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Translation and Beyond Brian James Baer, Kent State University

For many people, the image of a translator that first Advisory, conservatively estimated the global market for comes to mind resembles the iconic depictions of the me- outsourced language services for 2012 at $33.5 billion, with dieval Saint Jerome, who translated the Greek Bible into almost 25% of this market in North America. Continued Latin: a solitary, ascetic figure surrounded by dictionaries. growth in the field, accompanied by increasing complexity The rapid evolution of the language industry over the past and specialization, is in turn creating a need for the profes- thirty years, however, has relegated that image to the dust- sional education of translators and interpreters, for while the bin of history. Not only has the growth of the language in- BLS report lists a Bachelor’s degree under “entry level educa- dustry produced more work for translators, it has also led to tion,” it goes on to note that, “Job prospects should be best for the diversification of the field. Today graduates of translation those who have professional certification.” Indeed, the latest programs regularly find employment not only as translators International Organization for Standardization and Ameri- but also as software localizers, project managers, terminol- can Society for Testing and Materials standards recommend ogy managers, and posteditors, or revisers, of both human- certification or some form of academic credentialing. translated and machine-translated texts. The language industry is regularly cited as one of the fastest-growing sectors of Many factors have contributed to this growth and the U.S. economy, on a par with nursing. According to the ensure its continuation into the foreseeable future. The pri- Occupational Outlook Handbook (2014-15) published by the mary one is, of course, globalization coupled with advances U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in technology. In the early days of the Internet, for example, “Employment of interpreters and translators is projected to many believed English would be the lingua franca among grow 46 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the Web users. However, studies soon showed that users stayed average for all occupations.” And the size of the translation on web pages significantly longer when surfing in their native and interpreting sector is already quite impressive. The lead- language, even when they had a strong command of English. ing language industry market research firm, Common Sense This began to change the economic calculations, and many

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Translation and Beyond 1 2015 ASEEES Distinguished Awards 14 by Brian James Baer, Kent State University 2015 Additional Prizes 14 Plutopia: An Interview of Kate Brown (UMBC) by Lewis Siegelbaum Travel Grants 16 (Michigan State University) 5 Publications 17 ASEEES Member Spotlight: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis U 8 Institutional Member News 19 Recent Developments in the Publishing Industry of the 10 In Memoriam 21 Russian Federation Affiliate Member News 22 by Christina Peter, Frick Art Reference Library Personages 23 2015 ASEEES Book Prize Nomination Instructions 11 Calendar 24 2015 Graduate Student Prizes 13

March 2015 • NewsNet 1 companies and organizations saw the worth of investing in At the same time that demand is growing for pro- translation. Similarly, the globalization of the economy and fessional translators and interpreters, many academic disci- the opening of new markets have made it no longer viable for plines in the Humanities are taking the “translation turn” in international businesses to introduce new products in Eng- an effort to globalize the curriculum in an ethical way, that lish and then let the versions in other languages trickle in is, by avoiding the simple “appropriation” of foreign cultures some time later. Best practices today include the launching in unreflective, “readable” English translations. Even in for- of new projects in several languages simultaneously, which eign language instruction, we are witnessing a rapproche- has led to the internationalization of digital products and as- ment with translation, which was for so long exiled from sociated documentation, such as user guides, Help systems the communicative classroom—and not without reason. In and marketing collateral. At the same time, increasing ethnic traditional foreign language classrooms, close translation and linguistic diversity produced by accelerated migration was often used as a comprehension check or as a language flows has made the provision of timely, high-quality transla- acquisition activity, encouraging students to view language tion and interpreting services, especially in legal and medical proficiency—and, by extension, translation competence—as settings, into a matter of social justice, a basic human right. a kind of linguistic matching game. But translation and in- Just as the creation of international organizations, such as the terpreting have found their way back into SLA in the form United Nations, following the Second World War led to the of real-world tasks and in connection with possible career establishment of some of the first translation and interpret- paths. The Golosa textbooks for elementary and intermedi- ing training programs, the creation of new political entities, ate Russian are a good example of this approach. Interpret- such as the European Union, with its inclusive language poli- ing tasks simulating real-world encounters are included in cies, has created increased demand not only for professional every chapter. What student of a foreign language hasn’t had translators and interpreters but also for educators of transla- to serve as an ad hoc interpreter when studying abroad or tors and interpreters—and educators of educators of transla- hosting international students at home? Moreover, the tasks tors and interpreters. All this has fueled the explosive growth are constructed in such a way as to frustrate simple word- in Translation and Interpreting Studies in many parts of the for-word translation. At the same time, researchers have be- world over the last twenty five years. gun to study the relationship between translation and second language acquisition. At a panel devoted to translation While the professionalization of translation and in- in second language development held at the 2013 MLA con- terpreting has led to greater calls in Western Europe and the vention, Bradley M. Blair reported on the findings of an em- U.S. for certification, as well as enforcement of best practices pirical study that suggested—although the sample was rather in regard to directionality (translation and interpreting into small—that exposure to translation and interpreting was one’s native language) and domain expertise, in many other not only not detrimental to the development of the foreign parts of the world, conditions of diglossia and rapid econom- language, it appeared to accelerate the acquisition of reading ic advancement have made some degree of translation and proficiency. interpreting competence a necessity across a variety of job descriptions. Graduates of the foreign languages program at The integration of translation and interpreting into the Kokshetau State University in Kazakhstan, for example, the foreign language curriculum reflects the broad recom- find themselves working in international corporations in As- mendations of the 2007 MLA Report “Foreign Languag- tana and Almaty where they are expected to translate docu- es and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed ments, when necessary, into and out of English, Russian, and World,” namely, that foreign language departments reorient Kazakh and to serve as escort interpreters and cultural me- themselves away from the unrealistic goal of “replicat[ing] diators in interactions involving foreign business associates the competence of an educated native speaker, a goal that and clients. In fact, the curriculum for the graduate program postadolescent learners rarely reach,” toward “the idea of in foreign languages at Kokshetau State University includes, translingual and transcultural competence, [which] places in addition to coursework in both translation and interpret- value on the ability to operate between languages.” Here the ing, an introduction to social work. And so, while not ev- report invokes the kind of transfer competence that is a key ery college and university can or should create a program feature of translator and interpreter expertise. The impor- in translation or interpreting, the integration of translation tance of translation to the humanities in general and to the and interpreting throughout the FL curriculum can prepare study of foreign languages in particular was underscored two students for work in a variety of markets. years later when MLA President Catherine Porter chose as the convention theme “The Tasks of Translation in the Glob- al Context.”

March 2015 • NewsNet 2 And so, what does all this mean for us and for our student serving as the target-language expert, and the other students? While the linguistic and cultural competence as the source-language expert. This is an easy way to dif- fostered by departments of foreign languages are essential ferentiate instruction and to foster peer-to-peer learning. It components of translator and interpreter expertise, foreign is surprising perhaps to those of us who have worked long language departments can, I think, do more to enhance and hard to acquire proficiency in another language that the employability of their students in the modern language many heritage speakers in the U.S. see their first language industry by addressing other translation and interpreting- as a stigma rather than as a potential resource. Studies have related competencies throughout the curriculum. But in or- shown, however, that targeted instruction in translation and der to do that effectively, it is important to understand what interpreting can instill a professional self-image in heritage constitutes the competence—or range of competencies—of speakers while providing a structure for them to reflect on a professional translator or interpreter. In addition to ad- the differences between their two languages and on the ethi- vanced-level proficiency in two languages and deep familiar- cal issues involved in serving as a cultural and linguistic me- ity with the two cultures, the professional language mediator diator (see Angelelli 2010). is expected to have what researchers refer to as “transfer competence”—which research has shown to be something that is More comprehensive—and costly—solutions in- not inherent in all bilinguals—research competence, termi- volve the creation of certificate and degree-granting pro- nological and technical competence, involving the creation, grams in translation and interpreting at the undergraduate use, and management of corpora, translation memories, and and graduate levels. Students who love foreign languages and termbases, not to mention the effective use of the Internet for cultures but want to engage with them in a more applied way research, data mining, and communicative purposes, and have until only recently had few options. An undergraduate managerial competence (graduates of translation programs student of Arabic decided to come to Kent State to pursue are increasingly being hired to serve as project managers at an MA in Translation rather than a PhD in Arabic Language language industry companies). and Literature elsewhere because he wanted to make use of

Introducing real-world translation- and interpreting-related tasks can address all the relevant competencies while contributing to the development of language proficiency. In order to best simulate real-world conditions, translation tasks should involve constructing a translation brief, which outlines the intended use, venue, and audience for the translation. This focus on purpose and function aligns well with the basic organizing principles of the communicative approach, which stresses purposeful speech in meaningful contexts. These real-world tasks might also involve computer-assisted translation tools, some of which (e.g., OmegaT) are available free for download. The ability to create personal glossaries and domain-specific corpora using parallel texts is a valuable professional skill to have and has also been shown to be very effective as a pedagogical activity, especially in courses on language for special purposes (see Bowker 2002). It is also a natural way to introduce the digital humanities into your curriculum.

