Editor:
James R. Payton, Jr.
Executive Secretary, CAREE
Redeemer University College
777 Garner Road East
Ancaster, Ontario L9K 1J4
Fax: (905) 648-2134
e-mail: caree@redeemer.on.ca
Fall 2001 New Series, #7
CANCEL PREVIOUS NOTICE!
CAREE CONFERENCE AND ANNUAL MEETING–postponed
In a letter you received a couple of weeks ago, we told you that the next issue of CAREE
Communicator–the one you are now holding in your hand–would give further details and
information about the CAREE conference and annual meeting on November 14 & 15, 2001. We
had planned it to coordinate with the meeting in Washington, D.C., of the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), to which a number of you belong, and which
we thought some of you might attend.
The location for the conference had been finalized and arranged, the plans had virtually
all been made, and the last details were being finalized–when things began to unravel. We had
planned to have two representatives of CEWERN (“Churches’ East-West European Relations
Network”–CAREE’s counterpart in the United Kingdom) participate by bringing papers; we also
wanted to devote a significant part of a session to discussions with them about how our two
organizations might collaborate in service to Eastern Europe. However, both those people had to
withdraw: one had needed to change his plans come, and the other sustained a broken arm,
which prohibited lengthy travel. Then the Skopje conference–on which we had planned to have
a report as a major element of a session–had to be postponed. (More on that conference below in
this newsletter.) Another presenter had to withdraw, and despite numerous contacts with other
possible presenters, it was proving impossible to find at that late date someone to provide a
worthwhile paper in substitution.
This all came on top of the uneasiness many people in North America have exp