Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2021 Summer International Symposium“Slavic and Eurasian Studies in Times ofUncertainty: Dialogue and Reappraisal”
July 5–7, 2021

Day 1 (July 5), Session 1
Diplomacy and Trade in the History of Central Eurasia
Papers:ABDURASULOV, Ulfat is currently a Petra Kappert Fellow at the Centre for the Study ofManuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg. His research interests embrace the history of Islamic
Central Asia in the 17th – early 20th century, including issues of property relations, politicalthought, and diplomacy. His current research focus is on record-keeping, record-preservation
practices, and politics of knowledge in Russia and Central Asia in the 17th–19th centuries. He has
authored several articles in academic journals such as Der Islam, Ab Imperio, Itinerario, EurasianStudies, and Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient. He is a co-author of themonograph Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva (19th–early 20th centuries) (Leiden:Brill, 2020).
HAMAMOTO Mami is an Associate Professor at Osaka City University. Her research covers thehistory of Russian Muslims, especially the activities of Tatars in the Russian Empire. She has
authored and edited several books and articles, notably Islam of Symbiosis: Russian Orthodox
Christians and Muslims in Russia (Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2011, in Japanese), and Islam in
Holy Russia: The Tatar Conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church (Tokyo: University of Tokyo
Press, 2009, in Japanese). Her article includes “Russo-Xinjiang Trade in Travel Records: c. 1780–1850,” Seinan Ajia Kenkyu [Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies], no.
89, 2019 (in Japanese).

1Discussant:SHIOYA Akifumi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,University of Tsukuba, and Vice President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies. Hisresearch focus is on the history of the Khanate of Khiva (Khorezm), the history of irrigation inCentral Asia, and Russian diplomacy towards Asia in the nineteenth century. His articles havebeen published in the Journal of Eurasian Studies, Frontiers of History in China, and Central AsianSurvey. He has authored two monographs: Chūō Ajia Kangaishi Josetsu [History of Irrigation inCentral Asia] (Tokyo: Fūkyō-sha, 2014, in Japanese) and Tenryū [Diversion] (Tokyo: Fūkyō-sha,2019, in Japanese).
Chair:NAGANAWA Norihiro is a Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido
University and currently a William D. Loughlin member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced
Study. Using the local knowledge of the Volga-Urals region, his research interests cover Muslim
communities in the former territory of the Russian Empire, transnational history of revolutionary
Russia, and entangled history of Russia and the Middle East. His works have appeared in Slavic
Review, Kritika, Ab Imperio, and Religion, State & Society. His book Islamic Russia: Empire, Religion,and Public Sphere, 1905–1917 (Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press, 2017, in Japanese) received
the 2019 Mishima Kaiun Memorial Award given annually to a distinguished contribution to thestudy of Asian history.

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Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Virtuality in Russian Culture(Co-Sponsored by School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UniversityCollege London)
Papers:
ADACHI Daisuke is an Associate Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido
University. He teaches Russian literature and culture. His research is broadly concerned withreinterpreting and rewriting the history of representation in 19th-century Russian literature—rethinking the literature as media, especially in terms of language, image, body, and technicalconditions. His work ranges from the poetics of Gogol and media of his time to Russian romantic
irony, Karamzin’s geo-cultural concept of translation, and Soviet theories of piano playing. His
latest work includes “Iazyk i poetika Gogolia v trudakh V. V. Vinogradova po istorii russkovo
literaturnovo iazyka,” in Motoki Nomachi and Shiori Kiyosawa (eds.), Grammatika v obschestve,obschestvo v grammatike: Issledovaniia po normativnoi grammatike slaviianskikh iazykov (Moscow:IaSK, 2021), 99–124. He is currently co-editing (with Evgeny Dobrenko) a special issue of Acta
Slavica Iapaonica, where he has served as a member of the editorial committee since 2018.
DEBLASIO, Alyssa is an Associate Professor of Russian and the John B. Parsons Chair in the
Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College (Pennsylvania, USA), and editor of Brill’s special
book series in Contemporary Russian Philosophy. She is the author of two monographs, The Endof Russian Philosophy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher:
Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), as wellas numerous scholarly articles. Together with Iza Savenkova, she recently completed a textbook foradvanced Russian through contemporary film and TV, which will be published by Georgetown
University Press in 2022. Together with Mikhail Epstein, she edits Filosofia: An Encyclopedia ofRussian Thought, the only scholarly electronic resource dedicated to contemporary Russian
philosophy.
OLENINA, Ana Hedberg is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies
at Arizona State University. Her main research focus is the Soviet avant-garde, while her broader
3interests lie at the juncture of early film history and media theory. Her book Psychomotor Aesthetics:
Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
examines the ways in which early 20th-century authors drew on psychological and neurologicalideas of their time to conceptualize expressive movement and empathy. Her essays on Russian
Formalism, silent cinema, modern dance, and acting have appeared in Film History, Discourse,
Kinovedcheskie zapiski, Frontiers of Psychology and several anthologies in Russia and the USA.
Discussants:
MORLEY, Rachel is an Associate Professor of Russian Cinema and Culture at University CollegeLondon, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES), where she teaches andresearches Russian and Soviet cinema (1896 to the present) and co-chairs the UCL SSEES RussianCinema Research Group. She has published extensively on early Russian cinema, notably “GenderRelations in the Films of Evgenii Bauer,” Slavonic and East European Review 81/1 (2003): 32–69;“‘Crime Without Punishment’: Reworkings of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Sources inEvgenii Bauer’s Child of the Big City,” in Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski (eds), Russian andSoviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900–2001: Screening the Word (London and New York:
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), 27–43; and her monograph, Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer
in Early Russian Cinema (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017). She is currently co-editing(with Natascha Drubek and Oksana Chefranova) a special double-issue of the peer-reviewed
journal Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, titled “TheHaunted Medium: Moving Images in the Russian Empire” (forthcoming in Spring 2022). Her
most recent publication (co-written with Serian Carlyle) is “The Politics of Reproduction:Abortion and Authority in Soviet Cinema,” in Adele Bardazzi and Alberta Bazzoni (eds), Genderand Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 243–70,
which analyses the treatment of abortion in fourteen Soviet films made between 1927 and 1981.
Her current book project, funded by a two-year Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (20202022), examines forms of female subjectivity in contemporary Russian women's cinema.
HATAKEYAMA Muneaki is an Associate Professor at Seigakuin University. His researchinterests include film theory and the film aesthetics of Sergei Eisenstein.

