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NewsNetNews of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

June 2014 • v. 54, n. 3

Music, Social Media, and African Voices in UkraineAdriana Helbig, University of Pittsburgh

Inside This Issue • June 2014 • v. 54, n. 3

Music, Social Media, and African Voices in Ukraine 1 AdrianaHelbig,UofPittsburghDigital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media 5 Vlad Strukov, U of Leeds/Editor of Digital IconsChallengesandPleasuresofJournalEditing 7 BirgitBeumers,AberystwythU/EditorofKinokultura & Principal Editor of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema Nabokov Online Journal:WhereScholarshipMeetsInnovation 10 YuriLeving,DalhousieU&Nabokov Online Journal Founding Editor

Building Professional Bridges: ASEEES Regional ConferencesandInternationalCooperation 13 David Borgmeyer, St. Louis UASEEES Travel Grant Recipients 15Personages 17Publications 20Calendar 22InstitutionalMemberNews 23InMemoriam 28AffiliateMemberNews 30ASEEESConventionInformation 32

Social media, perceived by protesters in Ukraine asatrustedinformationsource,inoppositiontogovern-ment-controlledmediaoutlets,helpedfosterdegreesofinformational intimacy not only among Ukrainians butamong their supportersworldwide. As in the 2004Or-angeRevolution,whenUkrainiancitizensprotestedtheoutcomesofriggedpresidentialelections,musicplayedasignificantroleinframingtheEuroMaidanmovementand rallying supporters. Yet music and, more broadly, sound,amongthemostcrucialelementsthatstiremo-tions of participants and onlookers, have been gravelyoverlookedinanalyzingimagesfromUkraine.Manymu-siciansactiveinthe2004OrangeRevolutionalsopartici-patedintheEuroMaidan.However,unlikein2004,whenthemajorityofUkraine’spopulationdidnothaveInter-netaccess,socialmediahasservedastheprimarysourceofinformationforEuroMaidanandsubsequentevents.InadditiontothepublicconcertsthatprevailedduringtheOrangeRevolution,socialmediahelpeddisseminateEu-roMaidan’sintimatemusicalmomentsinrealtime:wom-enhuddlingtogetherandsinginginthecold,aprotester

playing on an outdoor piano in front of riot police, a pi-ano jamsessionbycandlelight inaprotester-occupiedgovernmentbuilding.Viewershavewatchedcollectively,inprivate,inrepetition,withedits,insegments,withal-ternatesoundtrackstoimages,ondelayorinrealtime.From thepianos, protest chants, communal singingoftheUkrainiannational anthem,performances fromanerectedstageinKyiv,andhourlychantedprayers,muchwaswritten about the types of songs thatwere sung,in what language, and who performed when and forwhom.Anunderstandableemphasisonthosewhowerethere, however, clouded our understandings of thosewhowere not participating, among themmembers ofUkraine’sAfricanpopulation.

Listening more critically to the sounds fromUkraine, we strain for voices that have been silencedoutoffearorbecausenospacehasbeenmadefortheirstoriestobeheard.Whilethemediahasreinforcedare-ductivebinaryanalysisofgeographicallydividedUkrai-nianandRussianlinguisticandculturalidentities,ithascontributedtoanovershadowingofminoritygroupsand

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immigrantcommunitiesthatdonotascribetoorfullyen-gagewithregionalidentitiesandhistories.Writingfromtheperspectiveofanethnographerwhohasconductedextensive research amongAfricanmusicians in easternUkraine,particularlyKharkiv,beingblackinUkrainetodayoffers critical insights into processes of nation buildingandrevolution.Identityconstructionsaresimultaneous-lymediatedviaAfricanexperiencesintheSovietUnionwithinpoliticizedframeworksofSoviet-African,U.S.-So-viet,andU.S.-AfricanrelationsduringtheColdWarandinthelasttwodecadesofpost-socialistreformulations.It is impossible to catch but a fleeting glimpse of thechangesthataretakingplaceinUkrainewhenitcomestoAfricanexperiences.First,thenumberofAfricansliv-inginUkrainecontinuestogrow,andcommunitieshaveformedincitiessuchasDonetskandDnipropetrovsk ineasternUkrainethatwerenotprominentevenfiveyearsago.ItisdifficulttodetermineanaccuratenumberofAf-ricans inUkrainebecauseoftheannualturnoverofAf-ricanstudentsaswellastheoftenillegalstatusofthosewhowishtostay.Second,changinggovernmentpoliciesregardingvisaandcitizenshiprequirementsinfluencetheeveryday lives of Africans to unimaginable extents, forc-ingpeopletoshapetheireverydayexperiencesinwaysthatoffersafetyandstability,influencingwheretheygointhecityandwithwhomtheycomeintocontact.Third,attitudestowardimmigrantscontinuetoshiftamongthegeneral population, sometimes more welcoming thanothers,basedonthewaysinwhichdiscoursesofimmi-grationarepoliticizedinthemediaandbypoliticalpar-ties.ThepublicsphereplaysasignificantroleinhowAf-ricansareportrayedinthemediaandthewaysinwhichrepresentations of “Africa” are negotiated by Africansand non-Africans on Ukrainian television, news coverage, andtheexpressivearts,musicamongthem.NewAfricandiasporainstitutionsandcommunityorganizationshavebegun toworkwith increasing effectiveness in helpingprovide increasedprotectionandaccess to informationfor Africans living in Ukraine.

MigrationsofAfricanstoformerSovietrepublicsfollowapatternofhistoricalconnectionsframedbyso-cialistexperiences.TheSovietUnionwelcomedstudentsfrom socialist-leaning countries including Cuba and new-lyindependentAfricancountriessuchastheDemocraticRepublic of the Congo. Soviet leaders offered militarysupporttoprotecttheirinterestsbutdivergedfromtheideologies of the various African independence move-mentsthatwererootedinstrongsensesofnationalism.TheypromotedaformasocialismthatAfricancountriesdid not follow but worked to their advantage in fields

suchasmedicine.Relationshipsrootedineducationalex-changeforgedintheSovieteracontinueinthepost-Sovi-etera,anditisstillcommontoseestudentsfromAfricaenrolledinuniversitiesoftheformerUSSR,particularlyinthemedicalfields.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in1991,manyAfricansandAfro-Caribbeanpeoplescontin-uedtomovetotheRussianFederationandindependentUkrainebutwith verydifferent experiences. Thedocu-mentary Black Russians (2001) by Kara Lynch featuresarchival footage of Paul Robeson and Angela Davis intheUSSRandinterviewswithRussiansofAfrican,Afro-Caribbean,andAfricanAmericandescentages10to65.Itoffersadeeplypersonalaccountofraceandcommu-nismandthestrugglestheyfaceinlightofrisingnation-alisminindependentRussia.ItshowsthatSovietsocietygrewincreasinglyracistover70yearsofcommunism.AsdocumentedbyPaulaGarbinher1987bookpublishedintheUSSR,They Came to Stay: North Americans in the USSR,manyAfricanAmericansandthoseofmixedmar-riagemovedfromtheU.S. to theSovietUnionprior toWorldWarIItoescaperacialbiasathome.WhenSovietuniversities began to extend scholarship programs forstudentsfromsocialist-leaningcountiesinthe1960s,Af-ricanstudentsweresomewhatprotectedbythesocialistrhetoric thatpromoted“friendshipof thepeoples.”Aninherentracismguidedthispolicy,however,becauseAf-ricanswereallowedtostudyintheUSSRbutwerenotal-lowedtogaincitizenship.Sovietpoliciesdiscouragedin-terracialmarriageandforcedstudentstoleavetheUSSRafter their studentvisasexpired,without regard for in-terracialunionsthathadformedorforthechildrenbornfromsuchunions.While theSovietUnion touted itselfasaplaceofracialequality,inmanyregards,itpracticedideologiesofracialseparationmuchliketheU.S.andEu-ropean colonial powers.

TheUSSRpositioned itself asmorally advancedandaplaceofsocialprogressinrelationtotheWest.Bythe 1960s, at thetimeofAfrican independencemove-ments,however,SovietattitudestowardAfricatookona developmental approach that positioned the AfricancontinentasaplacewheretheSovietUnionneededtointerveneandtohelpnewlyindependentAfricancoun-tries freethemselves frompost-colonialpressures.Thisapproach,whileaimedtoassist,alsoreinforcedthepow-erand influenceof theUSSRon theAfrican continent.African students were viewed as ambassadors of social-istideologies,helpingtopromotetheideasoftheUSSRin their newly independent homelands. Though manystudentsfromAfricawereaidedbytheirrespectivegov-

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ernments,theperceptionofallegedfinancialassistancefromtheSovietgovernmentledtoacertainamountofresentmenttowardthemfromotherstudents.

When the USSR collapsed, Africa continued tofunctionasamarkerofcomparison inpost-Sovietcon-sciousness.WhereasduringtheSovietera,AfricawasaplacewhereSovietaidwasneededtoimproveeverydayconditions,intheearlyyearsoftransitioninthe1990s,itwas common for people in independent Ukraine to say that Ukraine had become “wild, without social order,andpoorlikeAfrica.”Whileintheearly1990s,racialdis-coursewasframedinpartbytheindividualandcollectiveinsecuritybroughtforthbythefalloftheSovietUnion,the second decade of transition, the 2000s, has beenveryinfluencedbydepictionsofracialidentityinpopularculturefromtheUnitedStates,especiallymovies,music,andtelevisionshows.Suchproductshavereshapedracialimaginaries, stronglyguidedby theever-presentSovietfascinationwithAmericanculture,withaspecificempha-sisonAfricanAmericanexpressions suchashiphop inthelastdecadeorso.

Post-SovietmediationsofAfricanAmerican cul-turehavealso come to influenceandbe influencedbyAfricanpresenceinformerSovietspaces.Tobetterillus-tratethecomplexityofsuchmediations,Iturntotheex-amplethatspurredmyresearchinterestinAfricanmusi-ciansinUkraine.In2004,IcameacrossapictureoftwomenofAfricandescent (later I learned that theywerestudentsfromUgandaandJamaica)dressedinUkrainianfolkcostumesontheInternet.IwasunabletomakesenseofwhatthiscouldmeanuntilIsawthegrouplaterthatyear performing Ukrainian folk songs for supporters dur-ingtheOrangeRevolutioninKyiv.Theysangtoacheer-ingcrowdofhundredsofthousandsofprotesters,stand-ing side-by-side in the dead ofwinter on the thick iceatKyiv’sMaidanNezalezhnosti (IndependenceSquare),opposing the resultsof a falsifiedpresidentialelection.Thesemusiciansplayeduptheirblackness inthenameoftheirgroup–Chornobryvtsi–whichintheUkrainianlanguagemeans “blackbrowed.”Theywere simultane-ously outsiders and insiders in a complexmediationofAfricanstudentidentitiesandblackpersonasperformer,amorecommonframeworkthathadbeenreinforcedinmediaproductsfromtheU.S.nowwidelypromotedonUkrainiantelevisionandradiothatovershadowlocallow-budgetfilmandmusicproduction.

Numerous African or “Afro-Ukrainian” perfor-mance ensembles have since modeled themselves onChornobryvtsi, including Alfa-Alfa from Kharkiv, whichperform Ukrainian-language songs in Ukrainian costume.

Active during and in the decade following the2004 Orange Revolution, African musicians are signifi-cantly less seen or heard in public spaces during theongoing protests and violence in Ukraine today. Few havemade public statements about the nature of theconflict and have not expressed their positions on theconflict. A few have returned to reggae, which servesas a soundtrack for peace in many parts of Africa. Some have uploaded recordings of themselves singing songsinUkrainian from their dorm rooms in support of pro-testors.ButtherealitiesofviolencecompoundAfricans’already ingrained fears of public spaces and crowds, fur-ther cutting off members of the African population inUkrainefromcontactwithnon-Africans.Thus,whileso-cial networks and independentmedia continue to playcrucial roles in Ukraine’s ongoing conflict, the absenceofAfricansinpublicspacesreinforceamessagetootherAfricans to stay home. It is timewe realized that theirvoicesaremissingfromthenarrative.

Adriana Helbig is Assistant Profes-sor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and Af-rican Migration (Indiana University Press, 2014).

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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds & Editor of Digital IconsEditor’s note: In our third year of publishing the

June NewsNet as an online edition, ASEEES is thrilled to share the following cluster of articles that highlight sev-eral online journals that well contribute to our field.

Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons)isaninterna-tional,peer-reviewedonlinejournal,publishedtwiceperyear. Established in2008 (ISSN2043-7633), the journalisamulti-mediaplatformthatexploresnewmediaasavarietyofinformationflows,variedcommunicationsys-temsandnetworkedcommunities.ThemaingoalofthejournalistodisseminateresearchonnewmediainRus-sia, Eurasia and Central Europe across global communi-tiesofscholars,mediapractitionersandthegeneralpub-lic.Thejournalisaleadingacademicpublicationandactsasavitalnetworkinthefieldthankstoitsfocusonnewmediaanditsroleinthepolitical,socialandcultural(re-)shapingof the region.Thus,publications in the journalcombinein-depthunderstandingofboththeregionandnewformsofcommunication intheirrelationtoestab-lishedmediaandcommunicationpatterns.Contributionsto Digital Icons cover a broad range of topics related to digital and electronic technologies, politics, economics,society,cultureandtheartsinRussia,EurasiaandCen-tral Europe. Digital Iconsadvancesnewperspectivesonboththeregionandnewmediabecauseofitsfocusontheinterconnectednessbetweensocialpracticeandnewmedia,andtheirmutualimpact.

The journal is an independent organisation. Ithas received financial support from the Universities ofLeeds (theUK) andAmsterdam (theNetherlands). Thejournalconsistsofthreebodies:thesteeringcommittee,theeditorialboardand theadvisoryboard.All submis-sions are reviewed externally as well as by members of theeditorialandadvisoryboard,whichiscomposedofabroadmixofseniorandjuniorscholarsfromEurope,Eur-asia,andNorthAmerica.Inadditiontothis,allresearcharticles (thosemarkedwith a symbolof aneyeonourwebpage) are reviewed anonymously by two indepen-dentexternalexperts.Whileadheringtostrictreviewingstandards, Digital Iconspracticesanindependentopen-accesspolicy. (The journal is registered inGreatBritainandadherestotheUKopenaccesspolicy.)Asaresult,thecontentsofthejournalareavailableontheinternet,

aswellas fordownload,without restrictions.This isofutmost importance for scholars and researchers in theregion Digital Icons istargeting,whereresearch institu-tions and universities are not always able to subscribetocostlyinternationalacademicjournals.Therefore,weaimtopresentthefindingsoforiginalresearchinthreelanguages:English,GermanandRussian.Wehopetoex-pandourlanguagescopeinthefuture.

Thejournalpublishesworksthatexploredevelop-mentsininformationandcommunicationstechnologiesandtheir impactonthegovernance,economyandcul-turallifeoftheregion.Submissionsfocusingoninternetuseandnewmediaformsamongthevariousdiasporasof the regionarealsowelcome.Digital Icons publishesresearcharticlesandessaysbyscholarsfromavarietyofacademicbackgrounds,alongwithartists’contributions;interviews,comments;reviewsofbooks,digitalartwork,memoirsandfilms;animationandcomputergames,andrelevantculturalandacademiceventsaswellasanyoth-erformsofdiscussionofnewmediaintheregion.

Digital Iconsexploresandadvancesnew,cutting-edgetopicsandmethodologiesinthefield.Ifnotadigi-tal-humanitiesjournalproper,thejournaldoeswelcomeand publish empirically-based case studies related tonewadvancementsinthefieldofdigitalhumanities,aswellascriticalassessmentsofdigitalhumanitiesandbig-dataresearch.Inaddition,thejournalisconcernedwiththeideaofhistoricisingnewmediastudies.ItdoessobyfeaturingtheuniqueprojectofDigital Memoirs, collect-ingpersonalizedmemoriesoftheearlydevelopmentsindigital culture, as part of our cultural memory and—in future—asabaseforhistoricalanalysis.

