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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt">As the year 2017 comes to end, please
<b>renew your ASEEES membership for 2018</b>: <a href="http://www.aseees.org/membership/individual" target="_BLANK翺">www.aseees.org/membership/individual</a> Please check your records on the ASEEES members site to make sure that you didn’t already pay for
the 2018 membership. If you are not sure, please contact the ASEEES office at <a href="mailto:aseees@pitt.edu">
aseees@pitt.edu</a> or 412-648-9911.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt">CFA: The application deadline for the
<b>Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship in Russian Historical Studies</b> is
<span style="color:red">Jan. 8, 2018</span>: <a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/ctdrf" target="_BLANK">
www.aseees.org/programs/ctdrf</a> The fellowship provides a stipend of $22,000 for US graduate students to conduct dissertation research. Please share this information with any interested students.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt"><span style="color:red">New: </span>
We are now offering a program on <b>Exploring Career Diversity: </b>a <span style="color:#312F30;background:white">
service that matches professionals with SEEES MA/PhDs employed beyond the professoriate, with PhD students and recent PhDs who are interested in broadening their career horizons:
</span><a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/career-diversity">www.aseees.org/programs/career-diversity</a> We are especially asking the non-professoriate professionals to volunteer for this service.<span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt">CFP: The next deadline for the <b>
First Book Subvention</b> program is <span style="color:red">Feb. 1, 2018</span>:
<a href="http://www.aseees.org/programs/firstbook-subvention">www.aseees.org/programs/firstbook-subvention</a> We congratulate the
<a href="http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-news-feed/first-book-subvention-recipients-october-2017">
recipients</a> of the subvention in fall 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt">Also, today - Tuesday, November 28 - is
<b>#GivingTuesday</b>, a global day dedicated to giving back. We have launched many new programs in the last three years, such as the ASEEES dissertation grants, convention travel grants, the first book subvention and the mentoring programs, and your contributions
have made them possible. Please consider giving to ASEEES as we work to launch more programs and increase the number of grants in 2018 to support our members:
<b><a href="http://www.aseees.org/donate" target="_BLANK">www.aseees.org/donate</a></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt"><b>Send us your news</b> for NewsNet. For the January 2018 issue of NewsNet, please send us news of your promotion, awards, fellowships, and book publications to
<a href="mailto:newsnet@pitt.edu">newsnet@pitt.edu</a> by <span style="color:red">
Dec. 5</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt">As always, please feel free to contact me with comments or questions about ASEEES.
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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.facebook.com/pages/Association-for-Slavic-East-European-and-Eurasian-Studies/141362775903086" target="_BLANK">Facebook</a> |
<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/aseeestudies" target="_BLANK">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://aseees.hcommons.org/" target="_BLANK">
<span style="color:blue">ASEEES Commons</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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