Harley Balzer of Georgetown University discusses lessons learned from a quarter-century perspective of the "Transition to Communism", focusing largely on the lesson that China's surprising success challenges many assumptions and presents a stunning contrast to Russia.
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to announced the following 2016 award and prize winners. They will be recognized at the AWSS reception...
Josh Tucker (NYU) discusses a new trend in academia of sharing academic work with wider audiences. He offers advice on how to share one's research more widely and why it is beneficial to do so.
David Ost describes the rise of the new right-wing parties in power in Hungary and Poland. The nationalistic parties defy political correctness and "liberal" democracy and actively attack the institutions that protect the pluralism of democracy.
A joint summer convention between ASEEES and the International Association for the Humanities (MAG) was held at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine on June 26-28.
The new Affiliate Group in the Digital Humanities (“Slavic DH”) is made up of scholars in Slavic and Eurasian studies who have long been working at the intersection of computing and the humanities, and to those who are curious about what DH could mean in the Slavic context.
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