ASEEES Regional Affiliates
The Association's seven Regional Affiliates cover different geographic areas of the United States and sponsor scholarly meetings and activities within their respective regions. Each of these groups has a representative on the Council of Regional Affiliates, whose members serve in rotation on the ASEEES Board of Directors.
- Central Slavic Conference
- The Central Slavic Conference (CSC) is the oldest of the regional affiliations associated with the ASEEES. It includes the states of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Oklahoma. It is a multidisciplinary association to advance study of the cultures, societies, and politics of the peoples of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. CSC welcomes scholars from contiguous states, the nation, and the world at its meetings each year and encourages the participation of all interested scholars: affiliated, non-traditional, independent, junior, and senior. Graduate students ("colleagues-in-the-making") are particularly welcome.
- Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference
- Midwest Slavic Conference
- Promoting study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia among scholars throughout North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
- New England Slavic Association
- Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
- ASEEES's oldest and largest affiliate, SCSS's purpose is “to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, and East European studies in the Southern region of the United States.”
- Southwest Slavic Association
- Western Association for Slavic Studies
ASEEES Affiliate Orgnizations
The ASEEES also has organizational ties with thirty-six scholarly societies that have specialized interests within the broad field of Slavic and post-Soviet studies. These special-interest ASEEES Affiliate Organizations are concerned with particular topics, areas, or peoples within the field. Along with their other activities throughout the year, these affiliates normally sponsor panels and hold meetings at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
- Allan K. Wildman Group for the Study of Society, Politics, and Culture in the Russian Revolutionary Era
- American Association for Ukrainian Studies
“dedicated to furthering knowledge about Ukraine, popularizing Ukrainian studies, providing career-building resources to its members, and making the intellectual resources of the organization available to the media and general public.”
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
“exists to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures on all educational levels”
- Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research
“devoted to promoting scholarship and instruction on Central Asia. ”
- Association for Croatian Studies
“organizes panels that focus on Croatian topics at the ASEEES annual convention, facilitates contacts and cooperation among scholars living in Croatia and abroad, promotes research and publishing on subjects dealing with Croatian culture and society, and functions as a liaison between its members and other affiliates of the ASEEES in order to encourage comparative studies.”
- Association for Students and Teachers of Color in Slavic Studies (STC)
“dedicated to better connecting and expanding the network of minority scholars working in the profession.”
- Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture
- Association for the Study of Health & Demography in the Former Soviet Union
“A forum for scholars and others in various disciplines to come together to study health and demographic issues in the former Soviet Union. It serves as a vehicle for sharing data and ideas, promoting collaborative and interdisciplinary research, and discussing and influencing policy.”
- Association for the Study of Nationalities
“the only scholarly association devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism from Europe to Eurasia.”
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies
“sponsors research and teaching for scholars of women's studies and questions of gender analysis in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union [and] seeks to improve the general public's understanding about women in these regions.”
- Bulgarian Studies Association
“promotes the study of and exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Bulgaria and Bulgarians: language, literature, culture, history, politics, economics and international relations.”
- Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center
“a non-profit cultural research organization whose purpose is to promote knowledge about all aspects of Carpatho-Rusyn culture through the publication and distribution of scholarly and educational material about the Carpatho-Rusyn heritage in Europe and America.”
- Central Eurasian Studies Society
“a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies.”
- Czechoslovak Studies Association
- Early Slavic Studies Association
- East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections
- Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association
- Hungarian Studies Association
- Interdisciplinary Group for Museum Studies
- International Association for the Humanities (IAH)
An independent association of humanities scholars primarily in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, working to “bring new representation from the post-Soviet region to the international scholar community through the sharing of scholarship, through the exchange of information about opportunities as well as difficulties in regional humanities, and by direct interactions among different scholarly communities.”
- International Association of Teachers of Czech
- International Council for Central and East European Studies
“ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) is a global network of research associations, institutes and individual scholars active in the field of Russian, Central and East European studies. ICCEES was founded in 1974, initially as a joint project of American, British and Canadian research associations. Its main activities include publishing twice a year an ICCEES International Newsletter and organising every fifth year a World Congress.”
- International Studies Association, Post-Communist Systems in International Relations Section
ISA works "to promote research and education in international affairs"; the PCSIR section "seeks to identify the factors that have affected and will affect the relations of the United States and Canada with any or all of the states that have emerged from the former Soviet Union and to foster discussion of these factors" and "facilitate[s] the development of vigorous networks of communication and collaborative research among scholars working in the post-Communist states."
- North American Association for Belarusian Studies
- North American Dostoevsky Society
- North American Pushkin Society
“An international association of scholars who are engaged in research on the life and works of Alexander Pushkin.”
- North American Society for Serbian Studies
- Polish Studies Association
“An organization of scholars who specialize in the history, culture, art, politics, economics, and society of Poland.”
- Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Music Study Group
- Shevchenko Scientific Society
- Slavic and East European Folklore Association
“a scholarly, non-profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among scholars interested in Slavic and East European folklore”
- Slovak Studies Association
- Society for Albanian Studies
- Society for Armenian Studies
- Society for Austrian and Habsburg History
- Society for Romanian Studies
- Society for Slovene Studies
- Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art & Architecture
- Southeast European Studies Association
- Soyuz - The Research Network for Postsocialist Studies
- Working Group on Cinema & Television
“A professional organization of film scholars and critics dedicated to the study of cinema and television of Russia, Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.”
- Working Group on Russian Children’s Literature and Culture
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