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From: "Leykin, Inna" <Inna_Leykin@brown.edu>
List Editor: Jennifer Dickinson <Jennifer.Dickinson@UVM.EDU>
Editor's Subject: To Soyuz graduate students members
Author's Subject: To Soyuz graduate students members
Date Written: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:44:54 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 10 Nov 2009 08:44:54 -0500


Dear Soyuz graduate students,

Our first business meeting is fast approaching and I would like to
take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am the student
representative for Soyuz and my main objective in taking this office
has been to help keep afloat and nourish Soyuz tradition of
emphasizing the contribution of young scholars to the group
development. As many Soyuz members had said at the last Soyuz
conference at Yale, attending Soyuz meetings and communicating with
other members of the group across the country and abroad has been a
valuable and formative experience for developing their research
interests and sometimes carriers.

In short, to help keep  Soyuz a friendly yet academically thorough
place for probing our ideas as young and aspiring students of
postsocialism, I would like to ask you to write to me with any
specific concerns/questions/suggestions that you might have. One
possible idea I have in mind for our future meetings, for example, is
to organize a workshop where scholars might share their professional
experience with grad students. This might include workshops on writing
grants/cover letters with a specific emphasis on postsocialism;
talking to interdisciplinary publics; or, on the contrary, presenting
interdisciplinary ideas to anthropologists. Please let me know what
you think about this idea. Would it be useful to you? I welcome your
ideas and would appreciate your comments.

I am in the field this year (in snowing Yekaterinburg, Russia) and
therefore will not be able to attend the meetings. I am available via
email throughout the year, however.  I also asked Joe Crescente (Soyuz
programming coordinator) and he kindly agreed to represent me both at
the AAASS and AAA meetings this year. Please speak with Joe during the
Soyuz business meetings about your questions/concerns/suggestions etc
and he will pass this information on to me.

Many thanks and enjoy the upcoming conference in Boston (those of you
attending it)

Best,

Inna



Inna Leykin
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 1921
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

Inna_Leykin@brown.edu

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