Please note that as a consequence of the move and name change, the members site (www.aseeesmembers.org, formerly www.aaassmembers.org) is currently unavailable. To register for ASEEES 2010 in Los Angeles, please download the PDF registration form, fill it out, and return it by fax, email, or postal mail to the address below.

If you have sent us a registration form by email, fax, or post and are not certain if it has been received, please email us on aseees@pitt.edu or call 412-648-9911 before resending. Sending us multiple forms is likely to result in duplicate registrations and double charges to your credit card.

Additionally, as all registrations are being entered by hand, receipts are being sent out only on request--if you would like to request one, please email wwalker@pitt.edu.

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, is the leading private organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe.

Please note that in addition to the new name, ASEEES has a new office. Please address all correspondence to

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
203C Bellefield Hall
315 S. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424

tel: +1-412-648-9911
fax: +1-412-648-9815

Website Highlights

Reminder: Please book your hotel rooms and pre-register for the Los Angeles convention!

Please book your hotel room now - we will sell out. You can make your reservation online or by calling the Westin Bonaventure at 888-627-8520; you must say that you are with Slavic Studies to receive the discounted rate.

We hope to have the members only portion of our website up and running shortly for registration. If you wish to pay by check or credit card in the interim please download the Pre-Registration Form for the 2010 Convention (pdf) and mail it with check or credit card info to ASEEES, 203C Bellefield Hall, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15260-6424, USA, or (if paying by credit card) fax to +1-412-648-9815.

The early registration deadline was August 16, 2010. Registration fees have gone up. All panel participants MUST pre-register and pay the registration fee by September 30, 2010, to have their names included in the Convention Program Index of Participants.
Pre-registration closes on October 8. You must pay on site at the convention after the October 8 deadline.

Audio Visual Equipment Deadline was JULY 1, 2010. If you did not book your equipment by July 1, you must contact the hotel's audio-visual department to arrange for equipment rental and pay for it yourself.

The preliminary program of the convention is now available in PDF.

If you have questions about the convention please contact Wendy Walker, Convention Consultant, via email at wwalker@pitt.edu or phone at 781-235-2408.

2010 May/June and August NewsNets now available

The most recent issues of NewsNet, May/June and August 2010, are now available online as PDFs. (Please note that these are fairly large files; you may find the most success saving them to your computer and opening the resulting file, rather than opening them directly in your browser.)

The May/June issue includes:

"Academic Publishing in the Digital Age," by Scott W. Palmer
"Copyright Guidelines for Scholars and Educators in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies," by Janice T. Pilch
"A New Home for ArcheoBiblioBase? The Premier English-Language Directory and Reference Bibliography for Russian Archives and Manuscript Repositories," by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
"Job Hunting in Tough Times," Adrian Erlinger
and a letter from ASEEES President Mark von Hagen

August's issue includes:

"Redefining The Common Good After Communism: Beyond Ideology," by Kristen R. Ghodsee and Laura A. Henry, Bowdoin College
"Independent Language Learners And Web-Based Materials," by Richard M. Robin, GWU
Information about ASEEES's next convention, our 43rd, November 2011 in Washington, DC. Next year's theme will be "authorities". Please note that the deadline for proposals for panels and roundtables, and for requests for meeting rooms, is January 15, 2011
News and information from the American Library Association's Slavic and East European Section; the ASEEES Committee on Library and Information Resources, Subcommittee on Collection Development; the University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute; the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; the American Council of Teachers of Russian; Australian Slavonic and East European Studies
Job postings from Princeton University Library, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Chicago, The University of Oklahoma, and Smith and Amherst Colleges.
and a letter from ASEEES Executive Director Lynda Park

Russian Commission to Counteract Attempts at Falsifying History to Damage the Interests of Russia

AAASS President William Taubman sent in July 2009 a letter to Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev, expressing our association's support for the American Historical Association's statement of concern over the recent creation of a Commission to Counteract Attempts at Falsifying History to Damage the Interests of Russia. To date we have not received any response from the Russian President's office. Both texts may be found below.

William Taubman's letter to Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation (PDF)

American Historical Association's letter to Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation (PDF)