Category: News
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Lecture: “Argonauts of the Eastern Bloc: Environmentalism in Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution”
Presented by the Slovak American Society of Washington, D.C. A talk with Edward Snajdr, John Jay College, CUNY. Saturday, April 9th at 2:00pm EDT ONLINE: To register for this event on Zoom, please visit: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfu2vqD0tHNxuKm2meG5GTgGUJUMO8krs. In part two of the story of Slovakia’s nature activists, anthropologist Edward Snajdr continues his account of the rise and fall of environmentalism, based […]
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Member Spotlight: Interview with Joel Fetzer
Dr. Joel Fetzer: Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA joel.fetzer@pepperdine.edu Website: https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/joel-fetzer/ Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, 1996 Areas of Interest in Slovak Studies: Religion and Politics, Migration, Ethnicity When/how did you first develop an interest in Slovak or Slovak-area studies? I am planning a long-term book project comparing ethnic politics in Spain, Germany, and Slovakia and […]
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Member Spotlight: Interview with Erin Dusza
This year the Fulbright Program celebrated 75 years. As a fitting end to 2021, the SSA interviewed Erin Dusza, a current Fulbrighter living in Brno, Czech Republic. Erin Dusza: Indiana University, Bloomington (Ph.D. Candidate) Email: edusza@indiana.edu Recent Publications: “Pan-Slavism in Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic,” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spring 2014 Areas of […]
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Announcement: ASEEES Convention, 2021: Slovak Panels & Annual SSA Meeting
This year’s Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies conference features several panels –both in-person and virtual– that might be of interest to SSA members. In-person sessions will take place in New Orleans from November 18-21; virtual meetings will occur from December 1-3. You can download a list of all Slovak-related panels here: The […]
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Article Alert: “Central to Europe: The Advance of the Visegrád Four”
By SSA member Kevin J. McNamara Click here to view the article in the July/August 2021 issue of The National Interest Pre-pandemic economic and social progress looked very good for Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, and troubling for Germany and France. If these trends resume—and there is no reason to think they won’t—the East will […]
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Prize Announcement: Best Article/Book Chapter
At its annual meeting during the 2021 ASEEES conference, the Slovak Studies Association will award a modest financial prize for the best article or book chapter about Slovakia in the humanities and social sciences published in 2018 or later. All submissions must be in English, but they can be published anywhere in the world. The […]
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