Lessons involving the revision of human-translated and machine-translated texts can build real-world skills while also stimulating reflection on comparative linguistic structures and on the nature and limits of machine translation. (Incidentally, the demand for translation revisers has increased dramatically as machine translation programs continue to improve.) In classes with both native English speakers and native speakers of other languages, students can work in pairs on translation assignments, with the one March 2015 • NewsNet 3 his language proficiency in a more hands-on way—despite of monolingualization and homogenization that threaten lit- the fact that he had been offered a full fellowship in the doc- erary and cultural studies today. toral program. This is certainly not to say that translation programs will or should replace programs in language and And finally, another way to acknowledge the essen- literature, but language students who are not particularly tial role of translation in almost all cultural exchanges is to interested in studying literature or in pursuing a career in encourage universities to treat scholarly translations as le- teaching too often are left to find their own way in the job gitimate contributions to the generation of new knowledge market. To quote again from the 2007 MLA Report on For- by considering them fully when awarding tenure, promo- eign Languages and Higher Education, “to attract students tion, and merit. This would in turn promote the creation of from other fields and students with interests beyond literary guidelines and best practices for scholarly translation. The studies, particularly students returning from a semester or a Guidelines for the Translation of Social Science Texts (2006), year abroad, departments should institute courses that ad- a product of the Social Science Translation Project (SSTP), dress a broad range of curricular needs.” We can do more to chaired by Michael Henry Heim and Andrzej Tymowski, are connect these students with careers in the language industry, exemplary in this regard. The stated goal of this project “was but this involves not only introducing translation and inter- to demonstrate the key role that translations play in the field preting into the FL curriculum in a responsible and pedagog- and to promote communication in the social sciences across ically-sound way but also informing K-12 teachers of foreign language boundaries by providing practical advice to people languages and guidance counselors about these career op- who commission, edit, and use translations of social science portunities. For something that is so ubiquitous, translation texts in their professional activities.” We need more such and interpreting have been a well-kept secret in the U.S. for projects for only when the current “translation turn” is in- far too long. stitutionalized in curricula and in policy will we ensure that this is not a passing fad but rather is widely accepted as a key At the doctoral level, too, Translation Studies has component of true global literacy. the potential to re-invigorate the Humanities by bringing together research methodologies from Applied Linguis- tics, Sociology, as well as Literary and Cultural Studies. It Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation can also promote the de-nationalization of Literary Studies. Studies at Kent State University and founding editor of the Why don’t we study Pasternak’s translations of Shakespeare journal Translation and Interpreting Studies. His monograph or Dostoevsky’s translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet in Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature is doctoral seminars on Russian literature? Or look at Mikhail forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press. Mikhailov’s translations of Heine, which played such an important role in Russian literary culture and in the evolution Works Cited of the Russian radical left? To include the study of literature in translation in our curricula challenges what Andre Lefe- Angelelli, Claudia. 2010. “A Professional Ideology in the Making: Bilingual Youngsters Interpreting for their Communities and the Notion vere (1992:39) has described as the “monologualization of of (No) Choice.” Translation and Interpreting Studies 5(1):94- culture” in the modern era by acknowledging the transna- 108. tional essence of cultural flows, for, as Tomas Venclova put Bowker, Lynn. 2001. Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide it so succinctly, “The literature of most nations begins with to Using Corpora. London and New York: Routledge. translation” (1979). Damrosch, David. 2009. Teaching World Literature (Options for Teaching). On the other hand, the current popularity of World New York: MLA.

Literature runs the risk of homogenizing cultural difference “Foreign Languages and Higher Education.” 2007. Report of the MLA Ad- if the “problematics of translation” are not raised as a central hoc Committee on Foreign Languages. Available online. concern (Damrosch 2009:8). And while I agree with David Damrosch that, “Few teachers of world literature today have Lefevere, Andre. 1992. Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Lit- erary Fame. London: Routledge. any wish to ignore the complex issues raised by translation,” the fact is, there are few materials available to assist teachers Venclova, Tomas. 1979. “Translations of World Literature and Political in doing so. In fact, Damrosch’s 400-page volume Teaching Censorship in Contemporary Lithuania.” Lituanus 25(2). Avail- able online at: http: //www.lituanus.org/1979/79_2_01.htm (last World Literature barely touches on the problem of transla- accessed 16 Nov 2014). tion and offers virtually no practical advice to teachers who do not know the source language. And so, an informed discussion of translation is one way to address the twin dangers March 2015 • NewsNet 4 Plutopia Lewis H. Siegelbaum (Michigan State University) interviews Kate Brown (UMBC)

In Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the fields, forests, and food supplies. Because of the decades of Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford Uni- secrecy, downwind and downriver neighbors of the pluto- versity Press, 2013), Kate Brown draws on official records and nium plants had difficulty proving what they suspected, that dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Rich- the rash of illnesses, cancers, and birth defects in their com- land, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in munities were caused by the plants’ radioactive emissions. the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, Ameri- Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it can and Soviet leaders created plutopias—communities of appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that re- atomic cities. Fully employed and medically monitored, the main highly unstable and threatening today. Plutopia invites residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed all the pleasures readers to consider the nuclear footprint left by the arms race of consumer society, while nearby, migrants, prisoners, and and the enormous price of paying for it. Professor Brown’s soldiers were banned from plutopia--they lived in temporary book was awarded the 2014 Vucinich Prize. “staging grounds” and often performed the most dangerous work at the plant. Brown shows that the plants’ segregation of Lewis Siegelbaum (LS): When you wrote Plutopia what sort of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non- an audience did you have in mind? I have the impression that nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps you were reaching beyond “the field” and even academia in and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely general. Was that so? embezzled and polluted. In four decades, the Hanford plant Kate Brown (KB): I designed this tandem history of the near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued world’s first two cities to produce plutonium with largely an at least 200 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the sur- American audience in mind. I wanted to reach Americans rounding environment—equaling four Chernobyls—laying and specifically Americans interested in Soviet history. I waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, was aware that our sub field of Soviet history had compro- 2015 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CRITICAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE STUDY AT ASU THEN STUDY ABROAD SUMMER ABROAD June 1–July 17 July 20–August 14 June 22–August 14 Albanian Tirana, Albania Armenian in Yerevan Armenian Yerevan, Armenia BCS Sarajevo, Bosnia Russian in Kazan Persian Samarqand, Uzbekistan Advanced Russian Kazan, Russia Russian in St. Petersburg Turkish Izmir, Turkey Uzbek Samarqand, Uzbekistan Tatar in Kazan

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March 2015 • NewsNet 5 mised origins and questionable assumptions buried within and also the plans to the closed nuclear city, created first at it. The origins, of course, are a body of scholarship built on Los Alamos. As historians like to start at origins, beginning Cold War foundations and funding. The recent resistance of Plutopia with the American side of the story made sense. the ASEEES governing board to use Stephen Cohen’s name on scholarships that he and his wife Katrina vanden Heu- As I worked through the declassified American records, I vel sought to endow because of Cohen’s public statements was appalled at what I found--the intricate efforts to con- about the conflict in eastern Ukraine shows how deeply the ceal the dangers of nuclear weapons production, the deeply tradition of defending American policy runs in our profes- refined classism and racism of labor practices that allocated sional organization. I was also concerned that many English- dirty work to people least able to complain, and the sadly language histories of the USSR engage in submissive and compliant employees, among an implicit, unspoken comparison with them most of the “top brass.” As I researched a rosy interpretation of US history. In the American story, I saw a great many similari- these histories, discussions of civil soci- ties with the nuclear security state in the Soviet ety, civil rights, freedom, productivity, Urals, which as I note above were intentional. The free enterprise, backwardness, dictator- nature of nuclear production, the invisibility of ship, etc. are framed against an often the materials and the administrative innovation unspoken gold standard, which is either of compartmentalization, made it easy for both “the West” or the United States. These Soviet and American plant managers to deny ra- buried comparisons hold up only as dioactive hazards to suspicious workers. I found long as one has no more than a glanc- an essential difference, however. In August 1945, ing understanding of US history. Placing the press poured into Richland and marveled at the two superpowers’ histories together what a fine city plutonium had built. They called explicitly, not to compare, but to juxta- it “paradise.” As reporters were not allowed in the pose was my antidote. Researching the industrial zone, Richland became the public face two plutonium disasters side by side, I of nuclear production and served as a model city saw how closely engaged the superpow- insuring the country that its leaders had this new ers were in a joint enterprise to produce very powerful weapon under control. bombs. They matched one another nearly step for step in taking shortcuts and This show of openness did not occur in the USSR, emphasizing production over safety in a and in terms of science that was a good thing. way that grossly contaminated the sur- American leaders were very worried about leaks, rounding environment and placed work- not of a radioactive kind, but to the press, and ers and local residents in harm’s way. In so they did not commission studies to find out this story, the ideology of national secu- the impact to workers and neighbors of living rity trumped all others, whether of a so- year after year in a sea of low doses of radioactive cialist or capitalist derivation. isotopes. They felt they could not ask questions about public health in an open society for fear of LS: Part of the story you tell is about the a public relations disaster. In their closed society, terrible damage done by the secrecy that Soviet leaders had no worries about a watchdog the US and Soviet governments imposed press. They could and did commission studies, in the name of their respective national securities and the irony which basically used residents along the radioactive Techa the institution of the closed city, which people automatically River as human subjects in a three-generation study of the associate with the Soviet mania for secrecy, actually originated effects of chronic exposures to low doses of radiation. They in the Hanford project. Are you asserting an equivalency here came up with a diagnosis, Chronic Radiation Syndrome, and in other respects? which so far has only been diagnosed in Russia—not because it doesn’t exist elsewhere, but because the same open-ended KB: I didn’t go looking for equivalency or difference. I was questions were not asked elsewhere. mostly trying to trace a chronological narrative. Research- ing the Soviet side of the history of plutonium production, I LS: One of the many ironies in the book is that Richland emerg- noticed that thanks to espionage, Soviet leaders of the bomb es as a totally “Soviet” city in the sense that it had no “free en- project closely imitated the successful American Manhat- terprise”; and the residents of Ozersk enjoyed consumer goods tan Project. They stole the plans for the reactors and bombs, virtually unavailable elsewhere in the Soviet Union. When March 2015 • NewsNet 6 you started doing the research for the book did ironies like this ted). With that information, I took seriously the testimony of jump off the page, so to speak, or did you go looking for them? farmers near the Hanford plant. And, is there some larger point you want to convey by writing the histories of these atomic cities in tandem? What do I want to convey in this tandem history? My larger point is that by staying in boundaries, within carefully com- KB: I did not expect to find these ironies, not in such abun- partmentalized national histories, it is easy to miss very big dance, but researching a tandem history proved very useful. stories that are right there, in plain site. Likewise, framing Different national cultures and histories pose very different Soviet history as hermetic and isolated leads to the impres- questions and present particular kinds of sources and infor- sion that the Soviet past was especially backward, brutal, des- mation. I would notice a trend in the American context— potic, or criminal. Widen the scope, and, unfortunately, you say an obsession with young people in the early Cold War find that Soviet history does not stand alone. who read (poisonous) comic books—and I would turn to see how party leaders in Ozersk, the plutonium city, regarded youth and their pastimes. Not surprisingly, party leaders Kate Brown is Professor of History at UMBC. Brown’s Plu- also fixated on the behavior of their youth, and seen against topia won the 2014 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the the American context, Soviet leaders’ worries appeared less American Society for Environmental History, the 2014 Ellis prudish and controlling. I noticed among residents in the US W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Histo- and USSR a fierce defense of their deadly plutonium plants, rians, the 2014 Heldt Prize from AWSS and the 2014 Robert even after they learned just how much they had contaminated G. Athearn Prize from the Western History Association. their homes and environments. Writing a national history, I Lewis Siegelbaum is the Jack and Margaret Sweet might have chalked this posture to the political conservatism Professor of History at Michigan State University. Recently, of the interior American West, or the narrow-mindedness of his research has focused on migration in Russian political the Russian provinces, but taken together I started to grasp space across the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, a rising tide of entitlement that came to working class plant which resulted in Broad is My Native Land: Repertoires and operators who were paid and treated like their professional Regimes of Migration in Russia’s Twentieth Century (Cornell class bosses in plutopia. The sense of con- University Press, 2014). fidence, pride and autonomy, more than good housing and shops, proved addictive and kept people devoted and loyal to their dangerous jobs, deceptive managers, and STUDY ABROAD IN increasingly poisonous landscapes.

