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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 5h

Book you convention stay at the Washington Hilton through the ASEEES Room Block. Room Block rates end October 17.
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 18h

Webinar: The Changing Landscape of Library Collections for Scholars of SEEES
TOMORROW: Tuesday, October 14 - 12 pm EDT
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 1d

Read "Dancing with Deviants, or, Writing Queer Russia" by Connor Doak in the September Issue of NewsNet.
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Dancing with Deviants, or, Writing Queer Russia | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

Paul David Gould’s recent novel Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants (2023) is set in the heady days of Moscow’s nascent gay scene of the 1990s. The title alludes […]

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Cristina Galmarini, honorable mention recipient of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War with Northern Illinois University Press.
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 3d

Webinar: The Changing Landscape of Library Collections for Scholars of SEEES
Tuesday, October 14 - 12 pm EDT
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Samuel J. Hirst, winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize for Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 with Oxford University Press.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won the @aseees.bsky.social Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, recognizing an outstanding history monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia!

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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to Anne O’Donnell, whose book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution won the @aseees.bsky.social's Ed A. Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia, and/or Eastern Europe!

Read about her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB1yv0

Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'Donnell

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 5d

Join us in congratulating Agnieszka Pasieka, whose book Living Right was an Honorable Mention for the @aseees.bsky.social Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, which honors the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs!

Check out her book here: hubs.ly/Q03LB67d0.

Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe by Agnieszka Pasieka

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Xiaolu Ma, honorable mention recipient of the University of Southern California Book Prize for Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) with Harvard University Asia Center.
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 7d

The North American Dostoevsky Society is delighted to announce that the 2025 Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award goes to Nikolay Smirnov. Read about Nikolay’s upcoming presentation at @aseees.bsky.social here:
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2025 Martinsen Award Announcement

The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North Am…

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won the @aseees.bsky.social Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, honoring the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, & East European studies in the humanities and social sciences!

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 7d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 13d

Read "The Post-Soviet Inheritance of Jewish Libraries" by Benjamin Arenstein in the September issue of NewsNet.
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"As families decided to emigrate and packed up their apartments, what was the fate of their books?"

The Post-Soviet Inheritance of Jewish Libraries | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

By the Marjanishvili Metro Stop in Tbilisi, Georgia, bevies of used-book buyers, collectors and enthusiasts commune daily amongst kiosks laden with antiquarian tomes. Stacked haphazardly across…

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes
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SHERA @sheraart.bsky.social · 14d

As part of the SHERA 30th Anniversary Lecture Series, we are thrilled to host a lecture by @staneklukasz.bsky.social "The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives". October 23, 12:00-1:15pm NY time, online.
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The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives

SHERA 30th Anniversary Lecture Series: Lecture by Łukasz Stanek

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 15d

Participants in the ASEEES Convention must register by September 30 to appear in the Index of Participants.
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 15d

This Monday: Researching Russia in 2025: Collections, Resources, and Challenges
Sept. 29 at 12 PM EDT
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Moderator: Anna Arays (Yale U)
Speakers:
Jon Giullian (U of Kansas)
Thomas Keenan (Princeton U)
Margarita Nafpaktitis (Stanford U)
Matthew Young (Library of Congress)

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to Masha Salazkina winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for her book, Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture with University of California Press. #ASEEESPrizes
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 17d

As part of our Spotlight on Central Asian Studies Series, Marianne Kamp wrote, "Oral History in Central Asia" for the September issue of NewsNet.
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Oral History in Central Asia | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

For more than three decades, I have had the good fortune of interviewing many people in Uzbekistan about their Soviet-period lives. My historian colleagues in Central Asia used to be […]

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 17d

Write for NewsNet!
NewsNet invites ASEEES members—including grad students— to submit pitches for articles. We especially encourage submissions on underrepresented areas of scholarship and pedagogy as well as reflections on the (possible) future(s) of the SEEES field.
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans, winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for his book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement with Princeton University Press.
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 20d

ASEEES Announces Virtual Roundtable Series: Navigating SEEES Collections in 2025
Sept. 29 at 12 PM EDT
Researching Russia in 2025: Collections, Resources, and Challenges

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 21d

Stephen E. Hanson writes, "The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule" assessing the impact of recent political changes on regional studies for the September Issue of NewsNet.
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The Fate of Regional Studies under Patrimonial Rule | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

This crisis is qualitatively different from any we have faced as scholars since the invention of modern area studies associations in the aftermath of World War II...

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 22d

The SRS handles bibliographic and reference questions in all subject areas connected to Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Our services are free and open to all scholars year round.
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