Previous ESSA Annoucements

"The Standardization of Old Slavic Cyrillic Writing and Its Registration in Unicode."

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Sector of Language and Literature, and the Institute of Serbian Language, SANU sponsored this international scholarly conference in Belgrade, Serbia, October 15-17, 2007 . Please take this opportunity to review the full program.

The EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ESSA) is pleased to announce that at its meeting on November 16, 2006, the annual ESSA Distinguished Scholarship Award was presented to Simon Franklin for his book Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). A work of extraordinary erudition and methodological innovation, the book was awarded the prize in the category of "research in Early Slavic studies that applies concepts or methodologies that are broad, innovative, or not commonly used in the field."

The EARLY SLAVIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce that at its meeting on December 6, 2004, the first annual ESSA Distinguished Scholarship Award was presented to Donald Ostrowski, David H. Birnbaum, and Horace G. Lunt for their production of The Povest vremennykh let : an interlinear collation and paradosis. The work was published in 2003 and is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.