In addition to regular issues,Digital Icons pub-lishes special thematic issues, investigating a specificaspectofnewmediausageintheregion.Specialissuesarenormallyguest-editedbyaspecialistinthethematicarea. Inthenexteighteenmonths,the journalplanstopublishthreeguest-editedspecialissues.Theseinclude:“Digital Mnemonics in Slavonic Studies: An EmergentSub-discipline”;“DigitalCreativityinTimesofCrisis:Bul-garianNetworkedCultureinGlobalContexts”;and“Digi-tal Orthodoxy:Mediating Post-Secularity in Russia andUkraine”.Recentlypublishedspecialissuesinclude:“Rus-sianElectionsandDigitalMedia”; “Cinegames:Conver-

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gentMediaandtheAestheticTurn”;and“DigitalFandomandMediaConvergence’”.

Thejournalmaintainsafocusonnewmediaandprotestmovementsintheregion:twoissuesfocusingonRussiahavealreadybeenpublishedandtheforthcomingissuewilllookatUkraine.Atthetimeoftheglobalmelt-down, the protests were hugely anticipated but neveraccurately predicted. Equally, the revolutionary eventsof 2011-14, just like thoseof 1989-91, haveproblema-tizedexistingtheoriesofsocialengagement,politicaldis-sentandculturalproduction.ToechoFredericJameson’sstanceexpressedinhis2001“ASingularModernity”,thenarrativeofmodernityisbeingwrittenonthesquaresofMoscow,Kievandothercities,aswellasonthescreensofcomputersandmobilephones,andmostimportantlyinthemindsofthosepeoplewhohaveparticipated—ei-therbyvoicingtheiropinionpubliclyorbyreflectingontheeventsprivately—inthedebateaboutthefutureoftheirnation.Thisfuturewillshowwhethertheeventswillpavethewayfora‘singularmodernity’,orwillcollapseintoapostmodernpasticheofparticipatorydemocracy,or in factwillbreak thevery logicofpostmodernitybyimposingthestagnantframeworkofstatistregimes.Ouraimasscholarsistoprovokedebatesaboutthenature,functionandparametersofdemocracyasaconstitutivepart of capitalist modernity. In general terms, this in-volvesviewingevents inRussia,Ukraineandelsewhereaspartof theglobal crisisof capitalismand theglobalmovementofpoliticaldissent,which takes the formoftheappropriationofpublicspacesand,byextension,ofthepublicdomainofmeaningandvalueexchanges,lead-ingtoregimechange,militaryconfrontationandpossiblyglobalpoliticalcrises.

Digital Icons bringstogetherworld-leadingschol-ars on newmedia. Its network has over 600membersworldwide. The journal has also been at the heart ofmany research projects in institutions in Europe, Rus-siaandNorthAmerica,and hasorganisedthefollowingworkshopsandconferences:

• “MemoryandSecuritizationinContemporaryEu-rope” in cooperationwith the School of History(Southern Federal University) and the Centre ofthe European Union in the South West Russia,(Russia),June2014;

• “Globalizationand/inPost-SocialistMedia”inco-operationwiththeUniversityofAmsterdamandtheAmsterdamCentre forGlobalizationStudies,(theNetherlands),June2014;

• “DigitalCreativityinTimesofCrisis:BulgarianNet-workedCultureinGlobalContexts”incooperationwith the Centre for Advanced Study, (Bulgaria),November2013;

• “Post-SocialismPlayingGlobal:ComputerGamingIndustriesandDigitalMediaCulture”incollabora-tionwiththeUniversityofBirmingham,(UK),No-vember2013;

• “NewMediainNewEurope-Asia”incollaborationwith the Universities of Birmingham and Leeds,(UK),MarchandJune2010;

• “From Central to Digital: Television in Russia” incooperationwiththeRussianStateUniversityforHumanities,(Russia),March2010;

• “RussiaOnline”incooperationwithColumbiaUni-versity(HarrimanInstitute&SchoolofJournalism)and Harvard University (Berkman Center for Inter-netandSociety),(USA),October2008;andmanyothers.

Digital Iconshasattractedbothscholarlyandme-diaattention.EditorsofDigital Icons havepresentedonnewmediaintheregionontheBBC,AlJazeera,NewEco-nomicRelations,and inmanyothermediaoutlets.Thejournalhasreceivedpraisefrommediascholarsandprac-titioners, including EvgenyMorozov (“Digital Icons justpublishedanew issuededicated to social networksontheRussian-speakingWeb.Plentyof interestingarticlestoreadthere”), JeffreyCarr (“Digital IconshasproducedthepremiereworkonRussianSocialNetworks.ThisisanareathatGreyLogicspendsa lotoftimeresearchingaspartofourintelligenceanalysisworkandIcan’twaittodiveintothisexceptionalbodyofresearch”),andmanyothers.

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Challenges and Pleasures of Journal Editing Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth University, Editor of Kinokultura& Principal Editor of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema

Ihavealwayslovedchallenges,whichisprobablyagoodqualityforaneditor.In1997,ayearafterRussianfilmproductionhadhitrockbottom,IwascrazyenoughtoorganiseaconferenceontheRussianideaincontem-porarycinema…whatcinema?Accompaniedbyaweekoffilmscreenings,theeventledtothepublicationofRus-sia on Reels,thefirstcollectionoftextstoexplorepost-Sovietcinema.Butverysoonafterthevolume’spublica-tionin1999,alotmorefilmsappearedfromtheslowlyandgraduallygrowingRussianfilmindustry.Therefore,Isetupawebsitein2003toprovidesomeinformationonwhatwasgoingoninRussiancinema:KinoKultura (nick-name: KiKu). I registered the quarterly online journalwithanISSNand,initiallysupportedbyahandfulofpeo-ple,suppliedreviewsofnewcinematicreleases.Atthattime,fewRussiansiteswereoperatingandinformationwasratherscarce–somethingthatwouldchangeafewyearslater.Then,afterthereleaseofNight Watchin2004andafewotherblockbusters,theRussianfilmindustrywascatapultedback intobusinessandfilmdistributionin Russia reached sixth place globally. These changes,andtherapidgrowthof thefilm industry,couldnotgounnoticedandKiKu circle of contributors grew, notably afterIhadinvitedVladimirPadunovoftheUniversityofPittsburghtojoinmeasDeputyEditorin2003.Inthoseearlyyearsthejournalcreatedthe“image”thatstillchar-acterisesittoday:coverageofnewfilms;reportsonfilmfestivals;andfilmscholarship.Afterafewyears,in2006,wewereawardedaDiplomabytheGuildofRussianFilmCriticsandFilmScholarsfortherunningofKinoKultura.

It soon became clear that there was an evergrowingconstituencyofpeopleworkingonandwritingabout film, not just contemporary Russian cinema butalso Soviet film history: it would probably be feasibleto “split” the publication into scholarly articles on filmhistory and articles/reviews of contemporary cinema;and to launch a print edition. That’s why KinoKultura limiteditspublicationstocontemporaryRussiancinema,whilstatthesametimeexpandingitsgeographicalarea

toencompassthecinemasofpost-Sovietspaceinspecialissues. KinoKultura appears with four regular issuesper year, presenting articles, film reviews and festivalreports, the latter focussing on Russian and CentralAsian films in festival programmes. Whilst the articlesarepeer-reviewed,festivalreportsarenot;andthefilmreviewsareusuallycommissioned,althoughunsolicitedreviewsare considered.Wehaveaddeda rubric of re-reviewswheresomeimportantfilmsthatwerereviewedin a previous issue are re-considered, often after newperspectives have opened on the film; andwe carry arubricofdouble-viewsthatpresentstworeviewsofonesingle film from different authors. We are particularlyinterested in articles that cross film and other visualcultures.Ourplansforthefutureincludetheexpansionofthereviewsectiontointroducereviewsofolderfilmsalso.

Our special, guest-edited issues focus on thecinemas of Central Europe and beyond, from Central Asia(2004)toLatvia(2012)andBosnia(2012).I’mkeento add more countries; indeed we soon need to startupdatingexistingissues,seeingthatsomeissuesarenowalready ten years old! A special issue on Macedonian cinema is forthcoming, and it is also very rewarding toknowthattwospecialissueshavesincebeenpublishedin book form.

Any registered journal needs a home address,so when I moved from the University of Bristol toAberystwyth University in 2012, the journal “moved”also,butnotwithme:itisregisteredwiththeWatershedMedia Centre in Bristol, whose head of programming,Mark Cosgrove, is our Honorary President. And theWatershedisagoodplacetobe:itisthe“birthplace”ofIMDb!Atthepresenttime,thejournal’sdeputyeditorisJulianGraffy,and theco-editorsareAnthonyAnemone(New York), Greg Dolgopolov (Sydney), Seth Graham(London),JeremyHicks(London),StephenNorris(Ohio),Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova (Williamsburg),PeterRollberg(WashingtonDC),RimgailaSalys(Colorado).Thejournalalsohasaneditorialassistantandanadvisoryboard:Theeditorialteamreviewsarticlesandhelpswiththe copyediting. Thewebsitehas approximately 1,200visitorsamonth,andreviewsandarticlesarefrequentlycitedinacademicpublicationsandusedasareferencebyfilmfestivalprogrammersand journalists,especially forcontemporary Russian/Central Asian cinema.

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KinoKultura is a non-commercial and independent journal. We have no income; the site is paid for andmaintainedbymyselfaseditor.Ofcourse,wecouldgodowntherouteofadvertisingorsponsorship,butIhavealways felt that this couldpotentiallymake the journaldependent on a producer, a studio, a distributor, and I have been trying to avoid any such dependence. Butthatindependencecomesatacost:ifitwerenotforthesupportoftheeditorialteam,this“challenge”mighthavehadadifferentresult.

As I mentioned earlier, there is also a printjournal.Oneday it seemedthatKinoKulturahad learnttowalk and itwas time to find another challenge andconsidermoving intoprint.Ontheonehand,wecouldturn KiKuintoanonlineandprintedition,butthatwouldnotworkfortheup-to-datequalityofthereviews.WhendiscussingthejournalwithSusanHayward,aspecialistonFrenchcinemaandfoundingeditorofStudies in French Cinema,shesuggestedIshouldgetintouchwithintellectpublishers in Bristol, who were at the time expandingtheirportfolioof journalsonvisualcultureandcinema.I haddecidedfirmly thataprint versionofKiKu would have defeated the point of an online journal, whichallowed links, clips and images, and which also madepossible a quick and fresh cycle of reviews. However,therewasnoacademicjournalaroundthatwasdevotedto the studyofRussian and Soviet cinema, soMasoudYazdani,thefounderandCEOofintellect,suggestedwesetupadifferentjournalthatwouldbecalledStudies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (SRSC). SRSCwaslaunchedin2007 to appear threetimes a year,with the first issueactually published in the autumn of 2006, so that wecouldpresentitattheAAASS(nowASEEES)conventioninNovemberofthatyear–anexercisedesignedtoattractcontributors.

SRSC isapeer-reviewedjournalforthepublicationoforiginalresearchonpre-Revolutionary,Sovietandpost-SovietRussiancinema,itsaestheticdevelopmentanditsrolebetweenideologyandindustry.Thejournalsetoutto

promote research from established scholars, but alsoencourage young researchers. And, right from thebeginning, SRSC established a special section for eachissue: the first issue includes a film script; the secondcontainsasectionofdocuments intranslation;andthethirdcarriesbookreviews.

As the founding editor, I dealwithmost of thecorrespondencemyself, but have enormous assistanceand advice from my co-editors Nancy Condee, JulianGraffy,andRichardTaylor,aswellasbookrevieweditorDenise Youngblood. FollowingMasoud’s suggestion forintellectjournals,wehaveanEditorialBoard(theHouseofCommons,ifyoulike)whichincludesTonyAnemone,Robert Bird, Lilya Kaganovsky, Vance Kepley Jr., NaumKleiman, David MacFadyen, Stephen Norris, AlexanderProkhorov,YuriTsivian,EmmaWiddis,and–asof2014–OttoBoele,PhilCavendish,JeremyHicks,SergeiKapterevandEugénieZvonkine;andanAdvisoryBoard(the“HouseofLords”)FrancoisAlbera,KaterinaClark,NikolaiIzvolov, Anna Lawton, Evgenii Margolit and Maya Turovskaya.

Over the last seven years, SRSC has publishedquite a few extraordinary scripts: from Sergei Bodrov’s(unfilmed)Cross-Eyed Sasha, we moved on to some more recent trends in scriptwriting such as Larisa Sadilova’sNothing Personal, Bakur Bakuradze’s Shultes, and Petr Lutsik’s Wild Field. Then Naum Kleiman, director ofMoscow’sMuseum of Cinema and theworld’s leadingexpert on Eisenstein, gave a talk at the InternationalCongressofSlavicStudies(ICCEES)inStockholmin2010onEisenstein’sFergana.WhenIapproachedhimafterthepresentation, he agreed to give the journal permissionto print the translated script (completed by the mostbrillianttranslatorofEisenstein’swriting,RichardTaylor),andNaumgaveusaccesstoawholearchiveofdrawingsandphotographsmade inpreparation for the shootingthat never happened. The script and the images hadnot been published in Russian at the time, and onlyrecently appeared in Kinovedcheskie zapiski. After that“coup,”we landed another one:Tanks Know the Truth is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s only film script, which hasneverbeenrealised;ithadbeenpublishedonlyonce,inaneditionofcompleteworks, inRussian.However,thetext had already been translated by the Solzhenitsynexpert Mike Nicholson and was withering away in hisfilingcabinet,untilIcontactedhimtochecksometitlesandtranslationsmentioned inanarticleby IlyaKukulinthatIwaspreparingforpublicationinSRSC.WithMike’ssupport,weobtainedpermissionforthepublicationfromtheSolzhenitsynestate, and the textappeared inSRSC 7.3.Andthencameanothersurprise:EugénieZvonkine,whohadwrittenherthesis(andnowexcellentbook)on

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KiraMuratova, had been granted access toMuratova’spersonalarchiveduringaresearchvisitinOdessa,whenshefoundthescriptforafilmthatMuratovahadneverrealised, butwhich held keys to her all of laterworks.Eugénie photographed the script – in the absence ofa photocopier – and this is how Watch Your Dreams AttentivelylandedinthearmsofSRSC8.1.

In the Document section we have published,withtheenormoushelpandexpertiseofRichardTaylor,manydocumentsfromEisenstein’sarchive,aswellasacluster on Margarita Barskaia, a set of documents from theTsGALIinStPetersburgonFridrikhErmler’sworkshopKEM,andaclusteronMezhrabpomfilm.Currently,wearecompletingthepublicationofBorisShumiatskii’srecordsoftheKremlinScreenings:“OnStalin’sWatch”hasbeenpublishedinvolumes7.1and8.1.

Special features have included forgotten andunderrated films compiled by Julian Graffy; Eurasia asfilmicassemblage,coveringthescreeningsinStockholm2010 organised by RGAKFD (Russian State Archive ofPhotoandFilmDocuments)ofkulturfilmsof the1920sand1930s;andaspecialfeatureonCentralAsiancinemaafterindependencepreparedfortheLocarnoOpenDoors2010,aforumforpitchingnewprojectsfromtheregion.

Therehavealsobeenguest-editedvolumes: “ScreenedSexuality” (3.2) was edited by Andrey Shcherbenok;“NemesisorMimesis”(4.2)byVladStrukov;andaspecialissue on Igor Savchenko (6.3) was prepared by SusanLarsen and Emma Widdis.

At the end of 2013, as the seventh volumewas complete, intellect sold a portfolio of 15 titles toRoutledge (Taylor& Francis) – among them SRSC. And itwas a goodbye to the visits down the road (intellectoperate from Bristol) to talk to designers, journalmanagers or Masoud. Instead, there was a generouswelcome into the huge journals operation of Taylor &Francis,andstartingwithissue8.1weshallhaveanewcoverandanewlayout;andwehopetoreachoutwiderthrough the extensive distributionnetwork of the newpublisher.

