U, South Korea“A. Akhmatova’s Narrative Desire: On the Characteristic Features of
Early and Late Epic Poems”
Gerald Janecek, U of Kentucky, USA“The Poetics of Punctuation in Contemporary Russian Poetry”
Discussant: Izumi Maeda, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
III-2-18 Narratives of Political and Social Change in the Soviet Union andPost-Soviet Russia (Roundtable)
Chair: Elena Katz, U of Oxford, UK
Participants: Judith Pallot, U of Oxford, UK“Prisoners’ Wives, Mothers and Daughters in 21st Century RussianFederation: the Story Continues”
Melanie Ilic, U of Gloucestershire, UK“Women’s Narratives of 1937”
Steven Barnes, George Mason U, USA“The Alzhir Gulag Prisoner as Decembrist Wife: Cultural Antecedents
in the Gulag Memoir”
Dalia Leinarte, Vilnius U, Lithuania“Women's Narratives of 1941”
III-2-19 Various Aspects of Russian Society and Culture in the SixteenthEighteenth Centuries (Roundtable)
Chair: Yutaka Miyano, Gifu-Shotoku U, Japan
Participants: Sergey Sokolov, Ural Federal U, Russia“The Vandals as the Slavs: The Hi Story of One Modern Age’s Idea”
Iryna Petrenko, Poltava U of Economics and Trade, Ukraine“Reﬂection of Marriage-domestic Relations of Laymen in Ukraine of
the Eighteenth Century in the Source of Diocese Origin as One of the
Aspects of Mentality of Collective Memory”
Tomoko Nakazawa, Waseda U Senior High School, Japan“The Innovation of Russian Versiﬁcation by V. K. Trediakovskii and
Its Relationship with the Russian Music Culture of the EighteenthCentury”
Atsuo Nakazawa, Toyama U, Japan

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91“On Cultural History of Medieval Russia”
III-2-20 Rethinking the Russian Revolution in Light of the Revolutions of theTwenty-First Century: Legitimacy, Communication, Culture
Chair: Gregory Freeze, Brandeis U, USA
Papers: Mark D. Steinberg, U of Illinois, USA“Rethinking the Russian Revolution in Light of the Revolutions of the
21st century: Legitimacy, Communication, Culture”
S.A. Smith, U of Oxford, UK“The Violence of the First World War and the Violence of the Russian
Revolution”
Boris Kolonitskii, European U at St. Petersburg“Political Demobilization at Autumn of 1917”
Discussant: Vladimir Buldakov, Institute of Russian History, RAS
III-2-21 The Memory of Communism (Part 2): Actors, Norms, Institutions
in Europe
Chair: Georges Mink, CNRS-ISP, College of Europe, France
Papers: Laure Neumayer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France“Integrating Central European Past into a Common Narrative: theMobilizations around the ‘Crimes of Communism’ in European
Assemblies since the Early 1990s”
Lukasz Jasinski, Museum of the WWII in Gdansk, Poland“Between Justice and Manipulation. The Central Commission for
the Investigation of German/ Hitlerite Crimes in Poland and Postwar
Retribution in Poland”
Amélie Zima, ISP-CNRS (Université Paris Ouest la Défense Nanterre),
France“Can the NATO Reconcile? The Case of the 1999 Enlargement to the
Post-communist Countries”
Discussant: Bartlomiej Rozycki, Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of
Science
III-2-22 The Soviet Union and the East
Chair: Yukimura Sakon, Niigata U, Japan
Papers: Ivan Sablin, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Alternatives to Soviet Ethnic Federalism: Buryat Autonomy in the92

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Far Eastern Republic and the Mongolian Federation”
Anastasia Ipeeva, Siberian Federal U, Krasnoyarsk, Russia“‘Yellow Peril’ and ‘Great Turn’ in History of Russia”
Altai Dulbaa, Institute of International Studies, Academy of Science,
Mongolia“Collapse of the Soviet Union: Inﬂuence and Interest on Mongolia(1985-1990)”
Discussant: TBA
III-2-23 Yazma Miras / Written Heritage: Images of Tatars and Ottomans in
European Archive Materials (Roundtable)
Chair: Marat Gibatdinov, Institute of History, Tatarstan Academy of Science,
RussiaParticipants: Temur Kurshutov, Crimean Engineer-Pedagogical University“Documents in the German Archives Regarding the Activities of Jaffer
Seydamet as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Crimean Regional
Government (1918)”
Stephan Theilig, Brandenburg-Prussia-Museum, Wustrau, Germany“Moors, Turks and Tartars: Muslims in early Brandenburg-Prussia”
Mieste Hotopp-Riecke, Institute for Caucasica-, Tatarica- and TurkestanStudies, Magdeburg, Germany“Golden Horde and Crimean Khanate: Early Intercultural Contacts toGermans (Teutonic Knights & Brandenburg Prussia)”
Agata Nalborczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland“The Image of Tatars, Turks and Their Religion in the Polish Anti-Islamic Literature from the 17th-18th Century”
Leyla Coşan, Marmara University, Turkey“The Turk-Prayers: A Forgotten Literary Genre of the 16th and 17th
Centuries”
III-2-24 Exploring Various Perspectives on the Study of South Slavic Verbs
Chair: Masanori Tsutsumi, Kanagawa U, Japan
Papers: Kaname Okano, Kyoto U, Japan“Verbs of Oscillation in South Slavic: A Case Study in Lexical
Typology”
Kenta Sugai, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Clitic Doubling of Objects in the Bulgarian Northeastern Dialects inSession III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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Romania”
Eleonora Yovkova-Shii, U of Tokyo, Japan“Imperfectivity and Evidentiality in Bulgarian”
Sanja Joka, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Combinations of Nouns in Accusative Case and Verbs in the Serbian
Language: Focusing on Sematic Groups Expressing Exertion of an
Inﬂuence on Objects and Exertion of an Inﬂuence on People”
Discussant: Keiko Mitani, U of Tokyo, Japan
III-2-25 New Approaches to the Statistical Analysis of the Russian and Former
Soviet Economy (3)Chair: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U, USA
Papers: Evgeny Gavrilenkov, Sberbank; Higher School of Economics, Russia“What Limits Russia’s Growth: Structural Constraints or Policy
Mistakes?”
Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido U, Japan“Analysis of the Russian Economic Growth in Regional and Sectoral
Dimensions”
Michael Rochlitz, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Bureaucratic Appointments under Limited Political Competition:
Evidence from Russian Regions”
Discussants: Yoshiko Herrera, U of Wisconsin-Madison, USA;
Byung-Yeon Kim, Seoul National U, South Korea
III-2-26 New Opportunities and Challenges in International Area Studies(Roundtable)
Chair: Goro Christoph Kimura, Sophia U, Japan
Participants: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany“‘New Dimensions of the Old Production Factors.’ From Cultural,
Spatial and Linguistic Turn to Interdisciplinarity and the Economic
Focus on Polish Studies”
Thoralf Klein, Loughborough U, UK“Area Studies and History: Experiences of a Journey through Two
Academic Systems”
Yvonne Kleinmann, Halle U, Germany“From the Periphery of East European History and Slavic Studies to
Poland in the Context of Area Studies”

94Book Panel (Thursday – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm)

Katharina Kinga Kowalski, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt(Oder), Germany“Digitization in Polish Studies”
Hiroshi Fukuda, Kyoto U, Japan“Japan Consortium for Area Studies”

Book Panel (Thursday – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm)
Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, USA“Bunin i Nabokov. Istoriia sopernichestva (Bunin and Nabokov:
A History of Rivalry, Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2015)”

Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
III-3-1 Russia’s Balance between Asia and Europe: Strategies for Comprehensive Modernization
Chair: Gabriele Gorzka, Kassel U, Germany
Papers: Richard Sakwa, U of Kent, UK“Eurasian Integration: A Leap into the Future or a Step into the Past?”
Hans-Joachim Spanger, Peace Research Institute /Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konﬂiktforschung, Germany“Russia´s Pivot to Asia: a High Risk Strategic Gamble?”Peter W. Schulze, Georg August U of Goettingen, Germany“A New Cold War in Europe or a Comprehensive Collective Security
Policy with Russia: Options and Chances”
Discussant: Artyom Lukin, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia
III-3-2 Territorial Conﬂicts in East Asia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Steven Urueta, U of Tokyo, Japan“Untangling the Kuril Conundrum: Russo-Japanese Cooperation andConﬂict in the Sea of Okhotsk”
Alibay Mammadov, Hokkaido U, Japan“Understanding Common Citizens in the Territorial Issues of Russia
and Japan (1991-2015)”

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Monika Chansoria, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, India“China, Japan and the East China Sea Conﬂict: Struggle for Stability
amidst Contending Nationalism and Sovereignty Claims”
Discussant: TBA
III-3-3 Foreign Policies and Regional Security in Russia and Eurasia
Chair: Sergey Sevastyanov, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia
Papers: James Brown, Temple U Japan“The Northern Delusion: Prospects for the Resolution of the Russian-Japanese Territorial Dispute”
Tracey German, King's College London, UK“Azerbaijan, Atlético Madrid and Eurovision: Unconventional Sourcesof Inﬂuence and the Foreign Policy of Small States”
Elena Kropatcheva, U of Hamburg, Germany“Russia and the Crisis in/around Ukraine through the Prism of Neoclassical Realism”
Discussant: Sergey Sevastyanov, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia
III-3-4 Post-Cold War Borders in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: TBA
Papers: Martin Barthel, U of Eastern Finland“Otherness, Separateness or Uniformity Searching for Regional Identity on the Polish-Ukrainian Border”
Stanislaw Domaniewski, U of Eastern Finland“In Search of a Border Identity on the Polish-Russian Border: Challenging Identities”
James Scott, U of Eastern Finland“Territorial versus Ideational Notions of European Neighbourhood:
Observations from EU-Ukraine Cooperation”
Goro Christoph Kimura, Sophia U, Japan“Communication Management at the German-Polish Border”
Discussant: Jan Musekamp, European U Viadrina, Germany
III-3-5 Anthropology, European North
Chair: TBA
Papers: Indrek Jāāts, Estonian National Museum“Census as a Tool of Nationalities Policy in Late Soviet Union: The

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Veps Case”
Alexej Novogilov, Saint Petersburg State U“Population of the North-West Borderland of Russia in the Twentieth –Twenty-ﬁrst Centuries”
Pekka Suutari, U of Eastern Finland“Border Issue and Music Studies”
Discussant: TBA
III-3-6 Political Effects of Social Media
Chair: Aigerim Alzhanova, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan
Papers: Zheng Runyu, East China Normal U“Political Role of Social Media in Russia and Ukraine (2012-2014)”
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, U of Helsinki, Finland“Tweeting Estonia to the World”
Roman Horbyk, Södertörn U, Sweden“Power(ful/less) Media: The Impact of Representations on European
Policy in Ukraine, Russia and Poland”
Discussant: TBA
III-3-7 Post-Soviet Uchronias: Remakes and Sequels in Twenty-ﬁrst Century
Russian Culture
Chair: Alex Spektor, U of Georgia, Athens, USA
Papers: Victoria Donovan, U of St. Andrews, UK“The Irony and Fate of a Twenty-ﬁrst Century Soviet-era Comedy”
Emily Finer, U of St. Andrews, UK“‘More Real than Stalin or Beria?’ Dickens in Twenty-ﬁrst Century
Russian Literary Culture”
Olga Voronina, U of St. Andrews, UK“Uchronia in Twenty-ﬁrst Century Russian Fiction: ‘Remaking’Russian Myths”
Discussant: Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton U, USA
III-3-8 Post-socialist Conﬂicts and Nationalism
Chair: TBA
Papers: Tatsiana Astrouskaya, U of Greifswald, Germany“Intellectuals and Power: Practices of Resistance and Mechanisms ofReciprocal Inﬂuence in Post-Soviet Belarus”

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Ana Omaljev, U of Reading, UK“Constructing the Other/s: Discourses on Europe and Identity in 'First'
and 'Other' Serbia”
Vladyslav Volobuev, Dnipropetrovsk State U of Home Affairs, Ukraine“Confucius and Ukraine: Maidan's Challenges to the Paternalism”
Emiliya Taysina, Kazan State Power Engineering U, Russia“Polish Journal ‘D@U’ as an Academic Forum for Scholars’ Universal
Dialogue”
Discussant: Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine
III-3-9 Culture of Spirituality in European Russia
Chair: Kaori Yunoki-Oie, Kansai U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Junko Fujiwara, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan“Conﬂict between Neo-pagans and Christianity in Contemporary
Russia”
Madoka Inoue, Seisen U, Japan“Narratives of Religious Culture in Russia Today: What Is ‘Our
Tradition’?”
Tatjana Kirjushina, State Center of Russian Folklore, Russia“Features of the Traditional Spiritual Culture of Russian Shepherds”
Discussant: Naho Igaue, Chuo U, Japan
III-3-10 Belarus: Socioeconomic and Political Dynamic, External Relations,and Identity Formation
Chair: Go Koshino, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Michitaka Hattori, Institute for Russian & NIS Economic Studies, Japan“The Political Economy of the Lukashenka Rule”
Stephen White, U of Glasgow, Scotland“Belarusians between East and West”
Grigory Ioffe, Radford U, USA“Alexander Lukashenka as a National Leader”
Discussants: Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall U, USA;
Oleg Manaev, European Humanities U, Belarus
III-3-11 Federalism and Regional Politics in Russia
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Papers: Cameron Ross, U of Dundee, UK“The Death Knell of Federalism in Russia”
Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Regionalism and Problems of Democratisation in Contemporary
Russia”
Alexei Titkov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Dynamics of Regional Democracy Index Values in Russia, 2000-2014”
Discussant: Oksana Oracheva, Vladimir Potanin Foundation, Russia
III-3-12 How and Why People Participate in Politics: Capturing Political
Demand in Russia (Roundtable)
Chair: Liubov Fadeeva, Perm State U, Russia
Participants: Konstantin Sulimov, Perm State U, Russia“The Rise of Local and Caused Activism as a Source of Politicization”
Aleksei Gilev, Perm State U, Russia“What Makes Everyday Clientelism? Modernization, Institutions, andValues. Russia in Cross-national Perspective” (with M. Zavadskaya)
Margarita Zavadskaya, European U Institute, Italy“‘We Are Not Opposition, We Are Your Employers…’ Russian
Stunning Elections of 2011-12: Consequences and Perspectives ofElection-motivated Mass Mobilization”
Ora John Reuter, U of Wisconsin, USA; Higher School of Economics,
Russia“Why Hold Subnational Elections? Evidence from Russian Cities”
Irina Shevtsova, Perm State U, Russia“Old Pipes, Leaking Roofs: Practices of Protest in the Housing andCommunal Services (Russian Regions and Cities)”
III-3-13 Politics, Discourse and Identity in Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Nail Mukharyamov, Kazan State Power Engineering U, Russia“Discursive Styles in Russian Politics: the Impact of Globalization”
Lala Aliyeva, Baku State U, Azerbaijan“Changing National Identity as a Mainstream of the Azerbaijani National Consciousness”
Valentina Bredneva, Sakhalin State U, Russia"The Speciﬁcs of the Legal Culture in the Asian Region"

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Katja Ruutu, University of Helsinki, Finland“Russian State and Society Concepts in Flux”
Discussant: TBA
III-3-14 Identity and Minority Rights in Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy(Roundtable)
Chair: Sirke Makinen, U of Tampere, Finland
Participants: Federica Prina, European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany“Language Policies or Benign Neglect? Minority Language Educationin Russia”
Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, U of London“The New Nationalities Policy of the Russian Federation: Where
Stands the Russian Experiment in National Cultural Autonomy?”Peter Duncan, University College London“Russian Foreign Policy since 1991: The Rights of Russian Minorities
in the Post-Soviet States”
Rasmus Nilsson, Independent scholar, UK“Belarusian National Identity and the Soviet Legacy”
Katja Richters, U of Erfurt, Germany“Religion and Identity in Russia's Foreign Policy towards Ukraine,
2004 – 2014”
III-3-15 Extracts of Roles of Women in Hungary and Post Yugoslavia
Chair: Kumiko Haba, Aoyama Gakuin U, Japan
Papers: Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo, U of Tuebingen, Germany; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology“Fugus and Women – Hungarian Literature and Gender Roles”
Valéria Szekeres, Obuda U, Hungary“Behaviour of Women Towards Technical Fields”
Judit Hidasi, Budapest Business School, Hungary“Underprivileged Life-paths of Hungarian Women Leaders”
Tatjana Aleksic, University of Michigan, USA“On Becoming European: A Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Gender
Politics”
Discussant: Ildikó Asztalos Morell, Uppsala U, Sweden

