Vasilii Shchepkin
- Associate Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Institute of Asian and African Studies / Department of Japanese Studies
- Vasilii Shchepkin has been at HSE University since 2016.
Education and Degrees
Irkutsk State Linguistic University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Courses (2024/2025)
- Introduction to Oriental Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Japanese Language: Advanced Course (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Source studies of the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Introduction to Oriental Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Japanese Language: Advanced Course (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Source studies of the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Japanese Language: Advanced Course (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- National Identity, Social and Political Development in Asia (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies, field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- National Identity, Social and Political Development in Asia (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Source studies of the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Japanese Language: Advanced Course (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- National Identity, Social and Political Development in Asia (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies, field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Source studies of the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (Bachelor’s programme; Institute of Asian and African Studies field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Japanese Language: Basic Course (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Japanese Language: Basic Course (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- National Identity, Social and Political Development in Asia (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the East (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2022
The 29th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Бухарест). Presentation: Western and Local in Mapping the Ainu Lands: Questions of Knowledge, Methods, and Naming
32nd Conference of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (Лиссабон). Presentation: 10 years of searching for the primary sources on Ainu in Russia (2011-2021)
- 2021
16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (Гент). Presentation: International or local? The Ainu lands as seen in Matsumae and Russian documents
- 2019
International Conference on the History of Cartography (Амстердам). Presentation: Perception, exploration, representation and mapping of Ainu lands in Russia and Japan in 18th century
The 30th European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists Conference (София). Presentation: Searching for Isaac Titsing’s legacy: Japanese early modern books in P. Schilling collection
The 30th European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists Conference (София). Presentation: Searching for Isaac Titsing’s legacy: Japanese early modern books in P. Schilling collection
International Conference on the History of Cartography (Амстердам). Presentation: Perception, exploration, representation and mapping of Ainu lands in Russia and Japan in 18th century
- 2018
The 29th European Association of Japanese Resources Specialists Conference (Каунас). Presentation: Private collections of Japanese old books at IOM RAS: how can they contribute to Japanese studies?
Японо-российский международный симпозиум "История российско-японских отношений с точки зрения истории формирования коллекций" (Саппоро). Presentation: 情報口としての松前・蝦夷地─近世における地理学的情報の日露交流 (Мацумаэ и земли айнов как информационное "окно": обмен картографической информацией между Россией и Японией в XVIII-XIX вв.)
17th International Conference of Historical Geographers. (Варшава). Presentation: Cartographical exchange between Russia and Japan in 18th and early 19th centuries
- 2017
15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (Лиссабон). Presentation: View from the north: relations with Ainu and Russia and the periodization of the history of early modern Japan
- 2016
Association for Asian Studies 2016 Annual COnference (Сиэтл). Presentation: A Comparative Study of Russian and Japanese Primary Sources on Antipin and Shabalin’s Expedition to Hokkaidō in 1778–1779
The 27th European Association of Japanese Resources Specialists Conference (Бухарест). Presentation: Not just Nagasaki: routes of book flows from early modern Japan to Russia in 18th and 19th centuries
- 2015
The 26th European Association of Japanese Resources Specialists Conference (Лейден). Presentation: An unknown copy of "Ezo seikei zusetsu" : some results of comparative study