The Ninth ICCEES World Congress August 3 - 8, 2015 Makuhari Preliminary Program (September 18, 2014) 2 Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) Program Tuesday

August

Session 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 and in ” Ted Hopf, National U of Singapore “China's Russian Problem” Viacheslav Morozov, U of Tartu, “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, Papers: Oleg Vusatyuk, Kyiv National U of Culture and Arts, Ukraine “International Security Regime in the Zones Civilizational Fault Lines and in the Conditions of Civilizational Drift” Alexander Golubev, Institute of Russian , RAS “Soviet Society and Geopolitical Threats of Interwar Period: Retro- spective 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” Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 3

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 “Borders and Trans-border Second Home Tourism” Regan Treewater, University of Alberta, Canada “From Japanese ‘Picture Brides’ to the ‘Mail Order Brides’ of the Former : 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 , RAS Papers: Arif Yunus, Institute for Peace and Democracy, Azerbaijan “Education Abroad and Its Infl uence on the Mental Set: an Azeri Case Study” Natalia Lapkina, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS “Mutual Cross-cultural Adaptation of Children:Practical Experience of Formation 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, ; Tokhir Kalandarov, Institute of Humanitarian Sciences, Tajik Academy of Sciences

I-1-5 The Infl uence(s) of Sound-Reproduction Technologies on Russian Art and Science between about 1910 and 1940 Chair: Rieko Kamoika, Waseda U, Papers: Masaru Ito, Hitotsubashi U, Japan “Sounds of Russian Theatre in the 1920-30s” 4 Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 , Japan Participants: Vladimir Gel'man, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia “Authoritarian Russia: Explaining Post-Soviet Regime Changes” Oleksandr Fisun, 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 Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 5

Papers: 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:’ Represen- tation 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, 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 “Refl ections 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 of Tsar 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 6 Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

I-1-11 Minority ’ Issues Refl ecting on Czechoslovak NewsPapers Chair: Takashi Kawashima, Kyoto U, Japan Papers: Hisashi Nakamura, Hokkaido U, Japan “Citizens of , Nations of Judaea: Selbstwehr Unabhängige jüdische Wochenschrift” Shohei Saito, Hokkaido U, Japan “The Historical Impact of : An In-Depth Review of N. 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 Nineteenth Century: 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 Chair: Kenso Yamamoto, U of Shimane, Japan Papers: Ryoko Isaka, U of Tokyo, Japan “The Missionary Activities of the in the (18–19th Centuries)” Pavel Shabley, Chelyabinsk State U, Russia “Problems of Formation of the Spiritual Administrations for Muslims Session I – 1 (Tuesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 7

in the Kazakh Region and Turkistan (the end of 19th - the fi rst quarter of 20th centuries): Comparative Analysis” Aziza Shanazarova, Indiana U, USA “Turkistanning Uyghanish Tarikhi: A Neglected Source on Jadiddism” Discussant: Alexander Polunov, State U, Russia

I-1-14 From the Great Reforms to the 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 Trofi mov, 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 the Administration 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 the Stalin 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 Offi cial Conceptions of a 8 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Supraethnic Narod” Takayuki Yoshimura, Waseda U, Japan “The Dual Armenian 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 Tech- nologies, 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 the Central 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: , Jews and Japanese” 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 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 9

Papers: Artyom Lukin, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia “The Ukraine Crisis, Russia-China-US Triangle and the Balance of Power in ” 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 ” Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercīlasun, Gazi U, Ankara, “ 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 10 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: Engagements with 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 Space- fl ights, 1961-1965” Misha Mazzini Griffi th, George Mason U, USA “Full Circle: The Short Strange Trip of Czechoslovak Television in 1968” Dana Mustata, U of Groningen, “Politicizing Romanian Television” Discussant: Yoshiko Okamoto, U of Tokyo, Japan Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 11

I-2-7 Early Russian Drama and Modernism Chair: Mikhail Odessky, Russian State U for the Humanities Papers: Kornelija Icin, U, “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 Philosophi- cal Culture?” Horie Hiroyuki, Independent researcher, Japan “The Idea of the ‘Christian Sociality’ of Sergei Bulgakov as a Norm of Social 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 Twenty- fi rst 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” 12 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Discussant: Sanami Takahashi, Hokkaido U, Japan

I-2-10 Confl icting Patriotisms in Contemporary Russia Chair: Vladimir Gelman, European U at St. Petersburg, Russia Papers: Markku Kangaspuro, U of , 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 Confl ict in Inde- pendent 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 and Dynamics 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 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 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 Patrimo- nialism” 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 Infl uence 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, Sofi a U, “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 , Papers: Alexander Liusyi, Heritage Institute of the Ministry of Culture, Russia 14 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

“Textual Revolution in Russia as Implementation of the Scheme of a Call and the Answer” Liu Juan, Beijing Normal U, China “Features of Subjectivation Narrative in Contemporary Russian Wom- en'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 the Russian 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 the Ninteenth Century” Yaguchi Hiroaki, Tohoku U, Japan “Eastern Question (1828~1841) and Change of Russo-Austrian Relation” Discussant: Halit Akarca, Ipek U, Turkey Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 15

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 Pub- licistic 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 Management and 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 ” Zofi a 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 : 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 of Harbin” Mariko Tamanoi, U of California, Los Angeles, USA 16 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, Federal U, Russia “The Turk-Tatar Diaspora in Manchuria in the 1930s.: Life Experience in 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 , 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 of Inter-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 его аналогами в других славянских языках как переходное явление между отрицанием и афирмативностью” Karolína Skwarska, Institute of Slavonic Studies, Academy of Sciences of the “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 Session I – 2 (Tuesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 17

“Borders of Categories: Levels, Types and Directions of Transfor- mations”

