SEELANGS Digest - 13 Nov 2008 to 14 Nov 2008 (#2008-396)

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REMINDER CfP: MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE, 04/04/2009, NY

Deadline December 15.

MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE, April 4, 2009

Please submit a proposal for an individual paper or for a complete  
panel for the 32nd 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 should include the paper's title, a  
very brief abstract, any request for technical support, the surface  
and email address of the presenter as well as their institutional  
affiliation. 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 The New School in New York City on  
Saturday, April 4, 2009. Prof. Val Vinokur (vinokurv at newschool.edu)  
will serve as President of the 2009 Conference.  The Keynote Speaker  
will be Elizabeth Kendall: "DEATH OF A BALLERINA:  SOME THOUGHTS ON  
HOPE, FEAR AND ART IN 1924 PETROGRAD-LENINGRAD."

Please send your proposals no later than December 15, 2008 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.

We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their  
participation as well as yours is encouraged. A juried award of $200  
is ade annually for the best graduate paper judged according to these  
elements in our rubric: clarity of main research question and the
responseto it, importance to the profession of main research  
findings, amount ofsupport 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.

Although we are very keen to have the participation of graduate  
students in our regional conferences, they and other 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 of the conference so that I can alert the chair and  
discussant in a timely fashion and revise the final program  
accordingly. I look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you  
at the
Conference.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Theis
Executive Secretary, MASC

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>   1. LAST CALL: Nov. 14 Deadline: Zirin Award for Independent Scholars
>   2. room/apartment in Moscow
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> Date:    Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:19 -0500
> From:    "Kuchar, Martha" <kuchar at ROANOKE.EDU>
> Subject: LAST CALL: Nov. 14 Deadline: Zirin Award for Independent  
> Scholars
>
> LAST CALL:
>
> The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is accepting nominees for
> the
> Zirin prize through November 14.  The Zirin Prize recognizes the
> achievements
> of independent scholars and encourages their continued scholarship and
> service
> in work that is pertinent to the field of Slavic Women's studies.
>
> This prize of $500 is named for Mary Zirin, the founder of Women
> East-West.
> Working as an independent scholar, Zirin produced and encouraged  
> many of
>
> the fundamental works in Slavic Women's Studies.
>
> The Zirin Prize Committee has extended the nomination deadline until
> November 14. Nominations (including self-nominations) should include a
> one-
> to two-page, double-spaced narrative outlining the nominee's
> achievements
> and the nominee's CV. Describe the nominee's past and present
> contributions
> and relevant work in progress.
>
> The committee urges the nomination of candidates at all career stages.
> For
> the purpose of this award, an independent scholar is defined as a
> scholar (1)
> who is not employed at an institution of higher learning, or (2)  
> who may
> be
> employed by a university or college but who is not eligible to compete
> for
> institutional support for research (for example, those teaching under
> short-
> term contracts or working in administrative posts). We urge  
> nominations
> of
> worthy scholars from the CIS and from Central and Eastern Europe.
>
> Nominations should be sent to Martha Kuchar at kuchar at roanoke.edu, or
> via
> mail to Martha Kuchar, Dept. of English, Roanoke College, 221 College
> Lane,
> Salem, VA 24153 (phone: 540-375-2320).
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> Date:    Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:18:08 -0800
> From:    Maria Yulikova <myulikova at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: room/apartment in Moscow
>
> Dear Elisbeth,
> I am trying to find someone, who would rent this apartment for at  
> least one=
>  year now. i don't know if I succede, so would you please remind  
> me, if you=
>  still interested in one-room apartment for 35 000 rubles per month  
> around =
> January?
> =A0
> Thanks1
> Maria
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> --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Lisbeth Marius <lisbeth.marius at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> From: Lisbeth Marius <lisbeth.marius at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: [SEELANGS] room/apartment in Moscow
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:40 PM
>
> Dear SEELANGers,=20
> =20
> I will be studying in Moscow during the second semester and I am  
> looking fo=
> r a=20
> 1-room apartment (or a room in a shared apartment, including  
> bathroom) in=
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> Moscow (preferably in the area of Novoslobodskaja or near another  
> metro=20
> station) from February 1th until the end of June.
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> =20
> thanks in advance,=20
> Lisbeth Marius
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