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III-3-16 Russian Symbolism
Chair: Henrieke Stahl, Trier U, Germany
Papers: Kadzuho Higashi, U of Tokyo, Japan“Andrej Belyj’s ‘Epopee’ as the Epistemological Process”
Anna Ponomareva, Imperial College London/UCL, UK“There Are No Sledges; There Are No Horses. There Are No People:
the Images of War in Andrei Belyi’s Masks”
Natasha Takeuchi, Waseda U, Japan“‘Dream’ in Sologub’s Writing”
Discussant: Kazuhisa Iwamoto, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen U, Japan
III-3-17 Media and Literature in Twentieth Century Russia
Chair: Takashi Kimura, Kyoto U, Japan
Papers: Aleksandr Aleksandrov, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom),
RAS“Health of Lev Tolstoy in the Information Space of the Russian Empire”
Tadashi Nakamura, Yamagata U, Japan“On Collection of Articles ‘The Poetics of Cinema’ (1927) in theThought Context at Its Time”
Yuri Nagura, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Controversy over the Term ‘Lyrical Prose’ in the Ofﬁcial Soviet
Media”
Discussant: Kyohei Norimatsu, Doshisha U, Japan
III-3-18 Russian Poetry II
Chair: Gerald Janecek, U of Kentucky, USA
Papers: Vladimir Feshchenko, Institute of Linguistics, RAS“Digging the Pit of Babel: Glossolalia, Zaum’ and the Origin of Language in Russian Poetry”
Yngvar Steinholt, U of Tromsø, Norway“Bird Noises: A Musical-ornithological Interpretation of Velimir Khlebnikov's Poem ‘Mudrost' v silke’"
Naoto Yagi, Waseda U, Japan“The Inﬂuence of Sound-reproduction Technologies on the Theory of
Russian Formalism: The Case of Boris Eikhenbaum”
Discussant: Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY, USA

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III-3-19 Women in the Age of World Wars
Chair: Takayuki Yoshimura, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Samuel Foster, U of East Anglia, UK“Draining ‘Serbia’s Cup of Sorrow’: British Women Volunteers andthe Balkan Front 1914-1918”
Meline Mesropyan,Tohoku U, Japan“Diana Agabeg Apcar’s Role in Armenia-Japan International Relationsand Humanitarian Activities”
Adam Kola, Nicolaus Copernicus U, Poland“Women’s Global Migration during the Second World War. The Caseof Halina Kridl”
Discussant: Takeo Suzuki, Waseda U, Japan
III-3-20 Imperial “Technologies of Power” in the Kazakh Steppe: Experienceof the Russian Empire
Chair: Svetlana Kovalskaya, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan
Papers: Gulbanu Izbassarova, Aktobe Regional U, Kazakhstan“Methods of Adapting to the Imperial Politics of Kazakh Elite in theNinteenth Century”
Sergey Lyubichankovskiy, Orenburg State Pedagogical U, Russia“Islamization of Kazakhs of the Orenburg Region as the Mechanismof Integration of Kazakhs into the Russian Empire”
Dmitry Vasilyev, Institute of State Management, Law and Innovative
Technologies, Russia“Dynamics of the Russian Legislation for the Kazakh Steppe in theNinteenth Century”
Discussant: Saule Uderbayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National U, Kazakhstan
III-3-21 The Russian Revolution Revisited: The Transformation of a System
of Values in a Sub-European Power (Roundtable)
Chair: Yoshiro Ikeda, U of Tokyo, Japan
Participants: Haruki Wada, U of Tokyo, Japan“Rethinking ‘the Age of World Wars’”
Norie Ishii, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Collapse of the Romanov Empire Revisited”
Vladimir Buldakov, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Ethnic Violence or Anti-Violence from World War I to Revolution”

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Boris Kolonitskii, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“The Political Culture of the Russian Revolution”
III-3-22 The Khrushchev Era Revisited
Chair: Hirofumi Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Papers: Robert Hornsby, U of Kent, UK“Communist Party and Komsomol: Master and Servant?”
Kiyohiro Matsudo, Hokkai-Gakuen U, Japan“Between the State and Society: Soviet Obshchestvennost’ in the‘Building Communism’ Era”
Susan Ikonen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Beyond the Concepts of Stalinism and De-Stalinization? Vladimir
Dudintsev in the Context of His Published Writings”
Discussant: Tomas Sniegon, U of Lund, Sweden
III-3-23 Documenting the (Post)Soviet Periphery
Chair: Kumi Mouri, Hitotsubashi U, Japan
Papers: Gulzat Egemberdieva, U of Toronto, Canada“Bridal Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan during and after the Soviet Era:
Documentary Film and Archival Approaches”
Kumi Tateoka Kobe U, Japan“Representation of Post-Soviet Armenian Identity in DocumentaryFilm”
Thomas Lahusen, U of Toronto, Canada“The Russian Past for Harbin’s Future: A Documentary Report from
North-East China”
Discussants: Sergei Kapterev, Institute of Film Art, All-Russian U of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia;
Tsypylma Darieva, Friedrich Schiller U, Germany
III-3-24 Multinational and Multicultural Co-existence in Central Europe in
the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chair: Yukino Sato,Tohoku U, Japan
Papers: Ryota Watanabe, Tohoku Gakuin U, Japan“Social Differentials between Peoples and Financial System in Early
Twentieth Century Austria
Fumio Kinefuchi, Tohoku U, Japan

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103“Friedrich Naumann's Idea of ‘Mitteleuropa’"
Sachiko Handa, Tohoku U, Japan“Women's Views on Other Nations: Czech Fashion Magazines between the Wars”
Discussants: Christiane Brenner, Collegium Carolinum, Germany;
Emil Voracek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
III-3-25 Discourse of Power and Language Manipulation
Chair: Susanna Witt, Uppsala U, Sweden
Papers: Tora Hedin, Stockholm U, Sweden“The Construction of National Identity in Post-war Czech Media”
Dmitri Dobrovolskij and Ludmila Pöppel, Stockholm U, Sweden“Synonyms in Political Discourse and Their Pragmatic Potential”
Holger Kusse, TU Dresden, Germany“Values as Argument in Political and Economic Discourses”
Discussant: Karin Grelz, Stockholm U, Sweden
III-3-26 Management and Modernization of Innovative Society in Russia
Chair: Hiroaki Hayashi, U of Shimane, Japan
Papers: Anna Kovaleva, St. Petersburg U of Economics“Innovative Management in the Russian Companies”
Eiko Tomiyama, Graduate Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Japan“The Automobile Market in Russia”
Satoshi Mizobata, Kyoto U, Japan“Innovation Policy and Market Quality in Russia”
Discussant:III-3-27 Modernization and Integration in the Soviet Union, Russia and CIS
StatesChair: Kazuho Yokogawa, Kanagawa U, Japan
Papers: Olesya Emelianova, Moscow State U, Russia“Russian Rail Network Modernization Problems as Part of Economic
Cooperation with APEC Countries Development”
Madina Turaeva, Institute of Economy, RAS“Integration Projects’ Composition in Post-Soviet Area”
Bakhtiyor Islamov, Tashkent Branch of Russian Economic U, Uzbekistan“Central Asian Independent States -Russia Economic Relations”

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Discussant: Yugo Konno, Mizuho Research Institute Ltd.
III-3-28 Russian Foreign Policy and the Effects of Ukraine Crises: Domestic
Determinants
Chair: Tuomas Forsberg, U of Tampere, Finland
Papers: Hanna Smith, U of Helsinki“Russian Strategic Thinking: Modern versus Traditional”
Igor Zevelev, MacArthur Foundation, Russia“Identity and Nationalism in Foreign Policy”
Discussant: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U, USA
III-3-29 The Signiﬁcance of Peripheries in Historiography and Its Relevancein Literature (Roundtable)
Chair: Liudmila Ermakova, Kobe City U for Foreign Studies, Japan
Participants: Wakio Fujimoto, Osaka U of Economics and Law, Japan“Challenging the Status of Vladivostok as a Periphery: From the Japanese Perspective”
Noriko Igarashi, Tenri U, Japan“Senior Generation in Russia as a Periphery of Society”
Zoya Morgun, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Vladivostok and Japanese”
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka U, Japan“Jewish Russian Literature in Riga: Periphery in Geography and Language of the Russian Empire”

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III-4-1 Identities and Norms in the International Politics of Russia and Eurasia
Chair: Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia
Papers: Olga Malinova, Institute of Scientiﬁc Information for Social Sciences,
Russia“Making Use of the Foreign ‘Others:’ The USA and China in the
Russian Political Discourse”
Maxine David, U of Surrey, UK“Competing Regionalisms and the Battle for Ukraine: The European
Union vs The Eurasian Economic Union”

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Aida Abzhaparova U of the West of England, Bristol“Becoming an Eurasian State – Kazakhstan’s Practices in Reading,Writing and Performing Eurasian Integration: The Case of Eurasian
Economic Union”
Discussant: Valentina Feklyunina, Newcastle U, UK
III-4-2 Kazakhstan's Diplomacy
Chair: TBA
Papers: Aliya Kussainova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Training of Diplomatic Service Staff in the Republic of Kazakhstan”
Taissiya Marmontova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Culture of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Between the Traditionalism andGlobalization”
Gulsum Kenzhalina, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Diplomacy as a Vehicle of International Image of Kazakhstan”
Zhanar Medeubayeva, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Prospects of a Multi-vector Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the Contraction of the International Environment”
Discussant: TBA
III-4-3 Culture beyond Border
Chair: TBA
Papers: Florence Fröhlig, Södertörn U, Sweden“Why Do Africans Go to Russia to Study Medicine?”
Joni Virkkunen, U of Eastern Finland“Foodscapes of Central Asian Migrants in Moscow”
Natalia Khalymonchik, U of Glasgow, UK“Uninvited Guests: East Meets West in Russian Anime Culture”
Slobodan Vasic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia“Ethnic Identity of Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians) in the Interculturaland Interreligious Rural Contexts of Serbia, Romana, Bulgaria”
Discussant: TBA
III-4-4 Soviet and Post-Soviet Art and Music
Chair: TBA
Papers: Kai Lobjakas, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design“Between Art and Industry. The Art Products’ Factory in Tallinn in the106

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1950s and 1960s”
Maria Engström Dalarna Universtiy, Sweden“The Silver Age as Camp: Timur Novikov’s New Academy”
Ira Osterberg, U of Helsinki, Finland“Rock in Russian Cinema”
Discussant: Rieko Kamioka, Waseda U, Japan
III-4-5 Film Screening: About a Village
Organizer: Hohn C. Swanson, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
III-4-6 “E Pluribus Unum”? Dialectics of National Traditions and Uniﬁed
Ideology in the Soviet Culture
Chair: Elza-Bair Guchinova, Independent researcher, Armenia
Papers: Valerij Gretchko, U of Tokyo, Japan“Between Local and Universal: Georgia’s Avant-garde of the 1920s”
Chitose Sato, Hosei U, Japan“Europe and Asia in Films ‘Storm Over Asia’ and ‘Turksib’”
Takayuki Satoh, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“The Blooming of 'Asian-ness' in Russian Culture - Russian Berlin
through B. Pilnyak's Eyes”
Discussant: Kumi Tateoka, Kobe U, Japan
III-4-7 Identity Formation: Political Thought and/or Religion (Roundtable)
Chair: Thomas Bremer, Münster U, Germany
Participants: Nada Boskovska, U of Zurich, Switzerland“The Muslims in the Croat Ustasha State (1941-45)”
Josette Baer, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Construction of Identity during the Slovak National Uprising in
1944”
Andrii Krawchuk, U of Sudbury, Canada“Russian Orthodoxy in Ukraine since the Euro-Maidan of 2014: Ecclesial Identity and Political Loyalty”
Margarete Zimmermann, Friedrich-Schiller-U of Jena, Germany“Sacred Space: Constructing Identity in Kazakhstan”

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III-4-8 Local Government Systems in the Transformation of Social Relations:
Experience of Russia, Каzakhstan and Eastern Europe (Roundtable)
Chair: Yuriy Dorozhkin; Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia
Participants: Irina Frolova; Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“Political and Legal Basis of the Local Government in Contemporary
Russia”
Lira Gazizova; Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“Transparency of Local Governments”
Nikolay Arabadzhiyski; New Bulgarian U“Citizens’ participation in the Local Government in Bulgaria”
Vilmur Aukenov; Academy of Public Administration under the Presidentof the Republic of Kazakhstan“Local Government Peculiarities in the Republic of Kazakhstan”
III-4-9 Civil Society and Political Values
Chair: TBA
Papers: Maki Kaita, U of Tsukuba, Japan“The Uneven Development of Civil Society in Contemporary Russia:
A Conﬂict between Promotion and Interference by Government”
Valeria Kasamara, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The Image of Russia and its Future in perceptions of Various Groupsof Russian Society”
Anar Valiyev, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy U“Do Citizens of Former Soviet Union Trust State Institutions and Why:
Case of Azerbaijan
Discussant: TBA
III-4-10 Transformation of the Central and Eastern European Countries andChina-Japan-CEE Relations
Chair: Huang Ping, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences
Papers: Liu Zuokui, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences“The Relations between China and CEECs”
Chen Xin, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences“Trade and Economic Cooperation between China and Central Eastern

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Europe”
Kong Tianping, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences“Changing World and the China-CEE relations”
Ye Yang, Tongji U, Shanghai, China“How the Europeans Understand China: Domestic and International
Issues”
Discussants: Kumiko Haba, Aoyama Gakuin U;
Dominik Mierzejewski, U of Lodz, Poland
III-4-11 Migration, (De-)urbanization and Social Networks
Chair: Sergey Ryazantsev, Institute of Socio-Political Research, RAS
Papers: Adeline Braux, Institut français d'études anatoliennes“‘I was a stranger:’ Experiences of Return Migration from Russia
among Children of Azerbaijani Migrants”
Giuzel Shaidulina, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia“Russian Arctic Migration Networks and Russian Arctic Cities”
Elizaveta Polukhina, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Extending the Space of Domesticity in Post-Soviet Russia: from
Dacha to Suburban Home”
Discussant: Bhavna Dave, SOAS U of London, UK
III-4-12 Russian Women, Political Bodies, and Human Rights: Does the Digital
Magnify the Female? (Roundtable)
Chair: Ranjana Saxena, U of Delhi, India
Participants: Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Russian Union of Journalists/MSU“Gender Based Censorship in Media in Internet and New Initiatives toOvercome It: from ‘Stop Sexism in the Media’ to International Award
for Worst Sexist in Runet”
Elena Vartanova, Moscow State U, UK“New Trends in Russian Media Field and Gender Strategies”
Stephen Hutchings Manchester U, UK“The image of Women Projected by RT ('Russia Today') in Light of
the 'Information War' Over the Ukraine Crisis”
Robyn Jensen, Columbia U, USA“The Iconography of Lolita: the Nymphet Body from the book coverto the digital screen?”Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA“The Russian Female Body as Political Statement: Does the Internet
Make the Female More ‘Feminine’?”III-4-13 Russian Modernist Drama in its European Context
Chair: Izumi Maeda, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Alexandra Smith, U of Edinburgh, UK“Nikolai Evreinov's play ‘Merry Death’ as a Russianised Version ofCommedia Dell'arte”
Galina Rylkova, U of Florida, USA“'We Need New Forms': Chekhov, Wagner, and Schopenhauer”
Olga S. Partan, College of the Holy Cross, USA“Tsvetaeva’s Phaedra: A Synthesis of Greek Myth with Russian Folklore”
Discussants: Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton U, USA;
Olga Sobolev, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
III-4-14 What Does It Mean for Writers to Survive Totalitarianism?
Chair: Seo Kwang Jin, Seoul National U, South Korea
Papers: Seungeok Lee, Kyungpook National U, South Korea“Anti-utopian Chronotope in M. Bulgakov's Dramaturgy”
Anna Anisova, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Predicate Analysis of the Characters in Andrej Platonov’s Novel The
Foundation Pit (Voshchev and Chiklin)”
Youngsun Yoon, Kyungpook National U, South Korea“Between Inheritance and Severance: Two Methods of Reading
Grossman's Life and Fate”
Discussant: Susumu Nonaka, Saitama U, Japan
III-4-15 Comparative Approaches to Contemporary Slavic Literatures
Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer, U of Regensburg, Germany
Papers: Roman Ivashkiv, U of Alberta, Canada“Transmesis in Slavic Postmodernist Novel”
Giustina Selvelli, U Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy“The Blockades of Sarajevo and Leningrad: Writing the City under
Siege”
Irene Sywenky, U of Alberta, Canada“Geopolitics of Space in the Travelogues of Post-1989 Central and110

