- The American Historical Association has invited Cara Caddoo to join the Committee on Minority Historians. She will serve a three-year term, from January 2018 to January 2021. Cara presented her paper "Noble Johnson and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company" at Princeton University on November 27, 2017. The event is sponsored by the American Studies Program.
- In mid-October Larry Friedman gave two lectures in the Lilly School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. . One presentation was to the program's students. The second was to its Board of Governors. Material for both talks was taken from his book in progress for the Univ. of Chicago Press: INCONVENIENT VISIONARIES: CRAFTING WORLD PEACE.
- On November 11, Ke-chin Hsia presented "Imperial Bureaucrats as Revolutionaries? Austrian Welfare Officials and the Revolution of 1918-1919" at the 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies in Chicago.
- Colin Johnson presented a paper entitled "The American Outer Class" at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Chicago.
- Pedro Machado presented "South Asia and East Africa: Histories of Commercial Engagement, c. 1750 to Recent Times" at the conference, Africa-Asia Connections: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, organized by the Center for African Studies, Harvard University, and held at the Harvard Center Shanghai on 16 -- 17 November.
- Graduate student Samson Ndanyi presented his research paper, “This Title to Include the Words 'Mau Mau:" Visualizing Mau Mau War in Colonial Kenya, 1953—1960, at the African Studies Association annual conference held on 16-18 in Chicago.
- Mark Roseman published the chapter "Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference" in Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmuller (eds.), The Participants. The Men of the Wannsee Conference (Berghahn Books, 2017), 21-39.
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