Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) ``Ecocriticism in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: Aspects of Slavic Literature and Environmental Issues'' is co-sponsored by the University's Slavic-Eurasian Research Center and the Center for Northern Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, Faculty of Letters. "Ecocriticism in Eastern Europe" will be held on September 29th.

Russia's development of the northern region over the years has raised concerns about the future of the fragile northern environment and the dire situation of the indigenous people living in the region. These themes are central to vernacular literature, which often explores the relationship between humans and non-humans and their intertwining with colonial discourses and methods of modernization. This lecture will focus on these questions in the literature of the Sami, Nenets, and Khanty peoples of the northern Urals, written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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