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Eastern Europe”
Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciencesof Ukraine“Post-Chornobyl: Catastrophism and Nuclear Sublimation in Contemporary Culture”
Discussant: Hikaru Ogura, U of Tokyo, Japan
III-4-16 Gender in Unusual Spaces: New Research on Late-Soviet Cultural
History
Chair: Samantha Sherry, Oxford U, UK
Papers: Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State U, USA“Gender and the Late-Soviet Wine Consumer”
Juliane Fürst, U of Bristol, USA“Gerla: An Exploration of the Soviet Hippie Girl”
Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross, USA“Bad Girls in Late Soviet Society”
Discussant: Polly Jones, Oxford U, UK
III-4-17 Eurasianism and its Rivals: A Comparative Analysis of Pan-Movementsin the Twentieth Century and Today
Chair: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock U, USA
Papers: Yukiko Hama, Tsuda College, Japan“A Reinterpretation of Pan-movements: Russia’s Eurasianism andPan-isms in the Interwar Period and the Present”
Martin Beisswenger, Higher School of Economics, Moscow“The Eurasian Union between ‘Classical’ Eurasianism and the European
Union”
Sinan Levent, U of Toyo, Japan“Politics of Eurasianism in Asia, Focused on the Examples of Turkey
and Japan”
Discussants: Sergey Glebov, Smith College/Amherst College, USA;
Sören Urbansky, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany
III-4-18 Mountains of Nations: Historical and Political Topographies of
Nationality in the Soviet South Caucasus
Chair: Ronald Suny, U of Michigan, USA
Papers: Timothy Blauvelt, Ilia State U, Georgia

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111“Language Education and Ethnic Resentment in Abkhazia, 1939-53”
Krista Goff, U of Miami, USA“The Politics and Practices of Assimilating Non-titular Peoples in the
USSR”
Jeremy Johnson, U of Michigan, USA“Orthographic Reform in the Early Soviet South Caucasus”
Discussant: Jeremy Smith, U of Eastern FinlandIII-4-19 Russia in the Mirror of Global History
Chair: Chiho Miyazaki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / Nagoya U
Papers: Angelina Evdokimova, Bashkir State Pedagogical U, Russia“The Russian State in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries in theWorld-system Analysis of Fernand Braudel”
Alexander Petrov, Russian Academy of Sciences“Russia, the Russian-American Company and Japan in the Second
Half of the Eighteenth – Middle of the Nineteenth Centuries”
Yukimura Sakon, Niigata U, Japan“The Northern Steamship Company, 1899-1918: Foreign Capital in
Imperial Russia”
Discussant: Andrej Keller, Ural Federal U, Russia
III-4-20 Complicated Relation between Art and Politics in Central Europe
Chair: Nobuhiro Shiba, Josai International U, Japan
Papers: Yoshiko Okamoto, U of Tokyo, Japan“Béla Balázs' Critiques in Vienna: Between Literature and Film,
Hungarian and German”
Takuya Momma, U of Tokyo, Japan“Political Role of Matrix Croatica for Radicalization of Nationalism at
the Interwar Period”
Atsushi Miyazaki, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“The Political Inﬂuence on Artworks of the New Generation during
the Period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945)”
Discussant: Gábor Döme, Eötvös Loránd U of Science, Hungary
III-4-21 In the Shadow of Empire: Language Policy in Ukraine
Chair: Bogdan Pavliy, Toyama U of International Studies, Japan
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Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“The Prohibitive Laws of 1863, 1876, and 1881 Against the Ukrainian
Language in the Russian Empire”
Jan Ivar Bjornﬂaten, U of Oslo, Norway“Soviet Language Policy in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus’ in the
1920–30s: One Policy and Contradictory Results”
Bohdan Azhniuk, Institute of Linguistics, National AS Ukraine“European Principles of Language Policy and Contemporary Language Situation in Ukraine”
Discussant: Hidehiko Nakazawa, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
III-4-22 Russian as a Foreign Language for High School Students ‒ Issues
and Perspectives
Chair: Ganna Shatokhina, Foreign Service Training Institute, Japan
Papers: Ching-Gwao Chang, Tamkang U“Russian Language and Russian Literature in Taiwan”
Tomoyo Fukuda, Kitazono Senior High School, Japan“International Education at Kitazono Senior High School – from theExperiences of Educational Activities”
Maria Gavrilova, Sophia U, Japan and Tomoko Nakazawa, Waseda U
Senior High School, Japan“From the Experience of Teaching Russian Language to JapaneseHighschool Students”
Oxana Bondarenko, Toyama Prefectural Fushiki High School, Japan“From the Experience in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language atFushiki High School in Toyama Prefecture”
Discussant: Mariko Yamashita, Tokai U, Japan
III-4-23 Technology and Development in Transition Economies
Chair: TBA
Papers: Gabriele Gorzka Kassel U, Germany“Knowledge and Technology Transfer between Russia and Germany:
Impacts on the National Innovation Process”
Lujdmila Subrakova, Khakass State U, Russia“The Sources of Innovation Development of Rural Territories”
Discussant: TBA

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III-4-24 Money Matters: Experiences from Former Regimes
Chair: Yulia Vymyatnina, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
Papers: Yurii Petrov, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Russian Bank System and Its Role in the Economic Modernization,
the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – the Beginning of theTwentieth Century”
Dmitriy Platonov, Moscow State U, Russia“Origins of Russian Economic Science. The System of Ivan Pososhkov's Views on Economc Development”
Ion Voicu Sucala, U of Glasgow, UK“Economy of Shortage or Economy of Excess? A New Perspective on
the Failure of Communist Economy”
Yoshisada Shida, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Household Saving Behavior under the Shortage Economy: Panel
Data Analysis for the Soviet Republics”
Discussant: Fumikazu Sugiura, Teikyo U, Japan

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FridayAugustSession IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)
IV-1-1 Russian Diplomacy and the World – Part I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Xing Li, Beijing Normal U, China“The Inﬂuences of Eurasian Union on Sino-Russian Relations, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Silk Road Economic Belt”
Marina Dmitrieva, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia“Russian policy in Central Asia and the Formation of Regional Institutions”
Li-Chen Sim, Zayed U, United Arab Emirates“Russia's Nuclear Diplomacy in the Middle East”
Discussant: Ik Joong Youn, Hallym U of Graduate Studies, South Korea
IV-1-2 Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Post-Soviet Realm at the Beginningof the New Millennium
Chair: Ozan Arslan, Izmir U of Economics, Turkey
Papers: Hüseyin Oylupinar, U of Alberta, Canada“Discovering the Terra Incognita: AKP’s Foreign Policy Toward
Ukraine”
Assel Rustemova, Gediz U-Izmir, Turkey“AKP Foreign Policy: Practicing Conservatism in Central Asia”
Ozan Arslan, Izmir U of Economics, Turkey“Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the South Caucasus, from the 1990s
to 2014: A Period of Challenges and Opportunities”
Itir Bagdadi, Izmir U of Economics, Turkey“From Ozal to Erdogan: The South Caucasus in Turkey's New Multidimensional Foreign Policy”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-1-3 European Right Wing and Xenophobia in the Twenty-ﬁrst Century(Roundtable)
Chair: Steven S. Roseﬁelde, U of North Carolina, USA
Participants: Sabrina Ramet, Norvegian U of Science and Technology“Radical Rights of Balkan and Central Europe: The Change andNon-change”
Markus M. L. Crepaz, School of Public and International Affairs, Georgia“Immigrants and National Identity”
Jorgen Andersen, BI Norwegian Business School“Radical Rights and Citizenship in Northern Europe”
Kumiko Haba, Aoyama Gakuin U, Japan“Radical Rights and Xenophobia in Comparative Studies in Europe
between East and West”
Faye Harrison, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA“Racism, Xenophobia, Human Rights, Comparing the EU and US”
IV-1-4 Borders and Eurasia I: Space and Identity in Russian Foreign Policy
Chair: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London, UK
Papers: Andrei Tsygankov, San Francisco State U, USA“The Discourse of Civilization in Russia’s Foreign Policy”
Akihiro Iwashita, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Discourse of Borderlands in the Russian Foreign Policy”
Paul Richardson, U of Manchester, UK“The Eurasian Union: Reconceptualising Borders in Post-Soviet
Space”
Discussant: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London, UK
IV-1-5 Positioning Ethnic Particularism, (Re) Building the Nation in Former
Soviet Republics
Chair: John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan
Papers: Damira Umetbaeva, European U Viadrina, Germany“Nationalizing Post-Soviet Kyrgyz State: On Representations of theSoviet Past in Kyrgyz History Textbooks”
Vilius Ivanauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History“Framing Ethnic Particularism: ‘East,’ ‘West’ and ‘Exotic’ in the
Trajectories of Soviet Lithuanian, Georgian, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Writers”

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Mārtiņš Kaprāns, U of Tartu, Estonia“Dealing with Uncertainty: The Political and Social Memory of theSoviet Era in Ukraine and Moldova”
Discussants: Barbara Christophe, Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany;
Daniel Bissman, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany
IV-1-6 Russian Conceptualism in the 1980s and 90s
Chair: Odeta Zukauskiene, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
Papers: Catherine Ciepiela, Amherst College, USA“Conceptualist Translation”
Rieko Kamioka, Waseda U, Japan“Strategy of Documentation and Archives in the Projects of Moscow
Conceptualism: The MANI Folders”
Genichi Ikuma, Hokkaido U, Japan“Introducing the Idea of ‘Installation:’ The Late Soviet Unofﬁcial Art
and Its Transformation in the Beginning of the 1990s”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-7 Representations of Sexuality in Russian Literature and Culture from
Decadence to Modernism
Chair: Julia Vaingurt, Unversity of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Papers: Philip Bullock, U of Oxford, UK“Narrative and Desire: Konstantin Romanov's 'Sebastian the Martyr'”Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College, USA“Eisenstein and Wilde”
Monika Spivak, Museum of Andrei Bely, Russia“Spirit and Flesh in Andrei Bely’s Life and Works”
Discussant: Anna Fishzon, Duke U, USA
IV-1-8 International Impacts of the Ukrainian Crisis V
Chair: TBA
Papers: Ray Taras, Tulane University, USA“From Russophobia to Russo-hypopsia: Poland’s Foreign Policy
towards Russia after the Breakout of the Ukraine Conﬂict”
Yongshu Li, Meiji U, Japan; Takayuki Yoshimura, Aoyama gakuin U, Japan“In the Wake of Crimean Crisis: a Case-Study of the Strategic Triangle

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of Japan-China-Ukraine”
Duckjoon Chang, Kookmin University, South Korea“Russia’s Pivot to Eurasia: Issue and Prospects”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-9 “My House Is My Fortress”? Soviet and Post-Soviet Housing Policy
Chair: Ann-Mari Sätre, Uppsala U, Sweden
Papers: Yulia Gradskova, Stockholm U, Sweden“Soviet Informal Housing Institutions and Individual Housing Trajectories in Moscow (the 1940s-1980s)”
Maija Runcis, Stockholm U, Sweden“Housing Institutions in Riga”
Eliza Isabaeva, U of Zurich, Switzerland“Informal Housing in Post-Soviet Bishkek”
Discussant: Maija Jäppinen, U of Helsinki, Finland
IV-1-10 Politics in Russia’s Regions I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Valeri Ledyaev, Higher School of Economics, Russia; Alla Chirikova,
Institute of Sociology, RAS“Local Elites in Small Russian Communities: Formal and Informal
Power Resources”
Gerard Clare, U of Glasgow, UK“Perceptions and Realities of the Modern Development of the Russian
Far East”
Dmitrii Seltser, Tambov State U, Russia“Regional and Sub-regional Nomenclature of the Communist Partyof the Soviet Union during Late state Socialism and Post-socialism(1985-2015)”
Discussant: Mari Aburamoto, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences
IV-1-11 Media, Civil Society and State
Chair: TBA
Papers: Elena Kochneva, Ural Federal U, Russia“Social Media as a Powerful Political Tool”
Françoise Daucé, Blaise-Pascal U, France“Media in Russia: How Does Politics Play with Technologies?”

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Alexander Sungurov, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia“Mediator or Boundary Organizations in Contemporary Russia”
Dmitry Skripchenko, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“The 'Event' and Its Reﬂection in the Current Russian Mass-media”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-12 Polish Politics “In Between” – Part 1: Political Concepts in Early
Modern and Modern Poland
Chair: Jaakko Turunen, Södertörn U, Sweden
Papers: Miia Ijäs, U of Tampere, Finland“Early Modern Poland-Lithuania – A State Based on Liberty?”
Michal Salamonik, Södertörn U, Sweden“‘On the Crossroads’ – Communication Turn and Its Inﬂuence on the
Rise of a Public Sphere in Early Modern Gdańsk”
Jussi Jalonen, U of Tampere, Finland“Loyalism, Romanticism and Conciliation in Polish and Finnish National Thought during Imperial Russian Rule”
Discussant: Mila Oiva, U of Turku, Finland; UC Berkeley, USA
IV-1-13 Gender Studies: Historical Perspectives
Chair: TBA
Papers: Kirsti Ekonen, U of Helsinki, Finland“‘New Women’ Modernizing Russia at the Turn of Twentieth Century”
Zsuzsanna Varga, Glasgow U, UK“Bloch, Lukács, Balázs and Emma Ritoók: Negotiating Genderamongst Hungarian Progressives”
Meghann Pytka, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, USA“Active National Forgetting and Sexual Violence in Poland during andafter the Second World War”
Arturas Tereskinas, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania“Fantasies of Good Life and Imprisoned Masculinities”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-14 Andrei Platonov in the Context of Russian Classic Literature – From
Pushkin to the Symbolists
Chair: Youngsun Yoon, Kyungpook National U, South Korea
Papers: Mariya Bogomolova, Institute of World Literature, RAS

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119“Lermontov and Platonov”
Susumu Nonaka, Saitama U, Japan“Tolstoi, Platonov and Other Writers from the Lens of Tropes”
Evgeny Yablokov, Institute of Slavic Studies, RAS“The Russian Symbolists’ Soﬁa and the Main Female Type: in Andrei
Platonov’s Artistic World”
Discussant: Anna Anisova, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia
IV-1-15 Creative Re-evaluation of Russian Classics by Émigré Writers(Roundtable)
Chair: Mitsuyoshi Numano, U of Tokyo, Japan
Participants: Tetsuo Mochizuki, Hokkaido U, Japan“Tolstoy and His Rhetoric for Vladimir Nabokov (in His “Lectures on
Russian Literature” and His Novels)”
Boris Lanin, Academy of Education of Russia“Gorenshtein and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Ideology, Poetics”
Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana,
Russia“Ivan Bunin’s Appreciation of Tolstoy in His Work Liberation of
Tolstoy”
Jiyeon Lee, Hanyang U, South Korea“The End of a Beautiful Era: Joseph Brodsky’s Poetry and the Last
Word of Russian Modernism”
Tsuneko Mochizuki, Hokkaido U, Japan“Gaito Gazdanov`s Perception of Russian Classics”
IV-1-16 Atomic Cities in East and West
Chair: Andreas Renner, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany
Papers: Kate Brown, U of Maryland, USA“Comparing American and Soviet Plutopias”
Eiji Oguma, Keio U, Tokyo“Sand Rock in Sea: Erosion and Persistence of Atomic Corporatism
Hegemony in Japan Including Fukushima”
Anna Veronika Wendland, Herder Institute for Research on East Central
Europe, Germany“Living with the Atom and Coping with Disaster in Eastern European
Nuclear Cities”

