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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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SSA at ASEEES 2025
ASEEES 2025 will be held Nov. 20-23 at the Washington DC Hilton. See highlights of SSA-sponsored activities and Slovak/Czechoslovak-related panels.
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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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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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