- History graduate student Rick Brewer interviews Dr. Jeremy C. Young (PhD, Indiana University '13) of Dixie State University about his most recent book, The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society 1870-1940, on his podcast The Past Cannot Die. The interview can be accessed via iTunes Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, and MixCloud.
- An exhibit on 20th century fashion will soon open at the Monroe County History Center, curated by History Honors student Emily Brown.
- Konstantin Dierks presented a paper entitled "Digital History on a Shoestring?" on January 7 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. On January 27, he did a Q&A session about the American Civil War and the history of Civil War re-enactors for an audience of donors to the Bloomington Playwrights Project, before a performance of a new play entitled "Row After Row."
- Padraic Kenney's Presidential Address to the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, "Area Studies and the 'False Song of Globalism'," has been published at http://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/area-studies-and-false-song-globalism.
- Alex Lichtenstein's article, "Challenging 'umthetho we femu' (the law of the firm): gender relations and shop-floor battles for union recognition in Natal's textile industry, 1973-85," has just been published in the latest issue of Africa: Journal of the International Africa Institute.
- On February 1, Mark Roseman gave the annual Holocaust Memorial lecture of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at the University of London, on the subject of "An intimate view of evil? How German Jews made sense of Nazi perpetrators."
- In January, graduate student Nicolas Sillitti presented a paper "The Visual Making of the Argentine Citizen: Bodies, Territories and National Identity in Military Service Photographs" at the conference The Limits of the Human in Latin American Visual Culture at Cambridge University.
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