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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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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…
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Botstiber Institute Announces Research Grant Proposals
2023 Research and Project Grant Proposal Portal Now Open Offering a much simpler application process, with an earlier deadline, the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is currently accepting grant proposals for research or projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationships between the United States and Austria (including the larger Habsburg realm). Proposals may include…
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University of Ottawa Announces 2023 Scholarships
The Chair in Slovak History and Culture of the University of Ottawa is pleased to announce its call for applications for scholarships for 2023. For 2023, the following Scholarship and Research Bursaries are opened: The deadline for all applications is February 28, 2023. Please familiarize yourself with the terms of the award before applying. If you wish to apply…
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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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