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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597">2016 ASEEES-MAG SUMMER CONVENTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">26 - 28 June 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://ucu.edu.ua/eng/">Ukrainian Catholic University</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lviv, Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.aseees.org/summer-convention"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.aseees.org/summer-convention</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ASEEES is delighted to announce its second biennial summer convention, co-organized with the International Association for the Humanities (MAG). Please
share the Call for Proposals widely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">CONFERENCE INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention will take place at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. 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. The program will feature approximately 80-100 panels including about 300 presentations,
and there will also be a supplementary program including a plenary, receptions, cultural program, and a keynote speaker. Participants are responsible for covering the costs of their own travel to and stay in Lviv and the registration fee.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">CALL FOR PROPOSALS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The deadline for submission of all proposals is:
<b><span style="color:red">6 January 2016</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information and to submit a proposal, go to:
</span><a href="http://www.aseees.org/summer-convention/cfp"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.aseees.org/summer-convention/cfp</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">CONVENTION THEME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">LANGUAGE POLICY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white">The program committee encourages the use of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white;font-weight:normal">four
working languages</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white">- of
ASEEES (<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">English</span></strong>) and MAG (<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and English</span></strong>) - in order to celebrate
and take best advantage of the diversity of languages in the region.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information
on the convention language policy go to: </span><a href="http://www.aseees.org/summer-convention/language-policy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.aseees.org/summer-convention/language-policy</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">ABOUT IAH/MAG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The International Association for the Humanities 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 "The Bridge-MOCT". For more information go to:
<a href="http://www.mag-iah.com/">www.mag-iah.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Andrzej Tymowski, Chair (ACLS, University of Warsaw)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Olga Bukhina (MAG)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Boris Kolonitskii (European University at St. Petersburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Joanna Nizynska (Indiana University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Lynda Park (ASEEES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Bill Rosenberg (University of Michigan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• John Schoeberlein (Nazarbayev University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Tatiana Shchyttsova (European Humanities University Minsk/Vilnius)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Oleh Turiy (Ukrainian Catholic University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red">CONTACT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please send summer convention-related inquiries to:
</span><a href="mailto:aseees.convention@pitt.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">aseees.convention@pitt.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> or
</span><a href="mailto:obukhina@acls.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">obukhina@acls.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lynda Park<br>
Executive Director<o:p></o:p></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/">www.aseees.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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