Inordertoinvolveyoungerscholars,SRSChasrunacompetitionforthebestpost-graduateessayinitsfifthyear, with the winners published in issue 5.3; anothercompetition iscurrentlyunderway,thistimeorganisedinconjunctionwiththeFilmSchoolVGIKinMoscow,toencourageespeciallycontributionsfromRussia.

SRSC receives a lot of manuscripts on a range of aspects of Soviet and Russian cinema, and we do

considerlongertextsforpublication.Allarticlesundergopeer review and we normally endeavour to turn around submissionswithineightweeks.Aseditor,Ifindithugelyimportantandammostgrateful to thepeer reviewers,who offer – where that is appropriate – substantialguidance for rewriting and developing articles in theirreports, and – whilst it is never pleasant to reject anarticleoraskforasubstantialrewrite–thecompetenceofthereportsmakesiteasier,andIbelievedoeshelptheauthors

You can view the running of any journal as achore,butitisapleasuretoseearticlesthroughrevision,copy-editingandtypesetting,andtoholdthatcopyofthejournalinyourhands.Iknow,thingsarebecomingmoreandmoreorientedtowardsdigitalconsumption,butIlikeflickingthroughajournal.Asaneditor,youdependbothonthepatienceandunderstandingofthecontributors,andonthesupportoftheboards,andIhavebeenveryluckywithboth,especiallywithmyco-editors’patienceformy penchant for competitions,where they get thepartofjurors.

Inallthis,whatismostimportantisthatwecanraisetheprofileofSovietfilmhistoryandtherebysetnewstandardsforfuturegenerations.Atleastthat’swhatI’dliketothink…

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Nabokov Online Journal: Where Scholarship Meets InnovationYuri Leving, Dalhousie University & Nabokov Online Journal Founding Editor

The landscapeof thebookand journalpublish-ingindustryisrapidlychanging.Manyscholarsareeagerto adapt to technology-based publishing that providesauthorswith a fast and affordableway to disseminatethe results of their research. Federal granting agenciesalsofavorOpenAccessmodels,meaningthatknowledgeshouldbecomefreelyaccessibleforbroadeningreader-shipworldwide. Indeed,comparedtotraditional,offsetprintingmethods,digital technology is inexpensiveandecologicallysustainable.Thebenefitsofapeer-reviewed,full-text, and public-access electronic journal are self-evidentandareappropriateforhumanitiesscholarship.Cutting-edgeonlinetechnologyhasallowedNabokov On-line Journal toreachawide internationalaudienceandtoestablishitselfasaninnovativescholarlyplatformwithseveralhundredofindividualandinstitutionalsubscrib-ers.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote hisfirstninenovelsinRussian,thenrosetointernationalprominenceasamas-terEnglishprosestylist.Nabokov’sLo-lita (1955) is frequently cited amonghismostimportantnovelsandiscer-tainly his most widely known. Thenovel was ranked at No.4 in the listoftheModernLibrary100BestNov-els;twoofhisothernovels,Pale Fire (1962),Pnin (1957), andhismemoir,Speak, Memory, are also regularly list-edamongthemostpopularmodern-ist writings that characterize the lit-erary landmarksof the20thcentury.Nabokov’sworkshaveinfluencedmanymajorcontempo-rarywriters,includingMartinAmis,JohnUpdike,ThomasPynchon,JohnBanville,SalmanRushdie,EdmundWhite,andtheNobelPrizelaureatesJosephBrodskyandOrhanPamuk.NabokovistaughtintheUnitedStates,Canada,Europe, and Russia across literature departments (Eng-lish,American,Russian,andComparativeliteraturepro-grams).

Nabokov Online Journal,amultidisciplinaryaca-demicjournaldevotedtoVladimirNabokov(1899-1977),wasfoundedin2007.Now,initseighthyearofpublica-tion, it is the only active refereed specialized scholarlyperiodicalinthefieldofNabokovstudies(Nabokov Stud-ies,aprintjournalfoundedbyDonaldB.Johnsoninthe

mid-1990s,hasbeeninprinterratically,whilethefutureoftheoldestEnglish-languagepublicationdevotedtothewriter,thebiannualThe Nabokovian,isunclearaftertheretirementofitsformereditorofthreedecades,StephenJanParker).Asamultilingualperiodical,Nabokov Online Journal publishesabalancedselectionofmainlyEnglishand Russian-language scholarship. In addition to tradi-tionalacademicarticlesandreviews,therearecontribu-tionsinseveraldifferentformats,includingvideoinstalla-tionsandmp3files.

The editorial board consists of two dozen re-nowned scholars, among them thewriter’sbiographer,BrianBoyd(TheUniversityofAuckland),AlexanderDoli-nin(UniversityofWisconsin-Madison),EricNaiman(Uni-versity of California, Berkeley), Thomas Seifrid (Univer-

sityofSouthernCalifornia),AndreiRogatchevski (University of Trom-sø, Norway), Tadashi Wakashima(KyotoUniversity),andothers.Thecurrent readership of the journalcomes from over 50 countries, asevidenced by the online trackingtools, and the journal is cited fre-quently invariousprintandonlinepublications. To further facilitateaccesstothepublicationeveneasi-er,theeditorsdecidedtocreateaninteractiveapplication(app)fortheNabokov Online Journal available for downloading via App Store and Google Play. The NOJ app will in-clude access to a database, an inter-

activeinterface,andstudymaterials.In2013thejournalalsomoved toanewplatform,which supports readingthe journal frommobiledevicessuchassmartphones,iPads,iPhones,andtheAndroid-poweredsystems.

The Nabokov Online Journal considers its mis-sion to stimulatedialogue among international schoolsofthought,tocreateastagefordiscussionandtocoordi-nateinitiativesrelatedtothefieldofNabokovstudies.In2014,withthefundsavailablefromtheCanadiangovern-mentalprogramSSHRC’s(SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearch Council of Canada) Aid to Scholarly Journals,editorswereabletodevoteaspecialissueto“ScholarshipinTranslation”(clusterguest-editedbyMarijetaBozovic,

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YaleUniversity).MostofthearticlesintranslationhavebeenoriginallypublishedintheareaofNabokovstudiesduringtherecentfewyearsinthelanguagesotherthanEnglish;nowtheywill formacoreofVolume8 (2014).ThisstrategicgoalreflectsNabokov Online Journal’s man-dateofbridgingvariousbranchesofNabokovstudiesinadynamicand intellectuallycreativeenvironment.More-over, the 2015 upcoming special issuewill be devotedto “IntermedialNabokovandPopularCulture”andwillexploretherolesandintersectionsofintermedialityandpopularcultureinNabokov’sœuvreandinthepresent-day Nabokov imaginary in thewidest sense. Since the1960s, scholars have been debating the (de)merits ofcinematicversionsofLolita.By the turnof the twenty-firstcentury,Nabokovstudiesbegantoexpanditsscopeto includediscussionsofhowNabokov’snarrativetextsintegrateothermediaandofhowhisworksareadaptedbyotherartists.Therefore,inthevolumeguest-editedbyNassim Balestrini, Karl-Franzens-Universität (Graz, Aus-tria), authorswill address the particular significance ofintermedialityfortheabsorptionofpopularcultureintoNabokov’sworksandviceversa.

TheeditorialboardoftheNabokov Online Jour-nal recognizes the importance of training new genera-tionsof young scholars.Toencouragemoreactivepar-ticipationof graduate students, theBest Student Essaycompetition (that carries a $300 award)was launched.NOJalsoestablishedanannualprizefortheBestScholar-lyContributionintheareaofNabokovstudies(US$600).Thejournal’ssubscribersvoteforthebestmonographdi-rectlyonthewebsite,whileaspeciallyformedpanelofthe leadingNabokovscholars judgethestudentessays.BrianBoydwasvotedthewinnerofthe2012prizefortheBestScholarlyContributionintheareaofNabokovStud-iesforhisbook,Nabokov’s Ada: The Place of Conscious-ness(2002).Thewinnerofthe2013prizewasannouncedataceremonyintheiconicbookstore“ShakespeareandCompany,”inParis,France,markingNabokov’s115th and Shakespeare’s450thdoubleanniversaries.Inadditiontothecashaward, thewinnerof thestudentcompetitionreceivesacopyofthebookchosenasthewinnerinthecategory“BestScholarlyContribution,”withtheauthor’sautograph.

EachvolumeoftheNabokov Online Journal usu-ally consists of a dozen articles, as well as roundtablediscussions, interviews, and multimedia presentations,andcontainshundredsofpages inPDF format.Back in2008,thejournalscoredamajorcoupbypublishinganoriginal interview with Dmitri Nabokov, Nabokov’s son(1934–2012) and literary executor, in which he finally

announcedwhathewasplanningtodowithNabokov’sunfinishedbook,The Original of Laura. The explicit in-structionsofhisfatheronhisdeathbedweretodestroythemanuscript—writteninpencilon50indexcards—thathadbeenshutawayinaSwissbankvaultformorethanthirtyyears.Instead,asfirstrevealedintheNabo-kov Online Journal,Dmitridecidedtopublishit.Thisin-terviewwaslatercitedintheAmerican,British,andGer-man press (Slate, The Guardian, Telegraph, Open Letters Monthly, Telepolis,etc.).InterviewswithToomasHendrikIlves,PresidentofEstoniaandNabokovaficionado,andNikki Smith,Nabokov’s former literaryagent,havealsobeenrecentlyappearedinthejournal.TheNabokov On-line Journal plans further development of the “DigitalMedia”sectionofthejournal:forinstance,insteadofastandarddownloadabletext-baseddocument inan“In-terview”sectionthereaderswillbeabletoseethesameconversationas a recording in a video formatwith theweb-streaming capability.

Inaddition to its regularonlinepublication, theNabokov Online Journal alsopublishes theNabokov Al-manac,which includescommissionedarticlesandase-lectionofmaterialsthathavepreviouslyappearedintheelectronicversionofthejournal.The inaugural issueofthe almanac, “The Goalkeeper” (Nabokov played as asoccergoalkeeperandthegameisfrequentlyfeaturedinhisnovels),appearedin2010(Boston:AcademicStudiesPress);thesecondvolumeiscurrentlyinprogressandisscheduledtoappearin2015.AmongtheothereditionsthathavelatelybeenproducedinclosecooperationwiththeNabokov Online Journalarethetwobooks:Lolita – The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design,ed.JohnBertramandYuriLeving(NewYork:Print, 2013), and Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel, The Original of Laura, ed. Yuri Leving (Mon-treal:McGillQueensUniversityPress,2013).DuringtheEuropeanbook launchofthesetwoeditions,dozensofreadersjoinedtheconversationonNabokov’slegacywithparticipantsLaraDelage-Toriel (Presidentof theFrenchVladimir Nabokov Society), Samuel Schuman (PastPresidentoftheInternationalVladimirNabokovSociety,the author of Nabokov’s Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2014)),andYuriLeving,attheeventcalled“TheOriginalof Lolita:CelebratingNabokov’sBirthday inParis,”heldon24April,2014,atShakespeareandCo(37ruede laBûcherie,Paris).

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In decades of wavering or declining enrollments andprogramandfundingcuts,theregionalSlavicconfer-encesaffiliatedwithASEEESarenotnearlyasstableastheymightoncehavebeen.Atthesametime,regionalconferencesplayan important role in the“pipeline”ofstudentsandyoungerscholarsintotheprofession.Theavailability of student paper prizes and travel funding,closergeographicalproximity,andoftenthefriendlier–orat least less intimidating– atmosphereofasmallerconference makes them good professional venues fortheseandotherreasons.Thisarticleoffersastrategyfordeveloping a new dimension to regional conferences.

Regional Conferences

The Central Slavic Conference was founded in1962andistheoldestoftheASEEESregionalaffiliates. It originallyincludedthestatesofMissouriandKansas,buthasgrowntoalsoencompassIowa,Nebraska,Colorado,Oklahoma,andArkansasandhaslongattractedregionalscholarsfromothernearbystatesaswell.

Following theestablishmentof theCSC, severalotherregionalconferenceswerealsoestablished,follow-ingthegeneralpatternofmeetingatrotating locationswithintheirregions,andperiodicallyhostingtheASEEES(thenAAASS)nationalmeeting.Thismodelhasbecomeincreasingly difficult to sustain, andwith the exceptionoftheSouthernConferenceonSlavicStudies,hasfallenoutofuseamongtheASEEESregionalaffiliatesthatre-mainactive.TherearetwoothermodelsfortheASEEESregionalgroupsthathaveprovenviable:thefirstisasta-blelocationbybeingattachedandsupportedbyalargerresearch universitywith a large Slavic department andotherresources,suchastheMidwestSlavicConferenceattheOhioStateUniversity. Thesecond is linkingtheconferencewitharegional,multidisciplinaryconferencethatisnotspecifictoscholarshipontheSEEESarea.ThishasbeenthepathpursuedbytheWesternSlavicConfer-enceandtheCentralSlavicConference. Noneofthesemodelsareperfect:whilebeingattachedtoaresearchuniversitymaybringthesupportofalocalpopulationofscholars and students to a stable location, there is theriskofdeclininginstitutionaldiversity.Regionalaffiliatesthatrelyonsharingwithlargerconferencesmayachievesomecross-disciplinaryinteractionandstability,butalsorisk degradation of identity and loss of independence.

Annually rotating locations and sponsoring universitiesmayattractmorescholarsthroughdiversityandvariety,butitalsoiscontingentonfindingwillinghosts.

Nonetheless, the regional conferences offer anumberofadvantages forparticipants,andplayavitalroleinthelifeoftheSlavic,EastEuropean,andEurasianacademicprofessionsintheU.S.

The regional conference offers possibilities forprofessional development and interaction outside thetypical locations of large research universities and na-tionalconferences.Whileitisquiteimpossibletoofferthebreadthanddepthoftheselargerfora,forthegener-alist,forthescholarwithoutthetravelbudgettoattendnationalconferencesregularly,forthegraduatestudentwhoisn’tyetreadytopresentatthenationallevel,fores-tablishedprogramsseekinggraduatestudentstorecruittotheirdoctoralprograms,andforscholarswhomaybeoneofascanthandfulofSlavists-oreventheonlySlav-ist-ontheirhomecampuses,regionalconferencescanbe exceptionally useful andproductiveplaces. ASEEEShas recognized the importanceof regional conferencesandhasbegunofferingadditionalsupportintheformofsubsidizedmembershipsasprizesforgraduatestudents,additionalassistanceinfindingASEEESmemberswithineach regional’s geographic area and better support forregionalmeetings.

Still,thehealthandstrengthoftheregionalcon-ferencesisamatterthatshouldbeofconcerntoSlavistsacrosstheprofession.Inthiscontextthereisanewstrat-egy that can increase the value andappeal of regionalconferences:theinternationalregionalor“interregional”conference.

The “Interregional” Conference

TheCentralSlavicConferencebeganpursuingthisideaseveralyearsago.InNovemberof2011,adelega-tionofPolishscholarswasinvitedtothejointmeetingoftheInternationalStudiesAssociation–MidwestandtheCentral SlavicConference. ThePolishvisitorswere im-pressedwiththeorganization,atmosphere,andscholarlycollaborationoftheregionalconference,andbeforetheyleft St. Louis, where the CSCwasmeeting, discussionsbeganaboutforminganorganizationinPolandmodeled

Building Professional Bridges: ASEEES Regional Conferences and International Cooperation

David Borgmeyer, St. Louis University

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on the group and establishing scholarly collaborationbetweenthem.Theregionsinthis“interregional”con-ferencemodelarenottwoUSregions,butratheraU.S.region and a region in Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia.

