- A group of IUB history graduate students and undergraduate history majors traveled to Indianapolis last weekend to attend a day-long "Careers in History" Symposium, sponsored by the IUPUI Department of History and the National Council on Public History. The symposium had over a hundred attendees from twelve states, and students participated in a variety of networking events and informative sessions geared toward both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
- Susan Ferentinos, who assists the History Department with career programming and is an IU History PhD (2005), has been named an inaugural fellow to the ARCUS Historic Preservation Leadership Institute. The program is a product of the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, and seeks to prepare leaders for a future historic preservation movement that embraces diversity and advocates for the protection of a wide range of cultural heritage resources.
- Ed Linenthal delivered a lecture, "Landscapes of Violence," sponsored by the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University on November 15.
- Graduate Student Samson Ndanyi is the recipient of a Fall 2016 College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award.
- Congratulations to undergraduate History majors Adam Pease and Claire Repsholdt, who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa this semester.
- Eric Robinson presented a talk on "Democracy and Elections Ancient and Modern" at the Indiana Junior Classical League's Fall Latin Day at Butler University, on Saturday, November 12.
- A new Themester podcast series features IU College of Arts and Sciences' faculty, each exploring a "thing of beauty" of their own choosing. A transcript is available here to the House of the Singing Winds podcast with Eric Sandweiss.
- Noam Zadoff's article "Zionismus und Exil: Robert Weltsch und Gershom Scholem am Schnittpunkt zwischen Holocaust und jüdischem Nationalismus" was published in: Exil und Shoa (Jahrbuch für Exilforschung 34), edited by Bettina Bannasch et al., München: Edition Text+Kritik, 2016, 356-369
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