Two Latin Americanist graduate students and one recent Ph.D. published articles in the most recent issue of the North American Congress on Latin America’s Report on the Americas. Recent graduate and Fordham University assistant professor, Stephanie Huezo described cross-border worker and migrant alliances in “A New Era of Solidarity.” Isabel Alvarez-Echandi analyzed worsening inequality and the erosion of worker protections in “Labor Rights Under Siege in Costa Rica” and Chris Jillson described the condition of Nicaraguan migrants in the pandemic in “Costa Rica’s Neighbor, Intruder, and Essential Worker.” The pieces are part of a NACLA special edition focused on Central America, Fighting for a People’s Isthmus. All three articles can be found at: https://nacla.org/news/2020/11/05/dispossession-resistance-solidarity-central-america.

On November 18, Maria Bucur participated in a roundtable organized by the New School for Social Research on the topic of “The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad,” with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Romania, South Africa, and Turkey.”

Michael Dodson wrote an appreciation of architect Kuldip Singh's work in New Delhi, following Singh's death last week from complications due to COVID-19. It appears on Scroll.in (https://scroll.in/article/978593/kuldip-singh-1934-2020-architect-who-made-his-mark-on-delhis-modern-urban-form-like-few-others) and will be republished on PLATFORM in a few weeks.

Jeff Gould was interviewed about his book Solidarity Under Siege, in two hour-long radio programs in Costa Rica, as part of a series, El Hilo de la Historia. 
He was also interviewed about his career on a Facebook Livestream, as part of a series called Conversaciones con La Historia. He was interviewed about Solidarity Under Siege, on the radio program, Heartland Labor Forum, on KKFI 90.1, community radio, Kansas City, Missouri. He gave a talk to Meadowood/University Club, The Roots of the Immigration Crisis. He published, La Lotta Continua: Fragments from a Past, in the October/November issue of Against the Current.

Carrie Schwier (IU Archives) and Sarah Knott continue to solicit volunteers to donate material to the Coronavirus Days project, which documents everyday life during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the election. Latest news here: 
https://news.iu.edu/stories/2020/11/iub/inside/13-archivists-create-collection-documenting-pandemic-experiences.html
Please be in touch if you would like to offer materials (thank you, Nick Cullather!) or use the project as a writing prompt in your classes.

On 10 November 2020, the Franco-German public television network ARTE broadcast the documentary „They Called them ‘Children of Shame’” ("Sie nannten sie die "Kinder der Schande"", directed by Dominik Wessely), about the Nazi-era persecution of biracial “occupation children” born in the Rhineland after WWI. In Germany, ARTE is a subsidiary of the two main public TV networks, ARD and ZDF, which will also show the film. Julia Roos worked with the production company as an expert consultant; she is one of the people interviewed in the film. The German version can be accessed here: https://vimeo.com/476785934 Password: rhein123land!

Mark Roseman’s interview on the WFIU Profiles program will be aired this coming weekend (WFIU 2 5pm on Saturday and WFIU 1 6pm on Sunday) and thereafter via https://indianapublicmedia.org/profiles/.