Russia & Eastern Europe: Yale University Press New Releases

YUP  are eager to promote their new releases. I’m sure that many of us already have these books on our wish-lists, so COSEELIS members were given a promotion code that gives 30 % discount on purchases from the YUP website until the end of July. Please check your mailboxes for an email with the code.

Here is the list of new releases:

– The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

– Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson

– Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Aslund

– Stalin’s Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) by David Brandenberger and Mikhail V. Zelenov

– Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff

– Quest for Status: Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy by Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko

– Croatia: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Marcus Tanner

If you would like to review these books, please do not hesitate to contact the publisher for a free copy.

COSEELIS Conference – programme update

The programme has been updated: Programme – COSEELIS Conference 2019

COSEELIS conference 2019

We are happy to announce that the Registration form and the Conference Programme are now available.

Registration form-2019-St Anne’s

Programme – COSEELIS Conference 2019

Please register by 15 April 2019 and pay before 15 June 2019

Hope to see you in Oxford in July.

Directory of UK Institutions and Libraries with expertise and resources related to Central East European and Slavonic Studies

Many thanks to Gregory Walker for compiling a Directory, which one can find on the page What we do .

 

 

Staying European. ABDOS conference Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The 48th International ABDOS Conference entitled

“Staying European – The role and responsibility of libraries for the
preservation, accessibility and propagation of European cultural heritage”

will take place in the Hungarian capital Budapest from 27^th to 30^th May 2019.

The conference will be jointly organized by ABDOS (Working Group of Libraries and Documentation Units for Research on East, East Central and South Eastern Europe) and the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The conference venue will be the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Arany J. u. 1, 1051 Budapest, Hungary ().

In the framework of the conference the General Assembly of ABDOS will take place. As part of the conference library visits and an excursion are planned.

The conference program will focus on the interrelationship between valuable collections, modern technologies and controlled metadata. The organizers therefore request proposals for academic papers, presentations as well as short contributions on the following topics:

1. A European view of looted cultural heritage materials
2. Bringing dislocated materials virtually together again
3. Bibliographic work and cooperation today and in future
4. Digitization projects from an academic view point
5. Bibliometrics and scientometrics from a European perspective
6. Open Access – wishes, dreams and realities
7. Free topics

The conference languages will be German, English and Russian. As a courtesy to our international participants speakers are encouraged to make the power point presentations accompanying their papers available in English.

The conference fees are 70 Euros for ABDOS members, 90 Euros for non-members and 400 Euros for commercial participants. This will include catering during the coffee breaks and lunch.

Please send proposals for papers/presentations (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) or shorter contributions (10 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion) until 16^th February 2019 to

Dr. Juergen Warmbrunn
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Research Library
Gisonenweg 5-7, D- 35037 Marburg
juergen.warmbrunn@herder-institut.de

We plan to publish the conference proceedings in cooperation with the East European Department of the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage.

Further information on ABDOS and the preparations for the conference can be found at http://www.abdos.de