4Chair:
GRAHAM, Seth is an Associate Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East EuropeanStudies, University College London. He has published widely on Russian and Soviet culture, andCentral Asian cinema. He has a particular interest in Russian political humor across media andgenres.

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Mutual Gazes: Russian Views of, and Viewed from, Japan and South Korea
Papers:STRELTSOV, Dmitry is a Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State
Institute of International Relations. He is the Leading Research Fellow of the Center of JapaneseStudies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests
include the Domestic and International Politics of Contemporary Japan, Postwar History of Japan,
Energy Policy of Japan, Russo-Japanese Relations, Economic Integration and Security Problems
in the Asia Pacific Region. He co-edited, A History of Russo-Japanese Relations. Over Two Centuriesof Cooperation and Competition (Leiden: Brill, 2019). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Ezhegodnik“Yaponiya” (Yearbook Japan), in Russian; the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly e-journal
Yaponskiye Issledovaniya (Japanese Studies in Russia), in Russian; the Editor-in-Chief of the semiannual journal Russian Japanology Review, in English (japanreview.ru).
BUKH, Alexander is a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in International Relations from theLondon School of Economics and a LLM in International Law from the University of Tokyo.
Alexander has published extensively on international relations in Northeast Asia. His publications
have appeared in academic journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, AsianSurvey, International Relations of the Asia Pacific and the Pacific Review. Alexander is the author ofJapan’s National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan’s ‘Other’ (Routledge 2008) and These
Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2020). He is also a producer and a co-director of a documentary on territorial
disputes-related activism in Japan and Korea titled This Island in Ours (Contented Production2016).
Discussant:WOLFF, David is a Professor of History at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido
University. He teaches Russian, Soviet and Northeast Asian history. His research covers Russia
abroad, particularly in the Far East, the Cold War, the history of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

6He authored To the Harbin Station (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999; Tokyo: Kodansha,2014, in Japanese) and was a coeditor of World War Zero: The Russo-Japanese War in Global
Perspective in two volumes (Leiden: Brill, 2005; 2007). Most recently, he co-edited Russia’s GreatWar and Revolution in the Far East (Bloomington: Slavica, 2018). He is now writing on Stalin’sFar East policy after World War Two.
Chair:CHI Naomi is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido
University. Her area of specialization is East Asian politics, with an emphasis on migration,
demographic changes, multiculturalism, gender, ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as humansecurity in East Asia. Her latest publication include, “‘Walking in Her Shoes’: Prospects andChallenges of Marriage Migrants in South Korea,” Annals on Public Policy, March 2019; “Japan’sNew Wave of Immigration?: Focusing on the Strategies of Local Government in Japan,” Annals onPublic Policy, March 2020; “What the Global Pandemic has Revealed about East Asia: From
Mistrust to Empathy,” Annuals on Public Policy, May 2021;“To Be or Not to Be: The Plight ofAsylum Seekers in East Asia.” Geopolitics, forthcoming. She is currently the President of theAssociation for Borderlands Studies (ABS), as well as a member of the Eurasia Unit for Border
Research in Japan (UBRJ) and the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) project at the Arctic
Research Centre, Hokkaido University.

