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<div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear members:</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Happy New Year! It was our pleasure to see so many of you at the 2014 conference and we are hard at work preparing for the next annual event. We
hope you'll join us; More details about the submission process are below. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CfP: </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">47th
ASEEES Annual Convention</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nov. 19-22, 2015, </span></b><b style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Philadelphia
Marriott Downtown</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/convention"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.aseees.org/convention</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The call for proposals with submission info can be found at:
</span></span><a href="http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
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2015.</span></span></b></span></p>
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2015</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you require any assistance, please contact Jonathon Swiderski, membership coordinator, at
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or Wendy Walker, convention coordinator, at </span></span><a href="mailto:wwalker@pitt.edu"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wwalker@pitt.edu</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Upcoming Webinar</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first webinar of the Spring will be hosted by the Slavic Reference Service on February 18 at 1pm.
</span></span><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Slavic Reference Service will address
transliteration systems, searching online catalogs, and research resources from Russia, Eastern and Southern Europe, and Eurasia. Webinar attendees are encouraged to state their research needs and areas of specialization on the registration form, which can
sign up here: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=ASEEES&WebCode=webinars">https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=ASEEES&WebCode=webinars</a></span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Also, please feel free to contact me if you have ideas for or wish to host a webinar.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>NewsNet</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The January NewsNet is now available and includes </span><span style="color: rgb(49, 47, 48); line-height: 21.5999984741211px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In
Defense of Regional Studies in a Globalized World: Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Twenty-Five Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall" the 2014 Presidential Address by Stephen E. Hanson, (College of William and Mary); ASEEES Convention Important
Dates; 2014 Winners of ASEEES Affiliate Organizations’ Prizes; 2015 ASEEES Board of Directors; 2014 Executive Director’s Report; "Following Chris Cviić: Ethics and Reconstruction from the Balkans to Ukraine" by James Gow, (King’s College London, UK); the 2015
ASEEES Spring Calendar and membership forms, as well as our regular features.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As always, we welcome your contributions, both of news and of articles. http://aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/2015-01newsnet.pdf</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know what questions you have. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mary Arnstein<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+1 (412) 648-9809 (direct), +1 (412) 648-9911 (main)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+1 (412) 648-9815 (fax)</p>
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