The Importance of Associations
Joining academic and professional associations, or just subscribing to relevant scholarly listservs, is an important step for any student of Slavic studies. Associations not only publish important career information, including conference schedules and job opportunities within the profession, they also are an excellent means of establishing contacts with more senior scholars and researchers and often provide young scholars with opportunities to present their work at regional or national conferences or publish in the association's scholarly journals. Membership rates for students tend to be discounted significantly. Some of the major and minor associations are listed below. For a listing of current conferences, check on the AATSEEL or REESWEB site.
Associations
- AAASSS [American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies]
- AAAL American Association for Applied Linguistics
- AATSEEL [American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages]
- ACRL Slavic and East European Studies section (SEES)
- ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- ACTR ACCELS [American Councils]
- ALA [American Library Association]
- American Association of Language Specialists
- American Society of Interpreters [P.O. Box 9603; Washington, DC 20016]
- American Translators Association
- Association for Women in Slavic Studies
- ATA American Translators Association
- BASEES [British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies]
- Bulgarian Studies Association
- CAS [Canadian Association of Slavists]
- CESS Central Eurasian Studies Society
- COSEELIS [Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services]
- Danish Organization for Research on the Caucasus
- DGO - German Society for Research on Eastern Europe
- The Early Slavic Studies Association
- European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES)
- The European Society for Central Asian Studies
- ICCEES [International Council for Central and East European Studies]
- MLA [Modern Languages Association]
- SEEFA [Slavic and East European Folklore Association]
- Society for Slovene Studies
- Society for the Study of Caucasia
- Southeast European Studies Association
- SREES [Scottish Society for Russian and East European Studies]
- TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
- U.S. Russia Business Council
Listservs
- H-Russia (discussion of Russian History) Subscribe to listserv@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
- Russian Language Translators Listserv/Newsgroup — A friendly, competent, helpful, highly-active bunch of 382 (mostly freelance) translators. 95% Russian spoken. Expect a high volume of emails.
- SEELANGS (discussion of Slavic and East European literature, linguistics, and culture) Subscribe at listserv@listserv.cuny.edu . The SEELANGS searchable web archive is located at http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ . You must login before you can search the archive.
- SLAVCIN-L (discussion of Russian/Slavic Cinema) A low-volume, but valuable listserve for information on Slavic & East European film. Subscribe at listserver@mail.wm.edu
- SLAVLIBS (discussion of Slavic Librarianship) Subscribe by sending a message with your reason for wanting to subscribe, academic affiliation and contact information to Allan Urbanic at aurbanic@library.berkeley.edu . You need not be a librarian to subscribe (a number Slavic scholars and library students also subscribe).
Other Online Sources
- AATSEEL's List of Scheduled Conferences — This frequently updated list of conferences in Slavic languages and linguistics is probably the most comprehensive one out there. However, generally it does not list conferences in area studies, or other related fields.
- REESWEB — REESWEB, run out of the University of Pittsburgh, provides a list of upcoming events, including conferences, gallery openings, presentations, symposia, etc. However, because it is communally updated, it is rarely comprehensive. A good source all the same.
- REENIC — Run out of the University of Texas at Austin, REENIC has a page listing associations, conferences and other professional organziations and events for the Slavic Scholar.
- Slavic Eurasian Studies Web — Though this Slavic gateway does not seem to specifically index conferences or associations, it is still a good place to get this information. The best way may be to go by region.
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