The following summer, a groupofofficers fromthe CSC and other interested scholars were invited totraveltoPrzemysl,Poland,toparticipateinthefirstmeet-ing of a new group, called the European Central SlavicConference, or ECSC. Over 100 scholars from Poland,Ukraine,Belarus,andtheCzechRepublicwerethere,inaddition to theUS representatives. Thebroad themesoftheconferenceandtheeffortsofthePolishorganiz-ersmadethemeetingasuccess,andanotherconferenceisplannedforthesummerof2015,withlimitedfundingavailableforU.S.participants.

Buildingontheconnectionscreated inSt.LouisandPrzemysl,anumberofregionalscholarsfromUkraineandPolandcametoSt.Louisforthe2013annualmeet-ing of the Central Slavic Conference. The relationshipbetweenthesetwoconferenceshascontinuedtogrow.Noteveryscholarineitherregionisabletotraveltotheotherforthereciprocalconferences,ofcourse,butevenrelatively small numbers can have amultiplying effect.(The2014callforpapersisavailableontheCSC website andisalsointhiseditionofNewsNet.)

The result is an “interregional” regional confer-encethathasmadeCSCannualmeetingsfeelmorelikeasmallinternationalconference.Thescholarlyandper-sonal connections that enhance scholarship and teach-ing and make for productive experiences for graduatestudents and increased professional development are allbetterbecauseofthepartnership.Thereisnolegal,

financial, or other formal agreement between the tworegionalgroups. Oneof theofficersofeachgrouphasbeenindependentlyelectedtobeanofficeroftheother,andthisfacilitatescommunicationandcoordinationbe-tweenthetwogroups.Eachofferssupportasbestitcantointernationalvisitorsfromtheotherconferencewhoattend.

Theconnectionscreatedattheconferenceshasalso produced several inter-institutional agreementsbetweenPolish institutionsandU.S. institutionsofCSCmembers, and new research collaborations, improvedgrantsmanship and development opportunities, cur-riculum improvements, and faculty and student mobility haveallbeenpositivelyaffected.ThesemeasurableandquantifiableoutcomesarealsopotentiallyusefulaswellwhenU.S.institutionsconductreviewsofprograms.Thismodel provides a means for outreach to internationalpartnerregionstobuildcommunitiesofscholarshipandcollaborationthatwereunimaginableagenerationago.They reflect in importantways the shifts in the global-izingworldaswellasourprofession’sandhighereduca-tion’s rolemoregenerallywithin it. It is clear that theinterregionalconnectionisnopanaceaforthemanyandvaried pressures on regional conferences and Slavic and related area studies in general. However, it may provide oneadditionalelement,amongothers,thatcanstrength-entheviabilityofregionalASEEESaffiliateconferences,andbebeneficialtothefieldswestudybothintheU.S.and abroad.

David Borgmeyer is an Assistant Professor and the Direc-tor Center for International Studies, Saint Louis Univer-sity. He also serves as the President of the Central Slavic Conference.

Dr.JanDraus,RectorofPaństwowaWyższaSzkolaWschodnioeuropejs-ka(EasternEuropeanStateCollege),addressesscholarsattheopeningandkeynoteaddressofthefirstEuropeanCentralSlavicConferenceatPWSWinPrzemysl,PolandonJuly9,2012

Dr.DavidBorgmeyerofSaintLouisUniversity,PresidentoftheCentralSlavicConference,givesthekeynoteaddressatthefirstEuropeanCen-tralSlavicConferenceatPaństwowaWyższaSzkolaWschodnioeurope-jska(EasternEuropeanStateCollege)inPrzemysl,PolandonJuly9,2012

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LyubovBugaeva,St.PetersburgStateU(Russia)“RemappingtheStateSecurityServices:theSpy,theAgent,andtheCop”

MagdalenaGrabowska,PolishAcademyofSciencesInstituteofPhilosophyandSociology(Poland)"FromSovietFeminismtotheEuropeanUnion:PolishTrans-nationalWomen'sMovementsbetweenEastandWest"

MarijaGrujic,SerbianInstituteforLiteratureandArt(Serbia)“CulturologicalLiteraryTheoriesandSerbianLiteraryCriti-cism:TheFallofBerlinWallinPopularMusicandFilmsinFormerYugoslavia”

SylwiaKuzma-Markowska,PolishUofWarsawAmericanStudiesCenter(Poland)“EasternEuropeanJewishManhoodRevisited:JewishSelf-de-fenseandMuscularJudaismintheEarlyTwentiethCentury”

EkaterinaMelnikova,PetertheGreatMuseumofAnthropol-ogyandEthnography(Russia)“CelebratingLocalityinanEraofTerritorialBranding:RitualsandSymbolsofLocalSolidarityafter1992”

DamianaOtoiu,UofBucharestPoliticalScience(Romania)“‘TheNomenklaturaDistrict'inBucharest,Romania:Meta-morphosisofHistoricalNarrativesandofVestigesofHistory”

EllaPaneyakh,EuropeanUatSt.PetersburgInstitutefortheRuleofLaw(Russia)“RecruitmentandCareersatRussianCourts:MaleandFe-malePathstoJudgeship”

PawełSowiński,*PolishAcademyofScienceInstituteofPoliti-calStudies(Poland)“ColdWarBooks:TheInternationalLiteraryCentreanditsSecretChannelstoPoland,1956-1989”

SamuilVolfson,RussianAcademyofSciencesInstituteofWorldHistory(Russia)“'TelevangelistsTargettheUSSR':AmericanTelevangelistsinRussiaduringtheYearsofPerestroikaandinEarly1990s”

AlexandraYazeva,*IrkutskStateUInternationalInstituteofEconomicsandLinguistics(Russia)“HomoSibiricusandtheTimeofChanges:Fiction’sTesti-mony”

VictoriaZhuravlevaRussianStateUfortheHumanities(Rus-sia)“ImageofPost-SovietRussiainAmericanPoliticalCartoons“

KonradZielinski,MariaCurie-SklodowskiU(Poland)“Anti-JewishRiotsandPogromsintheKingdomofPolanddur-ingtheFirstYearofWWI”

*alternate

ASEEESoffersalimitednumberoftravelgrantstosubsidizethetraveloffaculty,policyspecialists,andinde-pendentscholarswhopermanentlyresideinEasternEuropeandEurasiatoparticipateintheASEEESannualconvention.CongratuationstothefollowingRegional Travel Grant recipients:

2014 REgIoNAL TRAVEL gRANT RECIPIENTS

ASEEES-CESS Joint Conference was held at Nazarbayev U, Astana, Kazakhstan, May 22-24, 2014. This was the inaugural ASEEES-sponsored conference in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. ASEEES was pleased to offer travel grants to:

Katarzyna Jarosz, International University of Logistics and Transport (Poland)Juraj Marusiak Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)

Erika Monahan, University of New MexicoVictoria Thorstensson, Yale University

Dennis Zuev, Independent Scholar (Russia)

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2014 DAVIS gRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL gRANT RECIPIENTS

ShonaAllison(History)UofAlberta(Canda)“TheUkrainianInsurgentArmyandOperationVistula:Re-gionalDeconstructionsofPolish‘CollectiveMemory’”

FeruzaAripova(History)NortheasternU“MappingtheQueerSpaceinContemporaryRussia:Decon-structingtheSovietLegacy”

ZayraBadilloCastro*(History)SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudiesUofLondon(UK)“ASocialistCityfortheMahalla:TraditionalSpacesandtheNewSovietPersonin1960sTashkent”

RobertoCarmack(History)UofWisconsin–Madison“TheUnexpectedPatriots:TheLaborMobilizationofKazakh-stan’sDeportees,1941-1945”

CourtneyDoucette(History)RutgersU“MediatingMorality:Komsomol’skaiaPravdaandtheDialogonSocialistValuesintheGorbachevEra”

EvgenyGrishin(History)UofKansas“ArchivalEvidencevs.Traditions:TheProblemwiththeOri-ginsoftheOldBeliefinViatka,1657-1800”

OliviaHellewell(RussianandSlavonicStudies)UofNotting-ham(UK)“Production,PromotionandPolysystems:Domesticvs.Trans-latedLiteratureinSlovenia”

MelissaHibbard(History)UofIllinoisatChicago“‘HappinessisatCamp’:SummerColoniesandChildren’sHealthinInterwarPoland”

UkuLember(History)CentralEuropeanU(Hungary)“Ethnicity,Silence,andtheSovietFutureinpost-StalinistEsto-nia:NotesfromtheOralHistoryofRussian-EstonianFamilies”

AmandaLerner(SlavicLanguages&Literatures)YaleU“RaceoftheArgonavty:AndreiBelyandtheSpaceRace”

AncaMandru(History)UofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign“The‘SocialistIntellectualBrotherhood’AcrossBorders:Geo-graphicalandIdeologicalMobilityintheEarlyRomanianLeft”

MatthewMangold(ComparativeLiterature)RutgersU“MedicalInsightandComicForminChekhov’sEarlyWriting”

VeronicaMuskheli(SlavicLanguagesandLiteratures)UofWashington,Seattle“FolkStorytellingRevivalinSloveniaintheFormofStorytell-ingFestival”

OlenaPalko(History)UofEastAnglia(UK)“TheAlliancebetweenNationalRadicalIntellectualsandtheBolsheviksintheEarly1920s”

VincentPost(PoliticalScience)McGillU(Canada)“Post-CommunistTransitionalJusticeandthePoliticizationoftheCommunistPast”

MeganRace(SlavicLanguagesandLiteratures)YaleU“Incognita:Blok’s‘Neznakomka’inNabokov’sAda or Ardor”

KatherineRose(SlavicLanguagesandLiteratures)HarvardU“OutoftheAnnalsandOntotheStage:PerformingMedievalRussiain‘Kitezh’”

MariaSidorkina(Anthropology)YaleU“DiscursivePerformanceandCollectiveBelonginginPostso-cialistRussia”

MadalinaVeres(History)UofPittsburgh“Transforming‘NaturalFrontiers’intoImperialBorders:HabsburgCartographyandtheControlofTransylvanianMountainPasses”

DenisVolkov(MiddleEasternStudies)UofManchester(UK)“CombatantScholarsorKnowledgeableMilitants?TheBirthandDeathofSoviet‘Orientalism’(USSR’spolicytowardPersiainthe1920s-1930s)”

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KathrynW.Davis’sgenerousdonationtoourorganization,combinedwithmatchingdonations fromASEEESmembers,enablesustohelpsubsidizetravelcostsforgraduatestudentspresentingpapersatthe2014Convention.CongratulationstothefollowingDavis Graduate Student Travel Grant Recipients:

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Personages

Eliyana AdlerwillbejoiningthefacultyofPennStateasanas-sistantprofessorthisfall.ShewillbeteachingEastEuropeanJewishHistoryintheHistoryDepartmentandJewishStudiesProgram.

Portland State University welcomes Dr. William J. Comer,whowill jointheDepartmentofWorldLanguagesandLiteraturesasDirectorofthePSURussianFlagshipCenterinFall2014.Hisresearch interests include second language acquisition, par-ticularly in the learningand teachingofRussianasa foreignlanguage,andhisarticleshaveappearedinTheRussianLan-guage Journal, TheSlavicandEastEuropeanStudies Journaland Foreign Language Annals. Michael David-Foxwill be a Fellow at theWoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholarsin2014-2015.

Marta Mestrovic Deyrup,professorandlibrarianfortechnicalservices, Italian, Russian and East European Studies at Seton HallUniversity,hasbeenselectedtoreceivethe2014Associa-tionofCollegeandResearchLibraries(ACRL)WesternEurope-anStudiesSection(WESS)/SlavicandEastEuropeanSection(SEES)DeGruyterEuropeanLibrarianshipStudyGrantforherproject“C’eraunavolta:aguidetoprintmaterialspublishedbyandabouttheItalianminoritycommunitiesofDalmatiaandIstriainthe20thand21stcenturies.” Sponsoredby theWalterdeGruyterFoundation forScholarshipandResearch, thegrantprovides€2,500 to sup-portatriptoEurope.Theprimarycriterionforawardingthegrantisthesignificanceandutilityoftheproposedprojectasacontributiontothestudyoftheacquisition,organizationoruseoflibraryresourcesfromorrelatingtoEurope.Deyrupwillreceivetheawardcheckduringthe2014ALAAnnualConfer-ence in Las Vegas. Deyrup’sprojectfocusesonItalian-languageresourc-espublishedby andabout the Italianminority communitiesofDalmatiaand Istria for thepast twocenturiesandwill in-volvesubstantialarchivalwork.Thisresearchwillresultinanannotatedbibliography,adirectoryof thepublishinghousesinCroatiaand Italy thathandle thesematerialsandanarra-tiveaddressingthehistoricalandculturalsignificanceoftheseresources.

Claudia Jensen,anaffiliateintheSlavicdepartmentattheUni-versityofWashington,willbetheprojectdirectorforanNEHCollaborative ResearchGrant focusing onMuscovite theaterandthecommunicationsrevolutionintheseventeenthcentu-ry.Thetitleoftheprojectis“TheRussianCourtTheaterinthelate17thCenturyand itsContext inTrans-National Informa-

tionExchange”anditwillincludescholarsfromSweden(IngridMaierandHeikoDroste),Russia(StepanShamin),andEstonia(JürgenBeyer),whowillbedoingextensivearchivalresearchinNorthernEuropeanandRussianarchives.Thegrantwillextenduntil2016.

CongratulationstoBrigadier General Rick McPeakonhisre-tirementfromtheUSArmy.AsamemberandthenHeadofthe Department of Foreign Languages at USMAWest Point,General McPeak has worked tirelessly to expand languagestudiesthere,andespeciallytosendcadetstostudyabroad.HetookthosemajoringinRussiantoVoronezhandotherplac-esinRussia.Since2003,GeneralMcPeakhasbeeninvolvedinTolstoyStudiesactivities,includingthehostingofaconferenceat West Point.

Serguei Oushakine,AssociateProfessorofAnthropologyandSlavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, is a recipient of the 2014Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship awarded by theAmericanCouncilofLearnedSocieties.Hewillspendthe2014-2015academicyearattheInstituteforAdvancedStudy(Princ-eton),workingontheproject“DisownedHistory:SovietPastsintheAfterlivesofEmpire”.

Professors Renee Perelmutter and Svetlana Vassileva-Kara-gyozovahavebeenawardedtenureattheUniversityofKansasandpromotedtotherankofassociateprofessorbeginningFall2014.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation ispleased to announce the selection of 22 CharlotteW.New-combeDoctoralDissertationFellowsfor2014.AmongthemisAssociationmemberNevila Pahumi. TheNewcombeFellowshipisthenation’slargestandmostprestigious suchaward forPh.D. candidates in thehu-manities and social sciences addressing questions of ethicalandreligiousvalues.Each2014NewcombeFellowwillreceivea12-monthawardof$25,000. Ms.Pahumi isadoctoral candidate inhistoryat theUniversity ofMichigan, Ann Arbor. Her project, OfWomen,Faith, and Nation: American Protestantism and the KyriasSchoolforGirls,Albania,1891-1933,explorestheimpactthatAmericanProtestantmissionaryinstitutionsplayedinshapinganewmodelofwomanhoodinthelateOttomanEmpire.Thepress release hereprovidesmoredetailsabout theprogramand2014competition.

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TheRoyal SwedishAcademyof Letters,History andAntiqui-ties rewards Lennart Samuelson, SITE, Stockholm, Sweden,withthe2014RettigPrizeforhis“innovativeandinternation-ally acknowledged research in the history of Russia and theSovietUnion”andhis“almostuniquegraspofRussianarchivalsources”.

