Join us for our 3rd Virtual Networking Session for Organizing Panels on Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern. See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN #ASEEES26

Available through open access in the latest #SlavicReview, "Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland" by Łukasz Zaremba and Maciej Duklewski. buff.ly/l3UOFDh A part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies

Kate Pride Brown writes, "How SEEES Scholars Can Defend Academic Freedom" in the January NewsNet. buff.ly/rM7so1m "SEEES scholars know what happens to countries once academic freedom is lost, as well as what the conditions are like in countries where it has never been allowed to flourish." #NewsNet

Thursday: NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention. See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN #ASEEES26 Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

Available through open access, read "Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland" by Łukasz Zaremba, Maciej Duklewski in the latest #SlavicReview as part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

In the January #NewsNet, read the "2025 President’s Address: 'Scholarship and Shattered Illusions'" by 2025 President Adrienne Edgar, given at the ASEEES Annual Convention. buff.ly/coO5XFZ "Memory wars are a crucial aspect of the current political polarization, globally as well as domestically."

Read "Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland" by Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and Margaret Ohia-Nowak as part of the #SlavicReview Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies. Out now!

🔴 The Long View #010 Service and domestic labor played a central role in Soviet social life. Historian Alissa Klots discusses women’s work, emancipation, and hierarchy in the Soviet Union. February 12, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET RSVP Now ⬇️ zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...

Opinion | We Need a Revitalized Area Studies At a time when the field is gaining new vitality abroad, area studies in the U.S. is struggling to survive. https://bit.ly/45XCfQR

NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention. See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN #ASEEES26 Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

Available through open access in the latest #SlavicReview is "Blackness and Soviet Creative Education: African Writers at the Gorʹkii Literary Institute" by Olga Nechaeva. This is part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies.

Join us on January 29 at 4:00 PM for a conversation with Michael Kofman and Dr. Yevgenia Albats on the 4-year war in Ukraine—realities from the frontlines, Putin’s goals, and the prospects for peace in the age of the Donroe Doctrine. RSVP (in person only): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

January NewsNet Out Now! buff.ly/B3wpWKv #NewsNet In this issue: 2025 President’s Address: “Scholarship and Shattered Illusions” by Adrienne Edgar "How SEEES Scholars Can Defend Academic Freedom" by Kate Pride Brown 2026 Executive Director’s Annual Report by Lynda Park and more

Read Alexa Kurmanov's article, "On Blackness and Belonging in Kazakhstan" as part of the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies in the Fall issue of #SlavicReview out now.

This week is our first of four NEW Virtual Networking Sessions for Organizing Panels at the ASEEES Annual Convention. See tips and guidelines or register for a networking session: buff.ly/ILgiGgN #ASEEES26 Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern

This issue of #SlavicReview contains the Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies including "At the Margins of Blackness: “Coloured” South Africans in the Soviet Union" by Hilary Lynd. Available open access.

CfA: ASEEES Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowship Program Deadline: Jan. 29 buff.ly/s7VzCPD The fellowship provides a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities to conduct dissertation research in Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.

Tatsiana Shchurko writes, "Transnational Blackness: Re-reading Louise Thompson Patterson’s Encounter with the Soviet Union in 1932" in the latest #SlavicReview as part of Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies. Available open access.

Join us for one or more of our virtual networking sessions for organizing panels. These meetings will give potential convention participants an opportunity to meet colleagues with overlapping research interests and ask questions about organizing panels for the Convention. buff.ly/3bib4lT #ASEEES26

Call for Proposals 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention - Submission Site Now Open Theme: States and Empires Spotlight on Balkan Studies Deadline: March 1 buff.ly/7eZO4lX #ASEEES26

New and Improved! Use the new ASEEES Papers/Panels Wanted Board to connect with colleagues for the 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention. #ASEEES26 buff.ly/dvk5uoH

Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowships and Dissertation Completion Fellowships DEADLINE: Jan. 29 buff.ly/qh5ydgm These Fellowships offer a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US, regardless of citizenship, for work in Russian/Soviet historical studies.

Slavic Review Fall 2025 is out now. This issue includes "Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies." Read "Introduction: On Black Life and Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies" by Nana Osei-Opare and Sunnie Rucker-Chang.

ACLS joined an amicus brief filed by @historians.org and @citizensforethics.org in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit against the federal government over the university’s ability to host foreign scholars and students: https://bit.ly/4srAqW0

ASEEES is pleased to announce the Anne D. Rassweiler Dissertation Research Fellowship. As part of the ASEEES Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, this fellowship will support dissertation research in Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies. #ASEEESNextGen

The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!

ASEEES has joined @historians & CREW’s amicus brief in support of Harvard U’s lawsuit against the federal government over the university’s ability to host foreign scholars and students. It conveys the importance of international scholars and students to American higher ed.

The ASEEES office will be closed for winter break until January 5. Enjoy a wonderful winter break and we will see you in 2026!

