Information about Int'l Congress of Slavists

[Michael Flier]

Dear Prof. Beard:

If you and your colleagues receive the AAASS newsletter and/or the
AATSEEL newsletter, then you received complete information about the
Congress at the same time as the chairs of Ph.D.-granting institutions.
Part of the problem of communicating information about the Congress is in
finding a central source (e.g., the chair of a Slavic department) to copy
and distribute the letter, application forms, etc. to as many qualified
Slavists as possible).  The ACS does not have the staff or the financial
resources to send a notification to everyone on the AATSEEL or AAASS
mailing list.  With e-mail now in full swing, however, this problem
should be alleviated in the future, as I mentioned in my recent posting.

It is important to note, by the way, that the International Congress of
Slavists is devoted to consideration of Slavic (especially comparative)
and not strictly Russian issues.

Sincerely,

Michael Flier, Chairman
American Committee of Slavists



On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Robert Beard wrote:

> Many thanks to Michael Flier and George Fowler for apprising us of the fact
> that only PhD-granting departments are let in on the International
> Congresses of Slavists.  I'm not sure what the magic of PhD-granting
> departments are.  Bucknell has 3 Slavists producing award-winning
> publications in its Russian Program and I know that many more are in
> non-PhD-granting institutions.  Yet the Bucknell Russian Program was not
> alerted of the up-coming congress.
>
> What in the world is wrong in telling everybody inside and outside the field
> about the congress, as the coordinators of most other congresses do, and
> then selecting the very best papers rather than the best papers from
> not-too-young and not-too-old PhD-granting Slavists?  I always find it
> difficult to understand why we so often undertake such Byzantine
> complexities in order to avoid plain and simple excellence.
>
>
>
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