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March 2015 • NewsNet 7 ASEEES Member Spotlight: Antony Polonsky

Antony Polonsky is Al- an ethnic or racial struggle, you need to look at the history of bert Abramson Professor Tsarist and Habsburg Empires.” These words remained with of Holocaust Studies at me and were one of the reasons which ultimately led me to Brandeis University and investigate the history of Poland. Chief Historian at the Museum of the History I was still a Marxist-Leninist when I went to study of Polish Jews (Warsaw, at Oxford in the early 1960s. Coming from what we saw as Poland). a fascist country, when I began to look for a subject for my doctoral dissertation I wished to study the phenomenon of When did you first de- right-radicalism and fascism. I believed (wrongly) that all velop an interest in Slavic, the interesting topics in the history of German National So- East European and Eur- cialism had already been investigated and was drawn to ana- asian Studies? lyze what I thought were similar manifestations in Poland, I grew up in very comfortable conditions in post- partly inspired by the words of Jack Simons. As one who, war South Africa. I soon became aware of the deep racial in spite of my Marxist beliefs, rejected the rigid discipline divisions in that society and came to feel considerable guilt and bureaucratic character of the Communist Party of South at my parents’ lifestyle, dependent as it was on African ser- Africa, I was attracted to what I thought was Gomułka’s in- vants, whom they, as representatives of the liberal section of dependent “Polish Road to Socialism” and was also greatly the English-speaking minority—friends of Helen Suzman, impressed by the films of Andrzej Wajda, above all A Gen- supporters of the Progressive Party—treated with, as they eration and Ashes and Diamonds. I accepted that in a social- thought, great benevolence and in my eyes with extreme pa- ist country like Poland there was an inevitable price to be ternalism. paid in the form of a loss of freedom. But I believed that this only affected the intelligentsia which was in any case hostile When I attended the University of the Witwa- to socialism and that this loss of freedom was compensated tersrand in Johannesburg in the late 1950s, the main politi- for by the higher rate of economic growth compared to the cal division was between the liberals and the Marxist-Le- capitalist west, and the greater degree of social justice and ninists. Those, like myself, who adhered to the latter group equality. did so in rejection of the paternalism which we identified with our parents. Liberalism was merely a form of sympathy I was quickly disillusioned. It became apparent to for Africans in their difficult plight, whereas we had aligned me that the loss of freedom affected the whole of society ourselves with the iron laws of history identified by Marx that it was more far-reaching than in my native country and and Engels. These clearly demonstrated, we believed, that that it made almost impossible serious and open discussion the conflict in South Africa was not racial (as was obvious of the problems that Poland needed to confront in the pe- to most people) but one of class in which we, mostly young riod of the “little stabilization.” The economic system, with Jews and Indians could find our natural place in the struggle its shortages and distortions, was clearly much less efficient of the local proletariat, along with that of the whole world, than that of the West, while Milovan Djilas had clearly been for the socialist millennium. correct when he identified the emergence of new privileged class under socialism. I then joined the fellow-travelling Congress of Democrats and participated in a Marxist study circle at the Under these circumstances, I was greatly impressed University, which was led by leading members of the South by the socialist critique of the regime for allegedly betraying African Communist Party. The one who had most influence the interests of the workers circulated in 1965 by two young on me was Jack Simons, then Professor of Economic History party members, lecturers at this university, Jacek Kuroń and at the University of Cape Town, subsequently chief political Karol Modzelewski, for which they were imprisoned in July commissar of the armed forces of the ANC in Angola. Once 1965 at the end of our first stay in Warsaw. I now began to when we were discussing the South African Marxist obses- write critically of Stalin’s policies towards Poland during the sion with demonstrating that what we were confronted with Second World War and of the establishment and character of was a class and not a racial conflict, he observed, “If you want the communist system established in Poland after July 1944. to see how a class conflict is transformed so that it looks like I still believed that the communist system could be reformed

March 2015 • NewsNet 8 from within. The years 1967-1968 marked my final disillusion- found, to my surprise, that I cared deeply about the survival ment. I was alarmed that the Soviet Union and its allies could of the state of Israel and even considered volunteering in the pursue policies which seemed aimed at the destruction of the run-up to the war which broke out in June 1967. A number state of Israel, was disgusted that a faction of the Polish United of my friends believed that one of the reasons for the defeat Workers’ Party could use crude anti-Semitic slogans in a bid of the first Solidarity had been its failure to make a proper for power and to discredit the student calls for democratiza- reckoning with chauvinistic and anti-Semitic currents in tion and strongly identified with these calls and for Alexan- Polish life. They encouraged me to seek contacts within the der Dubček’s attempt to establish communism “with a hu- Jewish world to alleviate the obvious gap between Poles and man face” in Czechoslovakia. It was particularly painful to Jews insofar as these are separate and discrete groups, which me that the African National Congress and the Communist is clearly not always the case. I participated in the series of Party of South Africa issued a statement in early September academic conferences in the 1980s that attempted to bridge 1968 welcoming the “fraternal intervention” of the countries this divide and also became chief editor of the yearbook Po- of the Warsaw pact in Czechoslovakia. lin: Studies in Polish Jewry, which attempted to encourage research on an inter-disciplinary basis and from a wide vari- During these years I wrote on different aspects on ety of viewpoints. I now wrote my three-volume history, The Polish history, including the breakdown of democracy in Jews in Russia and Poland, and in 2014 was appointed Chief interwar Poland, the “Polish question” during the Second Historian at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in World War, the imposition of communist rule in Poland Warsaw. and aspects of the politics of the Polish People’s Republic. What is your current research/work project? How have your interests changed since then? I am writing my autobiography, Four Lives: An In- After 1968, I sided strongly with the developing op- tellectual Journey from Johannesburg to Warsaw. position movement in Poland with the Committee for the Defence of the Workers’ and with the Solidarity movement. Besides your professional work, what other interests and/or Like most Poles, I was shocked and surprised by the rela- hobbies do you enjoy? tive ease with which martial law was established (I shouldn’t My main hobby is music. I no longer play the cello, have been--the other side had an army, which we did not). but very much like to attend concerts and opera. I also now felt much more involved with Jewish life, as I