The American Academy in Berlin is proud to announce therecipientsoftheBerlinPrizeFellowshipforthefall2014andspring2015terms,includingASEEESmemberTomas Venclova, Writer, and Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Liter-atures,YaleUniversity. Thehighly competitiveBerlinPrize isawardedeachyear toscholars,writers,andartistswhorep-resentthehigheststandardsofexcellenceintheirfields.TheAcademy’s seventeenth classof fellows is comprisedofout-standing historians of art, architecture, culture, religion, sci-ence, and American life, three fictionwriters, two artists, apoet,ajournalist,acomposer,afilmmaker,alegalscholar,andascholarofcomparativemedia. Congratulationstothesefellowsandnewlyhiredprofessors:• New York U hired Anne O’Donnell as Assistant Profes-

sorofRussianHistorysince1917,includingtheUSSRandpost-Soviet Russia

• Alexis PerijoinsBostonUasAssistantProfessorofTwenti-eth-CenturyRussianandSovietHistory

• U of Miami welcomes Krisa Goff as Assistant Professor of Modern Russian History

• Sean McMeekinhasjoinedthefacultyatBardCollegeasan Assistant Professor of Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian History

• UtahStateUwelcomesTenure-TrackAssistantProfessor-shipinAsianHistory,Danielle Ross, and Assistant Profes-sor of 19th& 20th Century EuropeanHistory, Jonathan Brunstedt

• Colleen MoorejoinsFloridaSouthernCollegeasAssistantProfessor of Modern European History

• Birkbeck College hired Johanna Conterio to its Depart-mentofHistory,ClassicsandArchaeologyandWellcomeTrust as a Postdoctoral Fellow

• Phillipa Hetherington will be a Postdoc Fellow at U of Syd-ney–AustralianResearchCouncil

• Sara G. BrinegarwillworkatYaleUasaRiceFellowattheWhitneyandBettyMacMillanCenterforInternationalandArea Studies

• Macalester College hired Julia Fein as Visiting AssistantProfessor

• Addis MasonjoinsColbyCollegeasFacultyFellowinRus-sian and Soviet History

• AtTuftsU,Rachel ApplebaumhasreceivedaAndrewW.MellonPostdoctoralFellowshipintheHumanities

• Higher School of Economics (Moscow) – Post-DoctoralFellowship“SovietexperienceofWorldWarII”hasbeenawarded to Kristy Ironside

• PrincetonUhiredKatherine Jill Reischl as Assistant Pro-fessorof20thCenturyRussianandSovietLiteratureandArt

• Katia BowersjoinsUofBritishColumbiaasAssistantPro-fessor of Slavic Studies

• U of Cambridge welcomes University Lecturer in Pre-Mod-ern East Slavic Culture, Olenka Pevny

• UofStAndrewsLectureshipinRussianwerereceivedbyKatharine Holt and Boris Dralyuk

• UofKentuckyhiredAssistantProfessorofRussianStudiesMolly Thomasy Blasing

• U of Colorado Boulder welcomes Thomas Roberts as Visit-ing Assistant Professor of Russian Studies

• David McVeyjoinsUofKansasasVisitingAssistantProfes-sor in Russian Literature

Support ASEEESPlease consider supporting ASEEES by making a contribution. ASEEES is a 501(c)3 non-profit orga-nization. All contributions are tax deductible. We thank you for your support.You can contribute to:• Regional Scholar Travel Grant Fund • Kathryn Davis Student Travel Grant Fund • ASEEES General Endowment Fund

WAyS to givE:• Donate Online• Send a check, payable to “ASEEES”, to: AS-

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2014ACLSFellowshipRecipients2013-14MELLON/ACLSDISSERTATIONCOMPLETIONFELLOWSHIPS

Thisyear,64fellowshipswereawardedtoadvancedgraduatestudentspursuingpromisingandambitiousPhDresearchfrom32universitiesandmorethanadozenhumanisticdisciplines.Fellowswereselectedfromahighlycompetitivepoolofnearly1,000applicantsthrougharigorous,multi-stagepeer-reviewprocess.Mellon/ACLSDissertationCompletionFellowsandprojecttitlesforASEEESmembersarelistedbelow;formoreinformation,clickhere Malgorzata Kurjanska(Sociology,UC,Berkeley)ImperialStatesandCivicLegacies:AssociationalLifeinPre-WWIandInterwarPoland

Aleksandar Matovski(Government,CornellU)PopularDictators:TheAttitudinalRootsofElectoralAuthoritarianism

Michael Patrick McCulloch(Architecture,UofMichigan,AnnArbor)BuildingtheWorkingCity:DesignsonHomeandLifeinBoomtownDetroit,1914-1929

James Robert Pickett (History,PrincetonU)ThePersianateSphereduringtheAgeofEmpires:IslamicScholarsandNetworksofEx-changeinCentralAsia,1747-1917

Kristina E. Poznan(History,CollegeofWilliamandMary)BecomingImmigrantNation-Builders:TheDevelopmentofAustria-Hungary’sNationalProjectsintheUnitedStates,1880s-1920s

ForacompletelistingofallACLSfellowshiprecipients.Theapplicationmaterialsfortheupcoming2014-15competitionswillbeavail-able in early August.

2013-14CHARLESA.RYSKAMPFELLOWSHIPS TheRyskampFellowshipsupportscholarswhoareembarkingonambitious,large-scaleresearchprojectsatcriticalstagesintheiracademiccareers.Since2002,ACLS’sRyskampFellowshipshavesupportedadvancedassistantprofessorsanduntenuredassoci-ateprofessorsinthehumanitiesandrelatedsocialscienceswhosescholarlycontributionshaveadvancedtheirfieldsandwhohavewell-designedandcarefullydevelopedplansfornewresearch.ThefellowshipisnamedinhonorofthelateCharlesA.Ryskamp,distin-guishedlibraryandmuseumdirector,literaryscholar,andlong-servingtrusteeofTheAndrewW.MellonFoundation. ASEEESmemberandCharlesA.RyskampFellow:Serguei Oushakine(AssociateProfessorofAnthropology,andSlavicLan-guagesandLiteratures,PrincetonU)forhisresearchDisownedHistory:SovietPastsintheAfterlivesofEmpire.Furtherinformationonthisyear’sCharlesA.RyskampFellowsandtheirprojectsisavailablehere.

THEAMERICANCOUNCILOFLEARNEDSOCIETIES2013-14ACLSFELLOWSHIPS Thisyear,atotalof65fellowshipswereawardedtofacultyofallranksandindependentscholarstosupportresearchinthehu-manitiesandhumanisticsocialsciences.ACLSreceivedover1,000applicationsforthefellowshipthiscycle,makingtheprogramonceagainthemostcompetitivefromamongACLS’sportfolio.ACLSFellowshipsprovidesalaryreplacementforscholarswhoareembarkingonsixto12monthsoffull-timeresearchandwriting.TheprogramisfundedbyACLS’sendowment,whichhasreceivedcontributionsfromTheAndrewW.MellonFoundation,theNationalEndowmentfortheHumanities,theCouncil’scollegeanduniversityAssociates,pastfellowsandindividualfriendsofACLS.ASEEESmemberswhoreceivedACLSFellowshipsarelistedbelow;foracompletelistclickhere.

Robert Bird(AssociateProfessorofSlavicLanguagesandLiteratures,andCinemaandMediaStudies,UofChicago)TheStalinConsen-sus:AestheticsinanAgeofTerror

Alyssa DeBlasio(AssistantProfessorofRussian,DickinsonCollege)TheEndofRussianPhilosophy:PhilosophyandReligionataCross-roadsintheTwenty-firstCentury

Devin Fore(AssociateProfessorofGerman,PrincetonU)AlltheGraphs:SovietFactographyandtheEmergenceofAvant-GardeDocu-mentary

Faith C. Hillis(AssistantProfessorofHistory,UofChicago)Europe’sRussianColonies:Community,Politics,andModernityAcrossBor-ders

Francine R. Hirsch(AssociateProfessorofHistory,UofWisconsin,Madison)SovietJudgmentatNuremberg:AColdWarStory

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Publications

After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Dis-appointment in Serbia,byJessicaGreenberg,waspublishedbyStanfordUniversityPressin2014. Whathappenstostudentactivismoncemassprotests

have disappeared from view, andyouth no longer embody the po-litical frustrations and hopes of anation?AftertheRevolutionchron-iclesthelivesofstudentactivistsastheyconfront thepossibilitiesanddisappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolu-tion in Serbia. Greenberg's narra-tivehighlightsthestoriesofyoungstudentactivistsastheyseektode-finetheirroleandarticulateanew

formoflegitimatepoliticalactivity,post-socialism. WhenstudentactivistsinSerbiahelpedtoppledicta-torSlobodanMiloseviconOctober5,2000,theyunexpectedlyfoundthatthepost-revolutionaryperiodbroughtevengreaterproblems.Howdo you actually live and practice democracyin thewake ofwar and the shadowof a recent revolution?HowdoyoungSerbiansattemptto translate theenergyandexcitementgeneratedbywidescalemobilizationintotheslowworkofbuildingdemocraticinstitutions?Greenbergnavigatesthroughtheranksofstudentorganizationsastheytransitiontheiractivismfromthestreetsbackintothehallsoftheuni-versity. In exploring the everyday practices of student activ-ists—their triumphs and frustrations—After the Revolutionarguesthatdisappointmentisnotafailureofdemocracybutafundamentalfeatureofhowpeopleliveandpracticeit.Thisfascinatingbookdevelopsa critical vocabulary for the sociallifeofdisappointmentwiththeaimofhelpingcitizens,schol-ars, andpolicymakersworldwideescape the trapof framingnew democracies as doomed to failure.

Digital Russia: The Language, Culture and Politics of New Me-dia Communication (Routledge, 2014)providesacomprehensiveanalysis of the ways in whichnew media technologies haveshapedlanguageandcommuni-cation in contemporary Russia.IttracesthedevelopmentoftheRussian-language internet (Ru-net) from late-Soviet cybernet-icstotheadventofTwitterandexplores the evolution of web-basedcommunicationpractices,

showinghowtheyhavebothshapedandbeenshapedbyso-cial, political, linguistic and literary realities. Throughout thevolume,leadingRunetscholarsdrawattentiontofeaturesandtrendsthatarecharacteristicofglobalnewmedia,aswellasthosethataremorespecifictoRussianmediaculture.

Dr. Elizabeth Blake, AssistantProfessor of Russian in theDepartment of Modern and Classical Languages at Saint Louis University, has pub-lished a monograph, Dosto-evsky and the Catholic Under-ground, with NorthwesternUniversity Press. A descrip-tionofthepublicationcanbefound here.

In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire

(1613-1917),byProf.Antho-nyCross,isacomprehensivebibliographyoffirst-handac-countsoftheRussianEmpireever to be published, In the Lands of the Romanovsistheproduct of years of painstak-ing research by one of theworld’s foremost authoritieson Anglo-Russian relations.Providing full bibliographicaldetails and concise, informa-tiveannotationforover1200titles, thisvolumewillbean

invaluable reference and research tool for anyone with aninterest incontactsbetweenRussiaandtheWestduringthecenturies of Romanov rule. RangingchronologicallyfromtheaccessionofMikhailFedorovichin1613totheabdicationofNicholasIIin1917,thiswide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to mer-chants,physicianstoclergymen,gardenerstogovernesses,aswellasbyparticipants intheFrench invasionof1812and intheCrimeanWarof1854-56. In the Lands of the Romanovs waspublishedon12May2014byOpenBookPublishersandcan be read for free here.

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Stalin’sWhiteSeaCanal,orBelomor, remains one of the SovietUnion’smost in-famous Gulag constructionprojects.Thousandsofpris-oners labored in freezingconditions with primitivetoolstofinishthecanalinamere twenty months from1931-1933; alongside thelocks, the prisoners weresupposedly rebuilding theirlives. Julie Draskoczy’s new

book, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag, of-fersaglimpseintotheprisoners’dailyexperiencesatBelomorby examining never-before-published archivalmaterials. Heranalysis illuminates the intersectionof criminality, creativity,andideologythatwasemblematicoftheBelomorexperience.

Paula Michaels’ Lamaze: An International History has beenpublished by Oxford Uni-versityPress.Thebooktellsthe surprising story of theLamazemethodfromitsori-gins in the Soviet Union inthe1940s,toitspopulariza-tioninFranceinthe1950s,andthentoitsheydayinthe1960sand1970s intheUS.Michaelsshowshow,fordif-ferent reasons, in disparate nationalcontexts,thistech-niqueformanagingthepainof childbirthwithout resort

todrugs founda following.As leadingAmericanhistorianofchildbirthWendyKlinedescribes it, “whileaworkofhistoryofmedicine,thisisalsoclearlyatransnationalhistory,asocialhistory,apoliticalhistory,andanintellectualhistory.”

Lucien J. Frary and MaraKozelsky co-edited andcontributed to Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsid-ered (University of Wiscon-sin Press, 2014). The bookbrings together an interna-tional group of scholars toaddress topics such as na-tionalism, religion, popularattitudes, violence, ethnicdislocationandmassmigra-tion, economic rivalry, and

great-powerdiplomacy in theRussianandOttomanEmpiresandtheborderlandsinbetween.

Katherine Verdery’s book, Secrets and Truth: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police, was recently pub-

lished by CEU UniversityPress.Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded inmysteryas itssecret police. Its paid em-ployees were known to few and their actual numbersremain uncertain. Its in-formers and collaborators operatedclandestinelyun-der pseudonyms and met theirofficersinsecretloca-tions.Itsfileswereinacces-sible, even to most party members. The people the

secretpolicerecruitedorinterrogatedwerethreatenedsoef-fectivelythatsomenevertoldeventheirspouses,andmanyhaveheldtheirtonguestothisday,longaftertheregimesfell. Withtheendofcommunism,manyofthenewlyes-tablished governments—among them Romania’s—openedtheir secret police archives. From those files, aswell as herpersonalmemories,theauthorhascarriedouthistoricaleth-nographyoftheRomanianSecuritate.SecretsandTruthsisnotonlyofhistoricalinterestbuthasimplicationsforunderstand-ing the rapidly developing “security state” of the neoliberalpresent.

Two Worlds, One Idea: Ten Years of Correspondence between Amnesty International Group 11 and a Ukrainian Political Prisoner, Zinovii Krasivskyj, was edited and translated by Dr. Anna Procyk. This publicationchronicles more than tenyears of correspondence betweenZinoviiKrasivskyj(1929-1991), a victim ofSoviet repression, and members of Amnesty In-ternational Group 11 inNewYork.(SmoloskyPub-lishers,2013)

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TheIAROprogramprovideshighlyqualifiedU.S.scholarsandprofessionalstheopportunitytoinformU.S.foreignpolicybyconductingopen-sourceresearchoncurrentregionalissues. This year's fellows will be traveling to 13 countriesacross Eastern Europe and Eurasia to perform policy relevant fieldresearch,coveringtopicssuchasnationalism,ethnicmi-norityrelations,landandwaterresources,andpoliticaliden-tity.MeettheASEEESmemberswhohaveearnedtheseimpor-tantfellowshipsandmakesuretovisitIREX'sonlinelibrarytoreadtheirresearchfindings.

