Center for Northeast Asian Studies Tohoku University Public Lectures and Programs Open to the Public

Memorial Lectures for the 10th Anniversary of CNEAS
2 June 2006
“Higashi Ajia kyodotai: Chiiki kenkyu no yakuwari” [East Asian Community: Role of Regional Research], Mori Kazuko (Waseda University); “Tohoku Ajia no animizumu rengo no kessei” [Formation of a League of Animism in Northeast Asia], Yasuda Yoshinori (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

Lecture
9 June 2006
“Rekishi, kioku, monogatari: Medoruma Shun no shosetsu o toshite mieru sekai” [History, Memory, and Narrative: The Okinawan world revealed in Medoruma Shun’s Fiction], Susan Bouterey (University of Canterbury, New Zealand; visiting scholar, CNEAS)

Lecture
12 June 2006
“Ecological Research on “Sea Snails/Trematodes” Host-Parasite System in the Freshwater Area of Chany Lakes in West Siberia” [in English], Natalia I. Yurlova (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; visiting scholar, CNEAS)

Seminar
30 September 2006
“Sekiho-shi shozo Shin-dai Man-Mo-Kan-bun shiryo ni tsuite” [Qing-period Documents in Mongol, Manchu, and Chinese Languages in the Possession of the City of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia], Zhang Yongjiang (Associate Professor, Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China), and others.

Seminar (cosponsored with the National Museum of Ethnology joint research on “anthropology of the house”)
21 October 2006
“Tai hokubu sanchimin Yumien (Yao) ni okeru pyao (‘ie’” no kaku-kazokuka: Seigyo no henka to fukei godo kazoku no kaitai” [Nuclearization of the Pyau (“House”) of the Iu Mien, Highlanders in Northern Thailand: Occupational Changes and Disintegration of the Patrilineal Joint Family], Yoshino Akira (Tokyo Gakugei University); “Henka suru Kankoku shakai to chipu (ie)” [Changing South Korean Society and the “House”], Hidemura Kenji (Meisei University)

Lecture
28 November 2006
“Tokugawa jidai koki no shuppanbutsu ni miru shomin no jinseikan shussekan: ‘Jinsei dochu zu’ ‘E sugoroku’ o chushin ni” [Commoners’ Views of Life and Success as Seen in the Late Tokugawa Period Publications: Centering on Jinsei dochu zu and E sugoroku], Susanne Formanek (Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences; visiting scholar, CNEAS)

Seminar
28 November 2006
“Long-Term Changes in the Lake Chany System: From the Hydrological and Biological Perspectives” [in English], Alexander K. Yurlov and Natalia I. Yurlova (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); “Relations between Distribution of Rana Arvalis Frogs and Salinity in the Lake Chany System in West Siberia” [in English], Ota Hiroshi (Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University), and others

Lectures
Public Lectures: “Chi no soko o nozoite mieru Ajia no yokogao: Sekiyu to jirai” [Asia’s Profile Seen through a Glimpse Deep Underground: Oil and Land Mines] (Venue: Sendai International Center)
2 December 2006
“Chitei no takara ‘sekiyu’ o sagasu gijutsu: Chugoku Tohokubu deno yuden kaihatsu” [Technologies to Explore “Oil,” Underground Treasure: Oil Field Development in the Northeastern Region of China], Liu Cai (Jilin University, China; visiting professor, CNEAS); “Akuma no heiki ‘jirai’ jokyo e no michi: Afuganisutan, Kanbojia deno katsudo” [Path to Removal of “Mines,” Weapons of the Devil: De-mining Activities in Afghanistan and Cambodia], Sato Motoyuki (CNEAS)

Seminar
13 December 2006
“Ajia shugi to Dai-Toa senso: Kita Ikki, Okawa Shumei, Ishiwara Kanji, Nakano Seigo” [Asianism and the Greater East Asia War: Kita Ikki, Okawa Shumei, Ishiwara Kanji, and Nakano Seigo], Matsumoto Ken’ichi (Reitaku University)

Seminar
23 December 2006
“Mongoru no 1921-nen kakumei no seikaku: 20-30-nendai Mongoru no hen’yo” [Characteristics of the 1921 Mongolian Revolution: Changes in Mongolia in the 1920s and 1930s], Chuluun Dashdaraa (Director, Institute of History, Mongolian Academy of Sciences; visiting scholar, CNEAS), and others

Seminar
18 January 2007
“The Spatial Structure of Fish Populations under Restrictive Environmental Conditions: A Case Study of the Lake Chany System in West Siberia” [in English], Elena N. Yadrenkina (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences); “Ecological and Morphological Differentiation of Daphnia Galeata Sars Populations across the Lakes of the Southern Part of Siberia” [in English], Elena I. Zuykova (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Seminar
21 February 2007
“The Polar Region of Yakutia, Past and Present: A Case Study of Olenekskii Ulus” [in English], Sardana Boyakova (Sakha Republic Academy of Sciences, Russia), and others.

Symposium
“Uchinaru tasha = shuhen minzoku no jiko ninshiki no naka no ‘Chugoku’: Mongoru to Kanan no shiza kara” [“China” in the Self Consciousness of Neighboring Peoples, or the Others Inside: From the Perspectives of Mongolia and South China] (Cosponsored with the Japan Consortium for Area Studies)