Keiji Sato will be the featured speaker at this presentation of the Research Focus Group on Identity.  Dr. Sato is a Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Centre of Hokkaido University, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. in social cultural studies from Kyushu University.

The full title of his talk is "Comparative Analysis of Political Mobilization of Russian Speakers at the End of the Soviet Era: Case Studies of North East Estonia and Transnistria."  His presentation should be of interest to those focusing on social mobilization, ethnic conflict, sovereignty, and late and post-Soviet political history and politics.