- Maria Bucur has been awarded a research grant from the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research for her project “War and Welfare Citizenship: Democracy and Populism in Romania after 1918.”
- Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, by Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti, has just been published by Cornell University Press.
- Rebecca Spang gave the Becton Fellows Lecture at Yale’s School of Management on February 7th. On February 19th, she presented “The Caisse Lafarge: Fraud, Finance, and the French Revolution” at the Eighteenth-Century Seminar, Princeton University.
- On February 7, Fei-Hsien Wang and Ke-chin Hsia presented the lecture "Sissi/Xixi/茜茜: How An Austrian Empress Becomes the Princess of Communist China" at Forum on 15, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Carl R. Weinberg published “The French Bread Gambit” on the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning blog. His post focuses on role-playing games in the classroom and, of course, promotes the upcoming March 29 free workshop for IU faculty and graduate students.