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March 2015 • NewsNet 9 Recent Developments in the Publishing Industry of the Russian Federation by Christina Peter, Frick Art Reference Library The CLIR Subcommittee on Collection Development In all the three areas of publishing under examination, organized a roundtable at the ASEEES Annual Convention there has been a move away from major state publishing houses in San Antonio entitled “The State of the Publishing Industry to an alternative world of small, non-traditional publishers, in the Russian Federation.” Three participants of the panel, regional houses and publishers with small print runs. In conceived and chaired by Jon Giullian from the University the world of history, academics in the present restrictive of Kansas, charted the course of recent developments in environment might seek out minor, “under the radar” Russian publishing in their respective disciplines of history, publishers in the hopes of lesser scrutiny. In the field of art anthropology and art history, while the fourth speaker history, regional museums, private art galleries and auction brought a vendor’s perspective to the discussion. The houses have produced a large corpus of new scholarship by most relevant common thread through the papers was the bringing to light hitherto forgotten or never described state exploration of how the new authoritarianism of post-Soviet and private collections, and by promoting artists neglected Russia has influenced and changed publishing practices in by the establishment. In minority-language publishing, small unexpected but remarkably similar ways across the different publishing houses, self-publishing, online print alternatives subject areas. and transnational ventures have increasingly supplemented the work of traditional state publishing. Thomas Keenan of Princeton University painted a fascinating, if highly alarming, picture of an increasingly Zina Somova of East View Information Services has centralized, xenophobic and restrictive state encroaching tremendous experience in dealing with publishers from all on history publishing and prescribing an official view of over Russia, and she offered a valuable behind-the-scenes Russian history with a focus on patriotism, military gloire, perspective, highlighting some idiosyncratic customs and and a restoration of certain aspects of the Stalinist era, tactics on the part of the publishers (as e.g. misrepresenting while enacting legislation and employing political means the print run, or presenting serious scholarship in textbook to suppress dissident voices. These policies are aimed at form because of material incentives) of which librarians reversing the revisionist historical scholarship that sprang up should be aware. after the collapse of the Soviet Union and, based on research in the newly opened archives, striving for a critical and The last decade has seen the rise of non-traditional objective investigation of the Soviet period; particularly of new players in Russian publishing and a restructuring of the the role of the Soviet Union in World War II. industry against a backdrop of political changes. As Keenan pointed out, librarians must beware of grossly tendentious, Kathryn Graber, Assistant Professor of Anthropology popularistic books filling their shelves and eating up their at Indiana University, examined ethnic publishing in the acquisitions budgets, while in certain disciplines real vernacular languages of Tatarstan, Yakutia and Buryatia. She scholarship is increasingly becoming an endangered species. offered an overview of the major state-funded publishing It is to be hoped that this roundtable succeeded in providing houses and drew attention to the emergence of an alternative, some assistance to collection development librarians in independent publishing scene in the realm of minority- navigating this complex landscape. language publishing. As local officials increasingly heed Moscow’s directives, especially with regard to contentious issues in local history and ethnic politics, more and more of ASEEES Mentoring Program the independent voices are in danger of being lost.

Christina Peter of the Frick Art Reference Library drew attention to the emergence of new loci of art history publishing in Russia over the last decade and surveyed Apply to find a Volunteer to be a the most relevant subjects areas of recent and current mentor. mentor. art historical research. Historical subjects in art, with a particular focus on Russian military victories (e.g. in the Deadline: April 22, 2015 Napoleonic Wars in 1812) have gained prominence, echoing the emphasis on patriotic sentiment in historical scholarship. March 2015 • NewsNet 10 2015 ASEEES Book Prize Nomination Instructions

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL PRIZE • Galya Diment, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Smith Hall, COMPETITIONS: M264, Box 353580, U of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195- • For full rules and complete details about all prizes, please see 3580 http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes • Jindrich Toman, Slavic Languages and Literatures, 3040 • The copyright date inside the book must be 2014 MLB, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275 • The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single au- Rules of eligibility specific to this prize thor, or by no more than two authors • The competition is open to works of scholarship in literary • Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is orig- and cultural studies, including studies in the visual arts, cin- inally published in English in the United States* ema, music, and dance. • Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies and reference works are ineligible The Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, es- • Works may deal with any area of Eastern Europe, Russia or tablished in 2009 and sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East Eurasia* European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, • Additional eligibility requirements unique to each prize Berkeley, is awarded for an outstanding monograph published competition are listed below on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history pub- *Except where otherwise indicated lished in 2014. 2015 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History Committee Nominating Instructions • John Connelly, Department of History, UC Berkeley, Berke- • Send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee ley, CA 94720-2550 member AND to the ASEEES main office. Nominations • Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola U Chicago, Dept of History, must be received no later than May 7. 1032 W. Sheridan Rd, Room 507, Chicago, IL 60660-1537 • Fill out the Book Prize nomination form • Glennys Young, Box 353650, Henry M. Jackson School of • Mark submissions clearly with the name of the prize(s). International Studies, U of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Rules of eligibility specific to this prize The Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the • The competition is open to works of scholarship in history Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Stud- ies (ASEEES) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and The Davis Center Book Prize in Political and East European Studies, is awarded for the most important con- Social Studies, established in 2008 and sponsored by the tribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in Eng- Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, is awarded for an out- lish in the United States published in 2014. standing monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geogra- • Serguei Oushakine, Committee Chair, Dept. of Slavic Lan- phy published in 2014. guages & Literatures, Princeton U, 249 East Pyne, Princeton, 2015 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies NJ 08525 Committee • Choi Chatterjee, Department of History, California State • Sarah Phillips, Dept. of Anthropology, Student Building 130, University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 Indiana U, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405 • Nancy Ries, Colgate U, Sociology and Anthropology De- • Pauline Jones Luong, U of Michigan, Department of Political partment, 414 Alumni Hall, Hamilton, NY 13346 Science, 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 • Mitchell Orenstein, ME 303, Northeastern University, De- • Connor O’Dwyer, 3449 NW 13th Avenue, Gainesville, FL partment of Political Science, Boston, MA 02115 32605 Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: • The competition is open to works of scholarship in any dis- • The competition is open to works of scholarship in anthro- cipline of the social sciences or humanities (including litera- pology, political science, sociology, or geography, and social ture, the arts, film, etc.). Policy analyses, however scholarly, science works that cross strict disciplinary boundaries cannot be considered. The Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, sponsored The University of Southern California Book by the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, is awarded Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, estab- annually for an outstanding monograph dealing with the in- lished in 2009 and sponsored by the Department of Slavic Lan- ternational relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision- guages and Literatures at the USC, is awarded for an outstanding making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in Europe published the previous year. The prize is dedicated to the the fields of literary and cultural studies published in 2014. encouragement of high quality studies of the international be- 2015 USC Book Prize Committee: havior of the countries of the former Communist Bloc. • Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Slavic Languages 2015 Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize Committee and Literatures, 707 S. Mathews Sve., 3080 Foreign Languag- • Adam Stulberg, Center for International, Strategy, Technol- es Building MC 170, Urbana, IL 61801-3643 ogy, and Policy, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,

March 2015 • NewsNet 11 Georgia Tech, 781 Marietta St., Atlanta, GA 30318 The Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies • Alexander Cooley, Dept. of Political Science, Barnard Col- The Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies (formerly the AS- lege, Columbia U, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 EEES Orbis Book Prize), sponsored by the Kulczycki family, • Kimberly Marten, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, former owners of the Orbis Books Ltd. of London, England, is 420 West 118th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10027 awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any as- Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: pect of Polish affairs, published in 2014 • Works must be about international behavior of the countries 2015 Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies Committee of the former Communist Bloc. • Tamara Trojanowska, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, 121 St. Joseph St., Toron- The Ed A Hewett Book Prize, sponsored by the Univer- to, Ontario M5S 1J4, Canada sity of Michigan Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian • Tomasz Kamusella, Centre for Transnational History, School Studies, is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph on of History, University of St Andrews, St Katharine’s Lodge, the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AR, Scotland, UK published in 2014. Ed Hewett was a distinguished alumnus of the • Nathan Wood, Department of History, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, (PhD, economics), a prominent scholar, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045 a fine colleague, and an internationally respected member of the Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: field. The Hewett Book Prize was established in 1994 in his honor Only works originally published in English, outside of Poland, to recognize and encourage the high standard of scholarship that are eligible he so admirably advanced in the area of his interests. • The book must be a monograph predominantly on Polish 2015 Ed A Hewett Book Prize Committee studies, preferably by a single author, or by no more than • Grigore Pop-Eleches, 220 Bendheim Hall, Princeton Univer- two authors. sity, Princeton, NJ 08544 • Preference will be given to works by first-time authors. • Andrew Barnes, Dept. of Political Science, 302 Bowman • The competition is open to works in any discipline, dealing Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 with any aspect of Polish affairs. • Carol Leonard: E-books preferred - carol.leonard@sant. • Previous winners of Kulczycki/Orbis Prize are ineligible. ox.ac.uk. If e-book not available, send hard copy to: Uni- versity of Oxford, St. Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF, UK Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: • Only works originally published in English in the form of monographs, chapters in books, or substantial articles preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors, are eligible. On the Cohen-Tucker • Works must be on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe. Fellowship Matter

The Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, sponsored by In the light of recent discussions in the media, in email the Jelavich estate, is awarded annually for a distinguished chains, and on social media regarding a gift offer by Pro- monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth- fessor Stephen Cohen and Ms. Katrina vanden Heuvel century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history in 2014. Bar- to establish the Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Fel- bara Jelavich was a distinguished and internationally respected lowship in Russian historical studies with ASEEES, we scholar whose numerous publications included Modern Austria, direct your attention to the following documents pub- Russia’s Balkan Entanglements, and the two-volume History of the Balkans. The Jelavich Prize was established in 1995 in her mem- lished on the ASEEES website: ory to recognize and to encourage the high standards she set in her many areas of scholarly interest and to promote continued Professor Cohen’s January 13, 2015 letter to ASEEES study of those areas. with his account of the matter: 2015 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Committee http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-news-feed/ • Alison Frank, Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138 stephen-f-cohens-letter-aseees-regarding-cohen-tuck- • Emily Greble, CUNY, Department of History, NAC 144/a, er-fellowship 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031 • Paula M. Pickering, Department of Government, College of The ASEEES Executive Committee’s clarification state- William and Mary, Morton Hall, Room 10, 100 Ukrop Way, ment on February 3, 2015: http://www.aseees.org/news- Williamsburg, VA 23185 Rules of eligibility specific to this prize: events/aseees-news-feed/aseees-detailed-clarification- • Authors must be citizens or permanent residents of North regarding-cohen-tucker-fellowship America. • The competition is open to works on any aspect of South- east European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.

