- Larry Friedman gave a paper March 17 at the annual Harvard Conference on Public Intellectuals. The title was "The Case against Public Intellectuals: Christopher Lasch's Critique Reconsidered."
- Carl Ipsen, as director of the IU Food Project, will be hosting Alice Waters, world-renowned owner of Chez Panisse and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project, in Bloomington April 6-8. Waters will introduce Marcel Pagnol's 1938 film "The Baker's Wife" at the IU Cinema April 6 at 7 pm. She will also speak about "Teaching Slow Food Values in a Fast Food Culture" April 7 at 4:30 p.m. in President's Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the film. There will be a benefit dinner the evening of April 7 at Finch's Brasserie. Contact Carl for additional info.
- Graduate student Meghan Riley has been awarded a Fulbright IIE Fellowship for France for the 2017-18 school year.
- Micol Seigel will be a visiting Scholar at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for 2017-18, participating in the workshop on "Crime and Punishment in American History."
- John M. (Jack) Thompson, a distinguished diplomatic historian and a member of the history department from 1959 to-1976, died on March 6, at the age of 90. One of the founders of the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute, Jack was a wonderfully effective and popular teacher. At Indiana, he directed the dissertation research and writing of more than two dozen of our doctoral students in modern Russian history.
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