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Share Your News for the SSA Newsletter
Send updates with your latest accomplishments and/or news of general interest to members Mark Stolarik, SSA Newsletter Editor, would like to publish another SSA Newsletter by the end of August, and he needs your help. Please email news about your latest accomplishments and/or news of general interest to our members at mark.stolarik@uottawa.ca. Items of interest: Please…
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SSA Best Article or Book Chapter Award – 2025
The SSA 2025 Slovak Studies Association prize competition for Best Article or Book Chapter was a big success in attracting a range of high-quality submissions. All the entries demonstrated the importance of the Slovak experience to the diverse fields of political science, history and cultural studies. The committee consisted of Edward Snajdr (Chair), Susan Mikula,…
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Book Talk: The Slovak Question – Saturday May 3, 2025
On May 3, 2025, Michael Cude will discuss his book “The Slovak Question: A Transatlantic Perspective, 1914-1948” in an online event. The work explores Slovak national identity’s development and its interactions with American Slovaks and policymakers, highlighting the complexities of Czechoslovakia’s identity crisis. This book won the Slovak Studies Association’s Best Book Prize in 2022.
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Submit Panel Proposal for the 2025 ASEEES Convention
Deadline: February 10, 2025 The SSA sponsors a panel each year at the ASEEES Convention (which also usually ensures panel acceptance by ASEEES). If you have an individual paper or a topic you’d like to organize fellow academics around, please contact Carol Leff at carolleff1947@gmail.com no later than Feb. 10. The SSA particularly welcomes graduate student and early-career…
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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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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…
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