Read in NewsNet, "Albanian Studies Now: A Look at Current Trends and Future Perspectives" by Nevila Pahumi. #NewsNet buff.ly/CwObM8f "As socialist era archival records become more readily available, scholars have begun to challenge long standing perceptions of Albania’s isolation."

Oliver Ledwith, Katerina Pavlidi, Nathan Edward Charles Smith wrote, "A Generation on Mushrooms: Mukhomor and Visions of Russianness in Victor Pelevin’s Generation P" for #SlavicReview. Available with Open Access.

CfA: ASEEES Next Generation Dissertation Research Fellowship Program Deadline: Jan. 29 buff.ly/s7VzCPD The fellowship provides a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities to conduct dissertation research in Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.

ASEEES Launches the Alfred J. Rieber Dissertation Research Grant Fund In memory of the late Alfred J. Rieber, who passed on September 9, 2025, this fund is a part of the Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund Campaign. Donate Today: buff.ly/KUHMDJV #ASEEESNextGen

Historical work is best done in a context of free exchange across the globe. The AHA has compiled resources that might help individuals and departments navigate difficult international situations, especially regarding travel and academic freedom. 🗃️

In this issue of #SlavicReview read, "'Take it as a Fairy Tale': Varlam Shalamov as a Storyteller" by Emily Van Buskirk. Available through Open Access

CfA: Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program Deadline: Jan 29 buff.ly/mmbqS6S This fellowship provides a max stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities, regardless of citizenship, whose dissertation topics are within 19th-early 21st century Russian/Soviet historical studies.

Jordan Lian writes, "Pieśń o ziemi: Bronisława Niżyńska and the ‘Stylization’ of Polish National Culture" in this issue of #SlavicReview, available with open access. buff.ly/YxLBFLD

Renew your ASEEES Membership Today! buff.ly/jXc0sc0 Visit our website to find the best membership for you: buff.ly/5Ov8c4J

Future(s) of International and Area Studies: Challenges, Opportunities, Goals University of Pittsburgh, May 8-10, 2026, Hybrid Submission Deadline: January 4

Sunnie Rucker-Chang writes, "Yugoslav Film in Black and White" in #SlavicReview. buff.ly/CiBoRxh This article analyzes the Yugoslav films against the backdrop of the goals and traditional frames of Yugoslav cinema to highlight and offer insight into the uses and symbolism of blackness on screen.

Read in #NewsNet "Returning to Queer Russians in the American College Classroom in 2025" by Sara Karpukhin buff.ly/rIqp1Vk "Events [in 2025] complicated what symbolic power I thought I had as a teacher speaking about geographically distant and culturally specific forms of persecution of difference."

In #SlavicReview now, "The Engineers of Children’s Fingers: Children’s Music, Soviet Internationalism, and the Problem of Ukraine’s National Instrument" by Maria Sonevytsky.

CfP: 2026 REEESNe Network Student Conference - Free Deadline EXTENDED: Jan. 5 Entangled Spaces: Integration and Fragmentation in Europe and Eurasia March 20-22, 2026, U of Pittsburgh buff.ly/PWqAUnb

In the November NewsNet, read "Central Asian Studies in 2025" by Adeeb Khalid. buff.ly/oadgRRm "After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, new questions — and new ways of posing questions — redefined the historiography of our region." #NewsNet

Tony Ballantyne writes, "Threads, Entanglements, and the Work of Empire" in the latest issue of #SlavicReview as part of "Critical Forum: Entangled Spatial History." buff.ly/91I1qZf This response to “Horizontal Threads: Towards an Entangled Spatial History of the Romanov Empire.”

Call for Volunteers: Spring 2025 Research Meetup Series ASEEES is seeking volunteers with recent in-region research experience to serve as moderators of these informal conversations. The moderator’s role is to facilitate the discussion among the participants. Volunteer: buff.ly/nhmaWCX

"Spatial Scenarios in the History of the Romanov Empire" by Susan Smith-Peter is out now in #SlavicReview as part of "Critical Forum: Entangled Spatial History."

Donate to the Next Generation Emergency Research Support Fund! Campaign Goal: $400,000 | Raised so far: $286,000 buff.ly/bUUn3OB On this Giving Tuesday, help us raise the last $4,000 to unlock the $20,000 matching gift TODAY! #ASEEESNextGen

In the latest #SlavicReview, as part of the "Critical Forum: Entangled Spatial History," read "Knock-Knock-Knockin’ on an Open Door?" by Paul W. Werth. Available through Open Access. buff.ly/evSEkKz

Dear @aseees.bsky.social team, fans, and supporters - Hearing about your work, books, and initiatives at #ASEEES25 was amazing and inspiring. Also amazing? @cornellupress.bsky.social and NIUPress books are *still* 40% off in the virtual booth: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/aseees-2025-...