- Jeff Gould was invited by the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) to be a founding fellow of the center along with seven other scholars and writers. CALAS, based in Guadalajara, was recently created by a consortium of four German universities and the Universidad de Guadalajara.
- Alex Lichtenstein gave a talk, “What Was Apartheid?: A Comparative Perspective” at the University of Tel Aviv, Faculty of Humanities.
- Michelle Moyd has been awarded a Primary Source Immersion Program Grant to work on integrating materials from IU's Liberia Collection and Archives of Traditional Music into her modern African history survey course, to be taught in Spring 2018. In December 2016, she also received an Instructional Development grant to work with African Studies librarian Mireille Djenno to incorporate information literacy goals into H695 -- Histories of Humanitarianism, which she is teaching this semester. Both grants were awarded by the CITL. On March 4th, Michelle gave roundtable remarks at the symposium "Was it a Great War? The Political and Social Consequences of World War I," held at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She also gave a talk entitled "Histories of Humanitarianism in Africa's First World War" at IU's African Studies Colloquium on March 31st. In February, she was interviewed about her book Violent Intermediaries for the Ufahamu podcast series, which explores life and politics on the African continent.
- Graduate student Meghan Riley has received the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies to fund her dissertation research in Europe for the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years.
- Kaya Sahin published "The Ottoman Empire in the Long Sixteenth Century," Renaissance Quarterly 70, 1 (2017): 220-34. At the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Chicago last week, Kaya organized four panels/roundtables: An Ottoman Renaissance? New Approaches to Early Modern Ottoman History; Rituals, Ceremonies, and Festivals in the Early Modern World; Rethinking the Global Renaissance: Questions, Methods, Practices; and Armenian Early Modernities: Social Networks, Print Culture, and Multilingualism. He served as chair in two roundtables, and as presenter in the roundtable on Rituals, Ceremonies, and Festivals. As the discipline representative for the Islamic World, he attended the RSA Council Meeting.
- On March 24, Rebecca Spang presented in the seminar "Un Monde des dettes" (A World of Debts) at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. On March 31, she chaired the panel she organized--"What is 'The Eighteenth Century' Now?"--for the ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) meeting in Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
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