February 27=?windows-1252?Q?=9628=3A_?=RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA: A Conference at Columbia University

[Edward J Tyerman]

RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA: IMAGINATION, EXCHANGE, TRAVEL, TRANSLATION

*A Conference at Columbia University*

*Thursday, February 27, 2014** to Friday, February 28, 2014*

*1501 IAB and 1512 IAB*


Does Russia belong to East Asia? What is Russia’s position within the
geopolitical and cultural imaginary called “the Far East”? This conference
will explore these questions by investigating cross-border perceptions,
connections, and cultural exchanges between Russia and its neighbors in
East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan. Supplementing the prevalent academic
emphasis on the political and economic dimensions of these crucial global
relationships, our focus is on the formation of spatial and historical
ideology in the realm of cultural production.

As the Russian Empire expanded eastwards from the 17th century, it came
into closer contact with cultures from a very different civilizational
heritage. Their historical fates were to become increasingly intertwined,
from war with Japan through Soviet influence in China’s revolutions to the
expansion of the Communist bloc into Korea. These unprecedented historical
interactions and tensions generated, for both Russians and Asians, novel
geopolitical imaginaries that sought to illuminate their problematic
positions in a modern world order.

Our conference brings together domestic and international scholars with
specializations across Slavic studies, East Asian studies, history, and
comparative literature. Focusing on the period of heightened interaction
from around 1850, papers will explore changing Russian perceptions of East
Asia alongside the influence of Russian and Soviet culture in China, Korea
and Japan, as intellectuals in these countries negotiated questions of
national identity, sovereignty, and modernization.

*KEYNOTE LECTURE, Thursday 27th February, 6pm, 1501 IAB:*

*Katerina Clark* (Yale University):

"China in the Leftist Imagination of the 1920s and 1930s"

*CONFERENCE PANELS*, *Friday 28th February, 9am-6pm, 1512 IAB*

Panel topics:

- Translation and Influence

- Tolstoy in East Asia

- Encounters and Transformations

- Self-Fashioning across the Russo-Chinese Border

Speakers:

*Kateryna Bugayevska *(Tsinghua University)

*Roy Chan *(University of Oregon)

*Heekyoung Cho *(University of Washington)

*Mark Gamsa* (Tel Aviv University)

*Andrew Leong *(Northwestern University)

*Susanna Lim *(University of Oregon)

*Xiaolu Ma *(Harvard University)

*Elizabeth McGuire *(San Francisco State University)

*Mitsuyoshi Numano* (University of Tokyo)

*Katy Sosnak *(University of California, Berkeley)

*Edward Tyerman *(Columbia University)

*Zhen Zhang *(University of California, Davis)

[Full conference program TBA]

Free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute, the University
Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, and the Weatherhead East Asian
Institute.

Organizers: Edward Tyerman (Columbia, Slavic), Roy Chan (Assistant
Professor of Chinese, University of Oregon), Anatoly Detwyler (Columbia,
EALAC).

All enquiries to Edward Tyerman at ejt2115 at columbia.edu.

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