- Graduate student Sam Bass has been awarded a CAHI Conference Travel Award to present at the Association of Asian Studies in Asia Conference.
- Graduate student Szabolcs Laszlo presented "`Just Knock on the Right Doors': The Anatomy of a Populist Literary Project in Contemporary Hungary," at the 24th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference at IU on March 4, 2017.
- Graduate student Natalie Levin has been awarded a CAHI Conference Travel Award to present at the conference "Sicily, al-Andalus and the Maghreb: Writing in Times of Turmoil."
- Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship for 2017-2018. She will spend the year as a visiting researcher at Emory University in order to finish writing her new book, Remembering Julia: A Tale of Sex, Race, Power, and Place.
- David Pace just published The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm: Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning (Indiana University Press). The book is based in part on the work of the History Department's History Learning Project.
- Mark Roseman gave a public lecture at the University of Saint France, Fort Wayne, on February 28, "The Wannsee Conference and the Holocaust 75 Years On."
- On March 3, Kaya Sahin gave a talk at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center: "Self-Fashioning and Composition Skills in an Ottoman Context: Celalzade Salih and His Munsheat." The talk was part of an ongoing workshop on "Early Modern Techne."