Maria Bucur organized the panel “A Hundred Years of Anxiety and Radicalization: War, Racism and Fascism in Eastern Europe,” for the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies on November 6th, 2020, which included a paper by East European history PhD student Filip Mitricevic and a presentation by Bucur, “The Undoing: the Veterans’ Administration and the Failed Hopes of Right Wing Radicalization in Interwar Romania.”

Susan Ferentinos, the History Department’s Graduate Career Advisor, recently completed an LGBTQ Historic Context Study for the state of Maryland. Historic context studies are historic preservation documents designed to assist preservationists in identifying, evaluating, and preserving properties significant to an underrepresented aspect of history. Maryland is only the second state in the U.S. to complete a context study for LGBTQ history; the first was Kentucky. More information and a link to the report can be found at: https://www.preservationmaryland.org/preservation-maryland-completes-statewide-lgbtq-heritage-context-study/.

Graduate student Szabolcs László was awarded the Mark Pittaway Prize by the Hungarian Studies Association this year for his article “Promoting the Kodály Method during the Cold War: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy and the Transnational Network of Music Educators in the 1960s and 1970s.” The award was given to the best scholarly article or book chapter in Hungarian studies published in 2018 and 2019. An excerpt from the HSA’s announcement: “Based on his exploration of Hungarian archival sources and displaying a solid footing in the scholarship of the cultural Cold War, the author offers a multi-layered analysis, setting the formation of this long-lasting professional network against the Cold-War agenda of Hungarian cultural diplomacy that struggled to control it. László advances a pitch-perfect argument, highlighting the agency of American and Hungarian educators but also their exploitation by the Hungarian cultural authorities.”

Mark Roseman participated in the State of Indiana's 22nd Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program on November 10, for which he was interviewed as part of a video celebrating the life of “Hidden Child” Holocaust survivor, Esther Davidson.
He is giving the keynote for the conference “New Approaches to the Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. History, Politics, Commemoration” organized by the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, November 23-25. https://www.selma-stern-zentrum.de/kalender/Wintersemester-2020_21/Tagungen-und-Workshops/... The Conference is viewable live on YouTube and participants can register by e-mail at the following address: m.schaertl@selma-stern-zentrum.de

Kaya Sahin gave a talk as part of the University of York (UK), Department of History Research Seminar: "Imperial Performances: Circumcision Ceremonies for Ottoman Princes, 1457-1582." (Since the talk was delivered via Zoom, Sahin's initial plan to use the occasion to visit York Minster came to naught.)

Ph.D. candidate Jazma Sutton has received the inaugural Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowship from Indiana Humanities to support research for her dissertation, “Borderline Freedom: Free and Fugitive Black Women in East Central Indiana before the Civil War.” The fellowship supports new humanities research on anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and how Black Hoosiers have responded.

Last week, Mother Jones ran an interview with Ellen Wu about her research ("A California Proposition Could Reinstate Affirmative Action. Why Are Some Asian Americans Against It?"). Back in July, goop (Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand) also featured Wu's research ("The Complex History -- and Ongoing Realities -- of the Model Minority Stereotype").