Category: Featured
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“30 Years of Slovak Civil Society” Lecture by Zuzana Wienk, Director of Bystriny
12:00 noon ET, April 13, 2023 ONLINE In partnership with the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C., and Friends of Slovakia, we invite you to attend the fourth event in the Slovakia@30 series After the fall of communism, a real civil society was suddenly possible in Slovakia. From the early days of independence, nothing…
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Announcement: Owen V. Johnson
Announcement: Owen V. Johnson The SSA is deeply saddened to hear of the sudden loss of Owen V. Johnson last weekend (August 2022). He was a seminal scholar in our field and one who touched many of our lives as an advisor and mentor but also as a friend. His advice was always practical and…
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SSA Statement on Invasion of Ukraine
The Slovak Studies Association, which unites scholars specializing in Slovak affairs in North America and throughout the world, unequivocally condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite the spurious claims of the Kremlin about the Ukraine, the country’s government and members of its parliament are responsible elected representatives of the Ukrainian, Russian, Rusyn, Romanian, and other…
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Member Spotlight: Interview with Joel Fetzer
Dr. Joel Fetzer: Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA 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 needed to learn…
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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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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…