Still time to submit your paper for North East regional Slavic Conference!

[Alice Speh]

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS  - NORTH EAST SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN CONFERENCE 

Dear Colleagues!
There's still time to submit a proposal for the 34th Annual Meeting of the North East Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference (NESEEEC, a regional conference of ASEEES).  

Deadline:  January 6, 2012
When:  Saturday, March 24, 2012
Where: Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey, just 14 miles from New York City.    
What:  Scholarly papers and panels are welcome on any aspect of Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies. 

Proposals must include the following:

1. title and one paragraph abstract 

2. requests for technical support 

3. presenter’s email, institutional affiliation  (professor, graduate student, etc.), regular mail addresses and telephone number

Graduate student papers are welcome and encouraged.  Undergraduate students under the guidance of a faculty mentor may present a paper at the Conference if their faculty mentor submits the information outlined above.

     Please send your proposals via electronic format no later than January 6, 2012 to  Dr. Alice Speh at aspeh at wcupa.edu .      

     As always, we encourage professionals in the field to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants. Much of the benefit of the conference depends on active participation and informed commentary by those taking part.

Graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate.  Two juried awards of $200 for first prize and $175 for second prize are made annually for the best graduate papers presented at the NESEEES conference, judged according to the following criteria:

 -  clarity of main research question outlining the scholar’s approach to the problem;
 -  adequate and interesting content; 
 -  importance of the research to the profession;
 -  compelling support for the argument 
 -  use of primary sources
-   readiness for publication, correct use of English, and readability/style
 
Following the conference, graduate students may submit their revised papers to the competition for review.  Visual materials accompanying the conference presentation should be submitted along with the written text for evaluation..  The first-prize  paper will  be entered in the national ASEEES competition. 
 
Don't hesitate to write with any last-minute questions as well.  Advance thanks for your participation!

Sincerely yours,

Alice J Speh, PhD
Professor of Russian & Spanish
Executive Secretary, NESEEEC 
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
aspeh at wcupa.edu

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