March 2015 • NewsNet 12 2015 Graduate Student Prizes

The ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize is The Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Disser- awarded for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slav- tation Prize, sponsored by the KAT Charitable Founda- ic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The winner of the com- tion, is awarded annually (if there is a distinguished submis- petition receives free roundtrip domestic airfare to and room sion) for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation at the ASEEES Annual Convention and an honorary ASEEES in Soviet or Post-Soviet politics and history in the tradition membership for the following year. The prize is presented dur- practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen. The dis- ing the awards presentation at the Annual Convention. sertation must be defended at an American or Canadian university, and must be completed during the calendar year prior 2015 Committee on the Student Prize to the award. The prize carries a $5,000 award intended to help • Steven E. Harris, University of Mary Washington; Commit- the author turn the dissertation into a publishable manuscript. tee Chair, [email protected] • Vasiliki Neofotistos, SUNY Buffalo, [email protected] 2015 Tucker/Cohen Prize Committee • Elena Prokhorova, College of William and Mary; evprok@ • Michael David-Fox, Georgetown University; Committee wm.edu Chair, [email protected] • Juliet Johnson, McGill University (Canada); juliet@mcgill. Rules of Eligibility and Nominating Instructions ca • ASEEES Regional Affiliates and Institutional Members are • Alexander Rabinowitch, Indiana University; 2512 Button- invited to hold their own competitions for best essay among wood Ln, Bloomington, IN 47401 their graduate students, and submit the winning paper to the ASEEES Grad Student Prize Committee. Rules of Eligibility and Nominating Instructions • Essay author must be a graduate student and must have • The dissertation must be written in English and defended at written the essay in English while in a graduate program. a university in the United States or Canada; • Essays can be any of several formats: • The dissertation must be completed and defended during • Expanded versions of conference papers the calendar year prior to the award (for example, the dis- • Graduate level seminar papers sertation must have been defended in 2014 to be eligible for • Master’s Thesis Chapters the 2015 competition); • Dissertation Chapters • The dissertation’s primary subject and analytical purpose • Essays should be submitted to the ASEEES by the Chairs of must be in the realm of the history of domestic politics, as the Regional Affiliates or the primary or secondary repre- broadly understood in academic or public life, though it sentatives of the Institutional Members. Graduate students may also include social, cultural, economic, international whose institution is not an institutional member of AS- or other dimensions. The dissertation must focus primar- EEES or is not holding a competition this year, are advised ily on Russia (though the topic may also involve other for- to check the rules for their regional competition. Students mer Soviet republics) during one or more periods between cannot self-nominate their papers without going through January 1918 and the present. the proper nominating procedures. • A nomination will consist of a detailed letter from the dis- • Submitter must clearly indicate the format of the essay sub- sertation’s main faculty supervisor explaining the ways in mitted and provide an abstract. which the work is outstanding in both its empirical and in- • Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a terpretive contributions, along with an abstract of 700-1000 maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approxi- words, written by the candidate, specifying the sources and mately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Submis- general findings of the research. A faculty supervisor may sions must be double-spaced and include footnotes or end- nominate no more than one dissertation a year. notes. • By May 15 faculty supervisors should send each commit- • Essays should be sent in electronic format, simultaneously tee member listed above their letter and the 700-1000-word to Mary Arnstein, Communications Coordinator, at news- abstract. (Candidates may also initiate the nomination, [email protected] and to all members of the prize committee. but it must come from their advisers.) The committee will read this material and then request copies of the disserta- Deadline for submissions: June 1 tions that best meet the criteria, as defined in the statement above. Nominations must be received no later than May 15. http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/graduate-student- essay-prize Deadline for submissions: May 15

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March 2015 • NewsNet 13 2015 ASEEES Distinguished Awards

ASEEES Distinguished Contributions to ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Information Resources Award Distinguished Service Award The Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East The ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Re- European, and Eurasian Studies Award honors senior scholars sources Distinguished Service Award honors ASEEES member who have helped to build and develop the field through scholar- librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to the ship, training, and service to the profession. field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies librarian- The Committee accepts nominations in writing or via ship have been especially noteworthy or influential. The effect e-mail from any member of ASEEES. The nomination letter, of these contributions may be the result of continuous or distin- sent to the Committee Chair, should include: biography focus- guished service to the profession, but may also be the result of ing on the individual’s distinguished achievements in Slavic, extraordinarily active, innovative or collaborative work that de- East European and Eurasian studies; a list of publications and serves national recognition. This award was established in 2010. editorships; a list of awards and prizes; and his or her involve- The winner of the ASEEES CLIR Distinguished Service ment in and service to ASEEES, if any. Self-nomination is not Award will be chosen by members of the CLIR Executive Com- accepted. Committee members also survey the field for possible mittee. awardees.

2015 Honors and Awards Committee Deadline: June 1 Andrew Wachtel, American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyz- http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/clir-distinguished- stan), Committee Chair, [email protected] service-award Joshua Tucker, New York University Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont

Deadline: April 1 http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/distinguished-contributions-award 2015 Additional Prizes

AWSS Prizes 15 April 2013 to 15 April 2015. Nominations for the 2015 prizes AWSS Graduate Research Prize will be accepted for the following categories: Deadline: September 1, 2015 • Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Graduate studies; Research Prize is awarded biennially to fund promising gradu- • Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s ate level research in any field of Slavic/East European/Central studies; Asian studies by a woman or on a topic in Women’s or Gender • Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/ Studies related to Slavic Studies/East Europe/Central Asia by ei- Eurasian studies. ther a woman or a man. Graduate students who are at any stage • Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian of master’s or doctoral level research are eligible. women’s studies. In addition to two letters of recommendation, please One may nominate individual books for more than one catego- send a CV, a letter of application in which you outline how the ry, and more than one item for each category. Articles included money will be used and why it is necessary for progress on the in collections as well as journals are eligible for the “best article” project and, if appropriate, a list of archives and/or libraries or prize, but they must be nominated individually. The prizes will other research resources that you plan to use. http://www.awss- be awarded at the AWSS meeting at the ASEEES Annual Con- home.org/graduate-research.html vention in November 2015. To nominate any work, please send one copy to each of the Prize committee members: AWSS Heldt Prizes • Betsy Jones Hemenway, Chair, Heldt Prize Committee, Deadline: May 15, 2015 (Loyola University Chicago), 1356 W. Greenleaf Avenue, The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites nomina- Unit 3, Chicago, IL 60626 tions for the 2015 Competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded for • Yana Hashamova, Dept of Slavic and East European Lan- works of scholarship. To be eligible for nomination, all books guages and Cultures, 400 Hagerty Hall; 1775 College Road, and articles for the first three prize categories must be published Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 between 15 April 2014 and 15 April 2015. The publication dates • Mary Neuberger, University of Texas, 2505 University Av- for the translation prize, which is offered every other year, are enue, Stop F3600, Austin, TX 78712

