The 41st National Convention of the Association will be held at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston, MA, from Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15, 2009
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/convention.html
In 2009, the Annual AATSEEL Conference will take place from December 27-30, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, PA.
In addition to panels, roundtable and instruction fora, the 2009 AATSEEL Conference will feature several new special events, including master classes led by Caryl Emerson (on Bakhtin) and William Mills Todd (on the nineteenth-century novel); workshops led by Sibelan Forrester (on translation) and Benjamin Rifkin (on teaching); and informal conversations with leading scholars.
http://www.aatseel.org/program/
The 48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will take place in Gainesville, FL on March 25-27, 2010. The conference, hosted by the University of Florida, will be held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. The special conference rate is $135 per night. The hotel can be reached by phone at: 1-352-371-3600. In addition to the regular panels, there will be a special plenary roundtable session on Friday afternoon devoted to:
"Gas Wars, Colored Revolutions, and Virtual Politics in Russia and the "Near Abroad": A Post-election Assessment"
Following the plenary session, Professor Mark von Hagen will deliver the keynote address, "History Wars: Memory and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe," at the Friday night banquet.
The deadline for panel and paper proposals for the conference is January 15, 2010. Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged, as is a focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. Whole panel proposals (chair, three papers, discussant) are preferred, but proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Whole panel proposals should include the titles of each individual paper as well as a proposed title for the panel itself and identifying information (including email addresses and institutional affiliations) for all participants. Proposals for individual papers should include email contact, institutional affiliation, and a brief (one paragraph) abstract to guide the program committee in the assembly of panels. Email (preferably) your proposal to Sharon Kowalsky at , or send it by conventional post to:
Dr. Sharon Kowalsky
Department of History
Texas A&M University-Commerce
PO Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429
Proposals are invited for the 33d Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, a regional conference of the AAASS (ASEEES). Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriate scholarly aspect of Slavic and East European Studies. Proposals must include the following to be considered:
1. title and a very brief abstract
2. any requests for technical support
3. surface and email addresses of the presenter
4. his or her institutional affiliation and professional status (professor, graduate student, etc.)
Undergraduate students under the guidance of a faculty mentor may present a paper at the Conference if the faculty mentor submits the information outlined above.
The Conference will be held at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Dr. Marina Rojavin will serve as President of the Conference.
Keynote Address by Professor Sibelan Forrester, "Reverse Colonialization: Bringing the Other into the Slavic Studies Classroom"
Please send your proposals no later than December 15, 2009 to Mary E. Theis at and/or by hard copy to Dr. Mary Theis, MASC Executive Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530