- Maria Bucur participated in the conference World War I and Beyond: Human Tragedies, Social Challenges, Scientific and Cultural Responses, organized by the Humboldt Club in Bucharest, 16-18 September 2018, with the plenary address “Veterans, Orphans, and Widows. World War I and the Making of Social Citizenship in Twentieth Century Romania.” While in Bucharest, she was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on the role of Queen Marie in Romania in World War I. She has also published “Familia traditionala: ideologie, mit, fapte,” contributors.ro, 30 September 2018, http://www.contributors.ro/cultura/familia-traditionala-ideologie-mit-fapte/ and “Completing the Rape Three Decades Later. Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate,” Public Seminar, 25 September 2018, http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/09/completing-the-rape-three-decades-later/.
- Ann Carmichael was a discussant presenter at a conference on “Cities in Crisis: Emergency Measures in Architecture and Urbanism, 1400-1700”, held at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, early September. She presented a paper on “Deaths with a Diagnosis of Leprosy: Evidence from Milan. 1452-1524,” at a conference on Leprosy and the Leper Reconsidered, McGill University (Montreal) September 20-22.
- Jeff Gould presented his documentary Puerto El Triunfo/Port Triumph at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Yale, and Columbia. It has also been screened at the Canadian Labour Festival, LaborFest, Great Lakes Film Festival and will be at the Latin American and Iberian Film Festival.
- Carl Ipsen attended Terra Madre/Salone del Gusto 2018 in Turin, Italy, Sept. 20-23. In addition to touring what is a massive international food show, he participated in the “Diffused University,” an initiative to bring together food scholars and food producers distributors with the goal of advancing food sustainability and food sovereignty outside of the traditional university space.
- PhD student Szabolcs László has won this year's ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for his paper entitled: "Performing for the Capitalists: Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Experienced by Hungarian and Romanian Writers at the Iowa International Writing Program”. The official notification can be found here: https://www.aseees.org/sites/default/files/downloads/october%202018.pdf
- On September 29 Eric Robinson presented the paper "Was Sparta an Oligarchy?" at the Midwestern Ancient Greek History and Theory Colloquium, hosted by the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada.
- Rebecca Spang is spending the year as a Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Finance (Yale School of Management). On September 14th, she presented “Cryptocurrency and its Images” to a joint seminar of MBA and MFA students. On September 28-29, she was at the New School (New York) for the second international Modern Monetary Theory conference (“Public Money, Public Purpose, Public Good”), where she presented as part of the roundtable on “Historians and MMT.”
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