- Graduate Student Ruth Almy presented her paper: "The Komagata Maru Incident of 1914: Aftermath and Memorialization" at the Michigan State University "Migration With(out) Borders" interdisciplinary graduate student conference on October 22.
- Cynthia Bannon presented a paper "Rivals and Rivi: Fresh Water in Roman Public and Private Law" at Bowdoin College on October 17.
- Ke-Chin Hsia presented a talk on "Disability and 'Internal Colonization' in WWI Austria" at the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, as part of "State and Society in Late Imperial Austria: A Symposium in Honor of Gary Cohen," on September 29. The first part of that paper was also presented at the 2016 Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag (Austrian Contemporary History Conference) held at the University of Graz, Austria, on June 10.
- Graduate student Natalie Levin presented the paper "Fraxinetum and Andalusi-Ottonian Relations" at the annual Midwest Medieval History Conference, held this year at Middle Tennessee State University.
- Alex Lichtenstein has been appointed editor of the American Historical Review, effective Fall 2017. The full story is available on the American Historical Association's AHA Today blog.
- The latest issue of AHA Perspectives on History includes an article on IU History PhD (2007) S. Paul O'Hara's new book, Inventing the Pinkertons: Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).
- On October 14, Alex Rabinowitch's paper "The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the Birth of Soviet Russia: Centennial Reflections," was the focus of a monthly seminar on socialism for interested faculty in the Pittsburgh area sponsored by the history department at Carnegie-Mellon University. A week later, Alex gave a New Directions Lecture on the same topic at the University of Illinois. This lecture was co-sponsored by the U of I Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the U of I Laboratory High School.
- Graduate student Alaina Roberts is the recipient of the Western History Association's Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship and Indian Student Conference Scholarship.
- Mark Roseman gave the paper "Jews on the defensive. Nazis in German Jewish accounts" at the conference Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus, Jena, Germany, October 20-22, 2016.
- Rebecca Spang's Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution has been awarded the "Enlightened Economist" Best Book Prize by Diane Coyle (O.B.E.), former Advisor to the U.K. Treasury and Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust.
- Daniel Story presented the paper "Signifying Something: Billposters as Conspicuous Workers in Turn-of-the-Century Urban America" at the Urban History Association national conference in Chicago. His article "Consumer City" was published in the Spring 2016 issue of Chicago History.
- Lynn Struve spoke on "Seeking Alternatives in Seventeenth-Century China" at the recent symposium "Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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