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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000">June 2021 Issue of NewsNet
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2FJune%25202021.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622575979699%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=mmlzga6jEJpy29QDwwl3LvMHUSMCVvmdFhAppfPX9us%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/June%202021.pdf" shash="zDN3imy6LubhtRW9kt3vEdH0dSojHoOhOVFSaZg1twUM8sXI7ubTcmzPzNni4e8ZAzQjq4MNw1Blqf6U8D8vAOrxxk4QIVusqRvhvHtbFB/OjHl7Dv7GgVG13TtHJaYmNV3pxuHNl8O0Lv+zvqKBSyb4IyJbaxFnp8p8uSMlYrE=">
<b>June 2021 issue of NewsNet</b></a> is now available and includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">“Revisiting the ‘Contours of Race, Racialization, and Race-Making’ in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,” by Elana Resnick, UC Santa Barbara, Sunnie Rucker-Chang,
University of Cincinnati, and Chelsi West Ohueri, University of Texas, Austin<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">“Summing Up Poetry: A Case Against Packaging,” by Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">“Supporting Precarious Scholars in Eastern Europe: Addressing Barriers to Publishing in US & UK,” by Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">“New Lease on Life for Physiological Collectivism? Reading Bogdanov in the Time of COVID,” by Felix Helbing, University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Letter from the ASEEES President Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">2021 ASEEES Dissertation Grant & Internship Grant Recipients
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">2021 ASEEES Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Recipients<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Personages, Publications, Institutional and Affiliate Group News, and In Memoriam.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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click here</a></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000">Donate to ASEEES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to individual and institutional donors who gave generously to our Future of the Field fundraising campaign in 2018-2020, we have been able to award over
<b>$1.17 million</b> in grants and fellowships since January 2019 for dissertation research and writing, convention travel, internships, and book publishing (please see the June issue of NewsNet for more information). With continued generosity from our donors,
we can maintain and hope to increase our high level of grant funding for graduate students, scholars in the region, and other members.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please consider contributing through our numerous <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fdonate%2Fgiving-opportunities&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622575989657%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=oPjLkdxEa%2FXJysm9h0dqUraUuzGlWECvd%2BCKT2%2B9VUY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.aseees.org/donate/giving-opportunities" shash="kcUGRwhQ+mBiliu6b00/qdhlrm9PoQ2vfx8fp/LnxgIrrJLUBbkKK7l8cxwvzyrp7z55Nteq2S6wj2M97FQKFzP2vwk7UVl/oYXYP95IjSS4ka3P9axplmEbNNlcX0Q29rKx+poTypWE5LgyoelOUp/qgM2YUuL3wNQuxuTiP3g=" target="_blank" title="https://www.aseees.org/donate/giving-opportunities">
<b><span style="color:#6888C9">opportunities to give</span></b></a>. Donations can be made in honor or in memory of a mentor, scholar, or colleague who made your success possible. You can make your donation
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in planned giving for the <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fdonate%2Flegacy-society&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622575999611%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=2gCHUOfkwiHQHw0ilqxHzwNa56OUnTEkgD2zJU66LU0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.aseees.org/donate/legacy-society" shash="IHb9QsBqCsPtVpzwHLqHKAvgqc+TYAM3SCJuhNuD3PHzG4YTn0z1fD5cBaB8M445BWDOJim63nfk8P4KQy64z0jMOqJGBbZni3lep0sbf/z9a77jqC3S9pQscFtOJg6+SGO0OVDEcvgyYHcW/tPaHHvVmF4iivX3cBSQiSl6CmQ=">
<b>ASEEES Legacy Society</b></a>, please contact Lynda Park, Executive Director, at
<a href="mailto:lypark@pitt.edu">lypark@pitt.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000">ASEEES2021 Annual Convention Schedule in PDF Available</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30">IN-PERSON Convention</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;font-weight:normal">,</span></strong><b><span style="color:#312F30">
</span></b><span style="color:#312F30">Hilton New Orleans Riverside, <b>November 18 – 21, 2021</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="main-content-text" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;background:white">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30">Virtual Convention</span></strong><span style="color:#312F30">, online,
<b>December 2 – 3, 2021</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="main-content-text" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">The PDF version of the 2021 Convention preliminary program is now available at
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fconvention%2Fprogram&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576009566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=GE%2FiZJ%2FFxzMxLm4sPzsHx9Ws2PJmnyovBH%2BLW8uvb5I%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://www.aseees.org/convention/program" shash="CpFNCB+Pk/EHjfNlBHyDfBucliBglxgBJ12lS+zkPiCdbwV7oKMEpH7n9xFsWJBP1hwKKxikxE2fuDuPhH2t9m5Us/u7pNY0Rj0k5fGNWyzlnsWETiev1Ke4nIJl0+FivOZmwRk9UdGKVPGQz2QYELIYGpAB8qu4sceMrS1odGA=" target="_BLANK"><span style="color:#0B7097;font-weight:normal">www.aseees.org/convention/program</span></a> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white;font-weight:normal">Please
note that this is a static document</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#312F30;background:white;font-weight:normal">as of June 15. Any requested changes after that date will not be included in the PDF version of the schedule.
