- Maria Bucur’s articles “The Romanian 2019 Presidential Elections. Populism on the Retreat” (December 5, 2019, https://publicseminar.org/2019/12/the-romanian-2019-presidential-elections/) and “Romania in 2020. Fighting Corruption Just Got Harder because of Trump” (December 6, 2019, https://publicseminar.org/2019/12/romania-in-2020/) appeared in Public Seminar.
- Jeff Gould’s documentary film, Port Triumph, was selected as a finalist at the Central American International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
- On November 23, Ke-chin Hsia presented "Welfare and Nationalizing Politics in WWI Austria" at the 51st Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in San Francisco, CA.
- Marissa Moorman attended the 2019 African Studies Annual Meeting in Boston Nov. 20-23, 2019. She participated on a roundtable on democracy in Central Africa, organized and moderated roundtable on the question of The Restitution of African Art, and began her tenure as an editor of The Journal of African History. Earlier that week, Observatory de Imprensa, an Angolan media watchdog website, interviewed her about her new book: https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/pt/marissa-moorman-a-radio-nacional-de-angola-e-um-bom-exemplo-em-termos-institucionais/.
- Graduate student Richard Raber published two articles over the past week in response to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Traditional Khoi-San Leadership Act, legislation, Richard argues, that is no less than a re-installation of rural patronage in the democratic era. See those articles at https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/traditional-khoi-san-leadership-act-underpinned-by-idea-that-rural-people-cannot-think/ and https://mg.co.za/article/2019-12-07-00-state-shows-its-contempt-for-rural-people-with-traditional-khoi-san-leadership-act.
- Kaya Sahin published “To Observe, to Record, to Depict: Memorializing the Circumcision of an Ottoman Prince, c. 1582—c. 1600,” History and Theory, Theme Issue 57 (December 2019), 43-67. It is available on-line here.
- Rebecca Spang’s review essay, “Adventures of a Shilling: How human life has been bound to useless metals” appeared in the TLS (Dec. 6, 2019). It covers four books on gold and silver, from medieval Africa to the Spanish Empire, Victorian Britain, and contemporary USA. It is available on-line here.
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