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Subject: Mid Atlantic Slavic Conference 2010 Call for Papers
From:    tdoyle at lawrenceville.org
Date:    Mon, September 14, 2009 4:19 pm
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              MID-ATLANTIC SLAVIC CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues:

     I am writing to invite you to submit a proposal for an individual
paper or for a complete panel for the 33nd Annual Meeting of the
Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, a regional conference of the AAASS
(ASEEES). Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriate scholarly aspect
of Slavic and East European Studies. Proposals must include the following
to be considered:
1. the paper's title and a very brief abstract
2. any requests for technical support (especially important for our
planning)
3. the surface and email addresses of the presenter
4. his or her institutional affiliation and professional status (professor,
graduate student, etc.)
   Room assignments for the panels are based in part on knowing the need
for technical support when the Executive Board meets in mid-January.
   Undergraduate students under the guidance of a faculty mentor may
present a paper at the Conference if the faculty mentor submits the
information outlined above.
     The Conference will be held at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA
(near Philadelphia) on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Dr. Marina Rojavin will
serve as President of the Conference.
     Please send your proposals no later than December 15, 2009 to me by
email at theis at kutztown.edu and/or by sending them on hard copy to Dr. Mary
Theis, MASC Executive Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies,
Kutztown University, PO Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530.  My home address (503
Friendship Drive, Fleetwood, PA 19522) should be used for mailing the hard
copy after that date, but I need to have all proposals at least by December
15th.  My home email is maryetheis at mac.com in case of emergencies.
     As always, we encourage professionals in the field to volunteer to
serve as chairs and/or discussants at the Conference itself. Much of the
benefit of the Conference depends on active participation and informed
commentary by those taking part.

     We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their
participation is encouraged.  A juried award of $200 is made annually for
the best graduate paper judged according to these elements in our rubric:
clarity of main research question and the response to it, importance to the
profession of main research findings, amount of support for their argument,
use of primary sources as well as adequate and interesting content,
readiness for publication, correct use of English, and readability/style.
Please remind your students that they should provide the necessary visuals
or materials to make a valid evaluation.  Of course, the paper must be
presented at our MASC to be considered and will differ somewhat from the
written paper. The winning paper is then entered in the national AAASS
competition, where the rewards are more significant.  A second place prize
of $175 is also awarded. Ula Lukszo of Stony Brook University won last
year’s national competition for a paper presented at our Conference.

     All participants should remember that if they absolutely must withdraw
a paper from a panel once they have agreed to present it and the panels
have been formed, it is their professional responsibility to contact me
well in advance so that I can alert the chair and discussant in a timely
fashion and revise the final program accordingly.

     I look forward to hearing from you soon and seeing you at the
Conference.

Sincerely yours,

Mary E. Theis
Executive Secretary, MASC

Please report any changes or additions to email addresses to MASC Treasurer
Tim Doyle at  tdoyle at lawrenceville.org
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