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 and Northeastern 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 the Twentieth Century Chair: Taro Tsurumi, Saitama U, Japan Papers: Naoki Mukai, Kyoto U, Japan “Acculturation of German and Hungarian Jews: A Case of the Scholars of the ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’” Daniel Viragh, U of California, Berkeley, USA “Ignáz Goldziher, The National Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest and the 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 18 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 the Russian 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 Rela- tions 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 Concept of 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 Confl icts 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 Confl ict in the Context of the South Caucasian Regional Security Issue: New Trends and Old Obstacles” Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 19

Hideya Matsuzaki, Sophia U, Japan “The Sustainability of Frozen Confl ict and Peace Negotiations in Transnistria: 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-Confl ict Nagorno Karabakh” Discussant: TBA

I-3-4 The Reception of Leo Tolstoy`s Teachings in the United States and Japan 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 Musical Folklore 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 Dis- trict (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 the Balalaika” Tatjana Viktorovna Kirjushina, State Center of Russian Folklore “The Peculiarity of Folk Music Tradition in the Border Area of and Kostroma Provinces” 20 Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

I-3-6 Russian Art in the Period of the Revolution: The Encounter and Inter- mixture 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 , 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 and Disseminated” 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” Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 21

Tomofumi Omata, Waseda U, Japan “Interpretation of N. F. Fedorov’s Thought from the Viewpoint of the Norms 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 Dis- cussion (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 Histo- riography” 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 and 1989/90 – 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-Commu- nist Area Studies” Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the Czech 22 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 Au- thoritarianism?” Ina Shakhrai, Humboldt U Berlin, Germany “Legitimation of Authoritarian Rule through the Construction of Ex- ternal 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 Diffi cult 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 (The First Third of the 19th Century)” Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 23

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-the- Wise Novgorod State U “Shift in Value Aspect: Vladimir Nabokov's Russian Short Story 'Na- tasha' 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 Educa- tion 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 24 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 Indus- trial 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. Cherny- shev 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-East- ern 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 Multidisci- plinarily: Enlightenment, Post-Imperial Citizenship, and International Contexts” Session I – 3 (Tuesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 25

Maxim Kim, Tomsk State U, Russia “The Problems of Food Supply of Workers: The Karaganda Coal Basin 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” 26 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 in 1905 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 since the 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 Finland

I-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” Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 27

Sergei Mikhalchenko, Bryansk State U “Jews in the Eastern Europe in the End of the 19th – the Beginning of the 20th Centuries (Based on Unpublished Memoirs by E. Spek- torsky)” 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 and Canada 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 Organizations in the Contemporary Russia (Based on the Example of the Legal Pro- ceedings 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 Union of the Crimean with Ukraine” Tatiana Tairova, St. Petersburg State U, Russia “Ukrainian Identity and Russian Empire: the Confl ict 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 28 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, 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-Confl ict 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 Transformed in the Post-war Context” Discussant: TBA

I-4-4 Cross-border Cooperation and Transregionalisation in Central and Eastern 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 Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 29

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 Infl uence of East-European Politics in the Conceptualization and in the Development of Anthropological Studies in France” Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik, Scientifi c Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts “The Politics of Tradition in : Between Folk Culture and Cultural 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 of Internal 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 Contem- porary 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 30 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, Kutafi n 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, “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 and the Roman Catholic Church” , 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” Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 31

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

I-4-13 Power and Society in Modern Dagestan: Political Perspectives in the Context of Forcing Militarization of Russia Chair: Arbakhan Magomedov, Ulyanovsk State U, Russia Papers: Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov, The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Center of RAS “Migration as a Confl ict-producing Factor in the Post-Soviet Dagestan Republic” Zaid Abdulagatov, The Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnogra- phy, Dagestan Center of RAS “Military, Legal and Ideological Counteractions to the Religious and Political 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 Scientifi c, 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 Contem- porary 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 Nine- teenth 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) 33

Yusuke Toriyama, Chiba U, Japan “‘Patriotic War’ and ‘Foreign War’: Fyodor Glinka’s ‘Letters of a Rus- sian Offi cer’ 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 Literature of 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 and Their Relation to the History of Mongolian Literature in Mongolia” Shafag Dadashova, Baku Slavic U, Azerbaijan “Temporal and Spatial Infl uences on Memory of Autobiographical Writers” Discussant: Elza-Bair Guchinova, Independent researcher, Armenia 34 Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

I-4-18 What Level of Effi ciency 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 Effi ciency 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 Candi- dates 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 the Competence and Effi ciency 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 “Effi ciency of Regional Governance of the Russian Empire in the Modern Historiography”

I-4-19 Politics in the Composite Space of Empire: Nationality, Locality and Supranational 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 the Imperial Crisis of ” 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” Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 35

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 the late Imperial period” Halit Akarca, Ipek U, Turkey “Russia and the Scramble for Antiquities in the Ottoman Lands. 1890- 1918” 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 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 and Khabarovsk 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 Confl icts between the Soviets and the US at the IMTFE: the Case 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” 36 Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Cou- denhove'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-Be- ing, 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’ Employ- ment Matter?” Kazuhiko Kumo, Hitotsubashi U, Japan Session I – 4 (Tuesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 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: Jabo- tinsky’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 38 Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) Wednesday

August

Session 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 and West?” Mikhail Molchanov, St. Thomas U, Canada “The Clash of Regionalisms on Europe’s Eastern Frontiers: the Euro- pean Association or the Eurasian Integration?” Alla Kovalova, Independent researcher, Ukraine “Eurasian Alternatives of Ukraine and Russia in Historical, Cenceptu- al, 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 of Transitional Justice in ” Jelena Dzankic, European University Institute, “Ties That Bind: Citizenship, Voting Rights and -building in the Post-Yugoslav Space” Discussant: TBA

