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Russia Japan Workshop 2016: Asian Studies at NSU and TU

Tohoku University and academic exchange partner Novosibirsk State University will hold a workshop on February 15, for faculty members and graduate students to present research and exchange ideas. Presentations will focus on Asian Studies in the regions of Japan, China and Mongolia.

The workshop is sponsored by Tohoku University's Office of Japan-Russian Relations, the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, as well as Novosibirsk State University's Department of Humanities.

The programme will be held in English.

Date: Monday February 15
Time: 1:00~6:00pm
Venue: Center for Northeast Asian Studies
Conference Room 436, Kawauchi Research Forum,
Kawauchi Campus, Tohoku University.
Directions:
A07 on the following map.
www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/images/map_kawauchi.pdf

1:00pm Opening remarks:
Shotaro Shimizu - Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
1:10~
1:40pm
Lecture one:
Prof. Elena Voytishek - Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
" The Social Role of Ancient Wine Drinking Rituals in the Traditional Culture of East Asia."
1:40~
2:10pm
Lecture two:
Prof. Hiroki Oka - Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University
"The Emperor's Mongolian Face: The Qing's Context in Mongolian History"
2:10pm~
2:40pm
Lecture three:
Prof. Pavel Volkov - Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
"How to Settle the People in the Ancient Dwellings? An Experimental Archaeology and the Modern History."
3:00~
3:25pm
Presentations:
Anastacia Rechkalova - Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
"Research Trends of Japanese Heraldry in Western Historiography."
3:25~
3:50pm
Presentations:
Alesia Campbell - Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
"The Biography of Date Masamune as Written in English in 1893."
3:50~
4:15pm
Presentations:
Toru Otani - Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University
"On the 'Visuality' of Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 坤輿萬國全圖 - The Complete Geographical Map of Ten Thousand Countries: A Comparative Analysis of the Representations of the Countries of the Dwarfs and the Giants in Chinese and Japanese Cartography"
4:30~
4:55pm
Presentations:
Anton Trushkin - Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
"The Role of Pakistan in Sino-Afghanistan relations."
4:55~
5:20pm
Presentations:
Dmitriy Borisov - Department of Humanities, Novosibirsk State University
"Modern Misconceptions about the Three Kingdoms: Fiction and Reality."
5:20~
5:45pm
Presentations:
Huhmuchir Bao - Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University
"Han-Mongol Social Relationships in the Ethnically Mixed Region during the Second Half of the Qing Dyn

Contact:

Masachika Shiotani
Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University
Email: shiotanicneas.tohoku.ac.jp

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