- Ben Eklof and Tatiana Saburova published the article “‘Remembrances of the Distant Past’: Generational Memory and the Collective Auto/Biography of Russian Populists in the Revolutionary Era” in Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture ed. Polly Jones (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2018). Tatiana also published: "'Shadows disappear at noon' or 'Congratulations, comrades!': visualization of memory and forgetting of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the photographs of Ogonek" in the International Journal of Cultural Research, 2018, 2 (31):137-51.
- As the recently appointed academic co-director of the Russian Studies Workshop at Indiana University, Tatiana Saburova organized the Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia which met on September 14-15. The workshop hosted 20 PhD students and several faculty members from universities across the US and included a telebridge session with the director of the Russian State Historical Library in Moscow. Saburova also led a panel and gave a presentation "How not to get lost in the Russian archives, libraries, and databases." Kalani Craig led a panel and gave a presentation on the digital humanities and Padraic Kenney also contributed to the workshop leading a "Lightning round" session, discussing the students' research projects.
- On September 20, Ke-chin Hsia presented "What Difference Does 1918 Make? Disabled Veterans in Late Imperial and Early Republican Austria" and served as a round table discussant at the Workshop Vanquished or Victorious: European Veterans of World War I in Comparative Perspective 1918-1938, hosted by the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Vila Lanna, Prague.
- Noam Zadoff's book Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back received the 2018 Concordia University Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies. The book was recently reviewed in the NYRB, and in the Jewish Review of Books.
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