Veranstaltung: Regensburg-Sapporo Area Studies Forum

Join us for an online session presenting area studies research in Regensburg and Sapporo as part of the collaboration between the University of Regensburg, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Hokkaido University and the Slavic Eurasian Research Centre in Sapporo.

 

Researchers from Regensburg and the University of Hokkaido 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