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Discussant: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City U, Japan
IV-1-17 “Near Abroad” – The Baltic Region within the Catchment Area of theRussian Empire (Roundtable)
Chair: Galina Ulianova, Institute of Russian History, RAS
Participants: Bradley D. Woodworth, U of New Haven, USA“Peoples of the Baltic in St. Petersburg”
Katja Wezel, U of Pittsburgh, USA“Transcending Borders – Baltic German Entrepreneurs in Late Imperial Russia”
Karsten Brueggemann, Tallinn U, Estonia“Agents of Imperial Identities? Russians in the Baltic Provinces”
Joerg Hackmann, U of Szczecin, Poland“Baltikum, Baltoscandia, Pribaltika. Spatial notions of the Baltic‘Near Abroad’ since the Late 19th Century”
IV-1-18 Governing Post-revolutionary Russia: Challenges and Collisions
Chair: Yoko Aoshima, Kobe U, Japan
Papers: Yoshiro Ikeda, Tokyo U, Japan“Disabled Soldiers and the Bolshevik Regime”
Gregory Freeze, Brandeis U, USA“Bolshevik State, Orthodox Revival”
Vladimir Buldakov, Institute of Russian History, RAS“Post-revolutionary Russia: Ideology and Governance”
Discussant: Tat’iana Leont’eva, Tver' State U, Russia
IV-1-19 The Evolution of Soviet Economic and Developmental Thinking fromthe Thaw to the “Era of Stagnation”
Chair: Alessandro Iandolo, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Papers: Masha Kirasirova, New York U Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates“Second World Development as Third World Spectacle”
Artemy Kalinovsky, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands“Economic Geography, Regional Economics, and the Politics of Local
Development in Brezhnev’s USSR”
Yakov Feygin, U of Pennsylvania, USA“From Crisis to Crisis: The Soviet Union and the Crisis of Global
Economic Governance 1972-1983”

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Discussant: David Engerman, Brandeis U, USA
IV-1-20 The 1905 Revolution Revisited
Chair: Kim Friedlander, Independent scholar, USA
Papers: Frank Gruener, U of Heidelberg, Germany“Struggle for the Soul: The Ambivalent Role of Russian Psychiatry
during the Russo-Japanese War and the Revolution of 1905”
Sergey Mosolkin, Saratov State Technical U, Russia“The Attitude of Foreigners to Russian Political Trials in 1905-1907”
Vladimir Tikhonov, U of Oslo, Norway“The 1905 Revolution: Russian Revolutionaries in the Mirror of Japanese Press”
Discussant: Yoshifuru Tsuchiya, Nihon U, Japan
IV-1-21 Nationalism, Conﬂict and Violence in the Balkan History
Chair: Nada Boskovska, U of Zurich, Switzerland
Papers: Seim Hvenekilde, Center for Baltic and Eastern European Studies, Austria“The Use of Oral History to Reveal the Road to War in Bosnia in
1992”
Klaus-Juergen Hermanik, U of Graz, Austria“Empathic Audience Identiﬁcation with Media Characters of Fictional
Narration, And the Dissemination of Historical Memory of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-22 Grammatical and Contextual Analysis of Russian and Other
Languages
Chair: TBA
Papers: Daiki Horiguchi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“‘Preﬁxal Clip’ as Actualization of Preﬁxes in Text”
Irina Thomieres, U of Sorbonne, France“Syntactic and Semantic Features of Events in Russian”
Maia Advadze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U, Georgia“Function of Particles in Russian, English, German and Georgian
Discourse”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-1-23 The Importance of Context and Speciﬁcity When Teaching Heritage
Learners of Russian
Chair: Svitlana Rogovyk, U of Michigan, USA
Papers: Olga Kagan, UCLA, National Heritage Resource Center, USA“L2 Learners and HL Learners at the Higher Level of Proﬁciency:
A Comparison”
Natasha Kurashova and Josef Mueller, Regent’s U, UK“The Development and Adaptation of Good Classroom Practice inTeaching Heritage Learners of Russian”
Julia Titus, Yale U, USA“Using Authentic Literary Texts in the Heritage Language Classroom”
Discussant: Maria Hristova, Yale U, USA
IV-1-24 Industry and Development in the Twenty-ﬁrst Century
Chair: Satoshi Mizobata, Kyoto U, Japan
Papers: Valentina Emikh, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Urals Division of RAS“Industry Self-Regulatory Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution
Mecanism”
Dinara Peskova, Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“Formation and Development of Modern Institutes of Entrepreneurship as Basis of Innovative Economy”
Stanislav Markus, U of Chicago, USA“Property, Predation, Protection: Property Rights and Rule of Law in
Russia and Ukraine”
Discussant: TBA
IV-1-25 Studying Southeastern Europe. Critical Reﬂections on Area Studies
Today (Roundtable)
Chair: Hansjörg Brey, Southeast Europe Association, Munich, Germany
Participants: Ulf Brunnbauer, U of Regensburg, Germany“The Balkans and the Challenge of Transnationalism”
Wendy Bracewell, U College London, UK“Studying Southeastern Europe: Looking East, Looking West”
Thomas Bremer, Münster U, Germany“Studying Religion and its Role in Area Studies”
Florian Bieber, U of Graz, Austria“Critical Area Studies. New Approaches towards Southeastern Europe”

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IV-1-26 Ukrainian Culture: Global Contexts (Roundtable)
Chair: Serhy Yekechyk, U of Victoria, Canada
Participants: George Grabowicz, Harvard U, USA“Ukrainian Literature and its European Context: Strictures and Perspectives”
Halyna Hryn, Harvard U, USA“Engagement with Modernism: Ukrainian Literature and the West”
Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciencesof Ukraine“Trauma and Transit: The Postcolonial Condition in Contemporary
Ukrainian Literature”
Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas, USA“Ukrainian Cinema’s Shifting Global Afﬁnities”
Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia U, USA“Recent Borrowings into the Ukrainian Language. Verbalizing the
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Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)
IV-2-1 Russian Diplomacy and the World – Part II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Yujun Feng, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations“Russia – U. S. Relations: The Rivalry in the Context of Imbalance ofPower”
Sinikukka Saari, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs“‘When You Use It, You’ll Lose It’: A Study of Russia’s Levers in the
Post-Soviet Space”
Anastassia Obydenkova, Universitat Pompue Fabra, Spain“New Trends in Russian Federatation: The Role of Historical Legacies
and International Diffusion in the Regions of Russia”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-2 Turkey and Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Vugar Imanbeyli, Istanbul Sehir U, Turkey“What 'Eurasia' Has Meant for Russia and Turkey?: A Comparative

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Analysis of Russian and Turkish Views”
Kohei Imai, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“Turkey’s Proactive Policy toward the Balkan Region during the JDP
Era”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-3 East European Politics after the Cold War
Chair: TBA
Papers: Timothy Less, U of Kent, UK“The Great Powers and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe”
Lukasz Bukowiecki, U of Warsaw, Poland“Poland between North and South”
Stanislav Kirschbaum, York U, Canada“Balancing Past, Present, and Future: Slovakia's Froeign Policy since
1993”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-4 Borders and Eurasia II: The Aral Sea Crisis and (Trans)border Issues
Chair: Yoshiko Kawabata, Tokyo U of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Papers: Nikolai V. Aladin, Zoological Institute, RAS“Role of the Partial Restoration of the Aral Sea in Saving the Biodiversity of the Lake and in the Socioeconomic and Health Conditionsof the People around the Lake”
Ekaterina A. Borisova, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS“Transboundary Water Problems in the Aral Sea Basin”
Tetsuro Chida, Hokkaido U, Japan“Initial Mitigation Measures for Fishermen in the Aral Sea Crisis
during the 1970-80s: The Case of Kazakhstan”
Discussant: Hirofumi Katayama, J. F. Oberlin U, Japan
IV-2-5 Russian Folklore Studies in Japan: Taking a New Step
Chair: Kiyoharu Miura, U of Electrocommunications, Japan
Papers: Masahiro Nakahori, Keio U, Japan“The Symbolic Image of 'the Path-Road (put’-doroga)' to the Underworld in Russian Funeral Lamentations: An Analysis from the Viewpoint of the Representation of the Mythical World Tree”
Tetsuya Yamada, Keio U, Japan

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125“The House Spirits: From a Diachronic Point of View”
Kaori Yunoki-Oie, Kansai U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Origin of Folklorism in Balalaika Music”
Discussant: Tatjana Kirjushina, State Center of Russian Folklore, Russia
IV-2-6 Approaches to Art History
Chair: Catherine Ciepiela, Amherst College, USA
Papers: Odeta Zukauskiene, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute“The Imaginary in the Comparative Art History of Jurgis Baltrušaitis”
Fumio Kanazawa, Iwate U, Japan“Polish-Saxon Union and August III as ‘Rex Poloniarum': Political
Allegories of Bernardo Bellotto”
Svetlana Gromova, “Alexandria” Creative Project“Transcendental Motifs in Works of Art in the Russian Culture”
Discussant: Mineo Ota, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University
IV-2-7 Poetics and Politics of Cultural Memory: Images and Evidеnces in the
Twentieth Century (Armenia, Japan, Russia)
Chair: Tadashi Nakamura, Yamagata University, Japan
Papers: Tsypylma Darieva, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany“Instead of Loss: Building the Memorial and the Museum for the
Armenian Trauma in Yerevan”
Takeshi Saito, Otsuma Woman University, Japan“Mandelstam’s Interests in the Oriental Culture in His works on
Armenia”
Elza-Bair Guchinova, Independent researcher, Armenia“Can the Subaltern Draw? Visual Memory of former Japanese POWs
vs Archive Documents about a Camp”
Discussant: Ketevan Khutsishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U, Georgia
IV-2-8 Supporting Professional Activity of Kindergarten Teachers
Chair: Dagmar Bergs-Winkels, U of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany
Papers: Gerkushenko Svetlana and Gerkushenko Georgy, Volgograd State SocioPedagogical U, Russia“Supporting Professional Activity of Kindergarten Teachers by Social
Media Technologies”
Dagmar Bergs-Winkels and Peter Winkels, U of Applied Sciences Ham-

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burg, Germany“Art in Education – Challenges and Tools for Pre-school Teachers”
Olga Goncharova, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical U, Russia“Supporting Professional Activity of Kindergarten Teachers by Social
Media Technologies”
Discussants: Georgy Gerkushenko, Volgograd State Technical U, Russia;
Peter Winkels, Foerderung der Bildung und Erziehung in der Kinderheit eV, Germany
IV-2-9 Religion in Russian Philosophical Thought: Solov'ev, Lunacharsky,
Berdyaev
Chair: TBA
Papers: Sergey Kozin, U of Newcastle, Australia“Lunacharsky's Critical Theory of Religion”
Margarita Silantieva, MGIMO, Russia“Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Religious Culture in the Twenty-ﬁrst
Century: the Poetry of the Post-modernity Thought”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-10 Nuclear Social Risk Management and Civil Protection in Slavic
Eurasia and Japan
Chair: Koji Kanayama, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Osamu Ieda, Hokkaido U, Japan“A Comparison of Chernobyl and Fukushima from a Viewpoint of the
Local Residents”
Toyomi Asano, Chukyo U, Japan“Developing Fukushima as an ‘Electric Generation Zone’ in the Twentieth Century”
Tibor Kovacs, U of Pannonia, Hungary“Fukushima Meets the Sciences”
Discussants: Noriyuki Kawano, Hiroshima U, Japan;
Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonian U, UK
IV-2-11 Politics in Russia’s Regions II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Rostislav Turovsky, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Control, Patronage and Opportunism: Authorities and Opposition inSession IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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Russia’s Regions”
Mari Aburamoto, Japan Society for Promotion of Science“Explaining a Dynamics of Russian Party Politics, 1991-2011: Decentralization, Centralization and the Regional Elite Conﬁguration”
Dmitry Sosnin, Regional Public Opinion Research Center “Analitika”,
Russia“Transformation of Deputy Corps of City Councils to the Important
Part of Urban Elite in Post-Soviet Russia”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-12 The Understanding and Implementation of International Law in the
Russian Legal Order
Chair: Anna Jonsson Cornell, Uppsala U, Sweden
Papers: Åsa Elmerot, Uppsala U, Sweden“What Is International about International Law in Russia?”
Ausra Padskociamaite, Uppsala U, Sweden“Explaining Non-compliance with the Judgments of the European
Court of Human Rights: the Case of Russia”
Yulia Rudt, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economics andPublic Administration (Siberian Branch), Novosibirsk, Russia“The Role of International Law in Interpretation of Constitutional
Rights in Russia”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-13 Polish Politics “In Between” – Part 2: Political Concepts in Poland in
the Twentieth and Twenty-ﬁrst Centuries
Chair: Jussi Jalonen, U of Tampere, Finland
Papers: Haruka Miyazaki, Hokkaido U of Education, Japan“Polish Identity ‘In Between': Jewish Question in Warsaw”
Jaakko Turunen, Södertörn U, Sweden“Re-inventing the Republican Citizen”
Mila Oiva, U of Turku, Finland; UC Berkeley, USA“From 'Economic Propaganda' to 'Advertisement' – A Shift in PoliticalThinking in the Late 1950s Poland?”Discussant: Miia Ijäs, U of Tampere, Finland

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IV-2-14 Landscapes and Memory
Chair: Kristian Feigelson, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France
Papers: Alexandrina Vanke, Russian State University for Humanities“Politics of Memory in Russia: Comparing Poklonnaia Hill in Moscow and Mamaev Hill in Volgograd”
Anna Tolkachova, Kazan Federal U, Russia“Constructing the Brand of the Kazan: Attitudes and Perceptions of
the City by Local Population”
Reeta Kangas, U of Turku, Finland“Images of Soviet Cities: How Souvenir Photographs Created Touristic
Memories”
Discussant: Birgitte Pristed, Independent scholar, Germany
IV-2-15 Women and Contemporary East European Politics
Chair: TBA
Papers: Elene Medzmariashvili, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U“Women in Post-Soviet Russian and Georgian Politics: Comparative
Analysis”
Olena Petrenko, Ruhr U, Germany“Women and Men of the Euromaidan: Revitalizations of the Heroic
National Narrative”
Jennifer Ramme, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany“Re/organization of Relations and Afﬁliations. Scalar Practices ofGender-democratic Organizations Representing Women in Poland,
Central and Eastern Europe and Asia and the Spatial Orders of Geopolitical East-West Divisions”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-16 Individuals and Institutions, or, the Individual as an Institution:
Lichnost’ in Post-Stalinist Culture
Chair: Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State U, USA
Papers: Samantha Sherry, Oxford U, UK“The Problem of the Individual in Glavlit after Stalin”
Anatoly Pinsky, The European U at Saint Petersburg, Russia“The Individual after Stalin: Toward a New Understanding of Destalinization, 1953-1964”
Polly Jones, Oxford U, UK