Benjamin Beresford,ArizonaStateUniversityTopic:“Stalin'sJazz:Identity,Modernity,andEarlySovietCul-ture,1932-1953”Countries: Russia, Ukraine

Vladislav Beronja,UniversityofMichiganTopic:“TowardsaVisibleCounter-Public:ARKzinandtheCroa-tianAntiwarCampaign(ARK),1991-2000”Country:Croatia

Jonathan Brunstedt,UtahStateUniversityTopic: “Forged in War: Soviet Remembrance of the SecondWorldWarandRussianNationalIdentity”Countries:Russia,Kazakhstan

Svetla Dimitrova,MichiganStateUniversityTopic:“EnablingPostsocialistDevelopmentandGlobalizationthroughPeaceCorpsAgency”Country: Bulgaria

Elza Ibroscheva,SouthernIllinoisUEdwardsvilleTopic:“FemaleBodiesforSale:RegulatingtheAdvertisingIn-dustryanditsPortrayalsofWomeninBulgaria”Country: Bulgaria

Julia Leikin, University College LondonTopic:“ThePrizeofLaw:MaritimeNeutralityandtheLawofNationsiniIperialRussia,1772-1856”Countries: Russia, Ukraine

Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski,UniversityofMichiganTopic:“GrowingOldinPostsocialistPoland:Health,Education,andMorality”Country: Poland

IREX2014-15IndividualAdvancedResearchOpportunitiesFellows

Calendar2014June 16-Aug 8. UniversityofIllinoisSummerResearchLaboratory.June 28-29. TheKoreanAssociationofSlavicStudies(KASS)6thEastAsianConferenceonSlavicEurasianStudiesheldinSeoul,Korea.TheConference’stopic:“BuildingEurasianCooperationNetwork:DynamismandTasks.”July 28-Aug 1. TheHolocaustinEasternEuropeintheRecordsoftheInternationalTracingServiceDigitalArchive,USHolo-caust Memorial MuseumSeptember 18-20. UCLSSEESandtheUniversityofCambridgeinternationalfilmsymposium,“NewDirectionsinRussianandSovietCinema”,Contact:rachel.morley@ucl.ac.ukSeptember 25-29. AnInternationalVirtualForumforSlavists,KyotoJapanOctober 10-11. 2014AATSEEL-WisconsinConference,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison;Contact: JoseVergara—jvergara@wisc.eduNovember 15. TwelfthGraduateColloquiumonSlavicLinguistics,OhioStateUniversity.Contact:KatyaRouzinarouzina.2@osu.eduNovember 21-23. AmericanCouncilontheTeachingofForeignLanguages(ACTFL),inSanAntonio,Texas,attheHenryB.Gon-zalesConvention.November 20-23. ASEEES 46th Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX.

2015January 8-11. AATSEEL annual conference March 26-28.“CentrifugalForces:ReadingRussia’sRegionalIdentitiesandInitiatives,”UniversityofVirginia,Charlottesville,VA.Contact:eec3c@virginia.edu

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Institutional Member NewsSTATES,PEOPLES,LANGUAGES:ACOMPARATIVEPOLITI-

CALHISTORYOFUKRAINIAN1863‒2013 The HarvardUkrainian Research Institute is pleasedtoinvitemembersofthelargeracademiccommunityandthe

general public to its in-ternational conferenceon States, Peoples, Languages: A Compara-tive Political History ofUkrainian, 1863‒2013.The conference willtake place June 11‒13,2014inthewakeofthe

150thanniversaryof theValuevCircularthat formedamile-stoneinthepoliticalandsocialhistoryofUkrainian. It istheintentoftheconferencetogobeyondthestrictconfinesoftheUkrainian experience and to place it in a wide-ranging com-parativecontextthatwillbothenhancescholarlyunderstand-ingoftheUkrainiancase,ononehand,andoffertheUkrainianphenomenontohelpilluminatedevelopmentsinavarietyoflanguagesituationsthroughcontrastandcomparison,ontheother.Weinviteyoutoviewthefullprogramandconferencedetails on theHURIwebsite.TheconferenceisfreeofchargeandopentotheHarvardcommunityandthegeneralpublic.

THEMICHAELHENRYHEIMTRANSLATIONPRIZE TheMichaelHeimTranslationPrizewill beawardedforthefirsttimein2014,andannuallythereafter,forthebestcollegialtranslationofajournalarticlefromanEastEuropean

language into English. The prizeis sponsored by East European PoliticsSocieties(EEPS),whichwillpublishthewinningarticle. The article’s translator willreceive an award of $500. Thecriteriaofselectionaretheschol-arlysignificanceofthearticle,thequalityofthetranslation,andthecontribution the translation will

make to disciplinary dialogue across linguistic communities.The translation cannot have been published previously andmustbetranslatedfromanEastEuropeanlanguageasdefinedbythegeographicambitofEEPS. In Guidelines for the Translation of Social ScienceTexts (www.acls.org/programs/sstp) Michael Heim encour-aged scholars to translate their colleagues’work tomake itmorewidelyavailable.AlthoughHeimwasarenowned liter-ary translator, he was convinced that the best translator ofascholarlyworkisacolleagueintherelevantdisciplinewhohasacquiredfacilityintranslation,ratherthanaprofessionaltranslatorwho is linguisticallyskilledbutunfamiliarwith the

discipline’s concepts, contexts, andcontroversies. ThisprizesupportsMichaelHeim’svision. DEADLINE:Submissionsoftranslatedarticlesforthe2014prizewillbeaccepteduntilSEPTEMBER1,2014.Thewin-nerwillbeannouncedattheNov.2014conventionoftheAs-sociationforSlavic,EastEuropean,andEurasianStudies.Sub-missionsshouldbesentasWordattachmentstoeeps@acls.org.

HILLWOODESTATEANDMUSEUMNEWSHillwoodisnowontheGoogleCulturalInstitutewithaman-sionStreetViewwhichallowsyoutowalkthrough/zoom-inonthecollectionsinthehouse,aGigapixelhigh-resolutionimageof theBoyarWeddingFeastpainting,andafirstselectionofhighlightsfromthecollectionarenowliveintheGoogleCul-turalInstitute.Formoredetailedinformation,pleaseseethispress release.

THEKENNANINSTITUTEATTHEWILSONCENTERNEWS

OnMay13,2014,EugeneK. Lawson,ChairmanandCEOofLawsonInternational,Inc.,andPaulRodzianko,Chair-man of the Hermitage Museum Foundation, were honoredby theWoodrowWilson InternationalCenter forScholarsattheKathrynandShelbyCullomDavisAwardsDinner.ThisalsomarkedtheKennanInstitute’s40thAnniversary.

GrantOpportunitiesPleasenote theKennan Institute TitleVIII Research Scholar-shipshavebeensuspendeduntilfurthernotice.

KENNANINSTITUTETITLEVIIISHORT-TERMGRANTSUptoonemonth’sduration The Kennan Institute offers Short-Term Grants toscholars whose research in the social sciences or humani-tiesfocusesontheformerSovietUnion(excludingtheBalticStates),andwhodemonstrateaparticularneedtoutilizethelibrary,archival,andotherspecializedresourcesoftheWash-ington,D.C.area.Policy-relevantresearchispreferred.Aca-demicparticipantsmusteitherpossessadoctoraldegreeorbedoctoralcandidateswhohavenearlycompletedtheirdisserta-tions.Fornon-academics,anequivalentdegreeofprofessionalachievementisexpected. Short-TermGrantsprovideastipendof$3,200for31days.WhiletheKennanInstitutecannotprovideofficespaceforShort-Termscholars,wedoprovideacarrelwithacomput-erandinternetaccess.Travelandaccommodationexpensesarenotdirectlycoveredbythisgrant.Thereisnoofficialappli-cationformforShort-TermGrants.Theapplicantisrequestedtosubmitaconcisedescription(700-800words)ofhisorherresearchproject (includingatitle), curriculumvitae, a state-

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ment on preferred dates of residence in Washington, D.C.,andtwolettersofrecommendationspecifically insupportoftheresearchtobeconductedattheKennanInstitute.Pleasenote,therecommendationlettersmustbesigned.Applicantsshouldalsostatetheircitizenshipstatusintheirmaterials.Allof thesematerialsmaybesubmittedviae-mail.Pleasenotethatthelettersofrecommendation,ifsentbyemail,mustbesentdirectlyfromtherefereeandbeascanofasignedletter.Refereesarealsowelcometosendtheirsignedlettersbyfaxorpost. Grant recipients are required to be in residence inWashington,D.C.forthedurationoftheirgrantandgiveapre-sentation.FourroundsofcompetitiveselectionforShort-TermGrantsareheldeachyear.ThenextclosingdateisSeptember1,2014.OnlyU.S.citizensarecurrentlyeligibleforShort-TermGrants.

ScholarsinResidenceEachyear,theKennanInstitutesponsorsbetween30-40schol-arstoconducthumanities,socialscience,andpolicyresearchinWashington,D.C.GrantopportunitiesincludeTitleVIIISum-merResearchandShort-TermScholarships,Fulbright-KennanScholarships,andStarovoitovaScholarships. TheKennan In-stitutewelcomes:

TitleVIII-SupportedResearchScholars Marc Berenson, Senior Lecturer, King’s Russia Insti-tute.“TaxesandTrust:TransitioningfromCoerciontoCompli-anceinPoland,Russia,andUkraine.” NicoleEaton,PhDcandidate,UofCalifornia,Berkeley.“Exclave:Politics,IdeologyandUrbanSpaceinKonigsberg,Ka-liningrad.”

TitleVIII-SupportedShortTermScholars Mary Barton, PhD Candidate, Corcoran DepartmentofHistory,UofVirginia. “ATransnationalHistoryofModernCounter-Terrorism.” Alyssa Park, Assistant Professor, U of Iowa. “Bor-derland Beyond: KoreanMigrants and the Creation of StateBoundariesinNorthwestAsia,1860-1945.” Gleb Tsipursky, Associate Professor of History, OSU,“The Soviet Domestic Front of the Cultural ColdWar, 1957-1970.”

TitleVIII-SupportedSummerResearchScholars StephenCrowley,Professor,OberlinCollege,Depart-mentofPolitics,“TheReemergenceofClassintheWakeoftheFirst'ClasslessSociety.’” Alexei Trochev, Associate Professor, Nazarbayev U,“GoingOff-Bench:HowPost-SovietJudgesResistBlatantInter-ference.”

TitleVIII-SupportedShort-TermScholar BirgittaIngemanson,MariannaMerrittandDonaldS.MattesonDistinguishedProfessorEmerita,WashingtonState

U.“ElucidatingEleanorPray’sLetters,1914-30.”

PublicPolicyScholar WojciechKonończuk,HeadoftheDepartmentforBe-larus,Ukraine,andMoldova,CentreforEasternStudies(OSW),Warsaw,Poland.“Re-examiningUkrainian-RussianRelationsinthePost-VilniusPeriod.”

GalinaStarovoitovaFellowsonHumanRightsandConflictRes-olution AntonBurkov,Chair,EuropeanandComparativeLawDepartment of the Law Faculty, U of Humanities, Yekaterin-burg,Russia.“StrategicLitigationbyHumanRightsNGOsandCivilRightsActivists:SimilaritiesandDifferencesbetweenRus-siaandtheUnitedStates.” VeraPeshkova,Researcher,InstituteofSociology,Rus-sianAcademyofSciences,Moscow.“TheRoleofImmigrantIn-frastructureinMigrants’IntegrationandtheCitySpaceTrans-formation(theCaseof‘EthnicCafes’inMoscow).” Fulbright-KennanInstituteResearchScholars Vasily Dvoynev, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Smolensk State U. “Environmental Concern:AComparativeAnalysisofAmericanandRussianTraditionsofStudyinSocialSciences.”

KennanInstituteGlobalFellows Hon.KennethS.Yalowitz,FormerU.S.AmbassadortotheRepublicofBelarusfrom1994-1997andtoGeorgiafrom1998-2001. SharylCross,DistinguishedProfessorandDirectoroftheKozmetskyCenter,St.Edward’sU.

KennanInstituteResearchScholar VolhaCharnysh,PhDCandidate,WeatherheadCenter,DepartmentofGovernment,HarvardU.“Long-termeffectsofforcedmigrationonpoliticalpreferencesandbehaviorinCen-tralandEasternEurope.”

EurasiaFoundationUS-RussiaSocialExpertiseExchange(SEE)Fellow Andrei Suslov Director, Center for Citizen EducationandHumanRights;SEEMigrationWorkingGroup.

CFP12THGRADUATECOLLOQUIUMONSLAVICLINGUISTICS

The Slavic Linguis-ticsForumandtheDepart-ment of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures are pleased to an-nouncetheTwelfthGradu-ate Colloquium on SlavicLinguistics.Thecolloquium

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willtakeplaceonNovember15,2014,attheOhioStateUni-versitycampusinColumbus,OH. We invite students and recent graduates working in all areasofSlavic,Balkan,andEastEuropeanlinguisticstosubmitabstracts.Theseareasincludebutarenotrestrictedto:pho-netics,phonology,morphology,syntax,semantics,pragmatics,discourseanalysis,conversationanalysis,historicallinguistics,sociolinguistics,psycholinguisticsanddialectology. Weencourage studentsworking in both formal andfunctionalframeworkstoparticipateinthisevent.Interdisci-plinaryprojectsfromthestudentsinrelatedfieldssuchasan-thropology,sociology,psychology,andcomparativestudiesarewelcome,asfarastheyarerelatedtoSlavicandEastEuropeanlanguages.Eachpresentationwillbeallowed20minutesplus10minutesfordiscussion. Pleasesendabstracts (maximum500words(exclud-ingreferences))toKatyaRouzina(rouzina.2@osu.edu)byAu-gust1st.Theabstractsshouldbeanonymous.Pleaseincludeyourname,affiliation,mailingaddress,andemailaddress inthebodyoftheemail. Accommodationwithlocalgraduatestudentswillbeavailable.

CALLFORAPPLICATIONS:ARESEARCHINTRODUCTIONTOTHEHOLOCAUSTINTHE

SOVIETUNION TheJack,JosephandMortonMandelCenterforAd-vancedHolocaustStudiesattheUnitedStatesHolocaustMe-morial Museum invites applications for the seminar “A Re-searchIntroductiontotheHolocaustintheSovietUnion.”Thisseminarwillbeheldbetween January5and9,2015,at theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,DC. Theobjectiveoftheseminaristoacquaintadvancedundergraduate,MA,andearlyPhDstudentswiththecentraltopics, issues, and sources related to the studyof theHolo-caust in theSovietUnion, includingmassshootings,evacua-tionand rescue, forced labor,and issuesofcommemorationandmemory.MandelCenterscholarswillleaddiscussions,andtheseminarwillincludegroupanalysisofmanyofthetypesofprimarysourcematerialavailableintheMuseum’scollections.Inaddition,participantswillhavetheopportunitytoexploretheMuseum’sextensivelibrary,archival,andothercollections. TheMuseumwelcomes applications from advancedundergraduates,MA,orearlyPhDstudentswhoareenrolledin relevant academic disciplines at North American collegesand universities. Applications must be submitted in Englishandinclude:(1)arecommendationletterfromafacultymem-ber in the applicant’s department that addresses the appli-cant’s potential and relevant interests, background, training,and qualifications (including previous coursework, projects,publications,orlanguagestudy);(2)aletterofintentfromtheapplicantdiscussinghis/herinterestintheHolocaustintheSo-vietUnion;and(3)acurrentcurriculumvitaethatlistsrelatedcoursework,researchpapers,academicpresentations,andin-

cludesaqualitativedescriptionofthecandidate’sforeignlan-guage skills. Participantsarerequiredtoattendthefulldurationofthe seminar,whichwill end at noonon Friday, January 9.Amaximumof20participantswillbeaccepted.Awardsinclude(1)astipendtowardthecostofdirecttraveltoandfromeachparticipant’shomeinstitutionandWashington,DC;(2)sharedlodging for the seminar’sduration; and (3)$250 toward thecostofmeals,localtransit,luggagesurcharges,andotherinci-dentalexpenses,whichwillbedistributedaftertheseminar’sconclusionviadirectdeposit.LocalparticipantsfromtheBal-timore-Washingtonmetropolitanareawillreceiveastipendof$125fortheweek.Applicationmaterialsmaybesentbymail,fax,ore-mailattachmentto:

Elana Jakel,PhD,ProgramDirectorof the Initiative fortheStudyofUkrainianJewry;Jack,JosephandMortonMandel Center for Advanced Holocaust StudiesUnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum,100RaoulWallenbergPlace,SW,Washington,DC20024-2126(tel)202.314.7814,(fax)202.479.9726

Faculty recommendationsmust be signed letters ofnominationontheirinstitution’sletterheadunderaseparatecover.AllapplicationmaterialsmustbereceivedbyTuesday,September30,2014.SelectedparticipantswillbenotifiedbyNovember1,2014.http://www.ushmm.org/research/scholarly-presentations/conferences/soviet-union-seminar

