Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies

Welcome to the site of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies, IARCEES. This site provides information about the Association's background and current activities, membership and publications.

The principal activities of the Association are organising an annual conference and publishing the biennial Irish Slavonic Studies. We aim to expand our range of activities and to develop our Association as a forum for anyone with an interest in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and welcome any suggestions and ideas.

Please check the Events section for regular updates.

NEWS

2011 Annual Conference, Call for Papers:

The next annual conference will take place at TCD from 15-17 April 2011. The theme will be "The collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 years on". It is organised back-to-back with another conference entitled "Relocating cultures" held at the same location from 13-15 April 2011. Both conferences are organised by Sarah Smyth and the "Our languages" research team.

Call for paper for both conferences (Word document, 1.8 MB)

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 October 2011. Please send abstract offers to Sarah Smyth.

2010 Annual Conference Wrap-up:

NEW: A representative selection of photographs taken at the conference can be viewed here.

Dear all,

It was good to see so many of you at our recent conference. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organisers, James Ryan and Susan Grant, for all the hard work they put in to making it such a successful event. Thanks also to Judith Devlin and the UCD School of History for hosting and supporting the conference.

For those of you who couldn't make it to the conference, I would like to remind you that membership fees for 2010-2011 are now due. They remain unchanged at 15 euro for students and postgrads, and 20 euro for everyone else. Details of how payment can be made can be found here.

Kind regards,

Siobhan McNamara

Secretary/Treasurer

OUR LANGUAGES: Members are requested to participate in and to circulate information about a large-scale sociolinguistic investigation into cultural and linguistic diversity in the Republic of Ireland, drawing on the experience of people in Ireland who speak and understand Russian which is conducted by a team in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies (TCD, principal investigator Dr Sarah Smyth). The "Our Languages" project is funded by the IRCHSS.

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