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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear members: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">The </span>March<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>2018<span style="color:#312F30;background:white"> issue of NewsNet includes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Applying Post-Socialist Studies outside Post-Soviet Space: The Many Washington, DCs" by Johanna Bockman (George Mason University and Institute for Advanced Study);
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Interview with Benjamin Peters, Winner of the ASEEES 2017 Vucinich Book Prize" by Stephen Hutchings (University of Manchester, UK);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"The William Brumfield Russian Architecture Digital Collection: From Database to Semantic Web" by Michael Biggins and Theo Gerontakos (University of Washington, Seattle);
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#312F30"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">"Spotlight: Johnson’s Russia List" by David Johnson; and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">2018 ASEEES Prizes Call for Submissions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white">A new e-magazine format is available
<b><span style="color:#312F30"><a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/3cfb92e3-1bf3-4ba4-863a-6795ea29bef6"><span style="color:#0B7097">here</span></a></span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">,
</span>which users can also download as an interactive pdf. <span style="color:#312F30"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">ASEEES Spring Webinar Series continues:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">April 11, 2018</span></b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white"> (12pm EST): <b>Doing Research on Eastern Europe in the EU: Research Infrastructures, Grant Models, and Career Mobility</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">This webinar will focus on career patterns in academia as well as in the field of infrastructure development in EU-countries. Participants will learn about the formats, chances and challenges
when one wishes to develop an individual strategy for one’s trans-national career path. Against this backdrop and providing significant examples, Peter Haslinger will explain about bilateral and cross-European funding programs - this will also include some
thoughts about advancing transatlantic exchange in the field of Eastern European Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">To register, click <b><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8522754819718406915">here</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#312F30;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>50th ASEEES Annual Convention/ASEEES 70<sup>th</sup> Anniversary
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://aseees.org/convention">The 50<sup>th</sup> ASEEES Annual Convention</a> will be held 6 – 9 December 2018 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place
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<p class="MsoNormal">Help us celebrate our anniversaries by sharing your memories of the past ASEEES conventions by sending us memorable stories and pictures* from past conventions. Please include the year the photo was taken and names of all people in the
picture. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Send to: <a href="mailto:newsnet@pitt.edu">
newsnet@pitt.edu</a> or post them in the ASEEES Commons group <a href="https://aseees.hcommons.org/groups/celebrating-aseees-anniversaries/">
“Celebrating ASEEES Anniversaries”.</a> Your story and photos may be shared during the Convention. *Please DO NOT send your original photos. We cannot guarantee the return of original photos.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ASEEES News<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As always, please send us book publications, job promotions, fellowships/grants/awards received or other news items that we can share with our community.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mary Arnstein<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ASEEES Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:newsnet@pitt.edu">newsnet@pitt.edu</a>
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