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2024 SSA Best Book Prize: Denisa Nešťáková

Denisa Nešťáková won the 2024 SSA Best Book Prize for her book “Be Fruitful and Multiply: Slovakia’s Family Planning Under Three Regimes (1918-1965).” The unanimous decision praised her thorough research on family planning’s societal impacts in Slovakia and its relevance to European history. The prize amounts to $200.
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24th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop
The 24th Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, which will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 25-26, 2025, welcomes papers on Czech and Slovak topics. The deadline for submitting proposals is Dec. 18, 2024.
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SSA at ASEEES 2024 Boston

ASEEES 2024 will be held Nov. 21-24 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. See highlights of SSA-sponsored activities and Slovak/Czechoslovak-related panels.
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SSA member publication: “Mixed Signals – the European Parliament Elections in Slovakia”

Progressive Slovakia won the largest share of the vote in Slovakia’s European Parliament election. Erik Lastic, Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, and Tim Haughton, Professor at the University of Birmingham, explain that while the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico in May dominated headlines ahead of the election, the results largely reinforced pre-existing…
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SSA member publication: “The Attempted Assassination of Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico”

Dr. Michael J. Kopanic, Jr., from the University of Maryland Global Campus, takes a look at the Fico assassination attempt in relation to earlier instances of political violence in Slovakia. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of the Czechoslovak Studies Association newsletter. Kopanic, Michael. “The Attempted Assassination of Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico.”…
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SSA member publication: “Controlling the narrative: the shooting of Slovakia’s Robert Fico”

In the wake of the assassination attempt and a fortnight before European Parliament elections, Dr. Petra Alderman and Prof. Tim Haughton publish their analysis of the state of Slovak politics and explore how things might develop. Published by UK in a Changing Europe, 24 May 2024. Dr. Tim Haughton is Professor of Comparative and European…
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Call for Dues: Deadline April 30, 2024
In light of our forthcoming 2024 election to vote on officers and bylaws, we invite you to enroll or renew your membership via PayPal on our website’s Membership Page so that you will be eligible to vote (Click red button below). Payments are due by April 30, 2024. If you are a first-year member or graduate student, please…
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ASEEES 2024 Panel/Roundtable Submission Deadline Approaching!

The Slovak Studies Association (SSA) sponsors a panel or roundtable at the annual ASEEES Convention, either focused entirely on Slovak studies in any discipline, or something comparative including Slovakia, historically or in the present. It can be a roundtable as in 2023 or a standard panel. If you have a paper or other proposal to…
