© Dr. Shohei Saito
Connecting Siberia with the West: A.V. Baikalov’s Thoughts on the Cooperative Movement and the Northern Sea Route
Dr. Shohei Saito, Hiroshima City University
The lecture focuses on the theory of cooperation and Siberia by A.V. Baikalov, a Siberian intellectual who became an emigrant after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It explains the characteristics of his plans for the Northern Sea Route in the early 1920s.
Dr. Shohei Saito is Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University. 2015-2017, “Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Funded by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) / Guest researcher at LMU's Chair for Russian and Asian Studies of Prof. Dr. Andreas Renner , 2025-2026, Visiting Scholar at LMU’s Chair for Russian and Asian Studies / the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham
Selected works in English and German:
“ Crossing Perspectives in Manchukuo: Russian Eurasianism and Japanese Pan-Asianism,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2017
“Dal’nijs intellektuelles Strandgut. Anarchisten, Pan-Asianisten und Eurasier am Gelben Meer,” Helena Holzberger, Andreas Renner und Sören Urbansky eds.,Russische Orte in Asien (Schöningh,2021)
Reference on LMU’s website:
https://www.gs-oses.uni-muenchen.de/people/guestresearcher/saito/index.html
The lecture will take place in presence. Location: Japan Center, Seminargebäude am Englischen Garten, Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 Munich, Room 151.
It is not necessary to register in advance.
Co-hosted by LMU Japan Center and Institute of Eastern and South Eastern European History