Care and Empathy: Academic Research and Its Social Dissemination in the Context of the Slavic-Eurasian Region

This session directly aligns with the symposium’s overarching theme of “Academic Innovation and Societal Engagement” by exploring how academic knowledge—particularly in the humanities and area studies—can meaningfully contribute to addressing social fragmentation, conflict, and inequality.
This joint session has two main goals.
First, the joint session aims to provide a venue for researchers to share diverse perspectives on current issues in the Slavic-Eurasian region. In particular, the concepts of care and empathy are very important concepts for integrating multicultural and multipolar societies, and Japan and Korea, as important members of the international community, want to resolve and heal conflicts and confrontations between countries, regions, and ethnicities with these concepts. Through this session, the two institutes will discuss what kind of academic understanding of care and empathy the two countries are building and how these can be spread to society.
Second, it is to continue the academic cooperation between the two leading institutions in Slavic studies in Japan and Korea. SRC and IREEES have been actively cooperating by regularly holding joint academic conferences, and this event will build a stronger academic cooperation relationship.