- Maria Bucur spent Valentine’s Day at the conference “Women’s Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century,” hosted by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where she presented the plenary address “Domestic Violence as Hate Crime.”
- Oxbow books published Colin Elliott’s chapter entitled ‘Coin debasement, climate and contagion in second-century Egypt’ in Debasement: Manipulation of Coin Standards in Pre-Modern Monetary Systems, edited by Kevin Butcher.
- Congratulations to Jeff Gould, who has been appointed a Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious academic appointment Indiana University can offer.
- Alex Lichtenstein lectured about the history of the civil rights movement at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) Summer School, and spoke to the USP History department about the debate over the 1619 Project.
- Congratulations to Jeff Richardson, BA History, 1973, who will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the College this coming Friday (February 21) at 5pm in the Whittenberger Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
- Eric Robinson delivered the lecture "Populism Ancient and Modern: of Government, Demagoguery, and Donald Trump" as keynote speaker at Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich's conference on Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute (Democracy and Populism in Greek Antiquity and Today) on Thursday, February 13 at Zürich University in Switzerland. He gave another lecture — "Sparta and the Theban Sacred Band" — at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary on Monday, February 10, sponsored by CEU's Gender Studies Program.