MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE 2010

[Marina Rojavin]

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues:

     I am writing to invite you to submit a proposal for an individual paper or for a complete panel 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. the paper's title and a very brief abstract 
2. any requests for technical support (especially important for our planning)
3. the surface and email addresses of the presenter
4. his or her institutional affiliation and professional status (professor, graduate student, etc.)
   Room assignments for the panels are based in part on knowing the need for technical support when the Executive Board meets in mid-January.
   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 (near Philadelphia) 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 me by email at theis at kutztown.edu and/or by sending them on hard copy to Dr. Mary Theis, MASC Executive Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530.  My home address (503 Friendship Drive, Fleetwood, PA 19522) should be used for mailing the hard copy after that date, but I need to have all proposals at least by December 15th.  My home email is maryetheis at mac.com in case of emergencies.
    
As always, we encourage professionals in the field to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants at the Conference itself. Much of the benefit of the Conference depends on active participation and informed commentary by those taking part.

 We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their participation is 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 remind your students that they should provide the necessary visuals or materials to make a valid evaluation.  Of course, the paper must be presented at our MASC to be considered and will differ somewhat from the written paper. The winning paper is then entered in the national AAASS competition, where the rewards are more significant.  A second place prize of $175 is also awarded. Ula Lukszo of Stony Brook University won last year’s national competition for a paper !
 presented at our Conference.

All participants should remember that if they absolutely must withdraw a paper from a panel once they have agreed to present it and the panels have been formed, it is their professional responsibility to contact me well in advance so that I can alert the chair and discussant in a timely fashion and revise the final program accordingly.

In addition to hearing the interesting research of their colleagues, conference participants can enjoy the natural beauty of the Swarthmore College campus and the Scott Arboretum, a beautiful botanical garden situated directly on campus. Not far from Swarthmore is an amazing art collection at the Barnes Foundation, including works by artists such as Modigliani, Sautine, Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso, and Renoir. A half-hour train ride takes you from Swarthmore to downtown Philadelphia, where you can visit famous restaurants, theaters, and the Kimmel Center - home of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

I look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you at the Conference.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Theis
Executive Secretary, MASC     

Please report any changes or additions to email addresses to MASC Treasurer Tim Doyle at  tdoyle at lawrenceville.org

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