SRC-OSW Seminar: Eurasia Borderlands Review

With the support of the East West Center in Washington

GCOE-SRC International Symposium
"Border Politics Surrounding North Korea"

Time and Date	13:30-18:00 March 13, 2011
Venue	4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Centre
Speakers, Discussants:	Jongseok LEE (Former Minister of the Ministry of Unification) Yoshinobu MORI (Saga University) Hyein HAN (Konkuk University) Ihkpyo HONG (KEIP) Youngseo BAIK (Yonsei University) Takashi KIMURA (Kyushu University)
Languages	Japanese, Korean (simultaneous interpretation available)
Contact	Naomi CHI (SRC)
	Admission is free, but prior registration necessary.
Poster	N.Korea symposium [PDF]

GCOE-SRC Special Seminar
Old Borders in New Contexts: On the Language Situation in Multinational Companies Operating in Central Europe

Time and Date	16:30-18:00 March 3rd, 2011
Venue	4F Conference Room, SRC
Speaker	Jiri Nekvapil (Charles Univ.)
Language of Operation	in English
Contact	Motoki Nomachi
	No prior registration necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend.

GCOE-SRC Special Seminar
World Refugee Year 1959-1960 and the history of population displacement

Toward Networking with World's Border Studies:
Japan’s Borders in Global Perspective

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation has been supporting the project “Establishment of Japan’s Network on International Border Studies” promoted by the Slavic Research Center at the Hokkaido University as part of our project “Efforts to Ensure Peace and Security in the International Community”. This project is an effort toward establishing a forum for discussions among practitioners as well as academics regarding the policy challenges of Japan’s border (or borderland) communities and to network with the international community of border studies. While much of the media’s attention has focused only on sensational territorial issues such as the Senkaku Islands and the Northern Territories, we take a rather different approach to the matter by building and elaborating on previous discussions and works by international border studies experts while dealing with specific topics and themes that face practitioners and academics in Japan’s border regions. Through such relentless and persistent efforts, we hope to search for a breakthrough and/or new perspectives on relations with our neighboring countries as well as Japan’s national security.

The Hokkaido University Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies” together with the Japan Society for Island Studies, City of Tsushima, and Kyushu Association for Economic Cooperation co-hosted the “Borderlands Forum in Tsushima Island” on November 12-14, and representatives from 14 local governments including Busan City of Korea came together to present and discuss the challenges that face each local community, such as those that stem from territorial issues, friction in promoting economic or social exchanges with one’s neighboring countries, as well as issues of marine debris.

The aim of this seminar is to reconsider the policies of the local governments through the recapitulation of the achievements at the Tsushima Forum together with some international case studies for the establishment of the border studies network in Japan. The seminar is open to public and everyone is most welcome.

GCOE・SRC Special Seminar
"Language Borders Within the Speaker :
Codeswitching Practices and Bi- and Multi-lingualism in the Balkans"

Time and Date	Oct. 7, 2010 (Thurs.) 16:30-18:00P.M.
Venue	4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Center
Speaker	Victor Friedman (Univ. of Chicago)
Summary	This lecture will focus on Turkish conjugation in Balkan Romani but also examine e.g. Romani and Macedonian, Macedonian and Judezmo, Albanian and Macedonian. It will challenge formalist approaches such as concepts of embedded versus matrix languages, single grammars of multiple languages, or so-called imperfect learning. concepts such as intertwining and code-compartmentalization will be discussed.
Language of Operation	English
Contact	Motoki Nomachi

GCOE Seminar “Vojvodina as a Multilingual Society:
Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities”

Sponsored by	Global COE “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies”
Co-sponsored by	Slavic Research Center
Date and Time	Sept. 27, 2010 (Monday) 10:20-17:30P.M.
Venue	4F Conference Room, Slavic Research Center
Program
Time   10:20-10:30A.M. Opening Remarks 10:20-12:00P.M. Part I Title “Ruthenians vs. Ukrainians in Serbia and how they are interwoven” Speaker Ljudmila Popovic (Univ. of Belgrade/SRC) Discussant Susumu Nagayo (Waseda Univ.) Language of operation English 13:30-15:00P.M. Part II Title “Internal and External Borders of the Slovak Language: Slovak as a national language and language of diaspora” Speaker Miroslav Dudok (Univ. of Novi Sad/ Comenius Univ.) Discussant Satoshi Hashimoto (Hokkaido Univ.) Language of operation Slovak Interpreter Dana Hashimoto, Hokkaido Univ. 15:15-17:30P.M. Part III Showing of film “Hranica (lit. border)” (Director: Jaroslav Vojtek) Commentator Jana Dudkova (Slovak Academy of Sciences) Language of operation English
Contact	Motoki Nomachi          SRC, ext. 3158,
No prior registration necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Special Lecture “Slovaci v srbskej Vojvodine
(lit. Slovaks in Serbia’s Vojvodina)”

Sponsored by	Japan Society of West Slavic Studies
Co-sponsored by	Hokkaido University Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies”
Date and Time	Sept. 25, 2010 16:00-17:30P.M.
Venue	Rm. 7203, Bldg #7, Ikebukuro Campus, Rikkyo Univ. (JR: Tobu Toujo Line, Seibu Ikebukuro Line, Tokyo Metro “Ikebukuro” Station. 7 minutes walk from the West Exit) Access map→　http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/access/pmap/ikebukuro.html Campus map→　http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/access/ikebukuro/campus.html
Speaker	Miroslav Dudok (Univ.of Novi Sad / Comenius Univ.)
Language of operation	Slovak (interpretation available)
Contact	Motoki Nomachi