Knowledge Commons | Alan Barenberg | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/abarenberg/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Alan Barenberg is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:21:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 da75e6ae6056ff29d7f8d732af7e80ba Susan Smith-Peter deposited "The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000" in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766308/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:23:38 -0500 There were six waves of regionalism in Western Europe and Russia: in the decades of the 1830s, the 1860s, the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Russian regions were not behind Western European ones but rather went through the same stages of development at the same time or sometimes even earlier, until after the Stalin era, when they did…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdfef0ab26b83ec7dfd4483171f98901 Mary Arnstein started the topic ASEEES launches NEW seees_announcements listserv in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/aseees-launches-new-seees_announcements-listserv/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:56:11 -0400 We are pleased to launch seees_announcements, a new listserv operated by ASEEES that communicates academic and professional news relevant to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Anyone with scholarly, professional involvement, or interest in the field may subscribe.

For a full description of the list and posting guidelines please click her…[Read more]

]]> 9ca57bf65b451f7abbbef0eaa7d7e77d Ivan Sablin deposited Poslankyně neruského původu v sovětském parlamentu, 1989–1991: Intersekcionalita v imperiální situaci in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739127/ Sun, 23 May 2021 02:23:40 -0400 The study focuses on the position of female deputies of non-Russian descent in parliamentary debates of the Perestroika period in the Soviet Union. The key issues the author examines concern the grievances which these female deputies were pointing out, and the potential solutions they were proposing to mitigate or eliminate them. The most…[Read more]

]]> 0 461ba7c70648f596cf341a4cdeaf1e34 Natalya Khokholova deposited Gossiping and Ageing Princesses in Odoevsky’s Societal Tales in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736349/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 03:45:27 -0400 Abstract
There have been numerous and extensive discussions of the role of ‘слухи’ [gossip] in
nineteenth-century Russian literature; usually gossip was viewed as a formative force be-
hind plot dynamics, and as the launching point for grotesque narrative effects. This article
attempts to frame different perceptions of gossip, treating…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ae46990f87c1a35325362d6d467064b Ivan Sablin deposited Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733714/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:24 -0400 The chapter focuses on two new institutions, the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaia duma) and Political Consultative Council (Zizhengyuan), which were introduced in the Russian and Qing Empires, when the two imperial formations joined the global constitutional transformations. The names of the two bodies pointed to the statist (etatist) rather than…[Read more]

]]> 0 206e34e0aa078443eda41b7e2b25d9de Ivan Sablin deposited The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament” in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733712/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:30:09 -0400 Focusing on the term zemskii sobor, this study explored the historiographies of the early modern Russian assemblies, which the term denoted, as well as the autocratic and democratic mythologies connected to it. Historians have debated whether the individual assemblies in the sixteenth and seventeenth century could be seen as a coherent…[Read more]

]]> 0 26dbe489227bebd64a2a54294301de22 Ivan Sablin deposited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1733709/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 02:29:54 -0400 Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia. Breaching the divide between…[Read more]

]]> 0 19a1767b1078a3fa4df833ab4affa15d Barbara Allen deposited Supplement to Barbara C. Allen, “Gaming Russian and Soviet History,” NewsNet: News of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Vol. 61, no. 1 (January 2021): pp. 15-17. in the group Teaching Russian History https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725116/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:45:25 -0500 This text consists of sections omitted from the published article due to space constraints. The games discussed here are "Mongol Matrix," "After Catherine (the Great)," "Yalta, 1945," and "Eyeball to Eyeball, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis."

]]> 0 9743d1ee8d4dc8a7ef079a502ce37a2f Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722911/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:23:40 -0500 The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]

]]> 0 38c9b3d72a79e38022ef0e6067c60caf Susan Smith-Peter deposited The Struggle to Create a Regional Public in the Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire: the Case of Kazanskie izvestiia in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721785/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:25:52 -0500 In the early part of the reign of Alexander I (1801-1825), the emperor sought to reform Russia through the creation of new European-style institutions. The aim was to ensure that Russia’s great-power status would be retained through updating its institutions, in line with a reform impulse dating back to Peter the Great and before. Among the new i…[Read more]

]]> 0 3591090ac21905449cf462577653e4ad Michael David-Fox deposited Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v 1920-e gody (review) in the group ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721217/ Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:23:55 -0500 Discusses Irina Nikolaevna Il’ina, Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v 1920-e gody [Civil Organizations in Russia in the 1920s], in Kritika 3, 1 (Winter 2002): 173-81; discussed by later works on "obshchestvennost'"

]]> 0 aa19ab6051bfdc01f05a497644633954 Michael David-Fox deposited "Syncretic Subcultures or Stalinism without Stalin? Soviet Partisans as Communities of Violence" in the group ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721216/ Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:23:53 -0500 Discusses works on partisans, including:

Cerovic, Masha. Les Enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques
(1941–1944). L’Univers historique. Paris: Le Seuil, 2018. 366 pp. €25.00.
ISBN 978-2-0211-2167-4.

