[Asec] ASEC call for information: Fall 2019 Newsletter

[Zhuk, Sergei]

Sergei Zhuk, Professor of East European and Russian History, Ball State University


In 2018-19, I have published

1) a book Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019]), which paperback edition will be released in September 2019,

and

2) a few articles and chapters in various collections


“Limits of Westernization during Cultural Détente in Provincial Society of Soviet Ukraine: A View from Below” in Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, December 2018, Vol. 8, Issue 25-26, 42-60

“Soviet Americanists and American Visual Media in the USSR during the Brezhnev Era,” in Simo Mikkonen, Giles Scott-Smith & Jari Parkkinen (eds.), Entangled East and West. Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction during the Cold War (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 163-189

“The Disco Effect in Cold-War Ukraine,” Dancing the Cold War: An International Symposium (February 16-18, 2017), Organized and edited by Lynn Garafola (New York: Columbia University, Harriman Institute, 2018), 78-94

3) during my Sabbatical leave, after my research at the SBU/KGB Archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, I started a new book project about the Soviet KGB operations against Ukrainian and Jewish nationalists, religious sectarians and Soviet youth in Cold War Ukraine, a project awarded by two Kennan Institute grants in the Woodrow Wilson Center International Center for Scholars:

“The Seductive Adversary”: The KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953 – 1991


Dr. Sergei I. Zhuk,
Professor of History,
Department of History,
Ball State University,
Muncie, IN 47306
tel.: 765-285-8735
fax: 765-285-5612
e-mail: sizhuk at bsu.edu
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Subject: [Asec] ASEC call for information: Fall 2019 Newsletter

Dear ASEC members:

I am writing to request news and information for the Fall 2019 issue of the ASEC Newsletter. Please send all contributions to: ASEC.news at gmail.com<mailto:ASEC.news at gmail.com> by OCTOBER 1 and make sure to include your current affiliation.

The information I am requesting falls into two main categories:

1. Members' Activities: Here we list new publications and work on research projects. This is one of the most interesting and vital parts of the Newsletter. Please send me information on articles or books you have published or projects you are currently working on.

2. Items of Interest Concerning Eastern Christian Studies: Please send me information on conferences, events, and publications you think would be of interest to our membership. These can include web links about something you think we should be covering. We would be more than happy to include all relevant material in the Newsletter!

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