AATSEEL Membership available online; Three new AATSEEL initiatives

[Katya Hokanson]

AATSEEL membership is now live: go to http://www.aatseel.org/ and  
click the “2011 Membership” button.

Why renew or join?  Three new AATSEEL initiatives that promise unique  
opportunities, distinct from those at ASEEES and MLA.


·At the Seattle conference (Seattle 5-8 January 2012), we offer two  
advanced seminars, led by Boris Gasparov (Columbia) and Eric Naiman  
(Berkeley), the most recent in a series by such internationally  
recognized scholars as Caryl Emerson (Princeton), William Todd  
(Harvard) and Irina Paperno (Berkeley).  We consider these events  
unique and historically significant documents of our intellectual  
lives as Slavists.  Open to PhD students and senior faculty alike, the  
seminars have limited enrollment, for which we will be sending around  
a separate announcement.

·Networking matters: a second initiative, specifically designed for  
PhD students and young scholars, is Coffee with Leading Scholars.   
Participating scholars have included Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern),  
Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard), Caryl Emerson  
(Princeton), Benjamin Rifkin (New Jersey), Andrew Wachtel  
(Northwestern), Michael Wachtel (Princeton), Gerald Janecek (SEEJ),  
Victor Friedman (Chicago), and others.  The 2012 conference group will  
be announced shortly.

·The 2012 conference will also offer a range of pedagogy workshops,  
poetry readings, and other new events (more information shortly).

Graduate-student AATSEEL membership is only twenty dollars; some  
departments have been able to absorb this cost for their students.  We  
hope that you and your students will consider joining us in Seattle.   
We are proud of the work our colleagues have contributed to these new  
initiatives and hope they will find resonance in your department, both  
at an intellectual level and at the level of networking, professional  
development, and job placement.

Best,

Nancy Condee
President


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