Kudriashov, S. V., ed. Partizanskoe dvizhenie v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi
voiny. Vestnik Arkhiva Prezidenta Rossii…[Read more]

]]> 0 8db6e523e931860b778ad74e518bf05f Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710638/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:24:02 -0400 The chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2ad26b59bad65645feef2a73c9197c9 Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1710635/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:23:46 -0400 Addressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d04eeabf3d9e3298c80e68d4295f974 Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680636/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:27 -0400 In early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e16df367c6953d5113543eef7a59475 Mary Arnstein started the topic The 2019 Marc Raeff Book Prize in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/the-2019-marc-raeff-book-prize/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:00:07 -0500 The 2019 Marc Raeff Book Prize

The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the seventh annual Marc Raeff Book Prize.   We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the me…[Read more]

]]> e9a1e2be9aceff4ca92c9a7931e589ae Mary Arnstein started the topic CfP: ICCEES 10th World Congress in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfp-iccees-10th-world-congress/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 20:35:04 -0400 NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 23h59 ESTICCEES, the International Council for Central and East European Studies, is a global consortium of national scholarly associations dedicated to multi-disciplinary research into Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Its aims are to:

  • promote international scholarly ex…

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]]> e3c68beab128a489ae89f38902eee5ba ASEEES Admin started the topic CfP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfp-western-slavic-and-eurasian-association-annual-conference/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:57:58 -0400 CfP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference (Portland, 1-4 April 2020)

by Evguenia Davidova

The Call for Papers and registration are now open for the annual conference of the Western Slavic and Eurasian Association (WSEA) to be held from 1-4 April 2020, in Portland, OR at the Marriot Downtown Waterfront.

WSEA holds its…[Read more]

]]> 0fcf92d632f2a05d717cf07096eed6f6 ASEEES Admin started the topic CfP: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfp-southern-conference-on-slavic-studies-annual-meeting/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:42:22 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS 58th Annual Meeting Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Greenville, SC

March 12-14, 2020 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: January 15, 2020

The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, March 12-14, 2020. The…[Read more]

]]> 7ccc1e9c53112cb9c4c1e841d80dbab8 Natalia Ermolaev started the topic Four-day workshop at Princeton on DH and visual resources in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/four-day-workshop-at-princeton-on-dh-and-visual-resources-2/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 04:29:57 -0400 Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts 

Princeton University, September 3-6, 2019

This four-day workshop will explore digital humanities theories and tools for Slavic Studies scholars working with visual resources.

Hands-on instructional sessions will cover…[Read more]

]]> 32309f0c590c74d7c862a9ca77719b8c Natalia Ermolaev started the topic Four-day workshop at Princeton on DH and visual resources in the discussion Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-dh/forum/topic/four-day-workshop-at-princeton-on-dh-and-visual-resources/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 04:29:54 -0400 Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts 

Princeton University, September 3-6, 2019

This four-day workshop will explore digital humanities theories and tools for Slavic Studies scholars working with visual resources.

Hands-on instructional sessions will cover structured…[Read more]

]]> 1f45b38f53018a1cff40ed40724cff21 ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-the-oskar-halecki-polish-and-east-central-european-history/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:50:46 -0400 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award 

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)

Deadline: November 1, 2019

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

]]> 3b2d9838f521b56a7fb0f6836898e069 ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-the-waclaw-lednicki-award-in-the-humanities/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:48:02 -0400 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Wacław Lednicki Award in the HumanitiesPolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)

Deadline: November 1, 2019

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

]]> 6a9a5cc1f605bd506cb9967f9af82042 ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-the-bronislaw-malinowski-award-in-the-social-sciences/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:42:14 -0400 CALL 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]

]]> 3a700b31c3346081b8bde16676687f5d 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 https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661227/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:49 -0400 The 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]

]]> 0 56612b037a1a265b734ef0af805465d0 Susan Smith-Peter deposited Pre-Revolutionary Russian Photography at the New York Public Library: An Introduction in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661226/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:37 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 1584f005f2c5e2f578ca2f0a424d0d3a Susan Smith-Peter deposited Communism and Regionalism in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661224/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:25:23 -0400 This 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.

]]> 0 bfdcb276d66892f9faf81ceb9ef60edd Ivan Sablin deposited Parliaments and parliamentarism in the works of Soviet dissidents, 1960s–80s in the group ASEEES Convention https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641633/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:26:52 -0400 Drawing 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]

]]> 0 41c12faf932deb72660375c397c0c5c6 ASEEES Admin started the topic The 2019 Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/the-2019-hungarian-studies-association-book-prize/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:02:15 -0500 Sponsored 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]

]]> 31ba7c00df34d798cacf53d0ba0250e0 ASEEES Admin started the topic SRS 2019 Graduate Student Essay Prize in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/srs-2019-graduate-student-essay-prize/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:28:09 -0500 The 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]

]]> 09904602e42f36926944fc631a3cecb9 Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfp-2019-slavic-dh-summer-school-at-princeton-2/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:11:23 -0500 Learn 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]

]]> 0975bee2302b0ed746d7c99d1da8536c Natalia Ermolaev started the topic CFP: 2019 Slavic DH Summer School at Princeton in the discussion Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/slavic-dh/forum/topic/cfp-2019-slavic-dh-summer-school-at-princeton/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:11:19 -0500 Learn 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]