II-1-4 Citizenship in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Supranational Trends and Challenges 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 Court of 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 Con- crete 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 Inter- faith Dialogue in the Ural and Volga Macroregion” Ildar Gabdrafi kov, Institute of Ethnosociological Research, RAN “Volga Region as a Model of Interethnic and Interconfessional Dialogue” 40 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 Cine- ma and the Nostalgia for the Soviet Past” Ranjana Saxena, U of Delhi, India “On Reading ‘Enchanted with Death’ by Svetlana Aleksievich: Narra- tives 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 1820- 1840s” 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 and Russia" Miriam Frey, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regens- burg, Germany “Religious Environment and the Importance of Values and Norms in Ukraine” Olga Popova, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regens- burg, 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 Nonprofi t Sectors in Eastern Central Europe. Case Studies of Košice, Pécs and Timișoara” Discussant: TBA 42 Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 Safi yev, 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 Rus- sian 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 Trans- nistria” Karolina Stefanczek, Dublin City U, Ireland “Gender and Representation in Recognized and Unrecognized States: Georgia, Abkhazia and South after 1991” Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, Dublin City U, Ireland “The Impact of Counter-recognition Policies on the External Legitimi- zation of de-facto States” Discussant: Rico Isaacs, Oxford Brookes U, UK Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 43

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 Women and 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: Consid- ering F. Dostoevsky and His Works during 1864-1880 Period” Géza Horváth, U of Pannonia, Hungary “Dostoevsky's Golden Age as an Anthropological, Poetic and Histori- co-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’s Children’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 Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Intellectual” Discussants: Alexandra Smith, U of Edinburgh, UK; Sutcliffe, Miami U, USA

II-1-17 Space, Place, Territory: Exploring Russian and Soviet Symbolic Geog- raphies (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, U, Russia “‘Inconspicuous Industry’: Russian Peasant Small Industry in Theo- retical 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 Tech- nologies, Russia Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 45

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 the Famines 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 , 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 46 Session II – 1 (Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 Diffi cult Tour of Russian Musicians to the Emigration” Elena Aurilene, The Khabarovsk Frontier Institute “Russian Patriotism in : ‘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 Over- come 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: the Ethnic 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 Confl ict” Marius Mazziotti, U of Aberdeen / London School of Economics, UK “Old Approaches to New Problems? The Cold War Legacy of the European 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 48 Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Environ- ment 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 Kore- ans in Developing New Landscapes” Sergey Veadiy, Institute of History, RAS “The Infl uence of 19th Century Ch’ing Scholars Paper in Korea” Discussant: TBA

II-2-4 Ethnosociolinguistic Aspects of Development of Ethnonational Rela- tionships in the Ural-Volga Region Chair: TBA Papers: Elina Safi na and Diana Khusainova, Bashkir State U, Russia “Linguistic Situation as an Indicator of the Development of Ethnopo- litical Processes in the Ural-Volga Region” Fail Safi n, Institute of Ethnosociological Research, Ufa Science Center of RAS Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 49

“Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethnonational Relationships in the Ural-Volga Region” Discussant: Xavier Le Torrivellec, Voronezh State U, Russia

II-2-5 Revisiting , 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) Social- ism 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 50 Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Re- gimes: 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 Economi- cally 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, Finland

II-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-Soviet de facto States” Chiara Loda, Dublin City U, Ireland “Foreign Policy of Small States: Armenia and the Withdrawal from the 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 Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 51

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 Trofi mova, 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 Rela- tionships 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 Dos- toevsky 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” 52 Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Seven- teenth-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, North- West and Central Provinces. Comparative Quantitative Analyses” Kye-hyeong Ki, Hanyang U, South Korea “Peasant Women Go to Court: Patriarchal Culture and Wife- Beating in Nineteenth Century Russia” Yuri Mizis & Valeri Kaishev, Tambov State U, Russia “Ecological History of Rural Russia in the Seventeenth – Ninteenth Centuries” Discussant: Steven Hoch, Russian Presidential Academy; Washington State U, USA

II-2-16 Kazakh Offi cials (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 Offi cials in the Nineteenth Century: Positions, Ranks and Social Security” Dina Amanzholova, Institute of History, RAN “Formation of the Kazakh Soviet Bureaucracy in the 1920s: Bolshe- vization 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) 53

Strategies and Behavioral Tactics in the 1920s” 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 Oldfi eld, 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 “Refl ections on Russian Society during War and Revolution, 1914- 1924” 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 Con- temporary Russia” Stephen Norris, Miami U, USA “Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism” Daria Mattingly, U of Cambridge, UK “Cultural Memory of the Holodomor Rank-and-File Perpetrators” Discussant: Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki, Finland

II-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” 54 Session II – 2 (Wednesday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Katsumi Fujiwara, Osaka U, Japan “Consumer Society and Women in Manchukuo from the Case of Harbin” 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 ” 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 and Changing Family Roles from Sociological Perspectives Chair: Norio Horie, U of Toyama, Japan Papers: Natalia Khodyreva, St. Petersburg State U, Russia “Traffi cking and Violence against Women-migrants in Russia (the Case of St. Petersburg)” Noriko Igarashi, Tenri U, Japan “Gender Situation in Russian Society: from the Perspective of a De- Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 55

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 Cau- casus 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: Infl uence on Humanitarian Dimension of Relations” Farkhod Tolipov, Non-governmental Education Institution “Bilim Kar- voni”, Uzbekistan “‘Power Being’ and ‘Power Projection’ of Russia in Central Asia” Bakyt Ospanova, Lev Gumilev Eurasian U, Kazakhstan “The Engagement in Central Asia” Discussant: TBA 56 Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

II-3-2 Comparative Studies between European Integration and East Asian Regional Cooperation Chair: Valéria Szekeres, Obuda U, Hungary Papers: Steven Rosefi elde, 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 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 Halfi n, 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” Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 57

