Congratulations to SSA Member James Krapfl, whose book on the Velvet Revolution appears at the top of tomas Galis's list of "What to Read". You can see more here!
http://komentare.sme.sk/c/6136621/tomas-galis-co-citat-vo-fore.html

We have been discussing for some time the possibility of hosting a lecture series at the Library of Congress. Finally, it begins to become reality.

The Library of Congress, the Slovak Studies Association and the Slovak Studies Program of the University of Pittsburgh present
a lecture by Martin Votruba

"The Robber Who Stole the Slovak Silver Screen"

12:00 p.m. Thursday, November 17
LJ-250, The Thomas Jefferson Building
Library of Congress, 1st. St. SE, Washington, DC

For more information email slovakstudies@gmail.com

ASEEES is coming up soon and as we usually do, we post here a list of all panels and events involving our members or the country that we study. If we have inadvertently omitted anybody or any panels, please let us know at slovakstudies@gmail.com

1-04 Polish Popular Culture (Roundtable)—Cabinet Room
Chair: Jozef Figa, Kaplan U
Participants:

• Thomas Anessi, Columbia U
• Jolanta Wrobel Best, Houston Community College-Northwest
• Mikolaj Kunicki, U of Notre Dame
• Robert A. Rothstein (SSA) U of Massachusetts, Amherst

2-26 Borders, Authority, Myth-Making—Suite 209
Papers:

Kevin Deegan-Krause of the Slovak Studies Association is attempting to find good homes for books he acquired during fieldwork and no longer has reason to keep. If you are interested, the list is below. Pictures of the actual books (spine out) are available here: http://www.pozorblog.com/2011/08/obscure-slovak-and-czech-books-seek-goo...
If you are interested, please contact Kevin at kdecay[at]gmail{dot}com

Capek: Loupeznik, RUR, Bila nemoc
Capek: Masaryk on thought and life
Capek: Spisy XX. Hovory s T.G. Masarykem
Gajdos and Pasak: Vyvoj socioalno-ekologickej situace slovenskej spolocnosti
Gellner: Narody a nacionalismus
Hasek: Svejk (in Czech)
Havlicek Borovsky: Zivotni dilo
Hrabal: Tri novely
Janic: Roky bez domoviny
Jug-Kranjec: Slovenscina za tujce
Kusy: Eseje
Kusy: Na vlnach slobodnej Europy
Mistrik: Grammar of Contemporary Slovak
Pisarcikova and Michalus: Maly synonymicky slovnik
Prochazka: Chopin and Bohemia
Radvan: Stara Trnava v obrazoch

Another reminder from Fulbright. Chances really are high for many of these positions, especially in Slovakia, so please do apply.

2012-2013 Opportunities in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic
This year there are several awards available to the Czech Republic, including:
• Fulbright-Masaryk Award (NGO Management)
• Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair in Social Studies (Czech
Republic)
There are also exciting awards available to the Slovak Republic, including awards in:
• Education
• Economics or Business Administration
• American Studies
If you do not see an award in your discipline, you should look at the all disciplines
awards. In Czech Republic, All Disciplines (research) or All Disciplines (teaching).
In Slovak Republic, All Disciplines (research) or All Disciplines (teaching).
Visit www.iie.org/cies to access the Catalog of Awards, online application and
guidelines. The application deadline for the 2012-13 competition is August 1, 2011.

Editor's note: As in the past, the Fulbright Scholarship Program invites applications for the coming scholarship cycle. The deadline is August 1, but the application is a substantial one and is aided by a well-thought out plan and contacts in-country, so a potential applicant really needs to begin now. Spots are available not only for country-experts but for those who would like to teach their own specializations to Slovakia's students (in English) so /please/ forward this application to all of your colleagues who may be interested in teaching abroad in a wonderful setting. Experience suggests that Slovakia receives fewer applications-per-opening than most European countries and that chances are thus quite strong for a well-constructed application.

Dear Slovak Studies Association Colleague,

The Reginald Zelnik book prize is for any genre of history and does include
Eastern and Central Europe as well as Eurasian studies. The deadline for
submission is May 6.

Rules of eligibility for the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History
competition are as follows:

The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as
the date of publication (the book must have been published in 2010 to be
eligible for the 2011 competition)
The book must be originally in the form of a monograph, preferably by a
single author, or by no more than two authors
Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally
published in English
Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia
The competition is open to works of scholarship in history
Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works
are ineligible

Nominating Instructions

Send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee member (see addresses

UNIVERSITIES IN CENTRAL EUROPE: CROSSROADS OF SCHOLARS
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

29 September 2011 – 1 October, 2011, Charles University in Prague,
Czech Republic

FIRST CIRCULAR

ORGANIZERS & PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

• European Society for the History of Science
• Institute of the History of Charles University and Archive of Charles University in Prague
• Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities of the Institute for Contemporary History Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Czech Society for the History of Sciences and Technology
• Czech National Committee for the History of Science

MAIN THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

• Mobility of Scholars between Universities since the Age of the Enlightenment

• The „Visiting Professor“ Phenomenon

• The 100th Anniversary of Einstein‘s stay in Prague

We received the following from member Mills Kelly
The annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies will take place April 7-9, 2011 in historic Old Town Alexandria (Virginia) just across the river from Washington, D.C. The program committee is still soliciting proposals for panels, roundtables, or individual papers. Although the deadline is fast approaching, I think it's fair to say that there will be at least a little flexibility on the date of submission. Regional conferences like this one are an excellent opportunity for advanced graduate students to dip their toes in the waters of the scholarly conference in a much lower pressure environment, so I would particularly urge you to recommend this opportunity to your students, if appropriate.

The website for the conference is at: http://southernslavicconference2011.wordpress.com/.

SSA Member Helene Baine Cincebeaux sends us the following news on her new book:

"Slovakia! Traditions Old & New" was published by Helene Baine Cincebeaux in June 2010 and records the information gleaned by Helene and her mother, Helen Zemek Baine over the past 40 years of visiting Slovakia and asking questions in thousands of villages.

The 172 page book follows the traditions and customs related to the holidays and seasons of the year and also life events from baptism to marriage to funerals. "I wanted the book to be as colorful as we found Slovakia to be," Helene said. "Some 270 vivid illustrations, photos, paintings and other works of art show life as our ancestors lived it and the richness of Slovak traditions."