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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:1.3pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Dear Members:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:1.3pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Happy New Year! <b>January <i>NewsNet</i> now available at <a href="http://www.aseees.org/newsnet/2013-01.pdf">http://www.aseees.org/newsnet/2013-01.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:1.3pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a href="http://aseees.org/newsnet/2012-10.pdf"><b><span style='color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'>This issue</span></b></a> includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>"Borders, Boundaries, Place and Space: 2012 Presidential Address" by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (U of Wisconsin)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>2012 Executive Director's Report by Lynda Park<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>"The Fetishism of Commodities Revisited" by Lewis Siegelbaum, (Michigan State U)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Announcement of 2012 winners of prizes from ASEEES' <a href="http://www.aseees.org/organizations/affiliates.html"><b><span style='color:#993333;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Affiliate Organizations</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>"The Havighurst Center: The First Dozen Years" by Venelin Ganev (Miami U, Ohio)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>"Asia-Pacific Research Center, Seoul, Korea" by Sang Hyun Kim (Hanyang U)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Members of the 2013 ASEEES Board of Directors and Committees<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>News from ASEEES <a href="http://www.aseees.org/membership/memberinstitutions.html"><b><span style='color:#993333;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Institutional Members</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.aseees.org/organizations/affiliates.html"><b><span style='color:#993333;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Affiliates</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Personages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>In Memoriam</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>: Remembering Herbert J. Ellison, Gale Stokes, and Ladislav Matějka<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:37.3pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Please send news (personages, publications etc.) to <a href="mailto:newsnet@pitt.edu"><span style='color:windowtext'>newsnet@pitt.edu</span></a> for inclusion in our March NewsNet. 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