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 Na- tionalism 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 ” 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 Firefi ghting 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 Metaphi- losophy 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 and Innovations” Marina Danilova, Kuban State Agrarian U “Role of Religion in the Economics and Economic Life in Russia” 58 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 Organi- zations 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 Poten- tial 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 Declassifi ed Archi- val Fonds: Examples from the History of the Gulag” Discussant: TBA

II-3-9 : 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 Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 59

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 Offi cial Government Security Sys- tem and Social Resources of an Integrated Society” Discussant: Jouko Nikula, U of Helsinki, Finland

II-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 centre- européen, France “Political Polarization and National Heritage in Post-soviet Georgia” Denis Daffl on, 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 of Memory 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’ Japa- nese Cinema” Discussant: Takako Inoue, Daito Bunka U, Japan 60 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 Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 61

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 History of 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 “Offi cial 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 62 Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Business Elites 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 and the Fate of Investment in East-Central Europe after 1918” Discussant: Dániel Virágh, U of California, Berkeley, USA Session II – 3 (Wednesday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 63

II-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 64 Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Cooper- ation within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization” Hiroyuki Fujimaki. Tokai U, Japan “Does the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Provide Regional Secu- rity Governance to the Member States?” Lei Yang. Nankai U, China “Conception of China on the Silk Road Economic Belt and Eurasian Regional 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 and Objectives 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” Discussant: Tuomas Forsberg. U of Tampere, Finland Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 65

II-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 to Japanophobes” 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 Coffi n:’ Dilemmas of Contesting 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 Com- edy (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?” 66 Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Discussant: Masumi Kameda, U of Tokyo, Japan

II-4-7 The Role of Media in Confl ict-prone Countries of the Post-communist Space Chair: Kaarle Nordenstreng, U of Tampere, Finland Papers: Nino Abzianidze, U of Zurich, Switzerland “Who Forges Confl ict? Analysis of Nationalist Appeals in Georgian Print Media” Svetlana Pasti, U of Tampere, Finland “Confl ict and Resistance: Journalistic Online Start-ups in Russian Media System” Ešref Rašidagić, U of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina “The Role of Print Media in Refugee Return in Bosnia: Lessons for Post-confl ict Countries?” Doreen Spörer-Wagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland “Media and Confl ict: 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 – Twentieth Centuries: 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: Ec- clesial Identity and Political Loyalty” Karen Hamada, U of Tokyo, Japan Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 67

“Ecumenism or Expansionism? –Theological Discourses on the Ac- tivity of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Christian Caucasus and Middle 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 Rus- sian 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 and Inclusion; 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 and Smaller Towns” Ildikó Asztalos Morell, Uppsala U, Sweden “Negotiating Poverty: Models for Poverty Reduction in Rural Hungary” 68 Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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, Finland

II-4-13 Politics of Norms and Culture in the Former Yugoslav Countries and Bulgaria 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 “Confl ict Between Uzbek State Policy, Offi cial Islam, Islamic Reviv- alism 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” Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 69

Olga Tabachnikova and Natalia Vinokurova, Central Economics & Math- ematics 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 Clas- sic 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 and Notes by Vas. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko: Through His Relationship with Two Japanese Journalists and Writers Futabatei Shimei and Oba Kako” Koji Sakurai, Waseda U, Japan 70 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 in the Late Nineteenth century” Taro Tsurumi, Saitama U, Japan “Jewish Nationalism in the : 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 & Hum- boldt 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 ” György Péteri, Norwegian U of Science and Technology “From Purge to Scandal. Changing Political Culture and Intra-Party Confl ict 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 the Nomads in Central Asia, 1916” Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 71

Aminat Chokobaeva, Australian National U “Ideology and the Soviet Historical Consciousness in Interpretations of the 1916 Revolt” Cloé Drieu, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifi que, 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 the Making 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 Pacifi c Rim Chair: Patricia Polansky, U of Hawaii, USA Papers: Amir Khisamutdinov, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia “Russian Waves on the Pacifi c” 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 72 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-Yugo- slav (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 Session II – 4 (Wednesday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 73

Papers: Alla Leukavets Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany “Playing Two Level Games with EU and Russia: Domestic Dimension of the Integration Policy in EaP Countries” Katerina Bosko (Malygina), U of Bremen, Germany “Debates on Gas Dependency on Russia in Ukraine: How the Internal Power Struggles Determine the Foreign Policy Course” Yauheni Preiherman, Centre for Analytical Initiatives, PA Discussion and Analytical Society Liberal Club, Minsk, Belarus “The Paradox of Diverging Public Opinion and Policy Choices over Integration 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 Traditions in 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” 74 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) Thursday

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Session 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-Pacifi c 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 Envi- ronment in the Northern Buriatiia, Russia” Valentina Dianova, St. Petersburg State U, Russia “The Mongolian-speaking People in the Territory of Russia: Features of 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 ‘Gruzstroy- BAM’ 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 Croatian Self-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 the Former 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 Archi- tecture” 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 76 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 Balaban- ov’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: the Philosophical 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 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 77

“Russian Policies to Counter Political Mobilization” Bo Petersson, Malmo U, Sweden “Shortcut to Popularity: Legitimation Problems and Potential Crises of Succession 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 Search of 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” 78 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

III-1-12 Social Movements and International Confl icts in the Baltic States Chair: Igor Zevelev, MacArthur Foundation, Russia Papers: Jolanta Aidukaite, Södertörn U, Sweden; Lithuanian Social Research Centre “The Role of Leadership in Urban Movements: the Case of ” 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 the Conditions of Changing Russian Foreign Policy and Legislative Base” Discussant: Neil Melvin, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

III-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- Period (the 1980-90s)” Fidana Musayeva, Moscow State U (Baku Branch), Azerbaijan “Splitting Identities and Contemporary Ethnic Confl icts 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 Anniver- sary (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) 79

