We invite you to submit works and to call attention to the Modern Language Association’s upcoming publication prize competitions. In January 2020, eighteen publication prizes will be presented at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize for an outstanding scholarly work by a member of the association an…[Read more]

SRAS’s Home and Abroad Scholars program offers students up to $10,000 to study abroad while serving an ambitious and portfolio-building internship. Applications are due by October 1! More information can be found at http://sras.org. Any questions may be addressed to me, Josh Wilson, Asst. Director, at jwilson@sras.org.

SRAS is currently accepting…[Read more]

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, are delighted to announce the renaming of the CESS Lifetime Service to the Field Award in honor of the late scholar of Central Asia, Professor Edward Allworth (1920-2016). The new award will be named the Edward Allworth Lifetime Service to the…[Read more]

Call for Applications: The Open Research Laboratory at Illinois

Spots are still available for the Open Research Lab (ORL), August 27 to September 29, 2018! A great time to follow-up on summer research or fit in research early in the academic year – this program is aimed at scholars who wish to visit the University of Illinois in order to work in…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award 

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named for an eminent historian and founding member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Oskar Halecki Award recognizes a scholar in the field of Polish and E…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA)

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named after the first director of the Literature and Arts Section of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Wacław Lednicki Award recognizes the most outstanding book or cr…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named for an eminent social scientist and founding member and first president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Bronisław Malinowski Award recognizes a scholar in…[Read more]

The Readers’ Advisory Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society is celebrating graduate students! We invite members of NADS in good standing to nominate an outstanding graduate-student essay on a Dostoevsky-related topic. (If you are not a member of NADS, you can join at https://dostoevsky.org/). Current M.A. and PhD students are also w…[Read more]

The Proposals for the 2018 ASEEES Convention are due 11:59pm PT on Feb. 28, 2018. Please contact aseees.convention@pitt.edu if you have any questions.

http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp

50th Annual ASEEES Convention
Celebrating ASEEES’ 70th Anniversary
Boston, MA | December 6 – 9, 2018 [Please note that the dates are later than usual]
Convention Theme: Performance
http://www.aseees.org/convention

The deadline for Proposal Submission is February 28, 2018: http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp
ALL submissions – panel, roundtable, ind…[Read more]

ASEEES announces the results of the 2017 elections for the Board of Directors positions.

President-Elect / Vice President 2018 | President 2019 | Immediate Past President 2020
Mark Steinberg, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Members-at-Large, 2018-2020
Janet Johnson, CUNY Brooklyn College
James Krapfl, McGill U (Canada)

Graduate Student R…[Read more]

The Subcommittee on Education & Access was formed in 2017 by the ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR). The goal of the new subcommittee is to promote education about libraries, information resources, digital projects, cataloging and metadata curation, and information literacy to ASEEES members and the broader community of…[Read more]

The Summer 2017 (76:2) issue of Slavic Review is now available online!

The issue includes a Critical Forum: The East European Response to the 2015 Migration Crisis and six articles.

Starting this year, Slavic Review is published by Cambridge University Press and is available online on Cambridge Core.

For the full announcement click here

To…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Central Slavic Conference is pleased to invite scholars of all disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for panels, individual papers, and roundtables at its annual meeting to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, October 20-22, 2017.

Founded in 1962 as the Bi-State Slavic…[Read more]

The preliminary online program for the 2017 Chicago Convention is available: http://www.aseees.org/convention/program

A PDF version of the program will be posted shortly, but keep in mind that the PDF program will be a  static document.  For the most up-to-date program, please see the online program.

The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany and the Deutsches Historisches Museum are jointly sponsoring an exhibition in 2017 about the history of communism in the 20th century. Its author is the historian Dr. Gerd Koenen, Frankfurt/M. The exhibition comprises 25 DIN A1 exhibition panels. The exhibition…[Read more]

The Tyler Collection of Romanian and Modern Art comprises more than 1500 items, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, ceramics, religious icons, books, catalogues, posters, photographs, research essays, and letters. In 2013, the Collection was generously gifted to the University of Tasmania by Geoffrey and Frances Tyler. It is a rich…[Read more]

Congratulations to the ASEEES First Book Subvention Recipients for March 2017:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, for
Elidor Mëhili (Hunter College) Albania and the Socialist World: From Stalin to Mao
and
Claire L. Shaw (University of Bristol), Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, fo…[Read more]