[ASEEES] 2015 Convention Registration, Travel Grants; 2015 Prize Nominations; Public Comments for Special Board Meeting; Send Us Your News

[Park, Lynda]

2015 ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Nov. 19-22

The 2015 ASEEES Convention in Philadelphia promises to be a well-attended, lively event.  The acceptance notifications were sent out on April 24.  If you have not received a notification, please check your spam folder first and then contact Wendy Walker at wwalker at pitt.edu<mailto:wwalker at pitt.edu>   We will post the preliminary schedule in mid-June.



REGISTRATION

The Convention registration is now open: http://www.aseees.org/convention/registration.  The Early Registration Deadline is August 21.



MEMBERSHIP RULES & EXCEPTIONS

All participants on panels/roundtables who are in any related Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in the US and abroad must be current ASEEES members. If you are not currently a member or have not renewed your membership for 2015, you must do so now: http://www.aseees.org/membership/individual   For complete membership rules and exceptions see: http://www.aseees.org/convention/rules#membership



TRAVEL GRANTS

ASEEES is offering three travel grants for the convention this year - Davis Graduate Student Travel Grant (deadline: May 22), Regional Scholar Travel Grant (deadline: June 1), and  the new Convention Opportunity Travel Grant (deadline: June 1).  For more information see http://www.aseees.org/convention/grants   The new Convention Opportunity Travel Grant was instituted this year to provide support for low-income members, particularly adjunct/contingent faculty and those who are unemployed/underemployed: http://www.aseees.org/convention/grants/opportunity

DONATE - Please consider donating to the travel grant funds.  100% of your donations will be given out as grants for the 2015 Convention:  http://www.aseees.org/donate


2015 ASEEES Prizes
The 2015 ASEEES prize nomination deadlines are fast approaching:  http://www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes


*         Distinguished Contributions in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award: May 8

*         CLIR Distinguished Service Award: June 1

*         Vucinich Book Prize: May 7

*         USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies: May 7

*         Zelnik Book Prize in History: May 7

*         Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies: May 7

*         Shulman Book Prize: May 7

*         Hewett Book Prize: May 7

*         Jelavich Book Prize: May 7

*         Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies: May 7

*         Tucker/Cohen Dissertation Prize: May 15

*         ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize: June 1

ASEEES Special Meeting of the Board
As previously announced, the ASEEES Board will hold a special meeting on May 11 to discuss the issues raised by Prof. David Ransel's Feb. 5 sign-on letter regarding the Cohen-Tucker Fellowship matter.  We received 77 comments from members, of which 51 were marked as public and are posted online: http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-news-feed/aseees-member-comments-sign-letter-feb-5-2015

Send Us Your News
Please send us your professional news, such as promotions, change in institution, awards and prizes, by May 11 to be included in the June issue of NewsNet.  Send to newsnet at pitt.edu<mailto:newsnet at pitt.edu>


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