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129“The Problem of Personality in Soviet Biography of the Brezhnev Era”
Discussant: Juliane Fürst, U of Bristol, USA
IV-2-17 Mourning the Silver Age as a Mode of Russian Culture (Roundtable)
Chair: Anna Ljunggren, Stockholm U, Sweden
Participants: Maria Engström, Dalarna U, Sweden“The Silver Age as Camp: Timur Novikov’s New Academy”
Hans Andersson, Stockholm U, Sweden“The Everyday of Longing: L. Dobychin's Evenings and Old Ladies”
Natalia Mazur, European U of St. Petersburg, Russia“Brodsky's Poetics of Ruins”
Karin Grelz, Stockholm U, Sweden“Mra-remeslo: the Reverse Side of Life-Creation”
Julie Hansen, Uppsala U, Sweden“Intertextuality with the Silver Age in Contemporary TranslingualFiction by Olga Grushi”
IV-2-18 Literary Approaches to the Balkans
Chair: Masumi Kameda, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Miranda Jakisa, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany“Oral Tradition of the South Slavs Today”
Marija Todorova, Hong Kong Baptist U“Stereotypical Images of the Western Balkans on the Global Market:
Children’s Literature in English Translation”
Ayako Oku, Kyoritsu Women's U, Japan“The Naming of Characters in Ivo Andrić's The Bridge on the Drina”
Discussant: Slobodanska Vladiv-Glover, Monash U, Australia
IV-2-19 Genetics Research and Education in Biology after the Era of Lysenko
Chair: Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Papers: Hirofumi Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan“Normalization of Biology Education in Russia after the Lysenko Era”
Miklós Müller, The Rockefeller U, USA“Michurin Biology in Eastern-Central Europe: Appearance, Enforcement and Rejection”
Tsuyoshi Fujioka Doshisha U, Japan“Japanese Lysenkoites after Lysenko's Downfall”

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Discussant: Hiroshi Ichikawa, Hiroshima U, Japan
IV-2-20 Representing Space and Inventing Identity in Eurasia
Chair: Yutaka Takenaka, Osaka U, Japan
Papers: Koichi Toyokawa, Meiji U, Japan“Invention of Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: Academic Explorations and I.K. Kirilov’s Colonial Policy”
Suchandana Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of AsianStudies, India“Shaping a Himalayan Destiny: Alternative Voices in South Asia”
Discussant: Akitsu Mayuzumi, U of Tokyo, Japan
IV-2-21 Bolsheviks in Interwar Asia: Building an Anti-imperialist Empire?
Chair: Sören Urbansky, Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany
Papers: Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido U, Japan“An Imperial Pathway: Karim Khakimov in the Southern Urals,
Turkestan, and Iran”
Samuel J. Hirst, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“Oil for Oranges: The Politics of Soviet-Turkish Trade in the 1920s”
Yaroslav Shulatov, Hiroshima City U, Japan“Soviet Strategy Toward Japan During the Interwar Period: Withstand,Catch Up, and Overtake”
Discussant: Peter Holquist, U of Pennsylvania, USA
IV-2-22 East-West Interaction and the Soviet Economic Modernization
during the Cold War
Chair: Melanie Ilic, U of Gloucestershire, UK
Papers: Sari Autio-Sarasmo, U of Helsinki, Finland“The East-West Interaction and the Soviet Scientiﬁc-Technical Cooperation with the West”
Antti Sarasmo, U of Tampere, Finland“The Soviet Success Story in Soviet Estonia: Kolkhoz Kirov”
Valentina Fava, Helsinki U, Finland“The Russian Automobile Industry between Tradition and Modernity”
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IV-2-23 Psychiatry and the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05)
Chair: Andrew Ringlee, U of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USA
Papers: Kim Friedlander, Independent scholar, USA“Understanding War-Related Mental Illness: Russian Psychiatrists,
Diagnosis, and the Russo-Japanese War”
Helena Jaskov, U of Heidelberg, Germany“The Insane Deserter: Visions of Mental Hygiene in the Russo-Japanese War”
Discussant: Frank Gruener, U of Heidelberg, Germany
IV-2-24 Federalism and Nation-building in Yugoslavia
Chair: Tatjana Aleksic, U of Michigan,USA
Papers: Katerina Malshina, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine“The Balkans in the Cobweb of Yugoslavism: the Rise and Fall of theGreat Confusion”
Takuya Nakazawa, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Politics over ‘the Origin of Nation’ in Socialist Yugoslavia:
Montenegrin Nationalism and Academic Knowledge (1974-1981)”
Lyubomir Pozharliev, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen,
Germany“‘Brotherhood and Unity’ vs. ‘United Socialist Nation’: A Comparative Perspective on Auto-transport Infrastructure in SFR of Yugoslavia
and PR of Bulgaria”
Discussant: Klaus-Juergen Hermanik, U of Graz, Austria
IV-2-25 Transcription, Translation, Transformation. Hidden Dynamism inMedieval Slavic Manuscripts
Chair: Fumiaki Hattori, Kyoto U, Japan
Papers: Karine Åkerman Sarkisian, Uppsala U, Sweden“Rethinking the Medieval Translation of Slavic Hagiography”
Keiko Mitani, U of Tokyo, Japan“From Transcription to Transformation: The Role of Scribes in theMedieval South Slavic Societies”
Anica Vlašić-Anić, Old Church Slavonic Institute, Croatia“Bringing the Multi-literacy and Multiculturality of the CroatianMedieval Period to the Present Day: The Newly-found ‘Parchments in
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Kristina Anders, Novosibirsk State U, Russia“Unknown Manuscript: the First Old Testament Translation from
Hebrew to Russian and Its Peculiarities”
Discussant: Aleksandr Bobrov, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom),
RAS
IV-2-26 Speciﬁc Aspects of Teaching Russian in Japanese Institutions ofHigher Education: Problems and Possible Solutions (Roundtable)
Chair: Daria Hara, Sophia U, Japan
Participants: Alla Akishina, Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Russia“Learning to Communicate and Speak: What's the Difference?”
Alla Hamano, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Country Study Aspects of Language Tuition for Advanced Students”
Gota Sayama, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Experimental Study: How Useful Is the Knowledge of DerivationalAfﬁxes for Developing Vocabulary?”
Yukiko Kuroiwa, Iwate Prefectural U, Japan“The Origin and Fixation of Incorrect Concept ‘Hard and Soft Vowels’in Teaching Russian in Japan”
IV-2-27 Transition Economies under Globalization; money, remittences andthe WTO
Chair: TBA
Papers: Jakhongir Kakhkharov, Grifﬁth U, Australia“Estimating Remittances in the Former Soviet Union: MethodologicalComplexities and Potential Solutions”
Wang Yan, East China Normal U“Central Asian Countries’s Accession to the WTO and Economic
Intergration”
Michal Mejstrik, Charles U Prague, the Czech Republic“The Present Situation of Prospective Eurozone Member, Current
Challenges of the Czech Republic”
Discussant: TBA
IV-2-28 Society and Labour in Russia
Chair: Masahiro Tokugawa, Kansai U, Japan
Papers: Natalia Kuznetsova, Khakass State U, Russia

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133“Small Village in Siberia: Problems and Prospects”
Yuka Takeda, Kyushu U, Japan“Nonstandard Employment is A Channel of Inequality? A Case of
Russia”
Seongjin Kim, Duksung Women’s U, South Korea“Migration in Russia: A Social Construction”
Discussant: Andrei Belov, Fukui Prefectural U, Japan
IV-2-29 Russian Foreign Policy and the Effects of Ukraine Crises: Geopolitics
and Great Power Relations
Chair: Jeremy Smith, U of Eastern Finland
Papers: Märta Carlsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency“After Ukraine: Continuation or Change in Russian-American
Relations?”
Tom Casier, U of Kent, Belgium“What Moscow Lost When It Won Crimea: the Accidental Geopoliticisation of Russian Foreign Policy?”
Tuomas Forsberg, U of Tampere, Finland“Russian Policy on Borders and Thinking of Territorial Issues before
and after the Ukrainian Crisis”
Discussant: Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia

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IV-3-1 Russian Diplomacy and the World – Part III
Chair: TBA
Papers: Nagesh Ojha, Jawaharlal Nehru U, India“Russian Energy: Breaking the Ice”
Tao Shen, East China Normal U“Opportunities and Shackles: Russian Asia-Paciﬁc Strategy in Timesof Change”
Henrik Nielsen, U of Eastern Finland“Russia in the Norwegian Media – The Known Unknown”
Irina Zeleneva, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Russia and ASEAN: Threats and Opportunities in the Energy Sphere”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-3-2 Informal Institutions and Practices in Post-Soviet States
Chair: Bhavna Dave, SOAS U of London, UK
Papers: Ilja Viktorov, Södertörn U, Sweden“Informal Practices and Financial Intermediaries in the Russian Financial Market, 1990-2012”
Johan Engvall, Uppsala U, Sweden“The Challenge of Corruption in Kyrgyzstan after 2010”
Natsuko Oka, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade
Organization“Bribes, Connections and Monetization of Personal Relations under
Kazakhstan’s Wild Capitalism”
Discussant: Nicolas Hayoz, Fribourg U, Switzerland
IV-3-3 Current Security Problems in Central Asia
Chair: Plamen Petrov, St. Kliment Ohridski Soﬁa U, Bulgaria
Papers: Raikhan Tashtemkhanova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhatan“Borderline Factor in the System of Regional Politics of Central Asian
Republics”
Panu Kilybayeva, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Kazakhstan Nuclear Policy as a Stabilizing Factor of the Regional
Security System in Central Asia”
Gulnara Bukeshova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Problems and Perspectives of the Bilateral Relations”
Discussants: Baubek Somzhurek, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan;
Aigerim Ospanova, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan
IV-3-4 Borders in European North
Chair: TBA
Papers: Agne Cepinskyte, King's College London, UK“The Baltics as Buffer States and Great Power Struggle for Spheres ofInﬂuence”
Alexander Izotov, U of Eastern Finland“Local Ethno-cultural Discursive Contexts in Soviet and Post-Soviet
Sortavala”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-3-5 Development of Mining Industry and Governmentality of the
Population
Chair: Masanori Goto, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Byambajav Dalaibuyan, U of Queensland, Australia“Mining, Livelihoods and Change in the Gobi Region of Mongolia”
Yuka Oishi, Tokyo Metropolitan U, Japan“A Brief History of Indigenous Land Use and Extractive Industry: The
Case of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug”
Florian Stammler, U of Lapland, Finland“‘The Gas and Oil Will Be Gone, But We Will Stay Here Anyway’:
Nenets Perspectives on Natural Resource Governance and Socio-cultural Impacts in the Russian North”
Discussant: Hibi Watanabe, U of Tokyo, Japan
IV-3-6 How “Japonisme” Was Accepted in Slavic Countries
Chair: Nobuaki Kaku, Kansai U, Japan
Papers: Svetlana Rybalko, Kharikiv National Academy of Culture, Ukraine“Japonisme in Ukrainian Culture at the Turn of the Century”
Sachi Shimada, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Japan“Art Nouveau in Serbia”
Kayo Fukuma, Chiba U, Japan“Japonisme and Russian Art in the Early Twentieth Century”
Discussant: Michitaka Suzuki, Okayama U, Japan
IV-3-7 “Negativity” in Life and Thought of Contemporary RussianIntelligentsia
Chair: Junna Hiramatsu, Kanazawa U, Japan
Papers: Lev Gudkov, Levada-Center, Russia“Negative Identity and Violence”
Artemy Magun, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia“Post-Communist Russia in the Aftermath of the Negative Revolution”
Kyohei Norimatsu, Doshisha U, Japan“Resistant Negativity in Contemporary Russian Cultural Theory”
Discussant: Soo-Hwan Kim, Hankuk U of Foreign Studies, South Korea

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IV-3-8 Education Reform in Post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Olga Savinskaya, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Parental Evaluation of the Preschool Center Service”
Elena Minina, U of Helsinki, Finland“Travelling Policies: The Migration of Neoliberal Ideas into the
Educational Discourse in Russia”
Kuanysh Tastanbekova, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Rethinking the ‘Post-Soviet’ Legacy in Education of Central Asia”
Discussant: TBA
IV-3-9 Alternative Religious Thinking in Russia
Chair: Andrii Krawchuk, U of Sudbury, Canada
Papers: Joy Demoskoff, Briercrest College, Canada“Sin and Crime: Monastic Conﬁnement in Imperial Russia”
Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union, USA“Narrating Religious Conversion: Lessons from the Leningrad Nonconformist Intelligentsia of the 1970s”
Christian Föller, Muenster U, Germany“Religious Dissidents during Soviet Times”
Discussant: Regula Zwahlen, U of Fribourg, Switzerland
IV-3-10 Catastrophe, Trauma and International Cooperation
Chair: TBA
Papers: Kyong Wan Lee, Hallym U, South Korea“International Tri-sector Partnerships for the Sustainable Developmentof Russian Eastern Regions: Centering on Agricultural Cooperation
between Korea and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)”Emőke Bolla, Social Organization for Radioecological Cleanliness,
Hungary“Avoiding the Next Fukushima Panic by Developing Risk Communication”
Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Traces in the Memory of Afghan Veterans and Their Memorial
Societies”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-3-11 Politics in Russia’s Regions III
Chair: TBA
Papers: Darrell Slider, U of South Florida, USA“Regional Electoral Strategies of the Party ‘United Russia’"Nikolay Evdokimov, Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“Regional Departments of Political Parties in Contemporary Russia:
Trends and Prospects”
Natalia Chuvilina, Bashkir Academy of PA & Management, Russia“The Trends of Electoral Processes in Russian Regions in 2012-2014”
Nikolai Kaledin, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Regionalization of the Eurasian and Post-Soviet Space”
Discussant: TBA
IV-3-12 Legal Culture in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the
Courts and the Police
Chair: William Simons, Faculty of Law, U of Tartu, Estonia
Papers: Åse Grødeland, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway“Public and Elite Perceptions of Courts: The Case of Western Europe,
Eastern Europe and the West Balkans”
Leslie Holmes, U of Melbourne, Australia“Police Corruption in Russia and Bulgaria”
Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law“A ‘Fresh Wind’ from the East? Legal Culture at the Two European
Courts – a Pan-European Human Rights Culture?”
Serguei Cheloukhine, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of New York,CUNY, USA
“Corrupt Networks in Russia: Past, Present and Future”
Discussant: TBA
IV-3-13 Baltic Politics: Challenges and Prospects
Chair: Sonoko Shima, Showa Women’s U, Japan
Papers: Mindaugas Jurkynas, Vytautas Magnus U, Lithuania“Sustainable Baltic Resilience in the Third Millennium: Identities,
Interests and Neighbourhood”
Iveta Reinholde, U of Latvia“Public Service Delivery and Human Security in Baltic States”

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Andres Kasekamp, U of Tartu, Estonia“From Periphery to Core: The Experience of the Baltic States’ First
Decade of EU Membership”
Discussant: TBA
IV-3-14 Employment, Labor Relations and Professionalism
Chair: Anna Kovaleva, Saint-Petersburg University of Economics, Russia
Papers: Jurga Bucaite-Vilke, Vytautas Magnus U, Lithuania“Transitional Working Identities: Strategies of Resistance and Alienation of Unemployed Men in Lithuania”
Irina Soboleva, Institute of Economy, RAS“Labor Relations and Corporate Social Policy in Globalizing Russia”
Anton Kazun, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Who Demands Collective Action in Imperfect Institutional Environment? Case-study of Attorneys’ Professional Community in Russia”
Discussant: Hiroaki Hayashi, U of Shimane, Japan
IV-3-15 Text and Context: Modernism in Russian Literature
Chair: Hye-Kyung Park, Hallym U, South Korea
Papers: Elena Ukhova, Linguistics Educational Center “Razgovor”, Moscow, Russia“Memory: Its New Meaning and Functions in Nabokov’s andGazdanov’s Works”
Kyoo Yun Cho, Dankook U, South Korea“Literary Inheritance and Soviet Transformation of Russian Futurism:
Development and Localization”
Minn-Ah Kim, Kyungpook National U, South Korea“Vasily Rozanov in the Context of Russian Modernism”
Discussant: Sun Yung Park, Chungbuk National U, South Korea
IV-3-16 Central European Literature in the Interwar Period
Chair: Ayako Oku, Kyoritsu Women’s U, Japan
Papers: Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, Monash U, Australia“The Poetics of Hunger: Rastko Petrovic's Novel 'The Sixth Day'
(1935) as a Representation of World War One in the Balkans”
Ryszard Zajączkowski, The John Paul II Catholic U of Lublin, Poland“Europe and the United States from the Perspective of a Polish Exile
Writer Joseph Wittlin”

