ASEEES Board Condemns Russia's Military Assault on Ukraine
Published February 24, 2022 (Initially issued by the Executive Committee on February 24, at 9:45am EST; revised to reflect the adoption by the full board on February 24, at 1:34pm EST)
The Board of Directors of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and cynical lies to justify Russia’s attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. We stand with all the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose this war.
The Executive Committee of ASEEES has also signed the American Historical Association's statement on February 28.
On March 4, ASEEES signed a statement by the African Studies Association "calling on Ukrainian and authorities in neighboring countries to treat all those fleeing the conflict equally, with dignity, and without discrimination based on race or status."
On March 9, the ASEEES Board of Directors, along with the leadership of AATSEEL and BASEES, issued a joint statement of opposition to banning scholars based on citizenship.
On March 17, the ASEEES Executive Committee, along with the leadership of AATSEEL and BASEES, issued a joint statement condemning Russian university presidents' statement of support for Russian assault on Ukraine.
Statements by Other Organizations and Institutions
(updated as statements are posted)
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
American Councils for International Education
American Historical Association signed by 35+ other scholarly societies
American Musicological Society
American Political Science Association
American Sociological Association
Amherst Center for Russian Culture
Amherst College Russian Department
Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
Association for Jewish Studies
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)
Association of ERC Grantees (AERG)
Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association
Belgian Society of International Law
Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP)
Brill Publishing's Slavic, Eurasian, and Russian Studies Program
British Association for Holocaust Studies (BAHS)
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS)
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
Carleton University Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Central European History Society
Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin
Centre international de recherche de l'Historial de la Grande Guerre
CERCEC, Centre d’études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien & Centre-Européen
Circle U. European University Alliance
Columbia University Harriman Institute
Council for Museum Anthropology
Czechoslovak Studies Association
Early Slavic Studies Association
Eastern Connecticut State University
Eastern European Holocaust Studies (EEHS Journal)
European University Association
Emory University Faculty of the Program in Russian, E. European and Eurasian Studies
European Association for Jewish Studies
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
George Washington University Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
German Studies Association (GSA)
Ghent University Russia Platform
Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)
Hokkaido University Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
International Association for the Humanities (MAG)
International Center of Medieval Art
International Committee of Historical Sciences
International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES)
International Geographical Union
International Science Council's List of Statements from the International Scientific Community
International Society for First World War Studies
Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies (IARCEES)
Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA)
Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
Japan Association for the Study of Russian Language and Literature
Joint Statement from the Tri-Co Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Community
KU Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages & Literatures
Leibniz-Institut für Ost- & Südosteuropaforschung
Miami University of Ohio, Havighurst Center
Michigan State University Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
National Academies of the G7 States Joint Statement
Network Displaced Persons Research
North American Society for Serbian Studies & Editors of Serbian Studies
North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Ohio State University, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES)
Open Letter by Russian Art and Culture Workers
Open Letter by Russian-speaking Academic Economists
Open Letter from Russian Scientists and Science Journalists - English Translation
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences (PIASA)
Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture
St. Anthony's College, Oxford School of Global Area Studies
Statement by Scholars of Genocide, Nazism, and World War II
Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies
Ukrainian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
University of British Columbia Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES)
UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES)
University Council of Modern Languages (UCML)
University of California Davis
University of Efurt Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
University of Hartford Faculty of Hillyer College
University of Michigan Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies
University of New Europe (UNE)
UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
University of Oxford and Oxford Modern Languages
University of Texas at Austin Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
Verbandes der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historiker e.V. (VOH)