Siberia and the Russian Far East: Past, Present, and Future--The Tenth British Universities' Siberian Studies Seminar

英国大学西伯利亚研究研讨会(BUSSS)于1982年在英国兰开斯特成立，是世界上唯一专门致力于西伯利亚和俄罗斯远东地区专家智力发展的组织。这是一个国际性的、多学科的学术组织，2004年已经召开了9次会议。第十届BUSSS计划于2004年4月7日至11日在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行首次英国或俄罗斯以外的会议。它将由来自9个不同国家的73名学者组成，其中包括：30名来自美国；11至22名来自俄罗斯；8名来自英国；5名来自德国；3名来自加拿大；2名来自澳大利亚；丹麦、意大利和荷兰各1名。60篇学术论文，从“有争议的环境空间研究”到“歌唱的小船之地”，将通过10个小组进行展示。五分之一的参与者将是地理学家或地球科学家。虽然第十届BUSSS在概念上是不同的，但它不会没有潜在的主题。这将涉及这样一个问题，即西伯利亚和俄罗斯远东这两个地球上人口最稀少的地区是否真的像布鲁金斯学会(The Curse Of Siberia)最近发表的文章中所说的那样，确实存在人口过剩的问题。2004年)。BUSSS的国际性、多学科性质允许来自世界各地西伯利亚和远东专家的思想的混合和交叉培养。到目前为止，在研讨会上形成的相互关系培养了整整一代西伯利亚专家。在过去的十几年里，越来越多的俄罗斯专家能够与他们的西方同行一起参与共同的研究项目。已出版的三本选集收录了前几次会议的论文，第十届BUSSS将成为第四次会议的平台。这本书将由Victor Mote和Bella Bychkova-Jordan编辑，由Routledge/Curzon Press出版，Routledge/Curzon Press是总部位于牛津的泰勒和弗朗西斯集团在英国的子公司。

Founded in Lancaster, England in 1982, the British Universities' Siberian Studies Seminar (BUSSS) is the only organization in the world that is exclusively dedicated to the intellectual development of specialists in Siberia and the Russian Far East. It is an international, multidisciplinary scholarly organization that has met nine times through 2004. The Tenth BUSSS is scheduled to meet for the first time outside of the UK or Russia in Houston, Texas between April 7 and 11, 2004. It will comprise a maximum of 73 scholars from 9 different countries, including: 30 from the United States; 11 to 22 from Russia; 8 from the United Kingdom; 5 from Germany; 3 from Canada; 2 from Australia; and 1 each from Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands. Sixty scholarly papers, ranging from studies of "contested environmental space" to "the land of the singing boats," will be presented via 10 panels. One out of five of the participants will be geographers or earth scientists.Although the Tenth BUSSS will be conceptually various, it will not be without an underlying theme. This will deal with the question of whether Siberia and the Russian Far East, two of the most sparsely populated regions on earth, are not, indeed, "overpopulated," as has been argued cogently in a recent publication of the Brookings Institution (The Curse of Siberia. 2004). The international, multidisciplinary nature of the BUSSS permits the mixing and cross-fertilization of ideas from Siberian and Far Eastern specialists throughout the world. To date, an entire generation of Siberian specialists has been nurtured by the interrelationships developed at the seminars. In the last dozen years, increasing numbers of Russian specialists have been able to join their Western colleagues in mutual research projects. Three published anthologies have incorporated papers from prior meetings, and the Tenth BUSSS will be the platform for a fourth. The book will be edited by Victor Mote and Bella Bychkova-Jordan and produced by Routledge/Curzon Press, a subsidiary of the Oxford-based Taylor & Francis Group in the UK.