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 “ 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 ‘Karama- zovy:’ 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 the Biggest Russian Joint-stock Companies, 1870-1914” 80 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Valentina Veremenko, Pushkin Leningrad State U, Russia “Professional Employment of Intelligent Women and the Problems of 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: Edu- cation, 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 the Multi-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 Nine- teenth 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 First World 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 Pacifi c” Tatiana Filippova, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 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 Offi ces 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 University of Management and Economics, Lithuania; Bonnard Pascal, CERI, Sciences Po, Paris et ISP-CNRS Nanterre, France

III-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” Syndrome in 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 West and 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 82 Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

“Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for the Construction of a Multicultural 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 Cen- tennial 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 Dis- course: 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 of Foreign 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-com- pany 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” Session III – 1 (Thursday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 83

Discussant: Yuko Adachi, Sophia University, Japan

III-1-25 Former Soviet States and South East Europe: Confrontation and Cooperation 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 Half of 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 84 Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

“The Crisis of the Russian Civilization and the Concept of the ‘Rus- sian World’ of the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church”

Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

III-2-1 Putin’s Asia-Pacifi c 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-Pacifi c 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 be- tween China and Its Neighbors?” Discussant: HiroshiYamazoe, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan

III-2-2 Confl ict 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 Traffi cking 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 and Evolution”

III-2-3 Eurozone Enlargement: Prospect of New EU Member States for Euro Adoption Chair: Yoji Koyama, Niigata U, Japan Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 85

Papers: 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 and Non-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 86 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 Confl ict 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, Finland

III-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 Histori- cal Materialism to Confl ict of Values” Ekaterina Gainutdinova, Astrakhan State Technical U, Russia “Bases of Positive Motivation as a Factor of Formation of Institutions of Civil Society” Discussant: Lev Gudkov, Levada-Center, Russia

III-2-9 Problems of Religiousness Chair: TBA Papers: Vldimir Glagolev, MGIMO, Russia Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 87

“Religious Axiology in the Russian Philosophical Discourse: Method- ological 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 Russian State Duma” Kenneth Wilson, Dongguk U-Seoul, South Korea “How Opposition Parties Strengthen Electoral Authoritarianism: the Case 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” Discussant: Stanley Feldman, U of Minnesota, USA 88 Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Transforma- tions 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 of Euromaidan”

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 and Business 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, the 1970s – 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 Refl ection in the Media” Irina Zherebkina, Kharkov National University, Ukraine Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 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 Femi- nist 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 Infl uence 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 Translation of 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” Josefi na 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, Russia 90 Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

“Language Personality of Alexander Blok. Based on Manuscripts from the 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 and Post-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 Russian Federation: 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 Sixteenth- Eighteenth 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 “Refl ection 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 Versifi cation by V. K. Trediakovskii and Its Relationship with the Russian Music Culture of the Eighteenth Century” Atsuo Nakazawa, Toyama U, Japan Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 91

“On Cultural History of Medieval Russia”

III-2-20 Rethinking the Russian Revolution in Light of the Revolutions of the Twenty-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: the Mobilizations 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 Session III – 2 (Thursday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Far Eastern Republic and the Mongolian Federation” Anastasia Ipeeva, Siberian Federal U, Krasnoyarsk, Russia “‘Yellow Peril’ and ‘Great Turn’ in ” Altai Dulbaa, Institute of International Studies, Academy of Science, Mongolia “Collapse of the Soviet Union: Infl uence 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, Russia Participants: 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 Turkestan Studies, Magdeburg, Germany “Golden Horde and Crimean Khanate: Early Intercultural Contacts to Germans (Teutonic Knights & Brandenburg Prussia)” Agata Nalborczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland “The Image of Tatars, Turks and Their Religion in the Polish Anti-Is- lamic 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) 93

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 : Focusing on Sematic Groups Expressing Exertion of an Infl uence on Objects and Exertion of an Infl uence 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” 94 Book 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 Compre- hensive 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 Hes- sische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfl iktforschung, 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 Confl icts in East Asia Chair: TBA Papers: Steven Urueta, U of Tokyo, Japan “Untangling the Kuril Conundrum: Russo-Japanese Cooperation and Confl ict in the Sea of Okhotsk” Alibay Mammadov, Hokkaido U, Japan “Understanding Common Citizens in the Territorial Issues of Russia and Japan (1991-2015)” Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 95

Monika Chansoria, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, India “China, Japan and the East China Sea Confl ict: 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 Rus- sian-Japanese Territorial Dispute” Tracey German, King's College London, UK “Azerbaijan, Atlético Madrid and Eurovision: Unconventional Sources of Infl uence and the Foreign Policy of Small States” Elena Kropatcheva, U of Hamburg, Germany “Russia and the Crisis in/around Ukraine through the Prism of Neo- classical 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 Iden- tity on the Polish-Ukrainian Border” Stanislaw Domaniewski, U of Eastern Finland “In Search of a Border Identity on the Polish-Russian Border: Chal- lenging 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 96 Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

Veps Case” Alexej Novogilov, Saint Petersburg State U “Population of the North-West Borderland of Russia in the Twentieth – Twenty-fi rst 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-fi rst 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-fi rst Century Soviet-era Comedy” Emily Finer, U of St. Andrews, UK “‘More Real than Stalin or Beria?’ Dickens in Twenty-fi rst Century Russian Literary Culture” Olga Voronina, U of St. Andrews, UK “Uchronia in Twenty-fi rst Century Russian Fiction: ‘Remaking’ Russian Myths” Discussant: Serguei A. Oushakine, Princeton U, USA

III-3-8 Post-socialist Confl icts and Nationalism Chair: TBA Papers: Tatsiana Astrouskaya, U of Greifswald, Germany “Intellectuals and Power: Practices of Resistance and Mechanisms of Reciprocal Infl uence in Post-Soviet Belarus” Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 97

