Leah Valtin-Erwin

Write for NewsNet!
NewsNet invites ASEEES members—including grad students— to submit pitches for articles. We especially encourage submissions on underrepresented areas of scholarship and pedagogy as well as reflections on the (possible) future(s) of the SEEES field.
Guidelines: buff.ly/AdfkNH9

26.09.2025 17:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Please consider signing up to do this, colleagues!

14.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Write for NewsNet! The July 2025 will the my 13th issue as NewsNet Editor; I'm always looking for innovative ideas for commentary and critique pertaining to SEEES.

ASEEES heartily encourages members — including graduate students — to submit article pitches: aseees.org/publications/newsnet/

29.05.2025 15:17 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Read “Illiberalism Riding High: Parallels and Venues for Comparisons” by Marlene Laruelle in the May issue of NewsNet.
tinyurl.com/ywmmwff5
#NewsNet

"In the illiberal imagination, for once the former socialist world finds itself the one showing the way."

25.05.2025 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As part of NewsNet's "Spotlight on Central Asian Studies." read Gulnara Abikeyeva's piece, "The Relevance of Studying Soviet Central Asian Cinema Today."
buff.ly/SlHlUcZ
#NewsNet

29.05.2025 09:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"I sigh and I gulp and then I say: I am an independent scholar; it’s a fancy name for someone who is unemployed in academia but still has the misfortune of dwelling on important subjects and absolutely no home to take it to."

23.05.2025 10:15 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

enjoyed this lovely piece. it appears that in scholarship, writing, and life really, the richest insights come from the dislodged. "Disciplines are homes that I don’t belong to anymore and I can’t say that’s something I regret."

23.05.2025 12:32 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Beautiful piece on Academia, belonging, migration, survival, and much more from "my fellow Lower Silesian"* @agatumilowicz.bsky.social 🙏🏼❤️

* as I like to call her since I found her on Twitter and later met in person in Philadelphia

22.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

A beautiful, and touching, essay on academic (non)belonging, the trade-offs of so-called 'interdisciplinarity', and the only thing that stays throughout it all--curiosity of the mind.

23.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

On Fragments and Home: Notes from an Independent Scholar | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies I am an independent scholar; it’s a fancy name for someone who is unemployed in academia, but still has the misfortune of scholarly pursuits, a drive for knowledge and absolutely […]

Very shy to share this new text of mine.
Here’s a very personal essay about being an independent scholar, my method, about immigration, cracks in academia and fragments.

I don’t know if people even read this kind of stuff anymore but if you do, enjoy.

aseees.org/newsnet-arti...

22.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 101    🔁 20    💬 11    📌 7