- David Diaz-Arias (PhD 2009) won the Academia de Geografia e Historia de Costa Rica's prize to the best book in Costa Rica's history 2015. This prize is the most important in Costa Rica concerning historiographical works. Diaz-Arias book is based on his IUB Doctoral Dissertation.
- On September 24, graduate student Patrick Gilner presented a paper titled "'A bondage, the terrible and degrading like of which has never been imposed': German Reactions to the Extradition of War Criminals after World War I" at the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The paper was part of a panel on "Justice and State Power in the Interwar Period." On September 30, Patrick presented a paper titled "The Politics of Extradition: Obstacles and Dilemmas in the Pursuit of War Criminals after the First World War" at the German Studies Association national conference in San Diego. The paper was part of a panel on "War Crimes and Reconciliation: the Production of Justice after the World Wars."
- Alex Lichtenstein spent a week in Maputo, Mozambique, at the University Eduardo Mondlane, teaching at the "Summer Academy" on Labour, Politics, and Safety, organized by Humboldt University's research center on "Work and the Human Lifecycle in Global History."
- Eden Medina appeared this week on the popular design podcast "99 Percent Invisible" to talk about the history of socialist cybernetics and computing in Chile. You can listen to the episode here: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/project-cybersyn/
- A paper by Alex Rabinowitch, "The Bolsheviks Survive: Government and Crises in Civil War Petrograd," was presented at an international conference on "Russia's Epoch of War and Revolution, 1914-1921," in June. The conference was cosponsored by the European University in St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences. The first French edition of his The Bolsheviks Come to Power was published in Paris in September by La fabrique editions. New Italian and English-language centennial editions of the book are currently being prepared for publication in 2017. Alex's remembrance of the leading Russian historian of the 1917 revolution, V. I. Startsev, was recently published in St. Petersburg.
- Mark Roseman participated in the roundtable "Experiences and Expectations 1939-1945" discussing the new book The German War by Nicholas Stargardt at the German Studies Association annual conference in San Diego September 28 -- October 2. He also moderated a session on "Warcrimes and reconciliation" which included a paper by History PhD student Patrick Gilner.
- Christina Snyder published a review essay, "The Older South," in Reviews in American History.
- Last month, Rebecca Spang gave the keynote address at the international conference on "The Power of Things: Revolutionary Objects, Icons, and Images across Borders" in Ghent, Belgium. The conference was sponsored by the U4 Consortium (Universities of Uppsala, Ghent, Göttingen, Gruningen).
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