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 “Confl ict 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 Chair: Richard Sakwa, U of Kent, UK 98 Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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, and Values. 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 of Election-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 and Communal 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 Na- tional Consciousness” Valentina Bredneva, Sakhalin State U, Russia "The Specifi cs of the Legal Culture in the Asian Region" Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 99

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 Education in 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 Insti- tute 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 100 Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 the Thought Context at Its Time” Yuri Nagura, U of Tokyo, Japan “The Controversy over the Term ‘Lyrical Prose’ in the Offi cial 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 Lan- guage in Russian Poetry” Yngvar Steinholt, U of Tromsø, Norway “Bird Noises: A Musical-ornithological Interpretation of Velimir Kh- lebnikov's Poem ‘Mudrost' v silke’" Naoto Yagi, Waseda U, Japan “The Infl uence of Sound-reproduction Technologies on the Theory of Russian Formalism: The Case of Boris Eikhenbaum” Discussant: Svetlana Cheloukhina, Queens College, CUNY, USA Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 101

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 and the Balkan Front 1914-1918” Meline Mesropyan,Tohoku U, Japan “Diana Agabeg Apcar’s Role in Armenia-Japan International Relations and Humanitarian Activities” Adam Kola, Nicolaus Copernicus U, Poland “Women’s Global Migration during the Second World War. The Case of Halina Kridl” Discussant: Takeo Suzuki, Waseda U, Japan

III-3-20 Imperial “Technologies of Power” in the Kazakh Steppe: Experience of 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 the Ninteenth Century” Sergey Lyubichankovskiy, Orenburg State Pedagogical U, Russia “Islamization of of the Orenburg Region as the Mechanism of 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 the Ninteenth 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” 102 Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Documentary Film” 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 Cinematog- raphy, 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 Session III – 3 (Thursday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 103

“Friedrich Naumann's Idea of ‘Mitteleuropa’" Sachiko Handa, Tohoku U, Japan “Women's Views on Other Nations: Czech Fashion Magazines be- tween 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 States Chair: 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” 104 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Signifi cance of Peripheries in Historiography and Its Relevance in 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 Japa- nese 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 Lan- guage of the Russian Empire”

Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Scientifi c 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” Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 105

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 and Globalization” 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 Kazakh- stan 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 Intercultural and 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 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Unifi ed 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 in 1944” Andrii Krawchuk, U of Sudbury, Canada “Russian Orthodoxy in Ukraine since the Euro-Maidan of 2014: Ec- clesial Identity and Political Loyalty” Margarete Zimmermann, Friedrich-Schiller-U of Jena, Germany “Sacred Space: Constructing Identity in Kazakhstan” Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 107

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 President of 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 Confl ict between Promotion and Interference by Government” Valeria Kasamara, Higher School of Economics, Russia “The Image of Russia and its Future in perceptions of Various Groups of 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 and China-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 108 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 to Overcome 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 cover to the digital screen?” Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 109

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 of Commedia 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 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Eastern Europe” Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Post-Chornobyl: Catastrophism and Nuclear Sublimation in Contem- porary 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-Movements in 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 and Pan-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 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 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 Finland

III-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 the World-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 Infl uence 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 Papers: Andriy Danylenko, Pace U, USA 112 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 Bjornfl aten, 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 Lan- guage 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 ” Tomoyo Fukuda, Kitazono Senior High School, Japan “International Education at Kitazono Senior High School – from the Experiences 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 Japanese Highschool Students” Oxana Bondarenko, Toyama Prefectural Fushiki High School, Japan “From the Experience in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at Fushiki 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 Session III – 4 (Thursday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 113

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 the Twentieth Century” Dmitriy Platonov, Moscow State U, Russia “Origins of Russian Economic Science. The System of Ivan Pososh- kov'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 114 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) Friday

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Session 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 Infl uences of Eurasian Union on Sino-Russian Relations, Shang- hai Cooperation Organization and Silk Road Economic Belt” Marina Dmitrieva, Far Eastern Federal U, Russia “Russian policy in Central Asia and the Formation of Regional Insti- tutions” 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 Beginning of 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 Multi- dimensional Foreign Policy” Discussant: TBA Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 115

IV-1-3 European Right Wing and Xenophobia in the Twenty-fi rst Century (Roundtable) Chair: Steven S. Rosefi elde, U of North Carolina, USA Participants: Sabrina Ramet, Norvegian U of Science and Technology “Radical Rights of Balkan and Central Europe: The Change and Non-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 the Soviet 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 Kazakh- stan Writers” 116 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Mārtiņš Kaprāns, U of Tartu, Estonia “Dealing with Uncertainty: The Political and Social Memory of the Soviet Era in Ukraine and Moldova” Discussants: Barbara Christophe, Georg-Eckert Institute for International Text- book 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 Unoffi cial 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 Confl ict” Yongshu Li, Meiji U, Japan; Takayuki Yoshimura, Aoyama gakuin U, Japan “In the Wake of Crimean Crisis: a Case-Study of the Strategic Triangle Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 117

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 Trajec- tories 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 Party of 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?” 118 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 Refl ection 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 Infl uence 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 Na- tional 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 Gender amongst Hungarian Progressives” Meghann Pytka, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, USA “Active National Forgetting and Sexual Violence in Poland during and after 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 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 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’ Sofi a 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” 120 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

Discussant: Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City U, Japan

IV-1-17 “Near Abroad” – The Baltic Region within the Catchment Area of the Russian 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 Impe- rial 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 from the 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” Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 121

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 Japa- nese Press” Discussant: Yoshifuru Tsuchiya, Nihon U, Japan

