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

2009 Annual Conference

It was good to see so many of our members at our recent annual conference in Maynooth, and the IARCEES committee would like once again to thank Dr Christian Noack and his colleagues in the CSWE for organising such a stimulating and successful event. Paper abstracts from the conference will be available on this site shortly, and there are plans to publish the papers from the conference. Christian Noack will be coordinating these efforts. The next annual conference will be held in May 2010 in UCC.

At the AGM held at the conference, Geoff Roberts stepped down as chairperson and Neil Robinson was elected to replace him. We thank Geoff very much for his leadership over the past number of years and look forward to working with Neil in the future. (New committee)

Membership fees for 2009-2010 are now due, and remain unchanged at 20 euro for full members and 15 euro for postgraduates (details of payment options). The mailing list will be updated at the end of June based on who has paid the 2009-2010 membership fee. If you know anybody who might be interested in (re-)joining IARCEES, please encourage them to do so now.

Members wishing to publicise events at their institutions may send all relevant information to the IARCEES secretary, Siobhán McNamara, for dissemination to members.

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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