CFP:CENTRIFUGALFORCES:READINGRUSSIA’SREGIONALIDENTITIESANDINITIATIVES

An interdisciplinary, international conference at theUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 26-28,2015 ContemporaryRussiahasbeendescribedasa“coun-tryofbrokenlinks,”wheremuchofthefinancialandintellec-tualwealthofthecountryiscenteredinMoscowandMoscowRegion(withapopulationofnearly20million),whiletherestof thecountry (another123millionpeople) remainunheardandunderestimated.Atfirstglance,Russia’sregionsoftenap-pear tomimicMoscow in all sorts ofways—politically, visu-ally, architecturally, and intellectually…Until they don’t—forexample,inthe2010censusthousandsofSiberiansprotestedtheimpactofthecenterbyself-identifyingas“Sibiriak.”Blogs,tweets, aswell as conventional hard-copywriting, challengeoverly centralized power and resources. Legal challenges tomaltreatmentfromMoscowhavearisenintheSouthRussian-NorthCaucasus region. Ethnographers, literary scholars, cul-tural historians, political scientists, anthropologists—all arefindingthatmanypeopleinRussia’sregionsaretakinginitia-tiveandarticulatingtheirparticularidentitiesandinterests. Proposalsfor“CentrifugalForces”willresist“Moscow-centric”perceptionsofRussiaand,throughvariousdisciplinaryapproaches tostudying theRussianprovinces,strive tohearvoicesfromtheregionsinsteadofallowingviewsandopinions

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fromMoscowtodominate.Theywillconsiderwaysinwhichpeopleontheperipheriesengage incultural,economic,andpoliticalprocesses;howtheyrepresentthemselvesculturally,artistically,andsocially;howself-perception isdeveloping invariousregions;and,importantlyinthe21stcentury,howtheInternetimpactstheverynotionsofcenterandperiphery. “Centrifugal Forces” will be a three-day conferenceoffering broad interdisciplinary perspectives on approachingregionalstudy.Panelswillblendhistoricalandcontemporaryperspectivesonbeingperipheral.Talkswilldealwithabroadarrayof regionalexperience, in relatively“hot” regions suchastheNorthCaucasus,aswellasotherareasinEuropeanandAsiaticRussia;andaddressingactivityinruralareas,aswellasregionalcities. Theorganizersinvite20-minutepapersfromscholarsfrom all relevant disciplines. Please submit a 250-word ab-stractbyDecember1,2014to:clowes@virginia.edu Formoreinformationpleasevisitourwebsite:http://www.russiasperipheries.com.

ODESSA:MYTH–ANDREALITY–INARTFROMTHEDODGECOLLECTIONATTHEZIMMERLIART

MUSEUM AT RUTGERS ThefirstexhibitionattheZimmerlidevotedtoartistsfromUkraine,“Odessa’sSecondAvant-Garde:CityandMyth,”focuses on nonconformist artists whoworked in this fabledseaport on the Black Sea from the 1960s through the late1980s.OnviewattheZimmerliArtMuseumatRutgersfromApril30toOctober19,2014,thesepaintings,worksonpaper,andcollagesexpressthe independentspiritofthisUkrainian

city. Artists andwriters have gravitated to Odessa formorethan two centuries, finding inspiration in thedreamlike city.Theydisregardedpoliticsandartisticconventions,cultivatinganatmospherethathascaptivatedpeoplearoundtheworld.EveninlightofcurrenteventsinUkraine,Odessastandsasanexampleofacitycapableofunitingcitizenswhosecultures,languages,andopinionsdiffer,butwhosharethehumorandlightheartednessattributedtothisseasidetown. “Odessa’s Second Avant-Garde: City andMyth”wasorganizedbyOlenaMartynyuk,DodgeFellowattheZimmerliand Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History at Rutgers.TheexhibitionandrelatedprogramsaresupportedbytheAve-nirFoundationEndowmentFund.

SAVETHEDATE:RELATEDPROGRAM The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study ofJewish LifeatRutgers invites thepublic toaprogramat theZimmerlionSunday,September14.Aguidedtouroftheex-hibition“Odessa’sSecondAvant-Garde:CityandMyth”isfol-lowedbythelecture“InventingOdessa:JewishCultureontheEdgeoftheRussianEmpire”withOlgaLitvak,aleadingscholarofJewishEasternEurope.Sheexploresthepowerfulconnec-tionbetweenthecityairofOdessaandtheJewishrevivalthatitinspired.ThroughtheeyesofsomeofitsmostfamousJewishresidents,weseehowthetemptationsofOdessachangedthecourseofRussian-Jewishlife.ProfessorLitvakcurrentlyholdstheLeffellChairinModernJewishHistoryatClarkUniversityinWorcester,Massachusetts.

LucienDulfan,ReflectionoftheCity,1978Oiloncardboard

CollectionZimmerliArtMuseumatRutgersNortonandNancyDodgeCollectionofSovietNonconformistArtPhotoPeterJacobs

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FirstPlace(CategoryA,Level1)CaraEhlenfeldt,SwarthmoreCollegeNoeldeSaeSilva,HarvardUniversity SecondPlace(CategoryA,Level1)PaulHoehn,KenyonCollegeLizzyCarp,BrynMawrCollegeB.Marakowitz-Svig,KenyonCollege ThirdPlace(CategoryA,Level1)LupitaBarrientos,SwarthmoreCollegeNinaPrasad,PomonaCollegeGrantFarnsworth,BrighamYoungUCody Lake, Temple University FirstPlace(CategoryA,Level2)JoshuaO'Brien,UofNotreDame SecondPlace(CategoryA,Level2)ChristianFelt,PurdueUniversityStewart Pollock, Kenyon College ThirdPlace(CategoryA,Level2)Raul Aguilar, Rutgers UniversityJacobSeidman,ColumbiaUniversityAndrewStockburger,UofChicagoAlexandra Vreeman, Pomona College BrianAstrachan,WilliamsCollege FirstPlace(CategoryA,Level3)Brad Gordon, University of MississippiCameronBell,BrighamYoungUJosephHaberman,YaleUniversity SecondPlace(CategoryA,Level3)DakotaWhisler,UofMontana-MissoulaJosephHaberman,YaleUniversityJordanHussey-Andersen,IndianaUZhihaoWang,UCLA ThirdPlace(CategoryA,Level3)NickPrestwich,BrighamYoungUCaroline Elkin, Dickinson College Alina Capanna, U of WisconsinLeslieMartin,KenyonCollegeRichardWess,UofPennsylvaniaDyer Pierce, Kenyon College FirstPlace(CategoryA,Level4)SarahVitali,HarvardUniversity

SecondPlace(CategoryA,Level4)JonathanMahoney,BrighamYoungUKojiTakagi,BrighamYoungUniversityJuanJosedelValleCoello,IndianaU

ThirdPlace(CategoryA,Level4)BrendaSeah,YaleUniversityJesseVincent,PomonaCollegeAnthonyBetts,UofWisconsinJoshuaPrince,BrighamYoungUA.Hayes,DefenseLanguageInstitute FirstPlace(CategoryB,Level1)Dina Difort, U of Montana-Missoula SecondPlace(CategoryB,Level1)NadiyaChuchvara,RutgersUniversity ThirdPlace(CategoryB,Level1)Alex Braslavsky, Columbia UniversityDamian Weikum, Yale UniversityJustinBleuel,ColumbiaUniversity FirstPlace(CategoryB,Level2)OlegDidovets,UniversityofRochester SecondPlace(CategoryB,Level2)JanaLohrova,YaleUniversity ThirdPlace(CategoryB,Level2)CarolynCzarnecki,RutgersUniversity FirstPlace(CategoryB,Level3)Edward Danilyuk, Temple UniversitySolomiya Stebelska, Rutgers University SecondPlace(CategoryB,Level3)MariaLechtarova,ColumbiaUniversityMarcinSwieczkowski,BostonUVladislav Petkov, Columbia University ThirdPlace(CategoryB,Level3)Ivan Kolobaric, Yale UniversityVickyRadenkova,Lewis&ClarkCollegeEmma Difort, U of Montana-Missoula FirstPlace(CategoryB,Level4)MichelleCerna,TuftsUniversityChristopherBlackwood,TuftsUniversity FirstPlace(CategoryC,Level1)TheodoreDarenkov,BostonUniversity

2014ACTRNationalPost-SecondaryRussianEssayContestCongratulationstothewinnersofthe15thAnnualACTRNationalPost-SecondaryRussianEssayContest.IInthisyear’scontest,therewere1004essayssubmittedfrom58universities,colleges,andinstitutionsacrossthenation.Threejudgesreadeachessayandinde-pendentlyrankedthem.Morecompleteresults,includingthoseeariningHonorablemetion,andexcerptsfromsomeessaysarepublishedintheACTRLetter.

SecondPlace(CategoryC,Level1)DinaPeck,UniversityofChicagoElenaNikonova,UofPennsylvaniaMichaelStarr,ColumbiaUniversity ThirdPlace(CategoryC,Level1)Yekaterina Kovalyova, Columbia UDalia Wolfson, Yale University MarinaShayevich,RutgersUniversityRachelVasilyev, Boston College Anna Volski, Rut-gers University YelyzavetaPrysyazhnyuk,ColumbiaU FirstPlace(CategoryC,Level2)AndreiDidenko,TuftsUniversityMayaShumyatcher,UofPennsylvania SecondPlace(CategoryC,Level2)AnnaBruzgulis,UniversityofChicagoMaksimilian Sklyarov, UCLAYekaterina Belikov, UCLA ThirdPlace(CategoryC,Level2)Dave Benger, Brandeis UniversityKarina Panyan, U of MarylandLioudmila Zaitseva, Harvard University Kseniya Rogulina, Boston University KristinaClinton,PurdueUniversity FirstPlace(CategoryC,Level3)MashaNikolski,UofPennsylvaniaArpi Grigoryan, U of Mississippi SecondPlace(CategoryC,Level3)EcaterinaToutok,UniversityofRochester ThirdPlace(CategoryC,Level3)Yelena Guseva, University of Maryland FirstPlace(CategoryC,Level4)OlegOleinic,DefenseLanguageInstitute SecondPlace(CategoryC,Level4)MariamAgaeva,UniversityofChicago ThirdPlace(CategoryC,Level4)Iulia Bardareanu, Rutgers UniversityKrystynaRastorguieva,CollegeofCharlestonAndreiTarasevich,DefenseLanguageInsti-tute

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In MemoriamVahan Barooshian,82,borninChelsea,Mass,diedonFeb.8,2014. FollowingfouryearsofserviceintheCoastGuardaf-terHighSchool,VahanBarooshianattendedtheUniversityofMassachusettsatAmherst,graduatingwithdegreesinpoliticalscienceandRussianstudies.VahanBarooshianearnedanM.A.and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from BrownUniversitywherehewastheproudfirstPh.D.studentofthefamedProf.SamDriver. ProfessorBarooshiantaughtfor30years in theDepartmentofRussianStudiesatWellsCollegeinAurora,NY,alsoservingasthedepartmentchairofRussianstudies. HereceivedresearchfellowshipsfromHarvardUni-versity and Cornell University, received grants to study abroad intheSovietUnion,andwasamemberofanumberofaca-demiccommitteesatWellsCollege.He is theauthorof fourscholarlybooksonRussianart and literature (Russian Cubo-futurism 1910-1930, a Study in Avant-gardism,1974;Brik and Mayakovsky,1978;The Art of Liberation: Alexander A. Ivanov, 1989;V. V.Vereshchagin: Artist at War, 1993) and had pub-lishednumerousscholarlyarticlesandreviews.VahanretiredtoAuburn,NYin1994,wherehecontinuedtobeanactive readerand criticofRussianpublications.Hewasavoracious readerof theNew York Times and book re-viewpublications,andheenjoyedcooking,horseracing,play-ingcards,visitingwithfriendsandentertainingfacultywithhisgrilling talent. Contributed by Edythe Haber, Professor Emerita, Uni-versity of Massachusetts, Boston

Robert L. Belknap, Professor EmeritusofRussian in theDe-partment of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, died on March17.ProfessorBelknapwasamagisterialteacheroflit-erature,aguidingintellectandscholarinthefieldofRussianliterature,acommittededucatorwhodevotedhisenergyandvisiontomakingColumbiaaninstitutiontobeproudof.Fromstart to finish, hewas aman of integrity, wit, wisdom, andgood will. He will be sorely missed and fondly remembered byallwhohavehadthehonorofknowinghimand learningfromhim. AnativeNewYorker,RobertBelknapwaseducatedatPrincetonUniversity,theUniversityofParis,Leningrad(nowSt.Petersburg)StateUniversity,andColumbiaUniversity(Ph.D.inSlavicLanguagesandLiteratures,1960). RobertBelknapwasknowntheworldoverasanex-pert on Russian literature, on Dostoevsky, in particular. HewastheauthoroftwomajorstudiesonDostoevsky’smaster-piece, The Brothers Karamazov: The Structure of The Broth-ers Karamazov(1967,reprinted1989)andThe Genesis of the Brothers Karamazov (1992),whichbothappeared inRussiantranslation. Literary Plots, based on the Leonard HastingsSchoffMemorialLecturesthatProfessorBelknapdeliveredin

2011,isforthcomingfromColumbiaUniversityPress.Togeth-er with Columbia colleague Richard Kuhns, Robert Belknapwrote Tradition and Innovation: General Education and the Reintegration of the University(1977),whichremindsusthatinterdisciplinary understanding, tolerance, and humility arecentraltoawhole—or,astheyputit,reintegrated—university.Indeed,oneofRobertBelknap’sgreattalentswashisabilitytodrawpeoplefromdifferentdisciplinestogetherinacommonintellectual enterprise. TheintellectualexcitementthatRobertBelknapgen-erated in his classrooms is legendary. His repertory rangedoverthecanonofRussianliterature.HetaughtLiteratureHu-manitiesintheColumbiaCorecurriculumforoverfiftyyears.StudentschosehimfortheVanDorenGreatTeacherAwardin1980andalumnichosehimfortheSocietyofColumbiaGradu-atesGreatTeacherAwardin2010.Heiswidelyknownforthelastingimpacthehadonstudents—fromfirst-yearundergrad-uatesinLiteratureHumanitiestodissertationadvisees. Over the courseofhis career,ProfessorBelknapas-sumedleadershiprolesatColumbia:heservedastheChairoftheSlavicDepartment,theDirectoroftheRussian(nowHarri-man)Institute,theActingDeanofColumbiaCollege,theChairofLiteratureHumanities,theDirectoroftheUniversitySemi-nars.Asanadministrator,hehadatalentforgettingthejobdonewellandforcreatingaspiritofcooperation. Adapted from Columbia University/Harriman Insitute News TheDepartmentofSlavicLanguages&LiteraturesattheUni-versityofWashingtongrievesthepassingofProfessorEmeri-tus Karl Kramer on February 19, 2014 at age 80. ProfessorKramer was a Seattle native who earned his B.A. (English,1955),M.A. (ComparativeLiterature,1957),andPh.D. (Com-parativeLiterature,1964)allattheUniversityofWashington.Asaparticipantinoneofthefirst–and,inthosedaysoftheColdWar,extremelyrare–academicexchangesintheformerSovietUnion,ProfessorKramerattendedMoscowStateUni-versityasadoctoral candidate in1959-1960.Hewenton toteachatNorthwesternUniversity(1961-1965)andtheUniversityofMichigan(1965-1970)be-forecomingbacktotheUW1970,wherehetaughtjointlyintheDepartmentof Slavic LanguagesandLiteraturesand theDepartmentofComparativeLiteratureuntilhisretirementin1999. He chaired the Slavic Department between 1988 and1998.Aworld-renownedChekhov scholar, Professor KramertaughtawidevarietyofcoursesduringthenearlythirtyyearshespentattheUW.Healsobecameactivelyinvolved–mainlyasatranslatorandconsultant–inanumberoftheatricalpro-ductionsofChekhov’splaysstagedbylocaldirectorsandactorsin the Seattlearea, especially those connectedwith IntimanTheater,andparticipatedformanyyears inagroupbringing

