[aaus-list] H-Ukraine?

[Adrian Ivakhiv]

That's an excellent idea. The AAUS listserv could be kept for 
membership-related issues - and available only to members, as has been 
suggested - while a new H-Ukraine list could be open to international 
participation on scholarly topics related to Ukraine. To start the process, 
I believe that a network sponsor or lead editor is necessary. Would anyone 
on the AAUS board be willing to take that on? Or perhaps one of our 
international contributors? (If nominations are acceptable, I would nominate 
Roman Senkus.)

Adrian Ivakhiv



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Ostapchuk" <vostap at chass.utoronto.ca>
To: "AAUS" <aaus-list at ukrainianstudies.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: [aaus-list] H-Ukraine?


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> In regards to the request from the AAUS executive board regarding use of 
> the
> list, perhaps it might be time to consider having AAUS list become a 
> member
> of H-Net and become H-Ukraine? And thereby becoming a member of the
> venerable family of lists such as H-Russia, H-Turk, HABSBURG, and more 
> than
> 100 others edited by scholars in North America, South America, Europe,
> Africa, and the Pacific? The H-Net family is based on the kinds of 
> standards
> members have been complaining about as lacking in the AAUS list. Many 
> H-Net
> lists also have a book review component. All lists are moderated.
>
> Often H-Net lists are sponsored/owned by organizations such as AAUS. E.g.,
> H-Turk, a list that I co-edit belongs to the Turkish Studies Association.
> However to be a list member one need only have a bona fide connection to 
> the
> field in question and not necessarily a member or the sponsoring
> organization.
>
> H-Net has proven to be an excellent, nurturing environment for many fields
> in the humanities and social sciences and Ukrainian studies certainly
> deserves to have such a platform. For more information see www.h-net.org 
> and
> www.h-net.org/lists
>
> Victor Ostapchuk
> Associate Professor
> Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
> University of Toronto
>
> H-Turk Co-editor and Review Editor
> v.ostapchuk at utoronto.ca
> www.utoronto.ca/nmc/faculty/ostapchukcv.htm
> www.h-net.org/~turk
> www.h-net.org/reviews
>

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Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Associate Professor
Coordinator, Environmental Thought & Culture Graduate Concentration
Environmental Program/Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
University of Vermont, 153 S. Prospect St, Burlington VT 05401
Adrian.Ivakhiv at uvm.edu  www.uvm.edu/~aivakhiv