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
IARCEES Annual conference 2012, 4-5 May, UCC
"Russian-East European Relations: From Tsarism to Gazprom"
Call for papers: Abstracts of papers (no more than 250 words) should be submitted by email no later than February 29, 2012.
Guest speaker: Dr. Peter Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Russian Politics and Society at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
More information, and Facebook event.
Irish Slavonic Studies (2010), Vol. 23
The volume has now been made available on this site.
Irish Slavonic Studies (2011), Vol. 24
Call for contributions from conference participants and association members
Important dates: 1st June 2011 - expressions of interest to editors; 1st September 2011 - submission of manuscripts
Membership renewals
Current members are requested to renew their membership by the end of May 2011. New members may also join at this time.
New Members' News section
Paid-up members are invited to submit any items of interest, as well as links to their instiutional profiles for inclusion in this section.
Peter Lang
Message from Christabel Scaife, commissioning editor for Peter Lang.
'Peter Lang is an international academic press publishing scholarly work across a wide range of disciplines. We are actively seeking to expand our publishing programme within Ireland, and the Irish office would be delighted to hear from anybody working in Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies to discuss ideas for monographs, essay collections or book series. Please contact Christabel Scaife, Commissioning Editor.'
2011 Annual Conference
The annual conference took place at TCD from 15-17 April 2011. The theme was "The collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 years on". It was organised back-to-back with another conference entitled "Relocating cultures" held at the same location from 13-15 April 2011. Both conferences were organised by Sarah Smyth with the help of the "Our languages" research team and colleagues in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies.
"Our languages"
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.
The sociolinguistic survey is now closed; check the Results and Findings page.