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Moriyasu Tanaka, Ritsumeikan U, Japan“The Repatriation Experience of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz”
Mineo Ota, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University“Gyula Krúdy's Podolin and Hungarian Literary Memory of the
Szepes County”
Discussant: TBA
IV-3-17 The Image of Utopia in Soviet Literature: from Modernism to Socialist
Realism
Chair: Kazuhisa Iwamoto, Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen U, Japan
Papers: Aiten Mukhtar Ignatova, ISI-Institut of Modern Arts, Russia“The Embodiment of Utopia as a Factor of Formation of the Creative
Fate of Soviet Writers”
Yuji Kajiyama, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Utopian Context of Pasternak’s ‘Doctor Zhivago’”
Takashi Matsumoto, Waseda U, Japan“The Theme of Mystical Utopia in Russian Symbolism: The Case of
Andrey Bely”
Discussants: Michiko Komiya, U of Tokyo, Japan;
Darya Zemskova, Moscow State U, Russia
IV-3-18 “The General Scientiﬁc Staff”: From the History of the USSR
Academy of Sciences
Chair: Zenji Asaoka, Tohoku U, Japan
Papers: Masanori Kaji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan“Scientists in the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Period ofTransition: the Case of V. I. Vernadskii”
Koji Kanayama, Hokkaido U, Japan“The Great Terror and the Transformations of the Academy of Sciencesof the USSR”
Hiroshi Ichikawa, Hiroshima U, Japan“Radiation Study and the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Second
Half of 1950s: Beyond the Lysenkoites’ Hegemony”
Discussants: Alexei Kojevnikov, U of British Columbia, Canada;
Tetsuro Chida, Hokkaido U, Japan

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IV-3-19 The Rule of Experts? Scholarship, Politics, and Governance in Late
Imperial Russia
Chair: Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Ekaterina Pravilova, Princeton U, USA“The Politics of Underground: Governance, Scholarship, and Archaeological Research in Late Imperial Russia”
Igor Khristoforov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Exclusive Knowledge: Economic Expertise and Government Policyin Post-Emancipation Russia”
Paul Werth, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA“Did Religious Expertise Matter for the Administration of the Foreign
Confessions?”
Discussant: Yutaka Takenaka, Osaka U, Japan
IV-3-20 Ukrainians and State Violence
Chair: Kiyohiro Matsudo, Hokkai-Gakuen U, Japan
Papers: Anatolii Pogorielov, V.O. Sukhomlynskiy National U, Ukraine“Resettlement and Social-Economic Adaptation of Ukrainians Deported
from Poland to South Ukraine in 1944-1947”
Olga Bertelsen, Columbia U, USA“Rethinking Psychiatric Terror against Nationalists in Ukraine: Spatial
Dimensions of Post-Stalinist State Violence”
Yuliya Yurchuk, Södertörn U, Sweden“Disneyﬁcation of Memory: Commemoration of Hurby Battle in Post1991 Ukraine”
Discussant: Jan Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam & Humboldt U Berlin, Germany
IV-3-21 The Era of Global Wars and Asia
Chair: Sari Autio-Sarasmo, U of Helsinki, Finland
Papers: Pauli Heikkila, U of Tartu, Estonia“Global Allies or Racial Strangers – Perceptions of Finnish Fascismon Japan during World War II”
Fumiaki Tsukue, Hosei U, Japan“Soviet Foreign Strategy Regarding the Peace Settlement withJapan:1950-1951”
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141“Chinese Policy towards Laos, 1959-1965”
Discussant: Alexander Bukh, Victoria U of Wellington, New ZealandIV-3-22 The Problems of Consolidating the Russian Empire in the Early
Twentieth Century
Chair: Haruka Miyazaki, Hokkaido U of Education, Japan
Papers: Natalia Dmitrieva, Southern Federal U“‘Institution of Autonomy': Issues of Yransfer into Russian Liberal
Discourse in the Early Twentieth Century”
Yoshifuru Tsuchiya, Nihon U, Japan“The Liberal Quest for Civic Nation-Building in 1904-1905 in Russia”
Rustem Tciunchuk, Kazan Federal U, Russia“Russian Question in Imperial Duma: Concepts and Content”
Discussant: Dina Amanzholova, Institute of History, RAN
IV-3-23 Problems of Post-communist Eastern Europe
Chair: Gabor Dome, Eötvös Loránd U of Science, Hungary
Papers: Natalia Samoylenko, Poltava Nataional Technical U, Ukraine“Bulgarian Postcommunist Transition Process (1989 – 2007) inUkrainian’s Scientists Recearchers”
Yasuko Shibata, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academyof Sciences“Social Solidarity upon Disaster Situations: Theoretical Scope in
Polish Flood Cases”
Nigel Swain & Dae-Soon Kim, U of Liverpool, UK“Coming to Terms with the Past in Eastern Europe and Lessons for a
Future United Korea with Special Reference to Hungary”
Discussant: Andras Bozoki User, Central European University
IV-3-24 Minority Language Policy in Poland since 1989: The Cases of theSilesian, Kashubian and Lemko Languages
Chair: Yukiyasu Arai, Asia U, Japan
Papers: Tomasz Kamusella, U of St. Andrews, UK“The Silesian Language in Postcommunist Poland: Between Democracy and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism”
Marcin Bobrowski, Charles-U Prague, The Czech Republic“The Kashubian Language in Poland after the Fall of Communism in142

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1989”
Ewa Michna, Jagiellonian U, Poland“Language Situation of Stateless Groups Fighting for Recognition.
The Case of the Lemko Language in Poland”
Discussant: Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido U, Japan
IV-3-25 Russian as the Other Native Language for up to School-age Children(Roundtable)
Chair: Alla Hamano, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Participants: Natalia Timoshenko, Ochanomizu U, Japan“Optimum Environment for the Education of the Bilingualism Skills
in Children from Their Birth”
Elena Takeda, School "Oduvanchik" (Dandelion), Toyama, Japan“Analyzing and Classifying Written and Oral Speech Mistakes of
Bilingual Children as a Way to Create a Nationality-centered Textbook”
Olga Basova, Hitotsubashi U, Japan; Iuliia Din, State History Archive of
Sakhalin Region, Russia, and Svetlana Paichadzhe, Hokkaido U, Japan“Regional Characteristics of Teaching Russian to Bilingual SchoolagedChildren (in Tokyo, Sapporo and Seoul)”
Ganna Shatokhina, Foreign Service Training Institute, Japan“The Japanese System of Testing Children for Russian Language”
IV-3-26 Economic Development and International Relations in the Former
Soviet States and South Eastern Europe
Chair: Fumikazu Sugiura, Teikyo U, Japan
Papers: Roxana Bratu, U College London, UK“Expensive Money: Accessing European Union Funding in Romania”
Andrei Stsiapanau, Europian Humanities U, Belarus“[In]Between and After Chernobyl and Fukushima: Nuclear Renaissance in the Former Soviet Union”
Arbakhan Magomedov, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia“Access to the Arctic Resources: Russia’s Strategy for the Northern
Sea Route and Polar Cities”
Discussant: Akira Uegaki, Seinan Gakuin U, Japan
IV-3-27 After Ukraine: Continuation or Change in Russian Foreign Policy?
Chair: Märta Carlsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency

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Papers: Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia“Perennial Question No. 2: What Should be Done?”
Hiroshi Yamazoe, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan“Russian Approach to China after the Ukrainian Crisis”
Andrew Monaghan, St. Antony's College, UK“Foreign Policy Aspects of Russian Grand Strategy”
Discussant: Hanna Smith, U of Helsinki, Finland
IV-3-28 Nostalgia and Retro Kitsch
Chair: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA
Papers: Mitja Velikonja, U of Ljubljana, Slovenia“Rock'n'retro: New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in
Slovenia”
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA“The Thin Line Between Nostalgia and Kitsch: The Resurgence ofSoviet Symbols in Post-Soviet Russian Everyday Life and New Media”
Helene Melat, Paris-Sorbonne U, France“Back to the Past and to the Village: The Painting and Writing ofVladimir Lubarov”
Discussant: Edward Tyerman, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA

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IV-4-1 Russian Diplomacy and the World – Part IV: Sino-Russian Relations
Chair: TBA
Papers: Shaolei Feng, East China Normal U“Future Sino-Russian Relationship in the Asia-Paciﬁc Region”
Jianhua Zhang Beijing, Normal U, China“'Taiwan Issue' and 'Taiwan Factor' in Sino-Soviet Relations: An Explaination Based on Russian References”
Lijuan Yang, Yangzhou U, China“Soviet Communication” Research in China in the First Half of theTwentieth Century”
Discussant: TBA

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IV-4-2 Caucasian Nationalisms: Soviet Legacy and Beyond
Chair: Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka U, Japan
Papers: Yoko Hirose, Keio U, Japan“Complexity of Nationalism in Azerbaijan”
Lincoln Mitchell, Independent Scholar/Consultant, USA“Deﬁning and Creating Nation in the post-Soviet South Caucasus”
Grazvydas Jasutis, Harriman Institute, USA“Simmering Nationalism accross the Caucasus Region: The Case of
the Ossetian-Ingush Conﬂict”
Discussant: Takayuki Yoshimura, Waseda U, Japan
IV-4-3 Post-Soviet Borders and Changing Spatial Imaginaries of Europe
Chair: James Scott, U of Eastern Finland
Papers: Ilkka Liikanen, U of Eastern Finland“Changing Spatial Imaginaries and Sovereignty Concepts of EU Policies of Cross Border Cooperation and External Relations”
Volodymyr Kravchenko, U of Alberta, Canada“Mapping Eastern Europe in American Historical Writing (Second
Half of the 20th- Beginning of the 21st Centuries)”
Miika Raudaskoski, U of Eastern Finland“Changing Concepts of Border in Finnish Post-Cold War Discussion”
Discussant: Bo Petersson, Malmo U, Sweden
IV-4-4 Postcolonialism or Imperial Revival? Nationalism, Xenophobia, andSoviet Nostalgia in the Post-Soviet Space
Chair: Tomohiko Uyama, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Diana Kudaibergenova, U of Cambridge, UK“The Archaeology of Ethnonationalist Movements in Post-Soviet
Space: Postcolonial Narratives, Elites and Minorities”
Elmira Nogoibaeva, Analytical Center ”Polis Asia”“Nostalgia as an Instrument of Mobilization of 'Compatriots': Russian
Policy in the Post-Soviet Space”
Guzel Sabirova, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), Russia“Migration and Reﬂecting the Imagination of the 'Other' in the
Post-Soviet Space”
Discussant: Natsuko Oka, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External
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IV-4-5 Japan and Russia: Mutual Inﬂuence of Dance Traditions
Chair: Emiko Hirano, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Svetlana Potemkina, Moscow State Academy of Choreography /,the State
Institute of Art Science, Russia“Dreams about Japan: Japanese Theme in Russian Ballet of the Twentirth Century”
Olga Kirpichenkova, Vaganova Ballet Academy, Romania“The Choreographic Interpretations of Score 'The Rite of Spring' by
Igor Stravinsky”
Kieko Saito, Waseda U“Japonisme in Russian Ballet in the 19th century”
Discussant: Kumiko Murayama, Waseda U/Yomiuri Newspaper, Japan
IV-4-6 Performing Arts in Poland and Russia
Chair: Beata Kowalczyk, Warsaw University, Poland
Papers: Rie Ueno, Waseda U, Japan“A New Science of Dance: On the Exhibitions of 'The Art of Movement'of the Choreological Laboratory”
Jacob Juntunen, Southern Illinois U, USA“Object/Human: Performing Poland with Tadeusz Kantor's Uncanny
Onstage Objects”
Jenny Kaminer, U of California-Davis, USA“Vasilii Sigarev's Dramas of the Provincial Grotesque”
Discussant: Irina Kotkina, Södertörn U, Sweden
IV-4-7 Educational Reforms in Post-Soviet Central Asian Countries:
Nation-Building and Global Challenges (Roundtable)
Chair: Yukiko Sawano, U of Sacred Heart, Japan
Participants: Kuanysh Tastanbekova, U of Tsukuba, Japan“National and Global Issues in Language Education Policy of Kazakhstan: Stagnating Attempts to Educate Multilingual Kazakhstanis”
Kenichi Kinoshita, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Law-related Education and Nation Building in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan”
Mashkhurakhon Tuhtamirzaeva, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan“Educational Reforms in Post-independence Uzbekistan and Tajikistan:
How to Face Widening Secondary and Higher Education Enrollment
Gap”

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Kalyiman Umetbaeva, Tokyo U of Arts, Japan“The Tradition of Komuz and its Improvement: Citing the Practice of
the Educational Sites in Kyrgyz Republic”
Grigory Misochko, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Educational Policy towards Migrant Children from Central AsianCountries in Post-Soviet Russia”
IV-4-8 Religious Consciousness in Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Chair: TBA
Papers: Aleksandr Lavrov, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France“Church, State and Society in Russia, 1881-1905: Trends of Historiography”
Oleg Gorbachev, Ural Federal U, Russia“Features of Transformation of Religious Consciousness in the Soviet
Society (on Materials of the All-Russian Communist Party Census,
1922)”
Iliana Veinberga, The Riga Porcelain Museum, Latvia“Into the God’s Ear: Centre for Scientiﬁc Atheism Propaganda as Site
for Knowledge Distribution and Romantic Resistance in Latvia during
Soviet Occupation”
Discussant: TBA
IV-4-9 The Russian Far North: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Chair: Shinichiro Tabata, Hokkaido U, Japan
Papers: Masahiro Tokunaga, Kansai U, Japan“Environmental Issues in the Russian Far North”
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, U of Helsinki, Finland“Sustainability Challenges in Russian Arctic Energy Production”
Discussant: Pami Aalto, U of Tampere, Finland
IV-4-10 Transforming Rural Politics in Russia: Comparative and Field-based
Approaches
Chair: TBA
Papers: Fumiki Tahara, Tokyo U, Japan“A Village perspective on Competitive Authoritarianism in Russia”
Kazuya Nakamizo, Kyoto U, Japan“Election and Rural Society: The Comparative Study between Russia

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and India”
Stephen Wegren, Southern Methodist U, USA“Rural Inequality and Local Politics in Russia”
Discussant: Atsushi Ogushi, Keio U, Japan
IV-4-11 Crisis Legislation and Judicial Resistance in Eastern Europe
Chair: Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, U of London, UK
Papers: Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, U of Surrey, UK“Transitional Justice: Does the Ukraine Need Lustration Laws?”
Kirill Koroteev, Human Rights Centre Memorial, Russia“Judicial Responses to the post-2012 Crisis Legislation in Russia”
Maxim Timofeyev, European Humanities U, Belarus“National Acceptance versus European Resistance: Judicial Responses
to Russian Counter-Terrorism Legislation”
Discussant: Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, U of London, UK
IV-4-12 Party and Ethno-politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: TBA
Papers: Fernando Casal Bértoa, U of Nottingham, UK“Institutionalizing Political Parties or Institutionalizing Party Systems?
Conceptual Development and Empirical Application to New East
Central European Democracies”
Adam Slaby, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany“Roma Inclusion Policies in the Czech Republic: Analyzing the Efﬁcacy
and Obstacles of a Persistent Endeavor”
Ryo Nakai, Rikkyo U, Japan“The Effect of Elections on Ethno-nationalisms in Latvia: Intertemporal
Survey Research”
Discussant: TBA
IV-4-13 Rethinking Social Networks and Trust in Russia
Chair: Tatiana Kabachuk, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Papers: Olesya Volchenko, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The More We Know, the Less We Believe Each Other: Relation
between Trust and Information Consuming”
Anna Almakaeva, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Disentangling Trust and Perceived Trustworthiness? Towards a More

