aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] CFP: Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference (fwd)

[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

Dear Colleagues:



I am writing to invite you to submit a proposal for an individual paper or
for a complete panel for the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic
Slavic Conference, a regional conference of the AAASS. Proposals should
include the paper's title, a very brief abstract, any request for technical
support, the surface and email address of the presenter as well as their
institutional affiliation. Room assignments for the panels are based in part
on knowing your needs for technical support when the Executive Board meets
in mid-January. The conference will be held at New York University in New
York City on March 29, 2008. Panels and papers are welcome on any
appropriate scholarly aspect of Slavic and East European Studies. The
President of our conference this year is Professor Anne Lounsbery. Her email
address is  <mailto:anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu> anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu

Please send your proposals by December 14, 2007 to me at
<mailto:theis@kutztown.edu> theis@kutztown.edu and or follow up by sending
them on hard copy. Mail the hard copy to Dr. Mary Theis, MASC Executive
Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO
BOX 730, Kutztown, PA 19530. My home address (503 Friendship Drive,
Fleetwood, PA 19522) should be used for mailing the hard copy after that
date, but I need to have all proposals at least by December 14th. My new
home email is  <mailto:maryetheis@mac.com> maryetheis@mac.com in case of
emergencies.

We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their
participation as well as yours is encouraged. A juried award of $200 is made
annually for the best graduate paper judged according to these elements in
our rubric: clarity of main research question and the response to it,
importance to the profession of main research findings, amount of support
for their argument, use of primary sources as well as adequate and
interesting content, readiness for publication, correct use of English, and
readability/style. Please remind your students that they should provide the
necessary visuals or materials to make a valid evaluation. Of course, the
paper must be presented at our MASC to be considered and will differ
somewhat from the written paper. The winning paper is then entered in the
national AAASS competition, where the rewards are more significant. A second
place prize of $175 is also awarded.

Although we are very keen to have the participation of graduate students in
our regional conferences, they and other participants should remember that
if they absolutely must withdraw a paper from a panel once they have agreed
to present it and the panels have been formed, it is their professional
responsibility to contact me well in advance of the conference so that I can
alert the chair and discussant in a timely fashion and revise the final
program accordingly.

I look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing each of you at the
conference.



Sincerely yours,



Mary E. Theis

Executive Secretary, MASC