Call for papers

[Catharine Nepomnyashchy]

I am writing to invite you to submit a proposal for an individual paper
or a complete panel for the 27th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic
Slavic Conference of the AAASS. Proposals should include the paper's
title, a brief abstract, and your request (if any) for some form of
technical support (VCR, projector, overhead projector, etc.). Room
assignments for the panels are based in part on knowing your needs for
technical support when the Executive Board meets in mid-January. The
conference will be held at Hunter College on March 22, 2003, in New York
City. Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriately scholarly
aspect of Slavic and East European Studies.

            Please send your proposals to Mary E. Theis at the
Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO Box 730,
Kutztown, PA 19530. After December 16th, please send proposals to 503
Friendship Drive, Fleetwood, PA 19522. You may once again submit your
proposals by e-mail. If you are emailing your paper or panel proposal,
please e-mail theis at kutztown.edu. Please include your e-mail and surface
address in your e-mail, so that confirmation of receipt of your proposal
and registration materials could be sent to you. If there is an
emergency, please e-mail Blomfam4 at prodigy.net.

            Faculty AND Graduate Student participation are encouraged. A
juried award of $200 is made annually for the best graduate paper judged
according to these elements in our rubric (clarity of main research
question and the response to it importance to the profession of main
research findings, amount of support for their argument, use of primary
sources as well as adequate and interesting content, readiness for
publication, correct use of English, and readability/style). Please
provide the necessary visuals or materials to make a valid evaluation.
Of course, the paper must be presented at MASC to be considered and will
differ somewhat from the written paper obviously because it is being
presented. The winning paper is then entered in the national AAASS
competition, where the rewards are more significant. A second place
prize for $175 is also awarded.

            TENTATIVE PROGRAMS AD REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE SENT OUT IN
EARLY FEBRUARY.



Sincerely,



Mary E. Theis

Executive Secretary-Treasurer

Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference

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