March 2015 • NewsNet 14 • Ali İğmen, Cal State U, Long Beach, Dept of History, 1250 on any of the territories of the former imperial Russian Bellflower Blvd, MS 1601, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601 state. Textbooks, festschrifts, and edited collections of essays are not eligible unless they constitute significant and Historia Nova Competition innovative contributions to the field. Established in 2012 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and • Submissions must bear a copyright date of 2014 or 2015. Academic Studies Press, the Historia Nova Prize for the Best • It can be published in any language read by the ECRSA Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History recognizes Prize Selection Committee and in any format. the best scholarly volume originally written and published in • The geographic area of study is broadly defined as the ter- English within the preceding two years. Eligible genres includes ritories of the former imperial Russian state and the Soviet single and collective-author monographs, collections of articles, Union. The publication must deal in whole or in part with and special thematic issues of scholarly journals. the long 18th-century (the period from the last quarter of Juried in the past three years by a five-person interna- the 17th-century to the first quarter of the 19th-century.) tional team with logistical support from the Press, the Historia • Books that have received other prizes are eligible. Nova prize seeks nominations from publishers, literary agen- • Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the cies, universities and university departments, journals, schol- main criteria for selection. Submissions from scholars who arly organizations, artistic unions, groups, and individuals. are less than five years from receiving their doctoral degree The 2015 Historia Nova award, to be announced at are particularly encouraged. the November 2015 ASEEES convention, will be chosen from Nominating Instructions: nominations submitted to historianova@academicstudiespress. • Send one copy of the publication to each ECRSA Prize com until 1 June 2015. The Organizing Committee asks that Selection Committee member AND to the ASEEES main publishers nominating their own titles send five complimentary office. Submissions should be clearly marked “Marc Raeff copies of the book to: Academic Studies Press, Attn: Historia Book Prize.” Nova, 28 Montfern Avenue, Brighton, MA 02135 USA. For • Nominations must be received no later than 30 June 2015. more information, please visit www.historianova.com. Information about the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee can be found here: http://www.ecrsa.org/RaeffPrize.html THE MICHAEL HEIM PRIZE IN COLLEGIAL TRANSLATION The Society for Romanian Studies This prize is awarded annually for the best collegial translation of a journal article from an East European language into Eng- Third Biennial SRS Book Prize lish. The prize is sponsored by East European Politics & Societ- The Society for Romanian Studies invites nominations for the ies and Cultures (EEPS), which will publish the winning article. Third Biennial SRS Book Prize awarded for the best book pub- The criteria of selection are the scholarly significance lished in English in any field of Romanian studies (including of the article, the quality of the translation, and the contribu- Moldova) in the humanities or social sciences. Books must be in tion the translation will make to disciplinary dialogue across English and have a copyright date between 1 January 2013 and linguistic communities. The translation cannot have been pub- 31 December 2014. Edited books, translations and non-schol- lished previously and must be translated from an East European arly books are not eligible. Nominations will be due to the SRS language as defined by the geographic ambit of EEPS. The sub- prize committee by 1 June 2015. Books should be sent directly ject matter and approach should be suited for publication as an to each committee member. EEPS article. In Guidelines for the Translation of Social Science Texts Book Prize Committee Members: (www.acls.org/programs/sstp), Heim encouraged scholars to • Holly Case (Chair), Dept of History, Cornell University, translate their colleagues’ work to make it more widely avail- 450 McGraw Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, [email protected] able. Although Heim was a renowned literary translator, he was • James Augerot, Dept of Slavic Languages & Literatures, convinced that the best translator of a scholarly work is a col- University of Washington, Box 353580, Seattle, Washing- league in a relevant discipline who has acquired facility in trans- ton 98195-3580 lation, rather than a professional translator who is linguistically • Vladimir Solonari, Dept of History, University of Central skilled but unfamiliar with the discipline’s concepts, contexts, Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-1350 and controversies. This prize supports Michael Heim’s vision. The Heim Prize in Collegial Translation is awarded by East Eu- Slovak Studies Association Book Prize ropean Politics & Societies and Cultures (EEPS) Submission The Slovak Studies Association will award a prize for the best deadline: September 1, 2015. Submissions should be sent as book about Slovakia in the humanities and social sciences pub- Word attachments to [email protected]. http://www.acls.org/up- lished in 2011 or later. The works must be in English, but they loadedFiles/News/EEPS_Heim_Translation_Prize_flyerY2.pdf can be published anywhere in the world. The publication’s au- The Marc Raeff Book Prize thor or authors are to be members in good standing of the SSA. The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association is now Submissions must be hard copies, unless the work appears only accepting submissions for the Marc Raeff Book Prize, which is in electronic form, and the review committee will not return awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit any submitted items. The deadline for postmarking submis- and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, par- sions is 1 May 2015. Send entries to Daniel E. Miller, Depart- ticularly during the long eighteenth-century. ment of History, University of West Florida, 11000 University • The publication must be a monograph, translation, or refer- Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA. Address any questions to ence work about any aspect of the long eighteenth century, Dr. Miller at [email protected].

March 2015 • NewsNet 15 Davis Graduate Student Travel NEW FOR 2015 Grant Deadline: May 22, 2015 ASEEES Convention Opportunity aseees.org/convention/grants/davis Travel Grant Deadline: June 1, 2015 Kathryn W. Davis’s generous donation to our organiza- aseees.org/convention/grants/opportunity tion, combined with members’ donations, enables us to help subsidize travel costs for graduate students pre- New starting in 2015, ASEEES is able to offer a limited senting papers at the ASEEES Annual Convention. We number of travel grants to subsidize the travel of non- are especially committed to subsidizing those graduate student members with income under $30,000 to present students who are attending the convention for the first their papers at the ASEEES annual convention. Where time or who have no local institutional resources for trav- possible, priority will be given to first-time convention el support. Students may only receive ONE Davis Grant presenters or junior scholars who do not receive insti- over the course of their graduate studies. tutional support, such as those working as adjuncts or All applicants must be: unemployed/underemployed. • A student working at either the master’s or doctoral level in any field of Slavic, East European, or Eur- GRANT AMOUNT: Up to $500 USD asian Studies; • Presenting a paper on a regular panel; All applicants must be: • A current ASEEES student member; • Not a previous recipient of an ASEEES Davis Gradu- • A regular member of ASEEES at the membership ate Student Travel Grant. level of income under $30,000 at time of application (affiliate, joint, and student members are not All applicants must complete the online grant applica- eligible to apply); tion form, which includes a scholarly letter of reference • Presenting a paper on a regular panel (chairs, from an advisor or department chair, paper abstract, discussants, and roundtable participants are not tentative travel budget, statement of need, and C.V. eligible to apply); • NOT a student (Graduate students from all parts of the world are encouraged to apply for the Davis Student Travel Grants.) Regional Scholar Travel Grant • NOT a permanent resident of: Albania, Armenia, Deadline June 1, 2015 Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bul- aseees.org/convention/grants/regional garia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, ASEEES is able to offer a limited number of travel grants Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Po- to subsidize the travel of faculty, policy specialists, and land, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, independent scholars who permanently reside in Eastern Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan, Europe and Eurasia to participate in the ASEEES annual who can apply for our Regional Scholar Travel convention. Grants. All applicants must be: • Permanent resident in any of the following countries: All applicants must: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herze- • Complete the online grant application form, which govina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, includes the paper abstract, tentative travel bud- Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, get, statement of need, and curriculum vitae Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan; Applications will be judged on intellectual merit with a • A current regular member of ASEEES view to disciplinary and regional balances. Where pos- • Presenting a paper on a regular panel sible, priority will be given to candidates who are first- • Not in receipt of ASEEES regional scholar travel grant time convention presenters or junior scholars who are in the last three years. working as adjuncts or who are unemployed. Since our funding is limited and we wish to fund as many deserv- All applicants must complete the online grant application ing applicants as possible, we urge applicants to be form, which includes abstract, travel budget, statement practical in estimating their travel and lodging budget. of need, and C.V.

March 2015 • NewsNet 16 Publications

Barbara Allen recently published Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885- gal education, and justice. But even more significantly, the book 1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Brill, 2015), in which Allen re- will show how Dostoevsky studies can enrich all readers’ abili- counts the political formation and positions of Russian Com- ties to be open to hearing differing, ambiguous, and conflicting munist and trade unionist, Alexander Shlyapnikov. As leader voices, which can add meaning to everyone’s daily lives. of the Workers’ Opposition (1919–21), Shlyapnikov called for trade unions to realize workers’ mastery over the economy. The original English text of Eleanor Lord Pray, Letters from Despite defeat, he continued to advocate distinct views on the Vladivostok 1894-1930, ed. Birgitta Ingemanson (University of Soviet socialist project that provide a counterpoint to Stalin’s Washington Press, 2013) is now available in paperback (June vision. Arrested during the Great Terror, he refused to confess 2014). Maine native Eleanor Pray lived in Vladivostok for more to charges he thought illogical and unsupported by evidence. than thirty-five years, and wrote vividly not only of the city’s Unlike the standard historical and literary depiction of the Old ordinary days, but also of the historic events that she witnessed, Bolshevik, Shlyapnikov contested Stalin’s and the NKVD’s con- including the comings and goings of the Imperial Pacific Fleet, struct of the ideal party member. Allen conducted extensive re- the upheavals of wars and revolutions, the Allied Intervention, search in the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of and the beginnings of Soviet life. Eleanor Pray’s letters (more the Russian Federation, in the Russian State Archive of Social than 2,000 of which are now in the Library of Congress, col- and Political History, and in other archives in Moscow, Russia. lected and organized by Patricia D. Silver) restore important aspects of Vladivostok’s history that had been forgotten or sup- Lee A. Farrow recently published Alexis in America: A Russian pressed. Several books have been published based on them, Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72, with Louisiana State University including the Russian translation of Letters, Pis’ma iz Vladivo- Press. Over a period of three months, Alexis traveled all over stoka, tr. Andrei Sapelkin (Vladivostok: Rubezh, 2008), and Bir- the United States, visiting the major American cities of the time gitta Ingemanson, Solnechnyi dvorik / The Sunny Neighborhood, (including Chicago right after the Great Fire) and meeting many tr. Maxim Nemtsov (Vladivostok: Rubezh, 2011). famous Americans, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel A bronze statue of Pray’s likeness was unveiled in Vladi- Morse, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ulysses Grant. He vostok on July 4, 2014. A quote from her letters is painted on the also traveled by train for a buffalo hunt with Buffalo Bill and decorative wall behind the monument: “Sometimes I long to get George Custer and was present for the first daytime celebration away from here and be done with all the worries and vexations of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. His visit occurred during the of everyday life ... but deep in my soul I know I shall never be as high point of Russian-American relations; both Russian and contented anywhere else as in this beautiful unkempt place, for Americans viewed the visit as a barometer of future good rela- the best part of my life has been spent here” (1929). Despite her tions. At the same time, there were those who opposed the visit sharp disagreements with Russian politics at the time, Eleanor – Americans who deplored the fawning over royalty, as well and Pray did not consider it a betrayal of her principles to hold out German and Polish nationals in the US who had fled their own a hand in friendship to those with differing opinions. countries to escape the oppression of monarchies. This is the first book to thoroughly describe and analyze Alexis’s trip and My Years in and out of “The Ivory Tower,” is an autobiographi- its place in the story of Russian-American relations. cal review of Thaddeus Gromada’s career, Gromada, Professor Emeritus of Eastern European History at New Jersey City Uni- Amy D. Ronner’s new book, Dostoevsky and the Law (Carolina versity and past President and Executive Director of the Polish Academic Press, 2015), shows how Dostoevsky’s genius, tran- Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, traces in detail his scending time and place, sheds light on today’s legal doctrines, record of activities and achievements since 1959 as a scholar, offenders, crimes, investigations, and trials. It explains how Dos- teacher, administrator, organizer of academic and cultural toevsky’s drive to express the inexpressible, skepticism about events, and activist. As an advocate he promoted the improve- the existence of an objective reality, and belief in potential pu- ment of history/social studies instruction in our schools, cham- rification through suffering and confession feature prominently pioned cultural pluralism and inter-ethnic cooperation in our in his life and work. Most significantly, these defining facets are society, advanced knowledge about Poland’s history, culture integral to Dostoevsky’s keen insight into the workings of legal and the contributions of the Polish American group (Polonia); institutions and to his conception of how the law, in its broad- he also encouraged scholarly and cultural exchanges between est sense, can potentially elevate or demote the human race. Poland and the United States. Additionally, the book contains Through an in-depth analysis of some of Dostoevsky’s famous a collection of selected statements and articles by Gromada, and lesser-known masterpieces, this book speaks to lawyers and which reflect his concerns and the issues he encountered. non-lawyers alike: it builds toward an overarching thesis about the potential for Dostoevsky studies to improve law practice, le-

