- Arthur Field’s The Intellectual Struggle for Florence: Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440, is now out from Oxford University Press
- Alex Lichtenstein describes his new book, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory, co-authored with his brother, Andrew, on The Atlantic website this week: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/how-we-remember/541986/
- Krista Maglen's chapter titled 'The Monster's Mouth...': dangerous animals and the European settlement of Australia has been published in Cockram and Wells (eds) Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity, published by Routledge
- During a trip to Russia in May-June this year, Tatiana Saburova presented a paper "Photographing and Seeing Siberia: Geographical Imagination, Ethnography, and Visual Representations of Siberia in the Russian Empire" at the third international conference "After Post Photography" in the European University, St. Petersburg, May 18-20, 2017. She also gave an invited paper: "'Youth' and 'Modernity' in the Photographs of Ogonek from the 1930s through the 1960s" at the International Conference "Art versus Document: Photography in Modern Russian History" June 1-2, 2017, Moscow. She was also the keynote speaker at the second international conference "Autobiographies in interdisciplinary research practice", the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, June 1-2, 2017. During another trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg in September she was a coordinator and participant of the international roundtable "Creating Time and Space: A New History of Photography in Russia" at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 20, 2017. She presented a paper "Generational Approach to the History of Universities in Russia" at the Poletaev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 22, 2017. She was invited as a discussant to an international conference "Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial -- Inter/national -- Decolonial (Max Weber Foundation conference 2017, German Historical Institute, Moscow), September 21-23, 2017.