Associate Prof. Dr. George T. Sipos, the CSEA founder and director, presented the paper, “Lenin’s Letter, the Japanese Writer, and the Soviet Ambassador: A Re-Reading of Tenkō Short Story ‘The House in the Village’ by Nakano Shigeharu” at the International Workshop “LifeIntertexts: Japanese-Russian Transnational Encounters and Intellectual Triangulations”, organized by Dr. Olga Solovieva at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, in June 5-7, 2025.
The paper forms the basis for a chapter in a new volume edited by Dr. Solovieva and expected to be published at Routledge in 2026.
