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13.10.2008 Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference a regional conference of the AAASS New York City April 4, 2009 Proposals should include the paper's title, a very brief abstract, any request for technical support, and the surface and email address of the presenter as well as his/her institutional affiliation. The conference will be held at New York University in New York City on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Panels and papers are welcome on any appropriate scholarly aspect of Slavic and East European Studies. Please send your proposals in both electronic and hard copy form BY DECEMBER 15, 2008. Proposals should be addressed to Professor Mary Theis (theis@kutztown.edu), MASC Executive Secretary, Department of Modern Language Studies, Kutztown University, PO BOX 730, Kutztown, PA 19530. We would like to remind you and your graduate students that their participation as well as yours 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. Although we are very keen to have the participation of graduate students in our regional conferences, they and other 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 of the conference so that I can alert the chair and discussant in a timely fashion and revise the final program accordingly. « back to News archive print this page email this page