- Maria Bucur presented her new project on veterans and citizenship in interwar Romania at the East European seminar at Vanderbilt University on 24 January and at the U.C. Berkeley Kroužek on January 30. At Berkeley she also gave a public talk entitled “The Feminism of Alexandrina Cantacuzino and the Little Entente of Women: A Historical Puzzle.”
- Ke-chin Hsia was featured in the January 4 episode of the Slavic Connexion, a Podcast series produced by graduate students from UT Austin's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies ("It's not typical Texas," as they promise). The interview about his interest in the late Habsburg Empire and his book manuscript was conducted during the ASEEES meeting in San Francisco in November 2019. The full episode can be found here: https://www.slavxradio.com/aseees-hm.
- On January 4 and 6, he gave introductory talks in Taipei on two books that are recently translated into Chinese and published in Taiwan: Benedict Anderson's The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination, and Tony Judt/Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century.
- Julia Roos’ article, “The Race to Forget? Biracial Descendants of the First Rhineland Occupation in 1950s West German Debates about the Children of African-American GIs,” appeared in German History vol. 37, no. 4 (December 2019): 517-39. Julia is the recipient of a College Arts and Humanities Institute Research Travel Grant in support of her book manuscript in-progress, The Black Other in German Society: Biracial Occupation Children, 1920-1960.
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