Faculty News

Ke-chin Hsia's book, Victims' State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925, has now been published as a hardback by the Oxford University Press. To get a 30% discount (40% before Nov. 25) please use the promocode EXASEEES22 when ordering with Oxford University Press. The open access edition of his book is still free to download from Internet Archive and other OA repositories. Ke-chin also gave in-person book talks at Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University on Oct. 27 and 28, respectively. Back in September, he presented "Food and Political Access in the Austrian Revolution, 1919" in the workshop "Provisioning Crisis and Transformation of East-Central Europe, 1918-1923" at the Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague.

Tatiana Saburova presented a paper "Under-Mapped Territories and Imperial Landscapes: V. Sapozhnikov's Expeditions to Altai in Photographs and Writings" at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Chicago on November 12, 2022. She also served as a chair for a panel "Encountering the Unexpected in Siberia" at the ASEEES convention this year.

Rebecca Spang presented on “Making Money in the French Revolution” to the Early Modern Financial History Seminar (convened by colleagues at Bern, Vienna, and Tokyo Universities and the London School of Economics).