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Two Days of Remembrance in One

Two Days of Remembrance in One

November 8, 2024

Some dates mean much more than just an ordinary day in the calendar. November 9th is a pivotal date that highlights two opposite zones of the historical landscape of the… READ MORE

Пока еще рано говорить, что коммунизм полностью остался в прошлом

Пока еще рано говорить, что коммунизм полностью остался в прошлом

January 26, 2023

Пока еще рано говорить, что коммунизм полностью остался в прошлом Интервью с авторами книги «Разновидности посткоммунистического капитализма» Иваном Селеньи и Петером Михайи переводчика Николая Проценко

Anna Frajlich’s Collected Essays to Be Awarded the Oskar Halecki Prize

Anna Frajlich’s Collected Essays to Be Awarded the Oskar Halecki Prize

October 7, 2021

Anna Frajlich’s The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays, edited by Ronald Meyer (Academic Studies Press, 2020) will be awarded the Polish American Historical Association’s Oskar Halecki Prize at their annual convention in January 2022. Established in 1981, the Oskar Halecki Prize is given annually by the Polish American Historical Association. This Prize recognizes an important book or monograph on the Polish experience in the United States and commemorates Oskar Halecki (1891-1973), a Polish historian, writer, and social and Catholic activist. Dr. Halecki was a graduate of Jagiellonian University (1914), who also studied in Vienna and taught at Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University, Fordham University and Columbia University.

ASP and Plamen Press enter into sub-distribution partnership

ASP and Plamen Press enter into sub-distribution partnership

November 12, 2020

Academic Studies Press (ASP) and Plamen Press are pleased to announce a working partnership beginning October 31st 2020. In this agreement, ASP will act as Plamen Press’s sub-distributor, managing all sales and distribution activities for Plamen’s catalog. ASP’s titles have been distributed by Ingram Academic since 2017. Under this new partnership, Plamen’s books will now also be sold and distributed by Ingram Academic by way of ASP.

“What can an eighty-something writer from an obscure country in the Caucasus tell us about the world we live in? Quite a lot, actually…”

“What can an eighty-something writer from an obscure country in the Caucasus tell us about the world we live in? Quite a lot, actually…”

October 2, 2020

As a forward-thinking, independent, academic press, we’re fortunate to publish some incredible scholarship, engaging educational materials, and crucial literary translations on a regular basis. Still, from time to time, a book comes along that combines all three and deserves frequent and relentless mention. That’s why, during Banned Books Week, we’ve been promoting Katherine E. Young’s meticulously translated Farewell, Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works by Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist, and editor Akram Aylisli, a courageous dissident writer currently under de facto house arrest in Baku, Azerbaijan for reasons directly attributed to the publication of one of the novellas in this book.