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Institutional Member News

The Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center KENNAN INSTITUTE TITLE VIII SHORT-TERM GRANTS Kennan Institute Pleased to Announce New Fellowship Up to one month’s duration Program The Kennan Institute offers Short-Term Grants to The Kennan Institute seeks fellowship applicants scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities from diverse, policy-oriented sectors such as media, business, focuses on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic local government, law, civil society, and academia to examine States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize important political, social, economic, cultural, and historical the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the issues in Russia, Ukraine, and the region. Among the aims of Washington, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research is preferred. the new fellowships are to build bridges between traditional Academic participants must either possess a doctoral degree academia and the policy world, as well as to maintain and or be doctoral candidates who have nearly completed their increase collaboration among researchers from Russia, Ukraine, dissertations. For non-academics, an equivalent degree of and the U.S. The fellowships are funded by a grant from Carnegie professional achievement is expected. Corporation of New York. Short-Term Grants provide a stipend of $3,200 for George F. Kennan Fellows will be based at the Wilson 31 days. While the Kennan Institute cannot provide office Center in Washington, D.C. for three-month residencies. space for Short-Term scholars, we do provide a carrel with a Fellows will receive access to the Library of Congress, National computer and internet access. Travel and accommodation Archives, and policy research centers in Washington, D.C., as expenses are not directly covered by this grant. There is no well as the opportunity to meet with key experts and officials official application form for Short-Term Grants. The applicant at the State Department, USAID, Department of Defense, and is requested to submit a concise description (700-800 words) of Congress. While conducting research, the George F. Kennan his or her research project (including a title), C.V., a statement Fellows are expected to actively participate in discussions with on preferred dates of residence in Washington, D.C., and the policy and academic communities, including speaking two letters of recommendation specifically in support of the engagements at the Wilson Center as well as potentially outside research to be conducted at the Kennan Institute. Please note, of Washington D.C., and attending meetings, conferences, and the recommendation letters must be signed. Applicants should other activities organized by the Kennan Institute and Wilson also state their citizenship status in their materials. All of these Center. Upon completion of the fellowships, the grantees materials may be submitted via e-mail. Please note that the become alumni, for whom Kennan will continue to offer letters of recommendation, if sent by email, must be sent directly opportunities for collaboration and engagement. from the referee and be a scan of a signed letter. Referees are Research Team Option: also welcome to send their signed letters by fax or post. Please note applicants have an option to apply for Grant recipients are required to be in residence in the fellowship as individuals or as part of a team. If applying Washington, D.C. for the duration of their grant and give a as a team of two (or three) applicants, the applicants must be presentation. Four rounds of competitive selection for Short- citizens of at least two different countries. The goal of such Term Grants are held each year. The next closing dates are joint fellowships is to promote collaborative research projects March 1 and June 1, 2015. Applicants are notified of the among U.S., Russian, and Ukrainian experts. competition results roughly seven weeks after the closing date. • George F. Kennan Fellowship Teams will: Awardees must provide at least one month notification before • Produce joint paper(s) for policy-relevant publications. beginning their grant. Only U.S. citizens are currently eligible • Present work at D.C., Russia, and/or Ukraine events. for Short-Term Grants. • Conduct meetings and engage with policymakers in D.C. Scholars in Residence Competitions for the fellowships will be held twice The Kennan Institute welcomes the following scholars: yearly with the following application deadlines: March 1 Galina Starovoitova Fellows on Human Rights and Conflict and September 1. U.S., Russian, and Ukrainian citizens Resolution are eligible to apply. Applicants must submit a completed Aleksandr Erdelevskiy, Professor of Civil and Family application – please see our website for more details: http:// Law Chair, Moscow State Law Academy. “Freedom of Expression www.wilsoncenter.org/grant-opportunities-and-internships-0 and Protection of Reputation: Problems of Interaction.” The George F. Kennan Fellowship offers a monthly stipend of $3,200, research facilities, and computer access. Fulbright-Kennan Research Scholar Fellows are required to be in residence at the Kennan Institute, Vladimir Zolotykh, Chair and Professor, Department Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. for the duration of the of Modern and Contemporary History and International grant. Awardees are expected to commence their three-month appointments within one year of accepting the fellowship. Relations, Udmurt State University, Russia. “Conservative Approaches to Social Policy in the US and the Role of Policy Other Grant Opportunities: Please note the Kennan Institute Transfer and International Learning.” Title VIII Research Scholarships have been suspended. March 2015 • NewsNet 19 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! 2015 SUMMER RESEARCH ence to refine research skills. Students will also have the oppor- LABORATORY AT ILLINOIS tunity of seeking guidance from specialized librarians skilled in The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Eu- navigating resources pertaining to and originating from Russia, rope, and Eurasia is open to all scholars with research interests in Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks The SRS is an extensive service that provides access to during the summer months from June 15 until August 8. The a wide range of materials that center on and come from: Russia, SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University the Former Soviet Union, Czech and Slovak Republics, Former of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The Inter- scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research sup- national & Area Studies Library, where the Slavic reference col- port from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS). lections are housed, contains work stations for readers, research The deadline for grant funding is April 15 and is fast ap- technologies, a collection of authoritative reference works, and proaching! REEEC will continue to receive applications for the provides unlimited access to one of the largest collections for Summer Research Lab after the grant deadline, but housing and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in North Ameri- travel funds will not be guaranteed. For further information ca. and to apply, please use this link: http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/ srl/?utm_source=SEELANGS&utm_medium=email&utm_ CFP: Strategies for Building a Successful campaign=SRL2015 Polish Language Program For graduate students, the SRL provides an opportu- A professional development workshop for instructors of Polish nity to conduct research prior to going abroad and extra experi- will be held May 2, 2015 at the University of Chicago. Organized in collaboration with the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) and the Chicago Language Center (CLC) at the University of Chicago, this workshop seeks to bring together instructors of Polish at the high school and secondary education levels to discuss the specific challenges facing Polish language classrooms in the context of technological development, student recruitment, and content-based instruction. 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In Memoriam

Stanislaw Baranczak died on December 26, 2014 at his home in popular publications, most of them in Polish. in Newton, Mass. He was 68. In recognition of her contributions to the Republic of Born in Poznan, Poland, on Nov. 13, 1946, he earned Poland, President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski awarded an M.A. and Ph.D. in philology at Adam Mickiewicz University Cienciala on May 16, 2014 with the Commander’s Cross with in Poznan and was teaching there when his political activities Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. cost him his job. In the 1970s he was banned from publishing in Excerpted from material from the Counsulate General Poland, though he continued to write for underground outlets. of the Republic of Poland in Chicago. He eventually regained his post as Solidarity gained political traction. By then Harvard had offered him a job in the depart- The University of Kansas is mourning the death ofA lexander ment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, but he was unable to Tsiovkh, director of Ukrainian studies and associate professor accept it for nearly three years because the Polish government of practice in the KU Center for Russian, East European and denied him a visa. He arrived at Harvard in 1981 and remained Eurasian Studies (CREES), who died December 23, 2014. He on the faculty until Parkinson’s disease forced him to retire in was 63. the late 1990s. Originally from Lviv in western Ukraine, Tsiovkh was Mr. Baranczak’s best-known prose collection, Breathing director of Ukrainian studies and an expert on Ukrainian his- Under Water and Other East European Essays (1990), includes tory and politics. Since 1994, he organized and directed the KU shrewd assessments of prominent Polish and Czech figures. In Intensive Ukrainian Language and Culture summer program at another volume, Selected Poems: The Weight of the Body (1989), Ivan Franko University in Lviv, which attracted many students written in English, Mr. Baranczak ruefully addressed the life of not only from KU but from all over the country. He joined the a writer in exile. Mr. Baranczak also wrote a book-length study university in 1993 as a visiting professor of Ukrainian studies of the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, and he translated the work and quickly became indispensable to both graduate and under- of Polish writers into English, including, with Seamus Heaney, graduate programs in Russian, East European & Eurasian stud- the 16th-century poet Jan Kochanowski, and, with Ms. Ca- ies by offering methodologies and capstone seminars, as well as vanagh, the 1996 Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. In the a number of graduate courses on nationalism, borderlands and other direction, from English to Polish, he translated much of other aspects of Eastern European and Eurasian history and Shakespeare, the verse of Robert Herrick, John Donne, E.E. politics. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Philip Larkin, Provided by Jack Martin, KU Office of Public Affairs among other poets, and even light verse and song lyrics. Baranczak received the ASEEES Distinguished Contri- butions Award in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2010.

