Alexandra Cantacuzino
AWSS Luncheon and Annual Meeting
It is my pleasure to invite you to our annual meeting and lunch, held on Saturday, November 20th, at noon, in the Palos Verde Room, as part of the AAASS Convention Program. The lunch will commence at noon, with the presentation of our awards, followed by the business meeting, which will end at 1 p.m. The business meeting is open to all and there is enough seating to accommodate all guests. I encourage all of you to reserve a lunch spot soon, places are limited. The lunch offers, all gourmet boxed meals with no drink service save for water due to the rising costs, are as follows:
Gourmet boxed meals served with seasonal fruit, babybel cheese, kettle chips, plastic ware & napkin.
- California box-roasted garden vegetables on whole grain baguette lemon aioli, seasonal sprouts, market fruit compote and wild rice salad
- Tuscan box-roasted free-range chicken and portobello on olive foccacia caramelized marsala onions, basil aioli, arugula, rotelli pasta salad and biscotti cookie
- Rodeo Gucci-wood smoked turkey breast on soft sundried tomato ciabatta, provolone cheese, cheyenne roasted onions, greens and fennel slaw and flourless triple brownie
Please send a check for $40.50 (it includes the mandatory taxes and service fees) made out to Association for Women in Slavic Studies or AWSS, with "AWSS Lunch" on the note line, to:
Dr. Kris Groberg
324D Department of Visual Arts
NDSU Downtown Campus
650 NP Avenue
Fargo, ND 58102
Preferences for a specific choice of the three options (vegetarian, chicken, or turkey) should be sent to Maria Bucur at mbucur@indiana.edu, and will be accommodated on a first-come, first-serve basis. All reservations need to be communicated to Maria Bucur by November 15th. We may have a few tickets left for sale at the AWSS booth during the conference, but we cannot guarantee their availability at that point. Please pick up your lunch ticket (it will have your type of lunch written on it) from the AWSS booth ahead of time (by 11:30 a.m. on Saturday) or at the door starting at 11:45.
We look forward to having your there!
With best wishes,
Maria Bucur, AWSS President
AWSS Elections
Dear AWSS members:
We are gearing up for another election and would like to encourage you to consider participating, nominating, and spreading the word to all other likely candidates. At the meeting in November (and then until the end of the year, through the magic of the Internet), we will be running an election for the following spots, to commence tenure March 8, 2011:
- President (2013-2015) (that person assumes three titles over her tenure, President-Elect [2011-2013]/President [2013-2015]/Past-President [2015-2017])-1 spot
The President a. oversees the well-being of the AWSS and consults with her board members over issues that come up over the two years of her tenure; b. organizes the Association's participation in the annual ASEEES convention; c. chairs the Heldt Prize Committee and coordinates the work of that committee during her tenure as President-Elect (two years); and is a member of the Outstanding Achievement Award Committee, as well as chair of the Graduate Essay Prize Committee during her tenure as Past-President (two years). Read the full description of the President's responsibilities. - Board Member-2 spots, serving 2011-2013
Board members serve for two years and help advise the President on policy matters, as well as serve on committees (both standing and ad hoc) - Graduate Student Representative-1 spot
Graduate Student representatives have the same attributes as other board members, but the committees they can serve on are more limited in scope, so as not to interfere with their position as the most junior members of the board (e.g., they cannot serve on the Heldt Prize Committee)
Please send your nominations/self-nominations and other related questions to Heather Coleman at hcoleman@ualberta.ca, chair of the elections committee, by October 1st, 2010. You do not have to be present at the AAASS in November to be on the ballot.
AWSS needs you!
Dear members and friends of AWSS, we are launching a fundraising campaign to assist CIS and East European colleagues with travel expenses to scholarly conferences. AWSS is pledging to match any gift up to $2000 towards this fund. In the past, we have been able to sponsor or at least partially help defray travel costs for over a dozen such colleagues to give papers at conferences in Europe and North America. Please assist us in this effort. Your dollars will go twice as far and they are tax deductible. To participate in this effort, please contact Rochelle Ruthchild at ruthchil@yahoo.com.
Heldt Prize
The winners of the 2009 Heldt Prize Committee are:
Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies: Christine Ruane, The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917, Yale University Press, 2009.
Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies: Olga Shevchenko, Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow, Indiana University Press, 2009.
Best translation in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies: Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Divine Sophia: The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov, including Annotated Translations by Boris Jakim, Judith Kornblatt, and Laury Magnus; Cornell University Press, 2009.
Best article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies: Stephanie Sandler, "Visual Poetry after Modernism: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova," Slavic Review 76, No. 3 (Fall 2008), 610-41.
The competition for the 2010 Heldt Prize is open, the deadline for submitting nominations is 15 May 2010. For further information, please see Heldt Prize.
AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award
The winner of the 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award is Beth Holmgren. For further information about nominations for the 2010 OAA and to see a list of past recipients see Outstanding Achievement Award or contact the President of AWSS.
Mary Zirin Award For Independent Scholars
The winner of the 2009 Mary Zirin Award is Elena Shulman. For further information about this year's competition and a list of past recipients see Mary Zirin Award.
Graduate Essay Prize
The winner of the 2009 Graduate Student Essay is Faith C. Hillis, Ph.D., History, 2009, Yale University, "State, Society, and Capitalism in the Southwest Borderlands" (chapter 1 from her dissertation, "Between Empire and Nation: Urban Politics, Community, and Violence in Kiev, 1863-1907"). For further information see the Graduate Essay Prize.
Honorable Mention: Tsveta Petrova, Ph.D. Program in Government, Cornell University, "Rediscovering the Strength of Civil Society in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Case of Citizen Participation in Local Governance in Bulgaria."
We are inviting submissions for the 2010 AWSS Graduate Essay Prize. For further information, please see the Graduate Essay Prize.
Graduate Research Prize
The winner of the 2009 Graduate Research Prize is Roland Clark, History, University of Pittsburg, and honorable mention Anastasia Kayiatos, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. Slavic Lang and Lit. For further information see Graduate Research Prize.
AWSS Travel Grant
The AWSS has established a small fund to assist scholars from the CIS and former Soviet bloc countries to travel to international conferences. Deadline for application is May 20, 2010. For further information see Travel Grant.
AWSS on Facebook
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Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
AWSS members receive a 25% discount
ASPASIA is an English-language international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focused on and produced in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. This region includes such countries as Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. In these countries the field of women's and gender history has developed unevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon. Through its contributions, ASPASIA transforms "European women's history" into more than Western European women's history, as is still often the case, and expands the comparative angle of research on women and gender to all parts of Europe.
For further information regarding manuscript submissions and subscriptions, click here.