Judith Allen and Susan Ferentinos both contributed to the October/November 2020 issue of Bloomington’s local magazine Bloom. The theme of this month’s issue is “Vote! 23 Experts Tell What’s at Stake.” Judith wrote the article on Women’s Rights and Sue wrote the one on LGBTQ+ Rights. You can find the print magazine at various sites around town, and the magazine is putting a few articles from this issue online every day at: https://www.magbloom.com/2020/10/vote-23-experts-tell-whats-at-stake-for-bloomington-the-country-cover-story/.

Liza Black spoke on "Indigenous People's Day, Land Acknowledgements, and History from Native American Viewpoints" for the IU History Undergraduate Student Association on October 12.  On October 17, she gave a talk titled "Native Mother, Native Daughter: The Murder of Savanna Greywind and the Abduction of Haisley Jo Greywind" for the Western History Association Annual Conference, Albequerque, NM.

Maria Bucur’s The Nation’s Gratitude: World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania has been accepted for publication with Routledge Press.

The Stanford Humanities Center Blokker Research Workshop and Stanford Department of Classics will host (virtually) Colin Elliott for an invited lecture on ‘Ecology and Monetary Standards in Roman Egypt’ on Friday, October 30 at 3:00pm EST. Last week, Elliott gave an invited lecture (virtual) for the Valencia College Humanities Speaker Series entitled ‘Plague, Privilege and Psychopathy in the Roman Empire’. The talk was based upon a chapter from his next book: Pox Romana: The Antonine Plague and the End of the Roman Peace (Princeton, under contract).

Emeritus Professor Michael Grossberg co-authored a historians’ brief in Fulton v. The City of Philadelphia, which will be heard by the United States Supreme Court next week. The brief makes a historical argument supporting the right of the city to terminate a contract with Catholic Social Services because the agency refused to abide by Philadelphia’s anti-discrimination laws and include LGBTQ applicants in its foster parent screening program. The clash between anti-discrimination principles and claims of conscience in the case promises to produce a major ruling in an ongoing series of decisions on religious liberty and LGBTQ rights.

Tatiana Saburova's article, Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia, was published in Sibirica: Jornal of Siberian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2020: 57–84.

On October 27, Fei-Hsien Wang gave a talk entitled "Everybody Loves Qianlong: Vernacular Fantasies, Cultural Consumption, and the 'Prosperous Age' in Post-Imperial China" in the Fairbank Center Modern China Lecture series at Harvard University. This week, she also co-organized the "Unspoken Taiwan" online film festival at IU (Oct. 25-31). Earlier on October 16, she served as a panelist in "Chinese Legal History in a Comparative Context Roundtable 2: Economic Regulation" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law.