ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

2025 Executive Director’s Annual Report | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies 2025 was a challenging year for ASEEES, due to many external factors beyond the control of the organization, but we rose to meet those challenges to the best of our abilities. Our membership numbers…

Read the Executive Director's Annual Report in NewsNet.
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ASEEES awarded:
46 fellowships and grants, totaling $380,000
108 travel grants for a total of $67,540
29 childcare grants for a total of $7,025

The Russian Image of the Black: On Matters of Race and Perspective | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core The Russian Image of the Black: On Matters of Race and Perspective - Volume 84 Issue 3

Read "The Russian Image of the Black: On Matters of Race and Perspective" by Mina Magda in the current #SlavicReview. Part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

Join us for our 4th Virtual Networking Session for Organizing Panels on February 5.
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If you have missed any of these sessions, we have added an Open Session on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern.

Lorde in Serbia: (Re)conceptualizing American and Proposing Mahala-Blackness at the Semi-Periphery | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Lorde in Serbia: (Re)conceptualizing American and Proposing Mahala-Blackness at the Semi-Periphery - Volume 84 Issue 3

Jelena Savić writes, "Lorde in Serbia: (Re)conceptualizing American and Proposing Mahala-Blackness at the Semi-Periphery" in #SlavicReview available now with open access. This piece is part of Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowships and
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
DEADLINE: Jan. 29
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These Fellowships offer a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US, regardless of citizenship, for work in Russian/Soviet historical studies.

CfA: ASEEES Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: Jan. 29
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The fellowship provides a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities to conduct dissertation research in Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.

This week join us for our 3rd Virtual Networking Session for Organizing Panels on January 29.
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Racial Logics of Antiblackness and Anti-Romani Racism: A Relational Analysis | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Racial Logics of Antiblackness and Anti-Romani Racism: A Relational Analysis - Volume 84 Issue 3

Read Chelsi West Ohueri's article, "Racial Logics of Antiblackness and Anti-Romani Racism: A Relational Analysis" in #SlavicReview with Open Access. A part of "Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies."

The Racialization of Roma as “Black” in Interwar Romania and Beyond | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core The Racialization of Roma as “Black” in Interwar Romania and Beyond - Volume 84 Issue 3

Marius Turda and Bolaji Balogun write, "The Racialization of Roma as “Black” in Interwar Romania and Beyond" in the latest #SlavicReview as part of Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies. Available open access.

Join us for our 3rd Virtual Networking Session for Organizing Panels on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern.

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Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland - Volume 84 Issue 3

Available through open access in the latest #SlavicReview, "Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland" by Łukasz Zaremba and Maciej Duklewski.
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A part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies

How SEEES Scholars Can Defend Academic Freedom  | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Rather than promoting research into areas that the federal government deems to be a priority, this new path signals that the government is determining that some scientific questions should not be…

Kate Pride Brown writes, "How SEEES Scholars Can Defend Academic Freedom" in the January NewsNet.
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"SEEES scholars know what happens to countries once academic freedom is lost, as well as what the conditions are like in countries where it has never been allowed to flourish."
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Thursday: NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
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Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland - Volume 84 Issue 3

Available through open access, read "Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland" by Łukasz Zaremba, Maciej Duklewski in the latest #SlavicReview as part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

2025 President’s Address: “Scholarship and Shattered Illusions” | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies I have gained a new appreciation for the sources of community and friendship that provide moral, intellectual, and emotional support at a frightening time.

In the January #NewsNet, read the "2025 President’s Address: 'Scholarship and Shattered Illusions'" by 2025 President Adrienne Edgar, given at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
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"Memory wars are a crucial aspect of the current political polarization, globally as well as domestically."

Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland - Volume 84 Issue 3

Read "Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland" by Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and Margaret Ohia-Nowak as part of the #SlavicReview Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies. Out now!

🔴 The Long View #010
Service and domestic labor played a central role in Soviet social life.

Historian Alissa Klots discusses women’s work, emancipation, and hierarchy in the Soviet Union.

February 12, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET

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ASEEES 2025: Dostoevsky in the Digital Age The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. by Fiona Bell Dos…

Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel:
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A map of the world.

Opinion | We Need a Revitalized Area Studies

At a time when the field is gaining new vitality abroad, area studies in the U.S. is struggling to survive. https://bit.ly/45XCfQR

NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
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Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

Blackness and Soviet Creative Education:  African Writers at the Gorʹkii Literary Institute | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Blackness and Soviet Creative Education: African Writers at the Gorʹkii Literary Institute - Volume 84 Issue 3

Available through open access in the latest #SlavicReview is "Blackness and Soviet Creative Education: African Writers at the Gorʹkii Literary Institute" by Olga Nechaeva. This is part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

Join us on January 29 at 4:00 PM for a conversation with Michael Kofman and Dr. Yevgenia Albats on the 4-year war in Ukraine—realities from the frontlines, Putin’s goals, and the prospects for peace in the age of the Donroe Doctrine. RSVP (in person only): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

January NewsNet Out Now!
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In this issue:
2025 President’s Address: “Scholarship and Shattered Illusions” by Adrienne Edgar
"How SEEES Scholars Can Defend Academic Freedom" by Kate Pride Brown
2026 Executive Director’s Annual Report by Lynda Park
and more

On Blackness and Belonging in Kazakhstan | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core On Blackness and Belonging in Kazakhstan - Volume 84 Issue 3

Read Alexa Kurmanov's article, "On Blackness and Belonging in Kazakhstan" as part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies in the Fall issue of #SlavicReview out now.

This week is our first of four NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

At the Margins of Blackness: “Coloured” South Africans in the Soviet Union | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core At the Margins of Blackness: “Coloured” South Africans in the Soviet Union - Volume 84 Issue 3

This issue of #SlavicReview contains the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies including "At the Margins of Blackness: “Coloured” South Africans in the Soviet Union" by Hilary Lynd. Available open access.

CfA: ASEEES Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: Jan. 29
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The fellowship provides a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities to conduct dissertation research in Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.

Transnational Blackness: Re-reading Louise Thompson Patterson’s Encounter with the Soviet Union in 1932 | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core Transnational Blackness: Re-reading Louise Thompson Patterson’s Encounter with the Soviet Union in 1932 - Volume 84 Issue 3

Tatsiana Shchurko writes, "Transnational Blackness: Re-reading Louise Thompson Patterson’s Encounter with the Soviet Union in 1932" in the latest #SlavicReview as part of Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies. Available open access.

Join us for one or more of our virtual networking sessions for organizing panels. These meetings will give potential convention participants an opportunity to meet colleagues with overlapping research interests and ask questions about organizing panels for the Convention.
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Call for Proposals 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention - Submission Site Now Open
Theme: States and Empires
Spotlight on Balkan Studies
Deadline: March 1
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