Education
The Second GOE Summer School Program
“Eurasia Border Review: From Northeast Asia to Middle East”
Date: Aug. 1- Aug.8, 2011
Venue: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Japan
Objective:
One of the aims of the Global COE “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies” is to create a core of young and promising graduate students and researchers on border studies by bridging and integrating our overseas networks and communities. The educational collaboration among participating universities and organizations will not only bridge the currently segregated borderland studies communities of the East and West, but also serve as a network to introduce the rich materials and resources on border studies in Eurasia and East Asia, which previously could not be introduced due to linguistic barriers. Therefore, the language of operation during the summer program will be in English. The ultimate goal of this GCOE program is to foster experts that can offer the results of their research to the policy-making communities to resolve border-related issues and conflicts as well as stabilize the de/re-borderlisation phenomena taking place in the international community to secure peace and prosperity.
Terms and Conditions:
The series of lectures during the summer seminar will be taught by Japanese and overseas experts of border studies and area studies. Upon fulfilling the requirements, participants will be issued a certificate recognizing the completion of the program. An overseas post-doctoral or doctoral researcher who joins the seminar is advised to apply using the application form on the website. Once selected, the GCOE Program will provide the participants with costs for local accommodation in Sapporo as well for related events (such as the borderland retreat). All participants will be requested to make a presentation (with paper) at a workshop on August 5th. And encouraged to contribute a manuscript for the GCOE program periodical (refereed) Eurasia Border Review. All participants would be responsible to cover their own airfare to and from Sapporo.
Participants will have free and unlimited access to the resources at Slavic Research Centre as well as the libraries at the Hokkaido University.
Other:
Doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows currently studying at Hokkaido University will also participate in this summer program. We would like to strongly encourage active discussions and exchange of opinions among Japanese as well as overseas participants. Also, Hokkaido has one of the most beautiful and mild summer season not only in Japan but the world, therefore, we would like to extend our invitation to all of you to enjoy and take advantage of this wonderful environment while actively studying and researching border studies in Japan, East Asia and Eurasia.
*In general, the participants are required to join all the lectures. However, if schedule in Sapporo is limited, the minimum condition for the certificate and local accommodation is to attend at least three lectures and to give the paper presentation at the workshop on August 5th.
“Eurasia Border Review: From Northeast Asia to Middle East”
Date: Aug. 1- Aug.8, 2011
Venue: Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Japan
Objective:
One of the aims of the Global COE “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies” is to create a core of young and promising graduate students and researchers on border studies by bridging and integrating our overseas networks and communities. The educational collaboration among participating universities and organizations will not only bridge the currently segregated borderland studies communities of the East and West, but also serve as a network to introduce the rich materials and resources on border studies in Eurasia and East Asia, which previously could not be introduced due to linguistic barriers. Therefore, the language of operation during the summer program will be in English. The ultimate goal of this GCOE program is to foster experts that can offer the results of their research to the policy-making communities to resolve border-related issues and conflicts as well as stabilize the de/re-borderlisation phenomena taking place in the international community to secure peace and prosperity.
Terms and Conditions:
The series of lectures during the summer seminar will be taught by Japanese and overseas experts of border studies and area studies. Upon fulfilling the requirements, participants will be issued a certificate recognizing the completion of the program. An overseas post-doctoral or doctoral researcher who joins the seminar is advised to apply using the application form on the website. Once selected, the GCOE Program will provide the participants with costs for local accommodation in Sapporo as well for related events (such as the borderland retreat). All participants will be requested to make a presentation (with paper) at a workshop on August 5th. And encouraged to contribute a manuscript for the GCOE program periodical (refereed) Eurasia Border Review. All participants would be responsible to cover their own airfare to and from Sapporo.
Participants will have free and unlimited access to the resources at Slavic Research Centre as well as the libraries at the Hokkaido University.
Other:
Doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows currently studying at Hokkaido University will also participate in this summer program. We would like to strongly encourage active discussions and exchange of opinions among Japanese as well as overseas participants. Also, Hokkaido has one of the most beautiful and mild summer season not only in Japan but the world, therefore, we would like to extend our invitation to all of you to enjoy and take advantage of this wonderful environment while actively studying and researching border studies in Japan, East Asia and Eurasia.
*In general, the participants are required to join all the lectures. However, if schedule in Sapporo is limited, the minimum condition for the certificate and local accommodation is to attend at least three lectures and to give the paper presentation at the workshop on August 5th.
Schedule(tentative)
| August 1-3: Lectures |
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| August 1 | (Day 1): Eurasia in the World 10:00- Introduction (Akihiro Iwashita) 13:00- Eurasia Cold War and the Borderlands (David Wolff) 15:30- "Russia and Maritime Order" (Sergey Sevastyanov) |
| August 2 | (Day 2): Central Eurasia 09:30- "Transnationalism in the Black Sea rim" (Kimitaka Matsuzato) 11:15- "Of rivers and men: towards a bottom-up approach to border issues in early Soviet Central Asia?" (Beatrice Penati) 14:00- "Revolutions, borders, and social cleavages in Kyrgyzstan" (Tomohiko Uyama) |
| August 3 | (Day 3): Central and East Europe 09:30- "Environment and Development in Eastern Europe" (Osamu Ieda) 11:15- "Language and Border in Balkan" (Tomasz Kamusella / Motoki Nomachi） 14:00- "Politics and Border in Central-Eastern Europe" (Hiroshi Fukuda / Shinkichi Fujimori) |
| Field Trip (August 6-7): Nemuro as the Borderlands |
| August 4-8: Lectures |
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| August 4 | (Day 4): Middle East 09:30- "Border on the ground, border in the mind: artificial setting of territorial states and sub-state identities in the case of 11:15- "Visible and Invisible Borders of 14:00- "Iran and Neighbors" (Mohammad Hassan Khani) |
| August 5 | (Day 5): Learning Border Studies in the World Workshop (presented by participants) |
| August 8 | (Day 6): 09:30- Japan and Asia (Kenichi Nakamura) 11:15- "Migratory Waves, the Insurgencies and the Shan Nation on the Thai-Burma Borders" (Amporn Jirattikorn) 14:00- "'Borderless' Activities Happen Only in a 'Borderful' World : Ontological Borders and Institutional Borders in Integrated Europe" (Kazuto Suzuki) |
