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，是世界上唯一一个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。它是一个国际性的多学科学术组织，到2004年已经举行了九次会议。第十届BUSS定于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个不同国家的最多73名学者组成，其中：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; 1名来自丹麦、意大利和荷兰。60篇学术论文，从“有争议的环境空间”到“歌唱船的土地”，将通过10个小组提交。五分之一的与会者将是地理学家或地球科学家。虽然第十届大会在概念上各不相同，但它不会没有一个基本的主题。这将解决西伯利亚和俄罗斯远东地区这两个地球上人口最稀少的地区是否真的“人口过剩”的问题，正如布鲁金斯研究所最近出版的一份出版物（《西伯利亚的诅咒》）中令人信服的观点。2004年）。 BUSSS的国际性和多学科性质允许西伯利亚和远东专家在世界各地的想法的混合和交叉施肥。到目前为止，整个一代西伯利亚专家都是通过研讨会上发展的相互关系培养起来的。在过去的十几年里，越来越多的俄罗斯专家能够加入他们的西方同事的共同研究项目。已出版的三本选集收录了以前会议的论文，第十届大会将是第四届大会的平台。这本书将由维克托莫特和贝拉·比奇科娃-乔丹编辑，由牛津泰勒弗朗西斯集团在英国的子公司艾德里奇/寇松出版社出版。

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.