]]> 24ed5fbf71be90099da2178ad1738f49 ASEEES Admin started the topic Nabokov Prizes in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/nabokov-prizes/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:52:04 -0500 The 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]

]]> ffee326b58807be1898b32e016692b0e ASEEES Admin started the topic Student Awards: Student Paper Travel-Field Work Award in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/student-awards-student-paper-travel-field-work-award/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:12:56 -0500 Eurasian-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]

]]> 87c892fb04b2d1927205b31570a180df Barbara Allen deposited Graduate Oral History Syllabus in the group Teaching Russian History https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630029/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:45:25 -0500 History 650: Oral History Theory and Methods. Spring 2019.

]]> 0 2ddeb32d3bfa6d9a3c15d92e5035e434 ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: AATSEEL Awards in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-aatseel-awards-2/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:20:30 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 6adfcf51c22c9c13893b5f18be1d95f3 ASEEES Admin started the topic Call for Nominations: AATSEEL Awards in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-aatseel-awards/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:20:27 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 1b55f735a5c5b63df35576fc0134add3 Sarah Young deposited Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works in the group Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621015/ Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:25:21 -0400 Dostoevskii’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]

]]> 0 9530cb0f5f29a882bc2e780dc803d01e ASEEES Admin started the topic 2019 EUSA Prize Competitions in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/2019-eusa-prize-competitions/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:47:51 -0400 Announcing 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]

]]> a55f2a184cab44eb80f157f2e2811708 ASEEES Admin started the topic 9th Biennial AWSS: Crossing Borders in Slavic Women's and Gender Studies in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/9th-biennial-awss-crossing-borders-in-slavic-womens-and-gender-studies/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:44:01 -0400  

Call for Papers

9th Biennial AWSS Conference: Crossing Borders in Slavic Women’s and Gender Studies

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Renaissance Battle House Hotel and Spa, Mobile, AL, USA

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) solicits paper presentations on the theme of “Crossing Borders in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Wom…[Read more]

]]> d77a5b744e1bca528c1b49c0a8acc2e4 ASEEES Admin started the topic Upcoming MLA Prize Competitions in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/upcoming-mla-prize-competitions/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:33:50 -0400 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]

]]> 571cd2af30e2d5af0dd653663c23d8e9 ASEEES Admin started the topic $10,000 Study Abroad Scholarship from SRAS in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/10000-study-abroad-scholarship-from-sras/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:55:04 -0400 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]

]]> 75479aa44df69354fd7fcd41dfd5c2f1 ASEEES Admin started the topic Edward Allworth Lifetime Service to the Profession Award in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/edward-allworth-lifetime-service-to-the-profession-award/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:38:54 -0400  

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]

]]> e488da99625957f7387f3a721a5016b1 Katherine Bowers deposited @RodionTweets, Parts 4-6 + Epilogues in the group Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617792/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:46:03 -0400 This is an archive of the second half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist's perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project "Crime and Punishment at 150" by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready's…[Read more]

]]> 0 06066e2c746060db78e6d0215728328c Katherine Bowers deposited @RodionTweets, Prologue + Parts 1-3 in the group Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617789/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:45:37 -0400 This is an archive of the first half of the Twitter feed @RodionTweets, which tweeted Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment from its protagonist's perspective from 2016-2018. @RodionTweets is part of the SSHRC-funded project "Crime and Punishment at 150" by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland. The text has been adapted from Oliver Ready's…[Read more]

]]> 0 68732cd756ba8e45cb91673263519f59 Mary Arnstein started the topic Call for Applications: The Open Research Laboratory at Illinois in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/call-for-applications-the-open-research-laboratory-at-illinois/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:43:43 -0400 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]

]]> c4a4ef8675ad1785372bd8a27415f133 Mary Arnstein started the topic CfS: The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award  in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfs-the-oskar-halecki-polish-and-east-central-european-history-award/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:55:25 -0400 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]

]]> dbc9c8d4b14cd1bac193269ea76a948e Mary Arnstein started the topic CfS: The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfs-the-waclaw-lednicki-award-in-the-humanities/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:49:44 -0400 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]

]]> 84d0e3e684d78abe28a834ae1fc10691 Mary Arnstein started the topic CfS: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences in the discussion ASEEES Announcements https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/aseees-announcements/forum/topic/cfs-the-bronislaw-malinowski-award-in-the-social-sciences/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:46:11 -0400 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]

]]> 202c7a7aa3d0a7c4f954fc8b3cf4749d Artjom Shelya deposited The shortest species: how the length of Russian poetry changed (1750–1921) in the group Slavic DH https://aseees.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609502/ Wed, 30 May 2018 04:12:33 -0400 The paper studies long-term changes in the length of Russian poetry (1750–1921) to reveal the relation of poem length (counted in lines) to a poetic form and its evolution. The research has shown a dramatic decrease in the mean and median poetry lengths during the 19th century. This decrease was followed by the decline in length diversity, which r…[Read more]

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