</span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white">The online version is the most up-to-date schedule.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:#312F30">ASEEES Membership: </span></b><span style="color:#312F30;background:white">Please note that all participants on panels, roundtables and lightning rounds who are scholars and specialists of Russian, East European, and Eurasian
studies in any discipline in the US or abroad <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">MUST be current members of ASEEES</span></strong>. Please </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aseees.org%2Fmembership%2Findividual&data=04%7C01%7Caseees%40list.pitt.edu%7Ce459329da703402d3c7308d9366358f5%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C0%7C637600622576009566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HUZxu71lm5lVHuwahbd%2BiqHEDCkM6RS66rVNQFmiCpU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://www.aseees.org/membership/individual" shash="yais6UX7vuxspkZ6JZFMySLtQNWPinPwdoSl1Gadvn0enC/nI5huvny7zPZoI1gxUEmGdOOU4xImxR+s2IB5G7UProQTlL+03QmdTGAX7JMhXgpwUAgKh4F3/aTqLLq50lMyI/NfOLaGNmWDYvREs+KFkLkAUILtIVgQWs21rxA=" target="_BLANK"><span style="color:#0B7097;background:white">join
or renew your membership</span></a></span><span style="color:#312F30;background:white"> today, if you have not already done so.
</span><span style="color:#312F30"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="main-content-text" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;background:white">
<b><span style="color:#312F30">Registration: </span></b><span style="color:#312F30">Registration is open
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Early bird registration with discounted rates ends on August 17. <b>A limited number of waivers</b> are available. Please check the registration page for more information. If you are able, please consider donating to the
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000">2021 ASEEES Board Election</span></b><br>
Voting for the 2021 ASEEES Board of Directors election has begun. All current members should have received an email regarding on an online ballot. If you did not receive the email, please check your spam folder first. If you still do not have the ballot or
prefer to receive a paper ballot, please contact us at <a href="mailto:aseees@pitt.edu">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The candidates for President-Elect/Vice President are:
<b>Juliet Johnson</b> (McGill University, Canada) and <b>Douglas Rogers</b> (Yale University).
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The candidates for Members-at-Large are: <b>Andy Janco</b> (<span style="color:#222222;background:#FCFCFC">Haverford College)</span>;
<b>Rűstis Kamuntavičius </b>(<span style="color:black;background:white">Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)</span>,
<b>David Siroky</b> (Arizona State University), and <b>Kimberly Zarecor</b> (Iowa State University).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The candidates for the Graduate Student Representative are:
<b>Zachary Hicks</b> (UC Berkeley) and <b>Jeffrey Yelverton</b> (University of Minnesota).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000">July Social Hours for Members</span></b><span style="color:#312F30"><br>
The ASEEES July Social Hour Series is a great way to connect with fellow ASEEES members this summer! Join us for informal conversation in Zoom breakout rooms, each geared towards a general field within SEEES,
<b>every Thursday in July from 4:00-5:00PM EDT</b>. Members are welcome to bring a cocktail, mocktail, or tea and discuss everything from scholarship to new books to post-COVID travel and research plans. Ask questions, get to know each other, and share insights
and ideas! The first one comes up soon on July 1!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="color:#312F30">1 July: East-Central European Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="color:#312F30">8 July: Ukrainian Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="color:#312F30">29 July: Graduate Student Happy Hour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#312F30">ASEEES invites our BIPOC (black, Indigenous, and people of color) colleagues to participate in a two-year (2021-2022) pilot program. For more information click
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