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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social SciencesPolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Named for an eminent social scientist and founding member and first president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Bronisław Malinowski Award recognizes a sch…[Read more] -
Susan Smith-Peter deposited Is Science Enough?: The Limits of Scientific Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Russia within a Global Market in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe article argues that the spread of scientific information is not always enough to ensure the success of the production of any particular country in a global market. In particular, there were significant barriers to the introduction of improved livestock raising in nineteenth century Russia. Although agricultural societies, which were voluntary…[Read more]
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited Pre-Revolutionary Russian Photography at the New York Public Library: An Introduction in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article is an introduction to the New York Public Library’s pre-revolutionary Russian and Eastern European photographic albums. It also provides a checklist of these albums. The checklist is an especially rich source for Russian architecture, art, and science and provides documentation for a variety of places in the center and provinces of t…[Read more]
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited Communism and Regionalism in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article traces the attempts by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries to devolve economic powers to the regions and the ultimate failure of this project, which was a contributing factor to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited Communism and Regionalism in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis article traces the attempts by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries to devolve economic powers to the regions and the ultimate failure of this project, which was a contributing factor to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments and parliamentarism in the works of Soviet dissidents, 1960s–80s in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDrawing from samizdat (self-published) and tamizdat (foreign-published) materials, this article traces the understandings of parliaments and parliamentarism in individual works by Soviet dissidents and reconstructs the authors’ underlying assumptions in the application of the two ideas. It focuses on the articulations and the implications of f…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic The 2019 Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSponsored by the Hungarian Studies Association, the goal of the book prize is to recognize quality scholarship in Hungarian studies and support Hungarian studies in the United States. The book prize is awarded biennially for the most important contribution to Hungarian studies originally published in English in the previous two calendar years.…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic SRS 2019 Graduate Student Essay Prize in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Society for Romanian Studies is pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize competition for an outstanding unpublished essay or thesis chapter. The submitted single-author work must be written in English by a graduate student in any social science or humanities discipline on a Romanian or Moldovan subject, broadly and…[Read more]
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Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLearn about the theories, methods and practice of digital humanities (DH) in the Slavic and East European fields at the 2019 Slavic DH Summer Workshop, taking place at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) on September 3-6, 2019.
The thematic focus of the 2019 Workshop is “Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives o…[Read more]
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Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion
Slavic DH on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLearn about the theories, methods and practice of digital humanities (DH) in the Slavic and East European fields at the 2019 Slavic DH Summer Workshop, taking place at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) on September 3-6, 2019.
The thematic focus of the 2019 Workshop is “Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives o…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Nabokov Prizes in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe International Vladimir Nabokov Society is delighted to announce a new group of prizes, generously funded by the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation. Applications are encouraged for all eligible work. There are prizes for undergraduate and post-graduate work, for PhDs, for articles, and for books. The deadline for submission is April 30th.…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Student Awards: Student Paper Travel-Field Work Award in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 7 years agoEurasian-AAG Specialty Group
(Two Awards: Deadline March 31, 2019)
*Student Paper Award, $150
*Travel-Field Work $250
Opportunities for 2019
* Student Paper Award
We invite submissions from all students who will have formally presented their work between May 2018 and April 2019, or who intend to present their work at the AAG,…[Read more]
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Michael Brinley started the topic Graduate Student Workshop CfP: University of Pennsylvania February 15, 2019 in the discussion
Graduate Students on ASEEES Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: CONSTRUCTIVIST CRITICISM WORKSHOP February 15 2019, University of Pennsylvania 3-6 PM, College Hall 209 A colloquium for graduate students in social sciences and humanities, studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to present works in progress. This workshop is organized by a group of graduate students wo…[Read more]
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Gregory Afinogenov deposited Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoExamines the role of the yeti in shaping Cold War popular science networks and relations between official and popular scientific practices in the Soviet Union.
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Šestaja čast’ kadra”. Vosstanovlenie vertovskogo “Čelovek s kinoapparatom” / “The Sixth of the Frame”. Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” restored. in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOutlines the restoration of the Russian film classic “Man with a Movie Camera” (USSR, 1929) by Dziga Vertov which was carried out by the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam between 2008 and 2010. The restoration allows contemporary audiences the possibility to once again experience Vertov’s film as the filmmaker originally intended – or at least in a v…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: AATSEEL Awards in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
As Past President of AATSEEL (2017-18), it is my pleasure to invite nominations for awards in the following five award categories:
Excellence in Teaching (Secondary);
Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary);
Distinguished Service to AATSEEL;
Outstanding Contribution to the Profession;
Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.If…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: AATSEEL Awards in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
As Past President of AATSEEL (2017-18), it is my pleasure to invite nominations for awards in the following five award categories:
Excellence in Teaching (Secondary);
Excellence in Teaching (Post-Secondary);
Distinguished Service to AATSEEL;
Outstanding Contribution to the Profession;
Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship.If…[Read more]
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Sarah Young deposited Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works in the group
Slavic DH on ASEEES Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDostoevskii’s narrators play a key role in creating a sense of ambiguity and uncertainty in his texts that has been associated stylistically with the presence of ‘as if’ phrases. This article uses concordances to identify and examine patterns of usage of ‘as if’ that indicate a shift to an unreal condition and introduce the imaginative dimension…[Read more]
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Philipp Casula deposited Justificaciones populistas de la guerra? La intervención rusa en el este de Ucrania in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoIn the context of the war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbass and the earlier crisis over Crimea, this paper examines four speeches by Vladimir Putin to identify and map populist elements in his discursive and formal strategies of justifying and creating a specific form of conflict. The analysis shows how this populism goes beyond the…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic 2019 EUSA Prize Competitions in the discussion
ASEEES Announcements on ASEEES Commons 7 years, 4 months agoAnnouncing the 2019 EUSA PRIZE Competitions
2019 EUSA Haas Fund Fellowship Competition
The 2018-2019 EUSA Executive Committee is pleased to announce the 2019 EUSA Haas Fund Fellowship Competition, an annual fellowship for graduate student EU-related dissertation research.
Thanks entirely to contributions to our Ernst Haas Memorial Fund for EU…[Read more] - Load More
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