Don’t miss the deadline for DH2018, 26-29 June 2018 in Mexico City. Who is planning Slavic DH panels?

Check out all details here: https://dh2018.adho.org/en/cfp_english/

“The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference on any aspect of digital humanities. The theme of the 2018 c…[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]

Dear Slavic DH community,
A call for papers was recently posted for a volume on Global Debates in the Digital Humanities. The editors are seeking significant articles that have “not received due attention for linguistic, cultural, or political reasons.”

As an organization dedicated to supporting Digital Humanities work in the Slavic Field, we s…[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]

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

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]

On January 19, 2017, ASEEES hosted a webinar introducing users to the basics of ASEEES Commons. Specifically, the presenters discussed how to use the Commons to increase the reach of users’ work; to find resources or potential collaborators; and to share materials. The webinar focused on creating, editing and searching content. Faculty, staff,…[Read more]