Renowned Polish-American historian of interbellum Poland and Professor Emerita of the University of Kansas Anna Maria Cienciala passed away on December 24, 2014 in Fort Lauder- dale, FL. A memorial service was held at the University of Kan- Index of Advertisers sas in Lawrence on January 22, 2015. Born in the Free City of Gdańsk, Poland, she was educated in England, Canada, and U.S. (B.A. Liverpool, 1952, M.A. ACTR/ACCELS 9 McGill, 1955; Ph.D. Indiana, 1962). She taught at the University Arizona State U Critical Languages Inst. 5 of Ottawa and the University of Toronto before joining the Uni- Kritika 18 versity of Kansas faculty in 1965. Professor Emerita of History, Learn Russian in EU 3 Cienciala specialized in 20th century Polish, European, Soviet, Slavica Publishers 18 and American diplomacy 1919–1945. A historian of Polish in- Slavica: Russian Culture in War and terwar diplomacy and the Second Republic of Poland’s foreign Revolution 1914-22 23 policy, Cienciala was the author of such books as: Poland and SRAS Study Abroad in Poland 7 the Western Powers 1938-1939, Polish Foreign Policy 1926-1932 and Polish-Bolshevik War 1919-1920. Additionally, she edited five books and contributed chapters to eighteen volumes. Her total number of publications as of January 2014 was 202, including academic articles, book reviews in American, Cana- dian, Polish, and German historical journals as well as articles

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Affiliate Member News

Association for the Study of Eastern Chris- The Bulgarian Studies Association tian History and Culture (ASEC) NEWS 2014 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize ASEC proudly announces the recipients of this year’s Distin- The Bulgarian Studies Association awarded its 2014 John D. Bell guished Article prizes: Memorial Book Prize to Elena Kostova’s book, Medieval Melnik Winner: Valentina Izmirlieva. “Christian Hajjis—the Other Or- from the Late Twelfth to the Late Fourteenth Centuries: Historical thodox Pilgrims to Jerusalem.” Slavic Review 73, no. 2 (2014): Vicissitudes of a Small Balkan Town, Sofia: ARCS, 2013. In argu- 322-346. ment of their decision, the Book Prize committee states: “This Honorable Mention: Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock. “The Ticket meticulously-researched book is one of a very few comprehen- to the Soviet Soul: Science, Religion, and the Spiritual Crisis of sive studies of medieval Balkan urban settlements. Its subject Late Soviet Atheism.” Russian Review 73 (2014): 171-197. is the historical evolution of Melnik, a small but strategically The Sixth Biennial Conference of ASEC will be held located town, as it passed continually from hand to hand among jointly at Rhodes College and the Westin Hotel in Memphis, the Bulgarian, Byzantine and Nicean Empires, Serbia, and a se- Tennessee on September 18-19, 2015, with a pre-conference ries of local overlords. Based on primary sources, and focusing reception at the hotel on the evening of September 17. Our in particular on the political and ecclesiastical development of keynote speaker will be Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop the region that Melnik was a part of, Medieval Melnik is a valu- Demetrios Professor of Orthodox Theology and Culture at able contribution not only to Bulgarian history, but also to the Fordham University. This conference typically draws scholars understanding of medieval urbanism in general.” from the U.S. and also from a number of foreign countries. It offers participants the opportunity to present their papers and SHERA NEWS exchange ideas in lively discussion of issues related to Eastern Following elections in January, the Society of Historians of Christian history and culture. Major sponsors of the conference East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture are Rhodes College and the Hilandar Research Library of the (SHERA) has elected Eva Forgacs as its new Vice-President/ Ohio State University. Those who would like more information, President-Elect. Ksenya Gurshtein, the web news editor, was including a registration form for membership in the association running unopposed. Margaret Samu stepped down as SHERA’s (which is required for conference participation), are invited to President after the end of her two-year term, and Natasha Kur- access the following link: http://www.rhodes.edu/modernlan- chanova assumed the duties of this position. guages/21054_21061.asp At the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Confer- ence in New York, Margaret Samu hosted visitors from Hun- association fOR women in slavic studies gary, Russia, and Ukraine who were part of CAA’s International (AWSS) ELECTION NEWS Travel Grant Program. Samu arranged meetings with specialists Choi Chatterjee recently took over the helm of AWSS from in the visitors’ expertise and facilitated their participation in a Karen Petrone who has ably steered the organization during full-day preconference program organized by the CAA Inter- her two years of outstanding service as President. Along with national Committee about international issues in art history, as the Officers and Board, AWSS warmly thanks Karen and Adele well as other events organized in connection with the confer- Lindenmeyr, Past Presidents, for their exceptional efforts; the ence. AWSS is in excellent shape thanks to their efficiency, outstand- SHERA sponsored three sessions at CAA this year: a ing administrative capabilities, and farsightedness. AWSS also session on teaching methods, Infiltrating the Pedagogical Canon expresses deep appreciation to outgoing Board Member, Me- and a double session Reconsidering Art and Politics: Towards lissa Bokovoy, U of New Mexico, Alberquerque, for her many New Narratives in Russian and East European Art. During CAA, years of service And thanks go to graduate student representa- the Society held its membership meeting at the Metropolitan tives, Nadezhda Berkovich and Jessica Zychowicz. Museum of Art’s Watson Library. After the meeting, Jared Ash, Congratulations to the new Officers and Board Mem- SHERA member and the museum’s librarian, hosted a recep- bers of the AWSS. tion at which he showed the attendees rare books and materials Vice-President/President-Elect: Betsy Jones Hemen- related to Russian, East European, and Eurasian art and archi- way, Loyola U, Chicago tecture from the library’s collection. Board members: Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers, the State U of New Jersey, Jill Massino, U of North Carolina, Charlotte, Valerie Sperling, Clark U; Graduate student representatives: Natasha McCauley, U of Michigan and Maria Melentyeva, U of Alberta (Canada).

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The American Council of Learned Societies announced the The Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of recipients of the 2015 Collaborative Research Fellowships, in Departments of Foreign Languages has been awarded this year which teams of scholars were selected for funding cross bound- to Olga Kagan. This award recognizes Kagan’s work in language aries of discipline, methodology, and geography to undertake teaching for Heritage students from all backgrounds. The award research projects that will result in joint publications. Analyz- was presented at the MLA award ceremony on Saturday, Janu- ing the lack of scientific consensus about the long terms effects ary 10. of exposure to radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, environmental historian Kate Brown and evolutionary biolo- Molly Molloy, of Stanford University Library, retired in No- gist Timothy A. Mousseau will co-author journal articles for the vember, 2014, after a very distinguished and productive career upcoming 30th anniversary of the accident as well as a mono- as a Slavic/East European cataloger, bibliographer, and refer- graph that explores the interplay between scientific knowledge ence librarian. and the historical contexts of its production. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced its Phil Lyon is now the Associate Director of the Ellison Center 2014 Fellows. They include ASEEES members: for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the • Frances Lee Bernstein, Drew University for “Vanishing Jackson School of International Studies at the U of Washington. Veterans: Disability, Medicine, and Soviet Manhood at the End of World War II” Lee A. Farrow, Professor of History at Auburn University at • Ksenya Gurshtein, Independent Scholar, for “Conceptual Montgomery, has recently been selected as the Director of Art in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s” AUM’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Far- • Valeria Sobol, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, row will be creating and coordinating faculty development op- for “Visions of Empire in Russian Gothic Literature, 1790- portunities for the AUM campus, and overseeing the Writing 1850” Across the Curriculum and common reading programs.

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March 13-15. 2015 Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University. For more information, please contact csees@ osu.edu or visit slaviccenter.osu.edu March 26-28. “Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives,” U of Virginia. Contact: eec3c@ virginia.edu April 8-11. Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS), Portland, Oregon, http://www.wssaweb.com/conferences.html April 23-24. Baylor U Symposium: “Georgia at the Crossroad,” blogs.baylor.edu/georgiasymposium April 23-25. 20th Annual ASN World Convention, Harriman Institute, Columbia University http://nationalities.org/con- ventions/world/2015 May 25-26. International Conference: The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe, sponsored by Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Ho- locaust in Romania. ushmm.org/southeastern-europe-conference May 31-June 3. Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami U (Ohio) Young Researchers Conference: Writing the Past/Righting Memory, Cuma, Italy. Contact: Ben Sutcliffe at [email protected] August 3-8. The International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress, Makuhari, Japan, http:// src-h.slav. hokudai.ac.jp/iccees2015/index.html September 18-19. The Sixth Biennial Conference of ASEC will be held jointly at Rhodes College and the Westin Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee http://www.rhodes.edu/modernlanguages/21054_21061.asp October 15-18 CESS Annual Conference at George Washington University, Washington DC. http://www.centraleurasia. org/annual-meeting October 22-25. The Central Slavic Conference will meet at St. Louis University in Saint Louis, MO. November 19–22. ASEEES 47th Annual Convention Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

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