ASEEES News: new NewsNet released, 2013 Convention theme announced; 2012 Convention early bird registration deadline swiftly approaching

[ASEEES NewsNet]

NewsNet: News of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies August 2012 * v. 52, n. 4

http://aseees.org/newsnet/2012-08.pdf

Inside This Issue *


*         Irena Grudzińska-Gross.

The Year of Czesław Miłosz


*         Joyce Warner, IREX

10 Tips for Writing a Successful International Research Fellowship Proposal


*         Choi Chatterjee, Cal State, LA

Accidental Transnationalism: A Global State of Mind


*         Ksenya Kiebuzinski, University of Toronto

Émigré Digital Collection at the Center for Research Libraries


*         2013 Convention Theme Announced: "Revolution"

ASEEES 45th Annual Convention November 21-24, 2013 Boston Marriott Copley Place

Boston, a cradle of the American revolution, serves as our host city in 2013, a fitting link to the many defining moments that revolution has played in our own interdisciplinary field. The revolutions of 1917 and of 1989 are two moments that bring Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies into conversation with scholars everywhere. The Arab Spring and the rise of popular movements that are challenging authoritarian governments and capitalist institutions dominate today's international news. But there have been many more revolutionary events and processes that attract scholarly attention: Orange, Rose, and Tulip revolutions; Petrine revolution; feminist revolution; velvet revolution; demographic revolution; cultural revolutions; revolutions from above and from below; industrial revolution; religious revolutions; sexual revolutions; the internet revolution. We may also speak of methodological revolutions: quantitative, qualitative, linguistic, digital, and queer.

Revolutions are concentrated episodes of political, social, and cultural change, not just "change" but rapid, often violent, destabilizing, and exhilarating change. "A revolution teaches, and teaches fast," wrote that student of revolutions Leon Trotsky. Conceptually, revolutions serve to congeal broader processes of causality and agency, and by studying revolutionary moments, scholars ask questions about broad structures and how change happens, whether in society, culture, religion, philosophy, science, or other arenas. Revolutions are particularly attractive problems for cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis. Revolutions enable the posing of generalizations about the ways in which change takes place; they have anatomies and morphologies that invite comparative study across cultures and over time. Revolutions - whether as events or in methodologies -- always have intended and unintended consequences, winners and losers, and they compel their participants to adapt and adjust.

To paraphrase anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, revolutions are good to think with. Panels invited for the 2013 convention are not limited to but might work on: particular revolutionary moments of 1789, 1825, 1905, 1917, 1956, 1989, etc.; the effects of revolutions on culture, institutions, societies, or economies; on theories of revolution; failed revolutions and fear of revolution; revolutions as aesthetic inspiration; comparative revolutions; the visual representation of revolution; methodological revolutions; or on the heuristic value of the very concept of revolution as a structuring principle for scholarly inquiry.

Information on submitting panel and roundtable proposals will be forthcoming. Special consideration will be given to panels reporting on recent field or archival research, especially those that include presentations by advanced graduate students and/or junior faculty. The Program Committee also encourages the submission of panel proposals that include both men and women. Proposals for roundtables should be submitted only when the topic clearly justifies the format. Please note that proposals can be accepted only from ASEEES members.
Deadline for receipt of complete proposals is expected to be mid-January 2013.

http://aseees.org/newsnet/2012-08.pdf


44th Annual ASEEES Convention (New Orleans) preregistration:
Early bird registration ends August 17.  Registration fees will increase after this date.  To register for the convention, please see:  http://www.aseees.org/convention/registration.html


Mary Arnstein
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