Monday, November 24, 2025
I just got back from the ASEEES conference in Washington, DC. "ASEEES" stands for "the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies," and it's the main international organization that brings together scholars working in the fields of Russian, East European, and post-Soviet studies.
As usual, this year's conference brought moments both exhilarating and banal. It's nice--and professionally important--to be able to catch up with people that I hadn't spoken to for years. When I go, say, a decade or so without sitting down and talking with someone, and then suddenly I see them walking toward me in the lobby of the convention hotel, it's an odd sensation. In the best of moments I stop and have a quick chat, renewing old links. At other times I wonder if a person still remembers my face, or if they'd even want to talk to me.
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