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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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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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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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2023 Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture (online)
“Free and Fair Elections in the New Democracy Age” Friday, November 17 , noon – 1 pm EST Keynote speaker: Rasto Kuzel, Executive Director of Memo98 The awardee will discuss the importance of free and fair elections for democracy in the aftermath of the recent elections in Slovakia and Poland and ahead of the US…
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SSA Signs the American Historical Association’s Statement Opposing Florida House Bill 999 (March 2023)

The Slovak Studies Association agreed to sign the document, as stated on the AHA website: “The AHA has released a statement on Florida House Bill 999, ‘express[ing] horror . . . at the assumptions that lie at the heart of this bill and its blatant and frontal attack on principles of academic freedom and shared…