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discussionsoftheaterandplaystoWashingtonStateprisons.Lovedbyhis colleaguesand students, ProfessorKramerandhis generosityof spirit, noblenessof characteranddry, self-deprecatingsenseofhumorwillbegreatlymissed.AmemorialservicewasheldforApril5,2014ontheUW-Seattlecampus. Contributed by Galya Diment, Professor of Slavic Lan-guages and Literatures, U of Washington

TheDartmouthRussianDepartmentissaddenedtoannouncethedeathonFebruary18ofRichard Sheldon, professor emeri-tusofRussianandbelovedcolleague.ProfessorSheldonhadbeensufferingfromParkinson’sforanumberofyears,andwas81. AfterhegraduatedwithadegreeinEnglishfromtheUniversity of Kansas in 1954, Professor Sheldonmade threecareerdetours,servinginthearmyinGermany,studyingattheSorbonne,andearningalawdegreeandaPh.DinRussianattheUniversityofMichigan. In1965–66ProfessorSheldonchairedtheRussianDe-partment atGrinnell College.His tenure therewas the verybriefprefacetoalongandstoriedcareeratDartmouth.Whenhe retired from Dartmouth in 2002, Professor Sheldon hadbeenamemberofthefacultyforthirty-sixyears,chairedtheRussian Department for twenty, and served as Dean of theHumanities forfive. Hisenergetic investment in thedepart-ment’sSt.Petersburgprogram,begun in the1960s, contrib-utedtoDartmouth’searlyandenduringreputationinthefieldofforeignstudy.HetaughtcoursesonChekhov,Solzhenitsyn,Tolstoy,andNabokov,lovedpoorfilmadaptationsofAnnaKar-enina,andlovedhisstudents,whoreturnedhisaffection. An authority onViktor Shklovsky, Professor Sheldontranslatedseveralofhisbooks,notablyA Sentimental Journey (1970),Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1971),Third Factory (1977),andKnight’s Move (2005).HistranslationofZoo was nominatedforaNationalBookAwardin1972.InadditiontohisarticlesonShklovsky,ProfessorSheldonpublishedonTol-stoy,Chekhov,Gorky,Mandelstam,andSholokhov.FormanyyearsProfessorSheldonservedasamemberoftheEducationDepartment’s reviewpanel thatmade recommendations forfundingNationalResourceCentersinRussianandSlavicStud-iesunderTitleVIoftheHigherEducationAct. Contributed by John Kopper, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth University.

A distinguished scholar, a dedicated teacher,Gabor Vermes diedinMarch2014.AnativeofBudapest,wherehewasbornin 1933,Gabor Vermes lived throughWorldWar II and sur-vived theHolocaust.Many inhis familydidnot. In1956,heescaped fromHungary toAustria,where for severalmonthshe lived invarious refugeecamps.Oneyear laterhearrivedintheUnitedStates,whereheworkedasageologistinoilex-plorationinTexas,Louisiana,NewMexico,UtahandWyoming.HelaterpursuedhisloveforhistoryasagraduatestudentatStanfordUniversity,wherehereceivedtheMaster’sandPh.D.degrees.ProfessorWayneS.Vucinichwashismentor.Hisun-

dergraduatedegree, in1956, is fromtheUniversityofBuda-pest, in geology. JoiningthefacultyofRutgersUniversityin1972,Pro-fessor Vermes set an admirable coursewithin the historicalprofession. Hewas a truly outstanding teacher, scholar andacademiccitizen.In1984,theGraduateStudentGovernment,PhiAlphaTheta,andtheHistoryClubpresentedhimwiththeOutstandingTeacherofHistoryAward.Hewasalsothe1998recipientoftheHenryJ.BrowneOutstandingTeacherAward.HeservedasDeputyChairoftheDepartmentofHistoryfrom1979throughhisretirementandasthefacultyadvisortoTheHistory Club and Phi Alpha Theta. In 1978, hemounted theNorthernNewJerseyRegionalConferenceofPhiAlphaTheta,whichwas held at the Rutgers-Newark campus in 1978. Anactiveparticipant intheColumbiaUniversitySeminarontheHistoryofLegalandPoliticalThoughtandtheFulbrightAsso-ciation,ProfessorVermeswasalsoaconsultanttotheCentralEuropean University Press. HeauthoredFrom Feudalism to Revolution: Hungar-ian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1711-1848, Istvan Tisza: The Liberal Vision and Conservative Statecraft of a Magyar Nationalist (1985),numerousarticles,chapters,reviews and other scholarly opuses. The book on which hehadspentthelasttwentyyearsofhislife,From Feudalism to Revolution: Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1711-1848, is now available from Central European UniversityPress.Hewasdeeplygratifiedbyawonderfulbooklaunch party in Budapest, when the Hungarian version waspublished. Contributed by Susan Glanz, Professor of Administra-tion and Economics, St. John’s University

Candidates for ASEEES 2014 Board of Directors Election

Candidates for Vice President / President-Elect

John Connelly (UC Berkeley) Padraic Kenney (Indiana U)

Candidates for Member-at-LargeKeith Brown (Brown U)

Mary Neuburger (U of Texas, Austin)Sarah Phillips (Indiana U)

Tamara Trojanowska (U of Toronto) All current members have the right to vote in the election and should have received an online bal-lot. If you would prefer a print copy of the ballot, or if you are unsure about your membership sta-tus, please email Jonathon Swiderski, membership coordinator, or call +1 (412) 648-9911.

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Affiliate Member News CFP:AATSEELANNUALCONFERENCE The2015AATSEELConferencewill beheldon January8-11,2015 at the Renaissance Harbourside in Vancouver, BritishColumbia,CanadawithineasyreachoftheModernLanguageAssociation(MLA)conference.Inadditiontoscholarlypanels,participantswillhavethechancetoattendadvancedseminars,roundtables,workshopsandotherspecialevents. The2015Advanced Seminars will be led by Mark Lipovetsky (UC-Boul-der)andMarcusLevitt(USC).Spacewillbelimited. TheAATSEEL conference is a forum for exchange ofideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European lan-guages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. TheProgramCommittee invites scholars in theseand relatedar-eastoformpanelsaroundspecifictopics,organizeroundtablediscussions,propose forumson instructionalmaterials, and/orsubmitproposalsforindividualpresentationsforthe2015Conference. Theconferenceregularly includespanels in lin-guistics,pedagogyand second languageacquisition, in addi-tiontoliterature,cinema,andculture. Please submit your proposals by July 1, 2014. Formoreinformation,visittheAATSEEL website. Please note thepassportandpossiblevisarequirementsfor travel to Canada.

ACTRRUSSIANSCHOLARLAUREATEAWARD Established in2004bytheBoardofDirectorsof theAmerican Council of Teachers of Russian, the ACTR RussianScholar LaureateAwardprovides anopportunity for schoolsand teachers of Russian to nationally recognize one sopho-moreor junior each year as their school’smostoutstandingRussianscholar.ScholarsLaureatesarestudentswhodemon-stratededicationtothestudyofRussian inmanyways:aca-demicachievement,outsideactivities, independentstudy,oroften simply in enthusiasm and attitude. Students receive aletter of commendation, a certificate, and a lapel pin. Con-gratulatorylettersalsogotothestudent’steacherandtotheprincipalorheadmasteroftheschool. Ifyouwishtonominateyourbestsophomoreor ju-niorsecondaryschoolRussianstudentforthisaward,youmaydosountilJune30,2014.YourmembershipinACTRmustbecurrent,butthereisnofeeforparticipationinthisprogram.APDFofthebrochureandthenominationformcanrequestfrom theChair by email at: nushakova@gmail.com . Pleasesendyourcompletenominationmaterialstotheaddressbe-low:NataliyaUshakova,Chair,ACTRRussianScholarLaureateAward,StatenIslandTechnicalHS,485ClawsonStreet,SatenIsland,NY10306,nushakova@gmail.com

CFP:CENTRALSLAVICCONFERENCENovember7-9,2014,TheHiltonattheBallpark,St.Louis,Mis-souri The Central Slavic Conference is pleased to invitescholarsofalldisciplinesworkinginSlavic,Eurasian,andEast

European studies to submit proposals for panels, individual papers,androundtablesat itsannualmeeting,tobeheldinconjunctionwith the 2014 International Studies AssociationMidwest Conference. Proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables for pri-orityreviewandcross-listingwithISA-Midwestpanelsshouldbe submittedbyemail toCSCPresidentDr.DavidBorgmey-er (dborgmey@slu.edu)no laterthanAugust1,2014.OtherproposalswillbeaccepteduntilSeptember1,2014.Limitedfunding isavailabletoprovidegraduatestudentswithtravelstipends.Allproposalsshouldinclude:Participantname,af-filiation,andemailcontactinformation;• Forindividualpaper/posterpresentation:titleandbrief

description(limit50words);• Forpanels:paneltitle+aboveinformationforeachpar-

ticipantanddiscussant(ifapplicable);• Forroundtable:roundtabletitleandparticipantinforma-

tion. CharlesTimberlakeMemorialSymposiumNow a regular part of the CSC program, the symposium isdedicatedtothescholarshipoflongtimeCSCmemberCharlesTimberlake. Those interested inparticipating should contactsymposium coordinator Dr. Nicole Monnier at monniern@missouri.edu.

TimberlakeMemorialGraduatePaperPrizeGraduate studentswho present at the CSCAnnualMeetingareinvitedtoparticipateintheCharlesTimberlakeGraduatePaperPrizecompetition.DedicatedtothememoryofProfes-sorTimberlakeasteacherandmentor,theprizecarriesacashaward.Submissionsshouldbesentelectronicallytoprizeco-ordinatorDr.NicoleMonnieratmonniern@missouri.edunolaterthanOctober25th,2014.

Limitedfundingforgraduatestudentandinternationalschol-artravelisavailable.CSCregistrationisseparatefromISA-Mregistration,butgeneralinformationregardingthehotelandmeeting can be found on the ISA Midwest Conference web page

MIDWESTSLAVICASSOCIATIONNEWS The2014MidwestSlavicConferencewasheldatOSUMarch 28-March 30, 2014, during which time theMidwestSlavicAssociationessaywinnerswereannounced.Theyare:TomElvins,UniversityofPittsburghandMichelleMaydanchik,UniversityofChicago

STANFORDSTUDENTSTAKETOPPRIZEINDOSTOEVSKYVIDEOCONTEST

A team fromStanfordUniversitywon the inauguralDostoevskyVideoContest,sponsoredbytheNorthAmerican

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Dostoevsky Society (NADS). The director, Russian LiteraturePhDstudentHannahGould,andher teamofundergraduatestudentswillsharea$500cashprize,andeachwillreceiveaone-yearmembershipintheNADSandthelatestissueofDos-toevsky Studies. The competition, open to all, called for two-minutevideos inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella Notes From Underground. Itattractedsubmissions fromacross theUnited States. Five finalists had videos posted on theNADSFacebookpage,promptingalivelyresponse.Thewinningvid-eotransposesDostoevsky’sworkontoamodern-daycollegecampus andasksprovocativequestions about the relevanceofnarrativeliteratureintheinternetage.Inthiscreativead-aptation, the UndergroundMan’s loneliness is linked to hisfailedloveaffair,hisrefusaltogiveup“slowreading,”andhisretreatintophilosophy.“NotesfromUnderground:AnImagi-nativeAdaptationsetatStanfordUniversityintheYear2014,”enjoyedenthusiasticsupportbothfromthejudgesandfromeloquentcommentatorsonFacebook. TheNADSleadershipwaspleasedwiththecontest’ssuccess, and impressedwith the range and quality of all oftheentries.Thevideos,alongwiththejudges’commentariesonthem,canbeviewed,“liked,”andcommentedonatwww.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.SocietyNADSisal-readypreparingforthenextvideocompetition,andisaccept-ingsuggestionsforthecontest’sthemeonitsFacebookpage.

SHERANEWS FollowingelectionsinJanuary,theSocietyofHistori-ansofEastEuropean,Eurasian,andRussianArtandArchitec-tureupdateditsbylawsandaddedtwonewofficers:TamaraJhashiasListservAdministrator,andKsenyaGurshteinasWebNewsEditor. JoiningSHERA’sboardasMembers-at-LargeareAnnaNovakov,AndreaRusnock,andNicolasIljine. AtCAA’sannualconferenceinChicagoinFebruary,onbehalfofSHERA,EvaForgacshostedvisitorsfromEasternEu-ropeandRussiawhowerepartofCAA’s InternationalTravelGrantprogram.Dr.Forgacsparticipatedwiththevisitors inafull-daypre-conferenceprogramorganizedbytheCAA Inter-nationalCommitteeaboutinternationalissuesinarthistory,aswellasothereventsthroughouttheconferenceitself. SHERA isdelighted towelcomefivenew institution-al members: The Kolodzei Art Foundation, which promotesthecontemporaryartofRussiaandtheformerSovietUnionthroughexhibitionsandgrants;theMuseumofRussianIcons

inClinton,MA,thelargestprivatecollectionofRussianiconsinNorthAmerica;theM.T.AbrahamFoundation,acollectionofRussianandEuropeanmodernartbasedinParis;theRus-sianAmericanCulturalCenter,anorganizationthatsponsorsexhibitions,artseventsandscholarlysymposiainthegreaterNewYorkarea;andCentroStudisulleArtidellaRussiainVen-ice, Italy,acenterfortheresearchandstudyofRussia’srichculturalheritage.

CFP: CONFERENCEOFTHESOCIETYFORROMANIANSTUDIES

Bucharest,17-19June2015 Theme: Linking Past, Present and Future: The 25thAnniversary of Regime Change in Romania and Moldova(1989/1991) Anniversaries represent opportunities to reflect onpastevents,re-assesstheir impactonthepresent,anddrawlessonsforthefuture.Togetherwithother20thcenturyhistor-icalevents–includingWorldWarI,WorldWarII,andthecom-munist take-over – the overthrowof the communist regimerepresentedawatershedeventforRomaniaandMoldova,themost recent great transformation it is seen as having led totheendofthecommunistdictatorship,democratizationofthepoliticalsystem,theintroductionofmarketeconomy,culturalliberalization,theopeningofborders,andare-alignmentwiththeWest.At thesametime,givenRomania’sandMoldova’spersistentproblemswithpoliticalinstability,pervasivecorrup-tion, sloweconomic growth, populism, andnationalism, thesignificanceofthe1989/1991regimechangeanditsoutcomesremainsasourceofcontestation.Theaimofthisconferenceistotakeafreshlookatthetransformativeeventsofaquar-tercenturyago.Wewishtoexaminetheirsignificanceforthetwocountries’post-communisttrajectories,past,present,andfuturebothdomesticallyandinthewiderEuropeanandEur-asiancontextswiththehelpofbroadhistorical,political,liter-ary,andculturaldisciplinaryandinterdisciplinaryinquiries. Individualpaperproposalsshouldincludethetitleofthepresentation,abriefabstractofupto500words,ashortc.v.,andcontactinformationofthepresenter.Theyshouldbesent ina singleattachedWorddocumentbyAugust1,2014at srs2015conference@gmail.com.Proposals for2-hourpan-elsincluding3-4papers,onechair,and1-2discussantsshouldprovideatitleanddescriptionofthepaneltopic,abstractsofallpapers,shortvitae,andcontactinformationforallpartici-pants.Panelparticipants shouldbedrawn fromat least twodifferentuniversities.Roundtablesproposalsof3-5participantsshouldincludetitleanddescriptionofthetopic,shortvitaeandcontactinforma-tion for all participants. In addition, the conferenceorganiz-ers will accept proposals for book panels. Submissions and presentationsinFrenchwillbeaccepted,as longastheyarefor full panels and roundtables including members from more thanoneuniversity. Inordertoassurethattheconferenceisaccessibletoscholars,theconferencefeeswillbequitemodest.

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