[ASEEES] ASEEES Advocacy and other news

[Park, Lynda]

Recent ASEEES Advocacy Work
More information can be found at:  http://www.aseees.org/new/advocacy.php


*         ASEEES urges the Hungarian government to preserve the documents in its Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security.
ASEEES letter to the the Hungarian Ambassador to the US, dated Feb. 23, 2011<http://www.aseees.org/Advocacy/Hungarian_archives.pdf> (PDF)
You can find more information and sign a petition here<http://hungarianarchives.com/>.

*         ASEEES expresses concern regarding University of Glasgow's proposal to close its foreign language programs, including Czech, Polish, and Russian.
ASEEES letter to the University administration , dated Feb. 16, 2011<http://www.aseees.org/Advocacy/ASEEES_UGlasgow.pdf> (PDF)
You can keep up to date on the news on this Facebook page<http://www.facebook.com/slavic.e.european.eurasian.studies#%21/pages/Modern-Languages-and-Cultures-at-University-of-Glasgow-under-threat/179538408755444>. If you wish, you can sign a petition here<http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/glasgowmodernlanguages/> (warning - there is a cost of $2)

*         ASEEES urges US Congress to support funding for The High Education Act: Title VI/Fulbright-Hay 120(b)(6) for FY 2011 and 2012. We strongly believe that this program is vital to the US global competence.
ASEEES letter to the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, dated Feb 15. 2011<http://www.aseees.org/Advocacy/ASEEES_support_Title6-FH.pdf> (PDF)

2011 Membership
If you've not yet renewed your individual membership, you can do so by following this link:  http://www.aseees.org/membership/membershipindividual.html

2011 Convention
2011 Convention Pre-registration is open.  More information at: http://www.aseees.org/convention.html   Make your hotel reservations soon.  Space is very limited.

2011 ASEEES Prizes
2011 ASEEES Prize information can be found at: http://www.aseees.org/prizes.html   Most book prize deadlines are  May 6.

Graduate Student Representative on ASEEES Board of Directors, 2012-13
More information on the call for nominations for the Graduate Student Representative on the ASEEES Board of Directors can be found at: http://www.aseees.org/new/cfn-studentrep.php Deadline: April 15

ASEEES on Facebook & LinkedIn
Join us on Facebook and LinkedIn.  Since we try not to send out too many listserv announcements, Facebook and LinkedIn are often faster ways to get announcements from us.  This is where we post other calls for papers and job announcements as they come in.  (A more comprehensive job announcements can be found on our members website.)
FB - http://www.facebook.com/slavic.e.european.eurasian.studies
LinkedIn_ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2585509

ASEEES on Twitter!
We are now even on Twitter.  We have not tweeted much yet, but follow us.  We will try to think of some clever things to say.  http://twitter.com/#!/aseeestudies


Lynda Park, Executive Director
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(formerly AAASS)
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University of Pittsburgh
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