Regensburg-Sapporo Area Studies Forum

As part of efforts to further develop collaboration between institutions in Regensburg and Sapporo, we invite you to join an online seminar from 09:00 CEST (16:00 JST) on Monday, 27 April. No registration is required.

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Researchers from IOS, the University of Regensburg (DIMAS), and the Slavic Eurasian Research Centre of the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo will present their current research addressing themes from across the humanities and social sciences, covering Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as interconnections with Central Asia and the Middle East. We invite participants from anywhere in the world to join us.

Programme

09:00-09:10 | Introduction 

• Ulf Brunnbauer (Director, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)
• Yoko Aoshima (Director, Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University)

09:10-10:15 | Russia and Central Asia in Global Contentions and Connections

• Norihiro Naganawa (Hokkaido University): Russia and Saudi Arabia in the Long Twentieth Century
• Timothy Nunan (DIMAS, University of Regensburg): The Map and the Territory: Knowledge and Friction in the International 'Rediscovery' of Central Asia, 1991–2001

10:25-11:30 | Yugoslavia between Hitler and Stalin

• Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido University): Studying the ‘Enemy’s’ Language: Serbian Linguistics in Moscow during the Tito–Stalin Split
• Sabine Rutar (IOS Regensburg): How Is Survival a Strategy? Insights from German-occupied Industries in Yugoslavia during World War II