- Judith Allen led the annual IU program in Political and Civic Engagement (PACE) faculty panel on this year’s theme, Abortion and Reproductive Rights, on Saturday, February 27, at the School of Education, with a presentation entitled “The Historicity of Abortion.”
- Deborah Deliyannis gave a talk entitled "Material Culture: Late Antique or Early Medieval?" in the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium at the University of Chicago on March 9.
- Konstantin Dierks is the recipient of a 2016 Ostrom Grant for his project “Liang Qichao in America, 1903: A Collaborative Teaching Website.”
- Graduate student Khaled Esseissah has been awarded the 2016 Carnegie Saharan Crossroads Fellowship for his project “Former Enslaved Hratin Becoming Imams: The Struggle for Islamic Authority and Identity Formation in Post-Emancipation Mauritania, From 1905 to Present.”
- Idun Strand Hauge, an undergraduate history major who is currently writing an honors thesis with Kaya Sahin and Hiro Kuromiya, has received the Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award.
- Sarah Knott offered opening remarks and extracts from her current book manuscript at a symposium on "Knowledge, Sensation and Emotion in the History of Sexuality" at Yale University, March 3-4.
- Michelle Moyd will participate in the symposium “Labor, Migration, and the State: Past, Present, and Future” on March 11 in Berlin. Along with three other IU professors, she will discuss her experience of teaching the theme of migration in her undergraduate African Labor History course during Themester 2015. The symposium is co-sponsored by the IU Europe Gateway in Berlin and the International Research Center for Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (Re: Work).
- Renaissance Quarterly published an article that Kaya Sahin co-authored with Julia Schleck (English, University of Nebraska): "Courtly Connections: Anthony Sherley's Relation of his trauels (1613) in a Global Context."
- Rob Schneider gave the comment on the papers in the session, "The City in Perpetual Movement: Public and Private Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Toulouse," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 4. On Friday, March 11, he presents a paper, "Henri II, de Montmorency: Rebelle et Mécène," at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, where he currently a visiting lecturer.
- Ellen Wu and Ougie Pak (Lecturer, IU Media School) have been awarded a New Frontiers Experimentation Fellowship to produce Chinese Hoosiers, a documentary short film. Chinese Hoosiers will chronicle the expanding presence of international Chinese students at IUB and their impact on the culture, economy, and landscape of the campus and the wider Bloomington community.
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