Events

Selected list of Sherzod’s recent talks and presentations:

  • “The Siberian Captivity of Japanese Soldiers and the Transnational History of War and Empire,” Talk at the Japan Society London, 02/2020.
  • “The Siberian Internment of Japanese Servicemen in the Context of Trans-Eurasian Forced Migrations, 1939-1956,” Talk at the University of Edinburgh, 02/2020.
  • “Out of Respect for Their Age: The Former Siberian Internees in the Postwar History of the Japanese Society,” Presentation at the 2nd Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies, Tohoku University, Japan, 12/2019.
  • 「東北アジアでの日ソ対立と日中戦争期におけるソ連の宣伝工作、1931−1945」[in Japanese: Japanese-Soviet Rivalry in Northeast Asia and the Construction of Soviet Propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945], Presentation at the International Symposium “Journalism and Propaganda on the Second Sino-Japanese War,” Waseda University, Tokyo, 12/2018.
  • “The Unlikely Underdog: Soviet-Japanese Rivalry in Northeast Asia, 1928-1938,” Presentation at the International Workshop “Pacific Russia: Transnational and Transimperial Perspectives on Modern Northeast Asia,” University of Bielefeld, 10/2018.
  • “The Japanese Empire’s Enduring Vestiges: Forced Migrations, Negotiations and the Struggle for Dominance in Post-Imperial East Asia, 1945-1956,” Invited talk at the international workshop at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 12/2017
  •  “Comintern Stance on and Role in Tenkō: The View from Moscow,” Presentation at the conference Tenkō in Trans-War Japan: Culture, Politics, History, Leeds, 07/2017
  • “‘We Can’t Die as Slaves’: Japanese Forced Labourers in the Soviet Union and the Failure of Transitional Justice, 1945-1995,” Presentation at the European Workshops in International Relations, Cardiff, 07/2017
  • “The Empire’s Return from Siberia: Japanese Captives in Soviet Camps and the Early Cold War in East Asia,” Presentation at the AAS Annual Conference 2017, Toronto, 03/2017
  • “From Cold Camps to Cold War: The Siberian Internees in Postwar Japan,” Invited talk at Hosei University, Tokyo, 02/2017
  • “From Empire’s Revenants to Red Repatriates: The Japanese Repatriates from the Soviet Camps,” Invited talk at SOAS, University of London, 01/2017
  • “The Late Triumph of Victimhood: The Memory of the Siberian Internment in Postwar Japan,” Invited talk at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, 04/2016
  • “The Old and New Enemy: The Soviet Factor in the Making of the ‘New Japan,’ 1945-1956,” Presentation at the British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS) Annual Conference 2015, London, 09/2015
  • “The Japanese Returnees from the Soviet Union and their Impact on the Postwar Japanese Society,” Presentation at the Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) Congress 2015, Singapore, 06/2015
  • 「菅季治の犠牲とソ連からの帰還者たちの占領時代」 [in Japanese: Kan Sueharu’s Sacrifice and the Returnees from the Soviet Union during the Occupation Period], Invited talk at the Siberian Internment Research Workshop, Tokyo, 10/2014
  • “Cold War’s First Victims: The Siberian Internment and the Post-Repatriation Lives of the Japanese Returnees from the Soviet Union,” Presentation at the 6th Annual European Summer School on Cold War History, Trento, 09/2014 – Awarded the Best Paper Prize
  • “Waiting for the Red Tide: The Japan Communist Party, the Soviet Union and the Fear of the ‘Violent Revolution’ in Early Cold War Japan, 1949-1952,” Presentation at the Workshop Knowing Your Enemies: Intention Assessment and the Prospect of East Asian Security, Erlangen, 06/2014
  • “Dealing with the Enemy: Japanese Internees in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, 1945-1956,” with Dr. Amy King (Australian National University), Presentation at the 17th Asia Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo, 06/2013
  • “Сибирское интернирование японцев и советско-японские отношения в послевоенный период, 1945-1956,” [in Russian: The Siberian Internment and the Soviet-Japanese Relations in the Postwar Period, 1945-1956], Presentation at the 3rd International Conference of Young Historians and Archivists, The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, Moscow, 04/2013. Awarded the Best Presentation of the Conference Prize.