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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red">2016 ASEEES-MAG SUMMER CONVENTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">26 - 28 June 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ukrainian Catholic University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lviv, Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/summer-convention">www.aseees.org/summer-convention</a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<p class="MsoPlainText">ASEEES is delighted to announce its second biennial summer convention, co-organized with the <a href="http://www.mag-iah.com/about.html">International Association for the Humanities (MAG)</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">CONFERENCE INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention will take place at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The conference program will begin in early afternoon of Sun, June 26 and continue through the evening of Tue, June 28; you may arrive on Sat, June 25; we plan to schedule a city tour on the morning of Sun, June 26.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The program will feature approximately 80-100 panels including about 300 presentations, and there will also be a supplementary program including a plenary, reception, cultural program, and a keynote speaker.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Participants are responsible for covering the costs of their own travel to and stay in Lviv. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">CALL FOR PROPOSALS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Panel, roundtable and paper proposals relating to any aspect of East-Central European and Eurasian Studies are welcome. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate.<br>
Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be given some priority in the selection process. Individual papers are also welcome and selected papers will be assigned by the Program Committee to an appropriate panel with a chair and a
discussant.<br>
The deadline for submission of all proposals is: <b><span style="color:red">6 January 2016</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information and to submit a proposal, go to:<b> <a href="http://www.aseees.org/summer-convention/cfp">
www.aseees.org/summer-convention/cfp</a></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">CONVENTION THEME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The summer convention's theme is “Images of the Other” – construction and definition of the ‘Other’, instrumental use and abuse of the ‘Other’ in politics, cultural and social practices; the role of ethnic, cultural, social and gender
stereotypes; representations of the ‘Other’ in memory politics, art, public discourse and media; and scholarship regarding the ‘Other’ as a social construct. ASEEES and MAG invite papers; and panel proposals, related to the theme, understood in the broadest
possible sense. Note: Proposals on the theme are encouraged but not required. See the call for proposals for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">ABOUT IAH/MAG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The <a href="http://www.mag-iah.com/">International Association for the Humanities </a>was founded in 2007 with the help of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Council of Learned Societies as an independent association
of humanities scholars primarily in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. IAH/MAG publishes a newsletter <a href="http://thebridge-moct.org/">"The Bridge-MOCT"</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">ABOUT UCU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The <a href="http://ucu.edu.ua/eng/">Ukrainian Catholic University </a>is a private institution for education and research, founded in 2002 by the St. Clement Foundation, whose elected head is Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), the head of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Andrzej Tymowski, Chair (ACLS, University of Warsaw)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Olga Bukhina (MAG)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Boris Kolonitskii (European University at St. Petersburg)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Joanna Nizynska (Indiana University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Lynda Park (ASEEES)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Bill Rosenberg (University of Michigan)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Tatiana Shchyttsova (European Humanities University Minsk/Vilnius)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Oleh Turiy (Ukrainian Catholic University)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">• Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:red">CONTACT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Please send summer convention-related inquiries to: <a href="mailto:aseees.convention@pitt.edu">aseees.convention@pitt.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:obukhina@acls.org">obukhina@acls.org</a> .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The inaugural ASEEES summer convention in the region, co-sponsored by the Central Eurasian Studies Society, was hosted by Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 22-24, 2014. The 2018 summer convention is tentatively scheduled
to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lynda Park<br>
Executive Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+1 (412) 648-9911 (main) | +1 (412) 648-9815 (fax)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.aseees.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/donate"><span style="color:#C00000">Support ASEEES</span></a><span style="color:#C00000">
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