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Distinguished Analysis of Trust”
Leo Granberg, U of Helsinki, Finland“Local Agency and Development in Russia”
Discussant: Ekaterina Selezneva, Institute for East and Southeast European
Studies, Germany
IV-4-14 Woman at Home, Work and Church
Chair: TBA
Papers: Natallia Paulovich, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland“Woman in Modern Georgia - Family's Breadwinner or Housewife?
How Have Changed the Place of Woman in Georgian Society after the
Collapse of the USSR?”
Natalia Soboleva, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Cross-cultural Routs of Work-related Gender Attitudes”
Joanna Staśkiewicz, Europa-U Viadrina, Germany“From the 'Silent Presence' to the Silent Absence. Where Are the
Women in the Polish Catholic Church?”
Discussant: TBA
IV-4-15 Soviet Literary-Economic Resonances and the Quest for an Imageof ManChair: Kyohei Norimatsu, Doshisha U, Japan
Papers: Robert Harris, U of Oxford, UK“Squeezing Water from a Rock: Stalinist Interpretation of Property
and Exchange in Early Russian Socialist Theory”
Junna Hiramatsu, Kanazawa U, Japan“Money, Body, Language: Mediums of Exchange and the Soviet Subject in Early Soviet Literature”
Michael Nicholson, Oxford U, UK“Of Potatoes and Men: ‘Free’ Enterprise in Oleg Pavlov’s Gulag Grotesque Kazennaya skazka”
Discussant: Artemy Magun, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia
IV-4-16 Death and Trauma in Russian Literature
Chair: Minn-Ah Kim, Kyungpook National U, South Korea
Papers: Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY, USA“'Torzhestvo Aviatsii' (1937) by Mikhail Zenkevich”

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Emily Traverse, Columbia U, USA“The Liminality of Trauma in Works by Vasily Grossman”
Asuta Yamaji, Chukyo U, Japan“Feelings for the Dead and Views of Death in Works by Russian Poets”
Discussant: Anna Ljunggren, Stockholm U, Sweden
IV-4-17 Bilingual and Translingual Russian Writers
Chair: Shunichiro Akikusa, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Adrian Wanner, Penn State U, USA“The Bilingual Muse: Russian-American Poets as Translators of Their
Own Work”
Eugenia Kelbert, Yale U, USA & Sasha Rudan, Passau U, Germany“Idioms Usage Patterns in Bilingual Writing: An Example of Qualitatively Augmented Quantitative Analysis”
Miriam Finkelstein, U of Passau, Germany“To (Ex)Change Words: Language Change and Historical Narratives
in Contemporary Fiction on Russian Migrants”
Discussant: Tomas Glanc, Charles U, the Czeck Republic
IV-4-18 The Politics of Nature in the Soviet Union: Toward a Global Future
Beyond Communism
Chair: TBA
Papers: Jonathan Oldﬁeld, U of Birmingham, UK“M. I. Budyko (1920-2001) and Soviet Contributions to Climate
Change Science 1945-1991”
Egle Rindzeviciute, Sciences Po, France“The Birth of the Soviet Anthropocene: Nikita Moiseev and the Transformation of Soviet Governmentality”
Julia Lajus, Higher School of Economics, Russia“The Soviet Perception of ‘Ecological Crisis': Construction of a New
Language of Global Change within the Old Ideological Paradigm”
Discussant: Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn U, Sweden
IV-4-19 Tangled Nation-building Competition in Ziemie Zabrane (Eastern
Region of Poland) or Zapadnyi Krai (Western Region of Russia)
Chair: Taku Shinohara, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Yoko Aoshima, Kobe U, Japan

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Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“Experiment on Enlightening Peasants in the Empire: Teachers’
Schools in the Western Provinces of the Russian Empire”
Оlga Mastianica, Lithuanian Institute of History“Education Policies in the Field of Female Education in the Northwestern Region of the Russian Empire”
Sayaka Kaji, Iwate U, Japan“Individuals between the Imperial Career Structure, the National
Cause, and the Regional Societ”
Discussants: Chizuko Takao, Tokyo Medical and Dental U, Japan;
Paul William Werth, U of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
IV-4-20 The Cold War, Détente, and the Soviet Union
Chair: Yakov Feygin, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Papers: Jonathan Waterlow, U of Oxford, UK“War, Peace, and the Soviet ‘Nuremberg’: War Crimes Trials and theRepresentation of the Postwar World in the Soviet Union, 1945-53”
Christopher Ward, Clayton State U, USA“Between Cold War, Détente, and Glasnost’: Perceptions of Japan in
the Soviet Press, 1956-1991”
Jun Fujisawa, Waseda U, Japan“Facing the Global Economy: The Soviet Foreign Economic Policy in
the Era of Détente”
Discussant: Ela Drazkiewicz, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
IV-4-21 “Russian Nagasaki” in the Mid-Ninteenth to Early Twentieth Century:
From the History of Intercultural Contact
Chair: Igor Saveliev, Nagoya U, Japan
Papers: Petr Podalko, Aoyama Gakuin U, Japan“‘Russian Nagasaki’ – Reality and Fiction”
Chiho Miyazaki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“The Treaty Port, ‘Temporary Wives’ and the Problem of Venereal
Diseases: Intercultural Exchange in ‘the Russian Settlement’ in theSecond Half of the Nineteenth Century”
Igor Saveliev, Nagoya U, Japan“Nagasaki and Vladivostok: Migration and Inter-regional Ties in the
Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century”
Discussant: Dmitry Pavlov, Institute of Russian History, RAS

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IV-4-22 Governance and Islam (Historical Perspectives)
Chair: Takehiko Inoue, Sapporo Gakuin U, Japan
Papers: Sejin Jung, Hanyang U, South Korea“A Speciﬁc Character of Muridism in the North Caucasus in the First
Half of the Ninteenth Century”
Zubaidullo Ubaidulloev, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Islam in Central Asia during the Soviet rule: A Case of Tajikistan”
Tetsu Akiyama, Waseda U, Japan“How Islam Inﬂuenced the Behavior Patterns of Central Eurasian
Nomads? In Case of Kyrgyz Nomads”
Discussant: Diliara Usmanova, Kazan Federal U, Russia
IV-4-23 Linguistic Landscapes and Script Representations in the South Slavic
Countries / Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia
Chair: Irina Sedakova, Institute for Slavic Studies, RAN
Papers: Christina Kramer & Victor Friedman, U of Toronto, Canada“Hope and Precarity in the Balkans: Linguistic Landscapes in the
Republic of Macedonia”
Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido U, Japan and Biljana Sikimić, Institute forBalkan Studies, Serbia“Placing the Banat Bulgarian Language: Fluctuating Identity and
Semiotics of Power Relations in the Multiethnic Region”
Aleksandra Salamurović, Friedrich Schiller U, Germany“Script in Public Space: Example of Bosnia and Hercegovina”
Discussants: Tomasz Kamusella, U of St. Andrews, UK;
Adam Jaworski, U of Hong Kong
IV-4-24 Language Pedagogy I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Milica Sabo, Friedrich-Schiller-U Jena, Germany“Universal Language Teaching Principles”
Anna Yessengaliyeva, Lev Gumilyov Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Developing a Foundation of Professional Communication Skill forMusic Majors at the University Level”
Edie Furniss, Pennsylvania State U, USA“Teaching the Pragmatics of Russian Conversation through Technology”
Gota Sayama, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan

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Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)“Derivational Morphological Analysis: Implications for Developing
Russian Vocabulary”
Discussant: TBA
IV-4-25 Agriculture and Land Ownership: Then and Now
Chair: TBA
Papers: Kirill Zemliak, Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, Russia“Resource Saving Technologies Based on Wild Plants and Secondary
Raw Materials for Food Production with Balanced Composition”
Axel Wolz, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition
Economies, Germany“Why Agricultural Cooperative Members in Russia Did Not Take up
Private Farming: Evidence form Kurgan Region”
Xiao Huizhong, East China Normal U“The Agrarian Reform in the Russian Federation since Its Independence: Several Different Points and a Comparison with China”
Elena Korotkova, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology“Dogs in the Manger. The Problem of Land Marketisation in Russian
Cities”
Discussant: TBA

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SaturdayAugustSession V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)
V-1-1 Russia's “Soft Power”?
Chair: TBA
Papers: Sirke Mäkinen, U of Tampere, Finland“Russia – a Leading or a Fading Power? Geopolitical Metanarratives
on Russia’s Role in the Post-Soviet Space”
Tamara Gella, Orel State U, Russia“The Role of the Soft Power in the Formation of Image of Modern
Russia”
Carlotta Fagioli, U of Kent, UK; Brussels School of International Studies,
Belgium“Tackling Russia’s Conceptualisation of Sovereignty from a Different
Perspective: a Cognitive Dissonance Story”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-2 Energy Diplomacy in and around East Asia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Xu Liu, Renmin U, China“The Study of Problems and Suggestions on Natural Gas Cooperation
between China and Russia”
Svetlana Vassiliouk, Meiji U, Japan“Key Issues in Russia’s Energy ‘Pivot’ to East Asia”
Younkyoo Kim, Hanyang U, South Korea“Russia's Pivot to Asia and Geopolitics of Energy in Asia”
Discussant: TBA

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V-1-3 The Nexus of Environmental and Energy Security in Former Communist
States: Poland, Russia and Central Asia
Chair: Akira Ichikawa, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Papers: Ksymena Helena Rosiek, Cracow University of Economics, Poland“Water as a Socio-economic Development Factor and Component of
the Environmental Risk”
Naoya Hase, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan“Constructing Russian Energy Security”
Fumiaki Inagaki, Takasaki University of Commerce, Japan“Energy and Environmental Nexus in Central Asia”
Discussants: Toshiyuki Kagawa, Keio University, Japan;
Kazimierz Górka, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
V-1-4 Anthoropology, Central Eurasia I
Chair: TBA
Papers: Masanori Goto, Hokkaido U, Japan“Post-socialist Entrepreneurship in Rural Chuvash in Russia”
Galina Lyubimova, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian
Branch of RAS“Religious Views of the Modern Rural Population of Siberia: theEnvironmental Aspect”
Beibit Shangirbayeva, EU Delegation to Kazakhstan“The Art of the Word among Kazakhs or the Cultural Background forthe Implementation of Right to Freedom of Expression in Contemporary Kazakhstan”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-5 Comparative Approaches to Russian/Polish Art, Cinema, and Music
Chair: Jakub Karpoluk, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technolgy,
PolandPapers: Saera Yoon, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South
Korea“Three Endings of The Idiot: Dostoevsky, Kurosawa, and Bortko”
Kateryna Bugayevska, Xiamen University, USA“The Inﬂuence of Japanese Culture on the Russian Silver Age Artists
and Illustrators”
Beata Kowalczyk, Warsaw University, Poland

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155“Challenging the Art World of Polish Classical Music. Professional
Careers of Japanese Musicians in Poland”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-6 The Problems of Interethnic and Interreligious Coexistence in andaround Russia (Roundtable)
Chair: Masako Arimune, Osaka U, Japan
Participants: Chisako Omoso, Hyogo U, Japan“Multi-religious Coexistance in Japan before WWII: Focusing on the
Religious Organization Nihion Kokkyo Daidosha”
Liudmila Zhukova, Russian State U for the Humanities“Russian Sectarians in the Caucasus:Inter-ethnic and Inter-religious
Relationships”
Larisa Ousmanova, Kazan Federal U, Russia“Historical and Cultural Signiﬁcance of Russian Muslim Emigrants
Diaspora on Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century”
Masako Arimune, Osaka U, Japan“Inner Dialogues of Russian Orthodox Church against the Backgroundof Interreligious Coexistence”
V-1-7 Ukrainian Politics I
Chair: Fernando Casal Bértoa, U of Nottingham, UK
Papers: Oleksandr Svyetlov, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine“Ukrainians’ Protest Decade”
Shuhei Mizoguchi, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Dynamics of Undemocratic Regime Change: the Case of theOrange Revolution”
Kataryna Wolczuk, U of Birmingham, UK“‘Regionalism of Convenience’ in Ukraine: Regional Diversity and its
Political Uses”
Oleksandr Shvyrkov, Kharkiv National U, Ukraine“Paradigm of Decay and ‘Priority Sphere': Ukrainian Illustration
Discussant: TBA
V-1-8 Security Issues and Political System
Chair: TBA
Papers: Samuel Hsu, NCCU U

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Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)“Anti-Terrorism and Centralization: The Cases of Russia and China”
Takeyuki Hasegawa, Tohoku U, Japan“The Evolution of the NSC Secretariat and Its Contribution to Diplomacy and IR – in the Case of Russia and Japan”
Guilherme Mello, U of Coimbra, Portugal“Uprising Nuances: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan’s Social
Mobolizations and Order Maintenance”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-9 EU and Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: TBA
Papers: Frank Cibulka, Zayed U, United Arab Emirates“The Czech Republic and Slovakia in the European Union: The First
Decade”
Jana Vargovcikova, Charles U, the Czech Republic; Université Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France“Lobbying Regulation in Central Europe: a Ground for Negotiation of
Public and Private Actors´ Roles in Public Governance”
Gabriela Goudenhooft, Oradea U, Romania“The Solidarity Principle between the European Discourse and the National Responses to the Objectives of the European Union”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-10 Addiction, Criminality and Youth Policy
Chair: TBA
Papers: Tatiana Shelonina, Saint Petersburg state U, Russia“Features of Drug Addict's System of Attitudes”
Tatiana Evdokimova, Bashkir Institute of Social Technologies, Russia“Ways to Minimize the Deviant Behavior among Adolescents (Russian Experience)”
Giorgi Kipiani, Ivane Javakhishvili U, Georgia“Public Interest and European Regulation Policies: Theory and Practice in Georgia”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-11 Russian Literature and the East
Chair: Yukio Nakano, U of Tokyo, Japan

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Papers: Lars Kleberg, Södertörn U, Sweden“Sergej Tret'jakov and the Soviet Construction of China”
Akira Furukawa, U of the Sacred Heart, Japan“The Imagery of Wonderers in the Works of Andrei Platonov andKenji Miyazawa”
Andrea Meyer-Fraatz, Friedrich Schiller U Jena, Germany“Japan as the Utopia of Writing in Andrei Bitov's ‘Neizbezhnost’
nenapisannogo’”
Discussant: TBA
V-1-12 Central and Eastern European Literature
Chair: Satoko Inoue, Kumamoto U, Japan
Papers: Shuko Tanaka, Shizuoka U, Japan“Expressions of Czech Mentality in the Novels of Milan Kundera:
From the Local to the Universal”
Kinga Kosmala, U of Chicago, USA“Ryszard Kapuściński’s Unfathomable Imperium”
Tatsiana Fitsner, Gomel State U, Belarus“Modern Belarusian Women's Prose: a Gender Perspective”
Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto, Canada“Transgressive Psychological Models in Ivan Franko’s Later Prose”
Discussant: Ariko Kato, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan
V-1-13 Imperial Multinationality and/vs. Transitional Tendencies in PostSoviet Literature
Chair: Susanne Frank, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany
Papers: Zaal Andronikashvili, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin,
Germany“Between Small Literature and World Literature. Multinationality inSoviet and Post-Soviet Georgian Literature”
Tomas Glanc, Charles U, the Czeck Republic“Russian Writers Who Do Not Write in Russian”
Olena Haleta, National U of Lviv, Ukraine“Literary Maidan: an Un-imagined Reality and a Search of a New
Language”
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V-1-14 Culture, Science and Society in the Late Soviet Union
Chair: Mari Aburamoto, Japan Society for Promotion of Science
Papers: Niccolo Pianciola, Lingnan U, China“Two Men and A Sea: Lev Berg, Georgii Nikol'skii, Soviet Scienceand the Aral Sea Basin Natural Resources (1900-1977)”
Corinne Geering, U of Giessen, Germany“The Protection of Sacral Architecture in the Late Soviet Union in theContext of International Conservation Efforts”
Roman Khandozhko, U of Bremen, Germany“Parascientiﬁc Revolution: Technocratic Thinking and the Rise of
Esoteric Culture in the Soviet Union, 1960-1980s”
Discussant: Koji Kanayama, Hokkaido U, Japan
V-1-15 Images of Heroes and Opponents in Russian History
Chair: Yoshikazu Suzuki, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
Papers: Sergey Panarin, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS“Trajectory of Garibaldi’s Image in Russia: 1860-2010”
Nadezhda Lipatova, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia“The Soviet Heroes: Techniques of Their Representation by Periodicalsof the 1920s”
Marina Pyatikova, Southern Federal U, Russia“Image of Political Opponent in Russian Political Discourse”
Discussant: Zenji Asaoka, Tohoku U, Japan
V-1-16 Social Activities and Politics in the Last Decades of Eastern Europe
and the USSR
Chair: Jun Fujisawa, Waseda U, Japan
Papers: Kinga Kuligowska, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central
Europe in Marburg, Germany“What Does It Mean to be a Marxist after 1968: Polish Intellectuals
and the Western New Left”
Anna Sugiyama, Central European U, Hungary“Ways of Participating Dissent Activities: Unofﬁcial Seminars as‘Small Enterprise’ in the Late Socialist Central Europe”
Emil Voracek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic“Gorbachev and Husak – Actors of the Twilight of a Real Socialism.
Failed Expectations or Betrayal? 1985-1989”

