[ASEEES] Announcements - June NewsNet Available, 2021 ASEEES Grant and Fellowship Recipients, Board Election, July Social Hours, Donate to ASEEES

Wed Jun 23 12:24:16 EDT 2021

June 2021 Issue of NewsNet
The June 2021 issue of NewsNet<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2FJune%25202021.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622575979699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=mmlzga6jEJpy29QDwwl3LvMHUSMCVvmdFhAppfPX9us%3D&reserved=0> is now available and includes:

  *   “Revisiting the ‘Contours of Race, Racialization, and Race-Making’ in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,” by Elana Resnick, UC Santa Barbara, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, University of Cincinnati, and Chelsi West Ohueri, University of Texas, Austin
  *   “Summing Up Poetry: A Case Against Packaging,” by Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College
  *   “Supporting Precarious Scholars in Eastern Europe: Addressing Barriers to Publishing in US & UK,” by Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland
  *   “New Lease on Life for Physiological Collectivism? Reading Bogdanov in the Time of COVID,” by Felix Helbing, University of Pittsburgh
  *   Letter from the ASEEES President Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
  *   2021 ASEEES Dissertation Grant & Internship Grant Recipients
  *   2021 ASEEES Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Recipients
  *   Personages, Publications, Institutional and Affiliate Group News, and In Memoriam.
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Donate to ASEEES
Thanks to individual and institutional donors who gave generously to our Future of the Field fundraising campaign in 2018-2020, we have been able to award over $1.17 million in grants and fellowships since January 2019 for dissertation research and writing, convention travel, internships, and book publishing (please see the June issue of NewsNet for more information). With continued generosity from our donors, we can maintain and hope to increase our high level of grant funding for graduate students, scholars in the region, and other members.
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ASEEES2021 Annual Convention Schedule in PDF Available

IN-PERSON Convention, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, November 18 – 21, 2021

Virtual Convention, online, December 2 – 3, 2021

The PDF version of the 2021 Convention preliminary program is now available at www.aseees.org/convention/program<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fconvention%2Fprogram&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576009566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=GE%2FiZJ%2FFxzMxLm4sPzsHx9Ws2PJmnyovBH%2BLW8uvb5I%3D&reserved=0> Please note that this is a static document as of June 15. Any requested changes after that date will not be included in the PDF version of the schedule. The online version is the most up-to-date schedule.

ASEEES Membership: Please note that all participants on panels, roundtables and lightning rounds who are scholars and specialists of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline in the US or abroad MUST be current members of ASEEES. Please join or renew your membership<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fmembership%2Findividual&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576009566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HUZxu71lm5lVHuwahbd%2BiqHEDCkM6RS66rVNQFmiCpU%3D&reserved=0> today, if you have not already done so.

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If you have any questions, please contact Margaret Manges, Convention Manager, at +1 (412) 648-4049 or aseees.convention at pitt.edu<mailto:aseees.convention at pitt.edu>

2021 ASEEES Board Election
Voting for the 2021 ASEEES Board of Directors election has begun. All current members should have received an email regarding on an online ballot. If you did not receive the email, please check your spam folder first. If you still do not have the ballot or prefer to receive a paper ballot, please contact us at aseees at pitt.edu<mailto:aseees at pitt.edu>
The candidates for President-Elect/Vice President are: Juliet Johnson (McGill University, Canada) and Douglas Rogers (Yale University).
The candidates for Members-at-Large are: Andy Janco (Haverford College); Rūstis Kamuntavičius (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania), David Siroky (Arizona State University), and Kimberly Zarecor (Iowa State University).
The candidates for the Graduate Student Representative are: Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley) and Jeffrey Yelverton (University of Minnesota).

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July Social Hours for Members
The ASEEES July Social Hour Series is a great way to connect with fellow ASEEES members this summer! Join us for informal conversation in Zoom breakout rooms, each geared towards a general field within SEEES, every Thursday in July from 4:00-5:00PM EDT. Members are welcome to bring a cocktail, mocktail, or tea and discuss everything from scholarship to new books to post-COVID travel and research plans. Ask questions, get to know each other, and share insights and ideas! The first one comes up soon on July 1!
1 July: East-Central European Studies
8 July: Ukrainian Studies
15 July: Central Asian and Caucasian Studies
22 July: Russian Studies
29 July: Graduate Student Happy Hour
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Initiative on Diversity and Inclusion
ASEEES invites our BIPOC (black, Indigenous, and people of color) colleagues to participate in a two-year (2021-2022) pilot program. For more information click HERE<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fprograms%2Finitiative-diversity-and-inclusion&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576039438%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vmzNISovAToKEa8oJP3yMLaO9Ch3xWrpg5XN1aRNUCk%3D&reserved=0>.

Call for Applications/Volunteers: ASEEES Program “Exploring Career Diversity”
This service provides informational interviews by matching professionals with SEEES MA/PhDs employed beyond the professoriate (Senior Contact), with graduate students and recent MA/PhDs who are interested in broadening their career horizons (Junior Contact).  For more information and to apply or volunteer, click HERE<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fprograms%2Fcareer-diversity&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576049392%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=SQslgkb6MPIKchTevBYNoeo6FZe0sy%2Fllr3aEuX7EWU%3D&reserved=0>.

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