IV-1-21 Nationalism, Confl ict 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 Identifi cation with Media Characters of Fictional Narration, And the Dissemination of Historical Memory of the Holo- caust 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 “‘Prefi xal Clip’ as Actualization of Prefi xes 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 122 Session IV – 1 (Friday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

IV-1-23 The Importance of Context and Specifi city 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 Profi ciency: A Comparison” Natasha Kurashova and Josef Mueller, Regent’s U, UK “The Development and Adaptation of Good Classroom Practice in Teaching 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-fi rst 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 Entrepreneur- ship 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 Refl ections 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 ” 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” Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 123

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 Per- spectives” Halyna Hryn, Harvard U, USA “Engagement with Modernism: Ukrainian Literature and the West” Tamara Hundorova, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Trauma and Transit: The Postcolonial Condition in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature” Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas, USA “Ukrainian Cinema’s Shifting Global Affi nities” Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia U, USA “Recent Borrowings into the Ukrainian Language. Verbalizing the Global”

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 of Power” 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 124 Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Biodi- versity of the Lake and in the Socioeconomic and Health Conditions of 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 Under- world in Russian Funeral Lamentations: An Analysis from the View- point of the Representation of the Mythical World Tree” Tetsuya Yamada, Keio U, Japan Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 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 Socio- Pedagogical U, Russia “Supporting Professional Activity of Kindergarten Teachers by Social Media Technologies” Dagmar Bergs-Winkels and Peter Winkels, U of Applied Sciences Ham- 126 Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Kin- derheit 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-fi rst 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 Twen- tieth 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) 127

Russia’s Regions” Mari Aburamoto, Japan Society for Promotion of Science “Explaining a Dynamics of Russian Party Politics, 1991-2011: Decen- tralization, Centralization and the Regional Elite Confi guration” 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 and Public 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-fi rst 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 Political Thinking in the Late 1950s Poland?” Discussant: Miia Ijäs, U of Tampere, Finland 128 Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Mos- cow 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 Affi liations. Scalar Practices of Gender-democratic Organizations Representing Women in Poland, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia and the Spatial Orders of Geopo- litical 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 De- stalinization, 1953-1964” Polly Jones, Oxford U, UK Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 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 Translingual Fiction 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, Enforce- ment and Rejection” Tsuyoshi Fujioka Doshisha U, Japan “Japanese Lysenkoites after Lysenko's Downfall” 130 Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Explora- tions and I.K. Kirilov’s Colonial Policy” Suchandana Chatterjee, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, India “Shaping a Himalayan Destiny: Alternative Voices in South Asia” Discussant: Akitsu Mayuzumi, U of Tokyo, Japan

IV-2-21 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 Scientifi c-Technical Coop- eration 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” Discussant: Valeria Zanier, London School of Economics, UK Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 131

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-Japa- nese 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 : the Rise and Fall of the Great Confusion” Takuya Nakazawa, U of Tokyo, Japan “The Politics over ‘the Origin of Nation’ in Socialist Yugoslavia: 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 Compara- tive 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 in Medieval 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 the Medieval South Slavic Societies” Anica Vlašić-Anić, Old Church Slavonic Institute, Croatia “Bringing the Multi-literacy and Multiculturality of the Croatian Medieval Period to the Present Day: The Newly-found ‘Parchments in Jeans’” 132 Session IV – 2 (Friday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Specifi c Aspects of Teaching Russian in Japanese Institutions of Higher 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 Derivational Affi xes 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 and the WTO Chair: TBA Papers: Jakhongir Kakhkharov, Griffi th U, Australia “Estimating Remittances in the Former Soviet Union: Methodological Complexities 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 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 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 Geopoliti- cisation 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

Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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-Pacifi c Strategy in Times of 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 134 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Finan- cial 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 Sofi a 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 Bilat- eral 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 of Infl uence” Alexander Izotov, U of Eastern Finland “Local Ethno-cultural Discursive Contexts in Soviet and Post-Soviet Sortavala” Discussant: TBA Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 135

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-cul- tural 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 Russian Intelligentsia 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 136 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Confi nement in Imperial Russia” Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union, USA “Narrating Religious Conversion: Lessons from the Leningrad Non- conformist 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 Development of 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 Commu- nication” Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Higher School of Economics, Russia “Traces in the Memory of Afghan Veterans and Their Memorial Societies” Discussant: TBA Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 137

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” 138 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Alien- ation 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 Environ- ment? 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 and Gazdanov’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” Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 139

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 Scientifi c 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 of Transition: the Case of V. I. Vernadskii” Koji Kanayama, Hokkaido U, Japan “The Great Terror and the Transformations of the Academy of Sciences of 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 140 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Archaeo- logical Research in Late Imperial Russia” Igor Khristoforov, Higher School of Economics, Russia “Exclusive Knowledge: Economic Expertise and Government Policy in 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 “Disneyfi cation of Memory: Commemoration of Hurby Battle in Post- 1991 Ukraine” Discussant: Jan Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam & Hum- boldt 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 Fascism on Japan during World War II” Fumiaki Tsukue, Hosei U, Japan “Soviet Foreign Strategy Regarding the Peace Settlement with Japan:1950-1951” Yiming Feng, Capital Normal U, China Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm) 141

“Chinese Policy towards Laos, 1959-1965” Discussant: Alexander Bukh, Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand

IV-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) in Ukrainian’s Scientists Recearchers” Yasuko Shibata, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of 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 the Silesian, 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 Democ- racy and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism” Marcin Bobrowski, Charles-U Prague, The Czech Republic “The Kashubian Language in Poland after the Fall of Communism in 142 Session IV – 3 (Friday – 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm)

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 Schoolaged Children (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 Renais- sance 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 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 143

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 of Soviet 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 of Vladimir Lubarov” Discussant: Edward Tyerman, Barnard College, Columbia U, USA

Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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-Pacifi c Region” Jianhua Zhang Beijing, Normal U, China “'Taiwan Issue' and 'Taiwan Factor' in Sino-Soviet Relations: An Ex- plaination Based on Russian References” Lijuan Yang, Yangzhou U, China “Soviet Communication” Research in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” Discussant: TBA 144 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

IV-4-2 Caucasian : 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 “Defi ning 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 Confl ict” 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 Poli- cies 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, and Soviet 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 Refl ecting the Imagination of the 'Other' in the Post-Soviet Space” Discussant: Natsuko Oka, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 145

IV-4-5 Japan and Russia: Mutual Infl uence 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 Twen- tirth 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 Kazakh- stan: 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” 146 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Asian Countries 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 Histo- riography” 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 Scientifi c 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 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 147

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 Effi cacy 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 148 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

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 Image of Man Chair: 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 Sub- ject in Early Soviet Literature” Michael Nicholson, Oxford U, UK “Of Potatoes and Men: ‘Free’ Enterprise in Oleg Pavlov’s Gulag Gro- tesque 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” Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 149

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 Qualita- tively 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 Oldfi eld, 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 Trans- formation 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 150 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 North- western 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 the Representation 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 the Second 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 Session IV – 4 (Friday – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm) 151

IV-4-22 Governance and Islam (Historical Perspectives) Chair: Takehiko Inoue, Sapporo Gakuin U, Japan Papers: Sejin Jung, Hanyang U, South Korea “A Specifi c 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 Infl uenced 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 for Balkan 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 for Music 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 152 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 Indepen- dence: 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 Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 153 Saturday

August

Session 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 154 Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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: the Environmental Aspect” Beibit Shangirbayeva, EU Delegation to Kazakhstan “The Art of the Word among Kazakhs or the Cultural Background for the Implementation of Right to Freedom of Expression in Contempo- rary Kazakhstan” Discussant: TBA

V-1-5 Comparative Approaches to Russian/Polish Art, Cinema, and Music Chair: Jakub Karpoluk, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technolgy, Poland Papers: 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 Infl uence of Japanese Culture on the Russian Silver Age Artists and Illustrators” Beata Kowalczyk, Warsaw University, Poland Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 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 and around 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 Signifi cance 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 Background of 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 the Orange 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 156 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 Diplo- macy 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 Na- tional 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 (Rus- sian Experience)” Giorgi Kipiani, Ivane Javakhishvili U, Georgia “Public Interest and European Regulation Policies: Theory and Prac- tice in Georgia” Discussant: TBA

V-1-11 Russian Literature and the East Chair: Yukio Nakano, U of Tokyo, Japan Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 157

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 and Kenji 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 Post- Soviet 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 in Soviet 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 , Ukraine “Literary Maidan: an Un-imagined Reality and a Search of a New Language” Discussants: Klavdia Smola, Greifswald U, Germany; Adrian Wanner, Penn State U, USA 158 Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am)

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 Science and 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 the Context of International Conservation Efforts” Roman Khandozhko, U of Bremen, Germany “Parascientifi c 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 Periodicals of 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: Unoffi cial 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” Session V – 1 (Saturday – 9:30 am – 11:00 am) 159

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 Confl ict 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 (Xin- jiang 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, , 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 160 Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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, Griffi th 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-imperial Interaction in the Interwar Years” Lorenz Bichler, Heidelberg U, Germany “From Victims to Winners: The Journal The Communist (Gongchan- dang 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) 161

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 Academy of Science “Transit Potential of Mongolia between Europe and Asia” Demberel Kolya, Institute of International Studies, Mongolian Academy of Science “Collaboration between Mongolia and former socialist countries in Eastern Europe (1950-1990)”

Rafi k Usmanov, Astrakhan State U, Russia “Geopolitics of Caspian region in confl ict-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-fi rst Century” Akiko Kawauchi, Kyoto U, Japan “The Relation between the Cost of Preserving Hegemony and the Foreign 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: Opportuni- ties and Impediments for Development in the 1990s ‒ Early 2010s” 162 Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 “Redefi ning Oral Narratives” Liudmila Missonova, Russia, The International Arctic Social Sciences Association “A.Chekhov’s Studying the Sakhalin Population: the Logical Connec- tion 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 Mu- gen 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 Aes- thetics of the Noh Performance. Towards Defi nition of the Japanese Chorea” Risa Matsuo, U of Tokyo, Japan “The Signifi cance 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 Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 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 Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” Reiya Miura, Waseda U, Japan “On the Idea of ‘Russianness’ in Music – V. F. Odoyevsky’s Musical Aesthetics” Kieko Kamitake, Hitotsubashi U, Japan “Marietta Shaginyan’s ‘S. V. Rachmaninoff: Musical-psychological Study’ (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 World- wide 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 164 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 and Society” 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 Papers: Yukio Nakano, U of Tokyo, Japan “Alexander Bakhrakh in his Correspondence with Russian Emigrant Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 165

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 Mod- ern Confl icts and a Sacred Byzantine” Edward Waysband, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel “Poetry and Russian-Polish-Jewish Politics at the Beginning of the First 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 Liter- ary 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 166 Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Stratifi cation 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, the 1860s-1920s” Miinling Yu, Academia Sinica “Chinese Perceptions of the Soviet History after 1991” Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati, USA “Westernization or Something Else? Refl ections on Russia and the World 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 Infl uence of Russian Mafi a at the Turn of the Century, 1991-2008” Gennady Kosov, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic U, Russia Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 167

“Formation of Civil Society in Russia: Through the Lens of Civilization Approach” Discussant: TBA

V-2-18 Buddhism as an Engine of Cross-Border Interaction in Europe and Asia (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 and Siberia (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”: Demon- strated 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 168 Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

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 Negoti- ation” 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 Economic and Moral Crises until 2014” Session V – 2 (Saturday – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm) 169