The 2017 Convention proposal acceptance/rejection notification were sent out on 4/14.  The convention registration is now open.  http://www.aseees.org/convention/registration

This is a public group for the 2017 ASEEES Convention participants to discuss their session topics and convention logistics and find replacement participants when you have a member withdraw from your session.

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]

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued a report,  America’s Languages: Investing in Language Learning for the 21st Century, making the case for increasing foreign language learning capacity.

Read the report here – https://www.amacad.org/content/Research/researchproject.aspx?i=21896.

For more than 40 years, the Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia has provided a vital comprehensive research opportunity, giving researchers access to unparalleled library services and to one of the top five library collections for the REEE region in North America.  SRL is open to all scholars with research i…[Read more]

Thanks to the generosity of donors and members, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is sponsoring up to ten grants annually, at a maximum of $5000 each, for the purposes of conducting doctoral dissertation research in Eastern Europe and Eurasia in any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any…[Read more]

We have created a Job Announcement Group  and a Fellowship/Grant Announcement Group within the ASEEES Commons.  Please join the groups to receive announcements.  You can find more announcements on the ASEEES members site [member login required].

Carnegie Corporation of New York, in partnership with Harvard University’s Belfer Center, is pleased to bring to your attention Russia Matters, a new website that seeks to inform the debate on Russia in the United States. For more info see: http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/ccny-harvard-launch-russia-matters

MODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”

The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]

MODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”

The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]

Boris Ignatovich, 1899-1976

This website, which garnered a Webby nomination for Best Art Website in 2016, is dedicated to the work of Russian Photographer Boris Ignatovich. Beginning in 1923, Ignatovich photographed the world around him until his death in 1976. His photography captured Russia during the earliest days of communism, World War II,…[Read more]

Short-Term Fellowship Program
Deadline: 05/01/2017

The Jordan Center Short-Term Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate research in local collections, expose visitors to the intellectual life of the Russian field at NYU and in the greater New York community, and acquaint faculty and graduate students at NYU with the most recent world-wide…[Read more]