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Discussant: Takayuki Ito, Waseda U
V-1-17 Old Believers in China and Russian Far East
Chair: Naho Igaue, Chuo U, Japan
Papers: Yuliia Argudiaeva, The Far Eastern Branch of the RAS“The Migration and Settlement of Old Believers to Russian Far East”
Hideaki Sakamoto, Tenri U, Japan“Land Conﬂict in Manchuria amang the Old Believers of Romanovka
Village and Korean Settlers”
Tsutomu Tsukada, Freelance, Japan“War Participation of Russian Old Believers in Altay Prefecture (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region)”
Discussant: Baryshev Eduard, Tokai U, Japan
V-1-18 Writers and Writings in Religious Diversity of Medieval Russia
Chair: Anica Vlašić -Anić, Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Papers: Fumiaki Hattori, Kyoto U, Japan“The Mstislav Gospel, Reconsidered”
Kihoyaru Miura, U of Electrocommunications, Japan“A Study of Awareness of Medieval Russian Authors of Impeachment
Documents of Pagan Customs”
Aleksandr Bobrov, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii dom), RAS“Laughter and Predictions of Future in Early Russian Literature”
Discussant: Karine Åkerman Sarkisian, Uppsala U, Sweden
V-1-19 Language Pedagogy II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Mariam Orkodashvili, Georgian American U, Georgia“Language Acquisition and Linguistic Interference”
Sophio Mujiri, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State U, Georgia“Plurilingual Phonetics for Professional Competence Formation”
Manja Gerlach, Friedrich-Schiller-U Jena, Germany“Going Global – L3 Language Acquisition and English”
Discussant: TBA

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V-1-20 Monetary and Fiscal Policy of the Former Soviet States
Chair: Yugo Konno, Mizuho Research Institute Ltd.
Papers: Wei Tong, Central University of Finance and Economics, China“On the Reform of the Government Budget System of Russia”
Alexandr Akimov, Grifﬁth U, Australia“Political Economy of Financial Reforms in Authoritarian Transition
Economies. A Comparative Case Study of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan”
Shigeki Ono, Asahikawa U, Japan“The Bank Lending Channel in the Monetary Policy Transmission:
Evidence from Russia”
Discussant: Yulia Vymyatnina, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
V-1-21 Scenarios of Demise and Visions for the Future in Empires in Crisis
Chair: Pavel Kolář, European University Institute, Italy
Papers: Malte Rolf, U of Bamberg, Germany“An Empire in Crisis and Visions of Russian Hegemony: The Russian
Nationalist Discourse after the Revolution of 1905”
Daniel Hedinger, Humboldt U of Berlin, Germany“The Invention of a “New Imperialism”:Japanese-Italian Inter-imperialInteraction in the Interwar Years”
Lorenz Bichler, Heidelberg U, Germany“From Victims to Winners: The Journal The Communist (Gongchandang ren) and the Idea of Self-Strengthening”
Discussant: Ulf Brunnbauer, U of Regensburg, Germany

Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)
V-2-1 Energy or Environment? The Dilemma in post-Communist Countries
for Sustainable Development
Chair: Toshiyuki Kagawa, Keio U, Japan
Papers: Akira Ichikawa, Kwansei Gakuin U, Japan“UNFCCC COP19 and Climate-Coal Summit in Warsaw”
Ryota Saito, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Water Management in Rural Area in Uzbekistan and Foreign Donor”
Farrukh Usmonov, U of Tsukuba, Japan“Participation of Japan into 10-years Water Projects in Tajikistan:Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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Outcomes and Problems”
Discussant: Naoya Hase, Sugiyama Jogakuen U, Japan
V-2-2 Geopolitics in Central Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Nyamdoljin Adiya, Institute of International Studies, Mongolian Academyof Science“Transit Potential of Mongolia between Europe and Asia”
Demberel Kolya, Institute of International Studies, Mongolian Academyof Science“Collaboration between Mongolia and former socialist countries in
Eastern Europe (1950-1990)”
Raﬁk Usmanov, Astrakhan State U, Russia“Geopolitics of Caspian region in conﬂict-prone measurement”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-3 New IR theories in the study of Eurasia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Kazuhiro Tsunoda, Meiji U“‘Presentism’ in the English School of International Relations: How
the ES Theory Can Manage the Conception of History?”
Tatiana Alekseeva, MGIMO, Russia“Strategic Culture as a Concept”
Antonina Puchkovskaya, St. Petersburg State U, Russia“Geoculture as a Fundamental Concept of a Dialogue of Cultures in
the Twenty-ﬁrst Century”
Akiko Kawauchi, Kyoto U, Japan“The Relation between the Cost of Preserving Hegemony and theForeign Policy in the Soviet Union”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-4 Borderland Space in Great Altai: Policy and Community (Roundtable)
Chair: Taissiya Marmontova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan
Participants: Boyko Vladimir, Altai State Pedagogical Academy“Altai – Russian-Kazakh-Chinese-Mongolian Borderland: Opportunities and Impediments for Development in the 1990s ‒ Early 2010s”

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Kalieva Kansha, East Kazakhstan State University“Integration Processes in the Region of Greater Altai”
Anar Smagulova, East Kazakhstan State University“Kazakh Culture Museum as a Memorial Practice (Russia – Mongolia –China)”
V-2-5 Anthropology, Central Eurasia II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Rif Yakupov, Russian Academy of Science“Ethnos and History. Factorial Analysis of Ethnicity Genesis”
Aigerim Dyikanbaeva, American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan“Redeﬁning Oral Narratives”
Liudmila Missonova, Russia, The International Arctic Social Sciences
Association“A.Chekhov’s Studying the Sakhalin Population: the Logical Connection between the Cultural Spaces of the East European and the East”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-6 Polish and Japanese Theater / Dance / Music
Chair: Saera Yoon, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South
Korea
Papers: Jakub Karpoluk, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technolgy,
Poland“Zeami meets Mickiewicz. The Comparative Study of Japanese Mugen Nō and Polish Romantic Drama Conventions”
Wiesna Mond-Kozlowska, Polish Society of Anthropology of Dance“The Triple Unity of Sound, Dance Movement and Poetry in the Aesthetics of the Noh Performance. Towards Deﬁnition of the Japanese
Chorea”
Risa Matsuo, U of Tokyo, Japan“The Signiﬁcance of Polish Poetics for an Understanding of Fryderyk
Chopin’s Four Ballades”
Discussant: Emiko Hirano, U of Tokyo, Japan
V-2-7 Studies in Classical Music
Chair: Satoko Kitai, U of Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Yumiko Nunokawa, Kaunas U of Technology, Lithuania

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163“Lithuanian Folk Song Tunes in Antanas Juška’s Anthology and Its
Usage in Music of Stravinsky and Čiurlionis”
Brett Cooke, Texas A&M U, USA“Homicidal Ambivalence in Leskov & Shostakovich’s Lady Macbethof the Mtsensk District”
Reiya Miura, Waseda U, Japan“On the Idea of ‘Russianness’ in Music – V. F. Odoyevsky’s MusicalAesthetics”
Kieko Kamitake, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Marietta Shaginyan’s ‘S. V. Rachmaninoff: Musical-psychologicalStudy’ (1912): The Refutation against Ivanov’s Dionysian Ideas”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-8 Islam in Russia and Central Asia
Chair: TBA
Papers: Marina Onuchko, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan“Danger of Radicalization of Islam in Kazakhstan: Trends and Factors”
Kenichi Kinoshita, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“New Religious Education and Reactions of Muslims and Islamic
Leaders in Present Russia”
Rozaliya Garipova, U of Pennsylvania, USA“Abystais in the Post-Soviet Space: Re-claiming Female Religious
Authority in a New Environment”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-9 Ukrainian Politics II
Chair: TBA
Papers: Mark Teramae, U of Helsinki, Finland“Euromaidan: The Role of Political Elites and Conditions for Change
in Ukraine”
Klavdiia Tatar, U of Ottawa, Canada“When Your Motherland Is Calling: Ukrainian Communities Worldwide and the Ukrainian Revolution (Maidan) 2014”
Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor U, USA“Burning Down the House: Why Violent Protest Worked in Ukraine's
2014 Revolution?”
Yasuhiro Ikuta, Keio U, Japan

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Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)“Division in Ukraine: Analysis of Actual Conditions”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-10 Politics of Memory
Chair: TBA
Papers: Lina Klymenko, U of Eastern Finland“Narrating World War II: Politics of National Identities in Post-Soviet
Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine”
Anna Sorokina, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Syndrome of Soviet Nostalgia among the Younger Generation of
Russians”
Marielle Wijermars, U of Groningen, Netherlands“The Dynamics and Eclecticism of Russian Memory Politics: Memory
Clusters and Chains of Memory in the Public Discourse on State andSociety”
Antony Kalashnikov, U of Oxford, UK“Multiple Narratives – a Source of Strength? Collective Memor(ies)with the Russian Communist Party (CPRF), 1993-2004”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-11 Social Vulnerability and Re-evaluation of Post-communist Societies
Chair: Anna Almakaeva, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Papers: Sofya Lopatina, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Family Behavior and Sexual Liberalization in 8 Post-Soviet Societies(Evidence from the 6th Wave of the World Values Survey)”
Veronika Kostenko, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Patterns of Gender Inequality in 47 European Countries (Evidence
from the EVS Data)”
Vladimir Kozlov, Higher School of Economics, Russia“Effect of Institutional Restructuring on Health in Post-Communist
Countries: Lessons for Russia”
Discussant: Yuka Takeda, Kyushu U, Japan
V-2-12 Russian Writers in Emigration and War
Chair: Tsuneko Mochizuki, Hokkaido U, Japan
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Writers”
Elena Kolesnikova, Institute of Russian Literature, RAS“Military Diaries and Notebooks of Writers: Genre and Narrative
Features”
Yuki Hayashi, U of Tokyo, Japan“Images of ‘Constantinople’ of Ivan Bunin : Dilemma between Modern Conﬂicts and a Sacred Byzantine”
Edward Waysband, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel“Poetry and Russian-Polish-Jewish Politics at the Beginning of theFirst World War”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-13 The Interface with the Foreign: The“Soviet School of Translation,”
Cold War and World Literature
Chair: Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn U, Sweden
Papers: Susanna Witt, Uppsala U, Sweden“Lessons in the ‘Soviet School’: Translation and Genre”
Brian James Baer, Kent State U, Ohio, USA“Inostrannaia Literatura: Translation, World Literature, and Cold War
Politics”
Svetlana Skomorokhova, U of Warwick, UK“Translator as Negotiator: Nora Gal’ and the Kashkin School of Literary Translation”
Discussants: Julie Hansen, Uppsala U, Sweden;
Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas, USA
V-2-14 Rewriting Memories, Overwriting Texts in Crossing Borders
Chair: Hans-Christian Trepte, U Leipzig, Germany
Papers: Ariko Kato, Nagoya U of Foreign Studies, Japan“An Unknown Version of Bruno Jasieński’s I Burn Paris”
Małgorzata Zduniak-Wiktorowicz, Adam Mickiewicz U, Poland“Memory of Emigration – Emigration from Memory”
Satoko Inoue, Kumamoto U, Japan“Adopted Memories and Texts of the Polish-German Borderlands: In
the Case of Dariusz Muszer”
Discussant: Brygida Helbig-Miszewski, Adam Mickiewicz U Poznan, Poland

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V-2-15 Discourse and Visions of Empires in Modern Russia
Chair: Vassili Molodiakov, Takushoku U, Japan
Papers: Tristan Landry, U of Sherbrooke, Canada“Food & Empire in Eurasian & Russian History”
Paul Behringer, American U, USA“Images of Empire: Depictions of America in Late Imperial Russian
Editorial Cartoons”
Maria Bratolyubova, Southern Federal U, Russia“Portrayal of Cossacks in Don Cartoons (Visualisiation of Ethnic
Stratiﬁcation Revisited)”
Discussant: Yukiko Tatsumi, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies, Japan
V-2-16 Globalizing Russian and Soviet History (Roundtable)
Chair: Peter Holquist, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Participants: Julia Obertreis, U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany“Global Perspectives on the Soviet Union and the Cold War”
Norihiro Naganawa, Hokkaido U, Japan“Russia's Place in the Globalizing Muslim Connections, the1860s-1920s”
Miinling Yu, Academia Sinica“Chinese Perceptions of the Soviet History after 1991”
Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati, USA“Westernization or Something Else? Reﬂections on Russia and theWorld in the 18th Century”
Martin Aust,Ludwig Maximilian U Munich, Germany“Empire and Globalization: 19th-Century Russia in the World”
V-2-17 Russian Society after the Collapse of Communism
Chair: TBA
Papers: Irina Mukhina, Assumption College, USA“Women of the New Life: Shuttle Trading and Gender in Russia of the
1990s”
Lukasz Kosowski, Jagiellonian U, Poland“Shadow of a Bear. Role and Inﬂuence of Russian Maﬁa at the Turn of
the Century, 1991-2008”
Gennady Kosov, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic U, Russia

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Approach”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-18 Buddhism as an Engine of Cross-Border Interaction in Europe andAsia (XIX-XX centuries): Hungary, Baltic Region, Kalmyk Steppe
Chair: Tomasz Kamusella, U of St. Andrews, UK
Papers: Birtalan Ágnes, Eötvös Loránd U, Hungary“In the Wake of Ancestry. Hungarian Explorers of Inner Asia andSiberia (Motivation, Results, Failures)”
Mait Talts, Tallinn U of Technology, Estonia“Karlis A.M. Tennisons and Friedrich V. Lustig – First ‘Practicing’
Buddhists in Estonia”
Takehiko Inoue Sapporo Gakuin U, Japan“Kalmyk Buddhists Rediscovered: Pilgrimages and Encounters in the
Russian Empire”
Discussant: Yukiyasu Arai, Asia U, Japan
V-2-19 Thought, Trend and History in Linguistics and Beyond
Chair: TBA
Papers: Alexandra Holoborodko, Hitotsubashi U, Japan“Roman Jakobson’s Notion of “Intersemiotic Translation”: Demonstrated in the Interpretation of Japanese Poetry by Japanese Garden
Design”
Inna Tylkowski, U of Lausanne, Switzerland“Phenomenological Trend in Russian Linguistics in the 1920s”
Tjeerd de Graaf, Fryske Akademy Knaw, Netherlands“The Languages of North and East Tartary”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-20 Language Pedagogy III
Chair: TBA
Papers: Sachiko Yokoi, Osaka U, Japan“Russian Language Teachers as Policy Makers: Recreating Foreign
Language Education Policy in Japan”
Irina Danilova, The Language Center in Gothenburg, Sweden“Cultural Heritage in Mother Tongue Teaching in the Multicultural

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Society of Present-day Sweden: The Experience of the Language
Center in Gothenburg”
Snezhana Zheltoukhova, U of Wisconsin Madison, USA“Russian Flagship Tutoring: Student and Tutor Social Roles Negotiation”
Discussant: TBA
V-2-21 Crisis and Resurrection in an Alternative Perspective (Roundtable)
Chair: Nigel Swain, U of Liverpool
Participants: Osamu Ieda, Hokkaido U, Japan“Red Sludge Catastrophe and Reconstruction Process”
Hideyuki Shiroshita, Kansai U, Japan“How Do We Learn? From Disaster Education to Disaster Co-learning”
Agnes Pogany, Corvinus U of Budapest, Hungary“Crisis and Crisis Management in 19-20th Century Hungary”
Nibedita S Ray-Bennett, U of Leicester, UK“Sociological Approach to Disasters, Health and Human Security”
Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonian U, UK“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Management of Hungarian Economicand Moral Crises until 2014”

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