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Day 2 (July 6), Session 4
Sovereignty and Space: Russia in International Law and Political Geography
Papers:MÄLKSOO, Lauri is a Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Heis a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Hehas done research on Russia, international law and human rights, including publishing amonograph Russian Approaches to International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) andthe edited volume Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). He has published in leading journals ofinternational law such as the American and European Journals of International Law, the British,German and Japanese Yearbooks of International Law. In 2006–2007, he was a post-doc at theUniversity of Tokyo.
RICHARDSON, Paul is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University ofBirmingham, UK. He is a political geographer with regional interests in Russian and Eurasianstudies. His critically acclaimed book, At the Edge of the Nation, was published in paperback in2020 with the University of Hawai’i Press. His other key publications include, “Rescaling theBorder: National Populism, Sovereignty, and Civilizationism” in James Scott (ed.), A Research
Agenda for Border Studies (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020); “Sovereignty, the Hyperreal, and‘Taking Back Control,’” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 109/6 (2019): 1999–2015;
and “Beyond the Nation and into the State: Identity, Belonging and the ‘Hyper-border,’”
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41/2 (2016): 201–215.
Discussant:
KOIZUMI Yu is an Assistant Professor for the Research Center for Advanced Science andTechnology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo. His main research theme is Russian militaryaffairs and other security-related issues, including space, cyber, and information security. He has
experienced several researcher posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Diet Library,Institute for Future Engineering (IFENG). He is the author of four monographs on Russian
military and security affairs. His newest book is titled Russian Contemporary Military Strategy

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(Tokyo: Chikuma, 2021, in Japanese).
Chair:
BOYLE, Edward is an Assistant Professor in Politics at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University,and a Research Associate for the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. He
conducts research at the boundaries and borderland spaces of Japan, the wider Asia-Pacific, andNortheast India. He particularly focusses on issues relating to maps and representation, scalar
governance, territoriality, infrastructures, memory and heritage, and history, in order tounderstand the construction and transformation of borders, as well as the larger networks within
which these liminal spaces exist. For further details, see www.borderthinking.com.

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Reappraisal of Ethnic Issues in the Soviet and Post-Soviet SpacePapers:OSIPOV, Alexander lives in Germany. He is a Board Member of the International Centre forEthnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, a think-tank incorporated in the Czech Republic. His
research interests include racial discrimination, autonomy arrangements, ethno-cultural diversity
policies and post-communist transformations. Among his publications are Institutional Legacies ofCommunism – Change and Continuities in Minority Protection, ed. with Karl Cordell and Timofey
Agarin (New York: Routledge, 2013); Managing Diversity through Non-Territorial Autonomy:Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks, ed. with Tove H. Malloy and Balázs Vizi (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2015); Ethnicity and Equality in Russia: The Features of Perceptions(Moscow: Sova, 2012, in Russian).
SAVIN, Igor is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research on Central Asia, the Caucasus andthe Ural-Volga Region, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. The
main topics of his researches are the interaction of different types of collective identities andsolidarities (civil, ethnic, religious) in the post-Soviet countries, ethnic and intercommunity
conflicts in Central Asia and Russia, main challenges and prospects for migration and integrationof residents from Central Asian states in Russia, historical memory and Russian identity in different
regions of Russia. He has authored several books and numerous articles, among them: “Ever yday
nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority
migrants and migration,” in Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud (eds.), The New Russian Nationalism:Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–15 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,2016, with Natalya Kosmarskaya); Essay on the History of Interethnic Relations in Kazakhstan(Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, 2018, in Russian); The Role of Russia in Supporting
National Security among the States of Central Asia (Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, 2019, inRussian); “Between Emotions and Pragmatism: The Russian Language in Kazakhstan and the‘Factor of Russia’,” in Christian Noack (ed.), The Politics of the Russian Language Beyond Russia(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, with Natalya Kosmarskaya). He is the editor ofHistorical Memory and Russian Identity in the North Caucasus (Moscow: Institute of Oriental

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Studies, 2017, in Russian).
Discussant:
OKA Natsuko is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). Her research interests have ranged from ethnopolitics,
transnational migration, and diasporas to corruption. In recent times most of her research focuseson informal exchanges in Kazakhstan. Her publications include Living with “Bribes”: Kazakhstan
after Marketization (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2019, in Japanese); “Changing Perceptions of InformalPayments under Privatization of Health Care: The Case of Kazakhstan,” Central Asian Affairs 6/1(2019); “Grades and Degrees for Sale: Understanding Informal Exchanges in Kazakhstan’s
Education Sector,” Problems of Post-Communism 66/5 (2019); “Informal Payments andConnections in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan,” Central Asian Survey 34/3 (2015).
Chair:UYAMA Tomohiko is a Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.
He specializes in Central Eurasian history and politics. His research interests range from modernKazakh intellectuals, Russian imperial history, Orientalism, to contemporary authoritarian regimes
and international politics. He is the editor and author of numerous books, including Comparing
Modern Empires: Imperial Rule and Decolonization in the Changing World Order (Sapporo: SRC,2018), Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts (London: Routledge,2012). He has recently authored the article “Origins of the Differences in Political Systems of theCentral Asian States: Threat Perception in the Perestroika Period,” Mezhdunarodnaia analitika
12/1 (2021, in Russian).

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