Professor of History Thomas Wilson was re-elected co-chair of the Confucian Traditions Group of the American Academy of Religions. He was nominated to run at the annual meeting in San Francisco in November. The election was conducted by email last week.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was quoted in a Nov. 27 Chronicle of Higher Education article about a national campaign of student debt refusal. In “Debt Protesters Denounce Colleges for Broken Promises,” Isserman said the Occupy Wall Street movement has rubbed off on college students, who have taken the protest in their own direction.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, was quoted in a New York Times front-page article, “Beyond Seizing Parks, New Paths to Influence,” that appeared on Nov. 16. The article concerned the future of the anti-Wall Street protests following the dismantling of the New York Zuccotti Park encampment. Isserman questioned whether “New York City officials might have done Occupy Wall Street a favor ‘by providing a dramatic ending.’” 

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi was invited to speak at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on Nov. 11.  Her talk, "A Photography of Working Ahmedabad: the Jyoti Sangh, Pranlal Patel, and women workers" addressed a series of 70 photographs that Trivedi uncovered during her research in India this past spring.

Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning with Kerri Miller program featured Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, in an interview on the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Isserman, co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, compared the current movement with those in past decades during the Nov. 8 broadcast.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi participated in the 40th Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She presented a paper titled “A Photography of Working Ahmedabad: the Jyoti Sangh, Pranlal Patel, and women workers.”

Professor of History Thomas Wilson led a seminar session on the “Cult of Confucius” on Oct. 15 at the School of Education at Union Graduate College. Wilson participated on behalf of the Freeman Foundation-funded National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, a grant managed by the Five College Center for Teaching about Asia located at Smith College.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik published an article titled “Bishops in the Medieval Empire: New Perspectives on the Church, State and Episcopal Office” in the peer-reviewed online journal History Compass.

Alan Knight, a professor of history of Latin America at Oxford University, will present a lecture titled “The Mexican Revolution: Success or Failure?” on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik published a review of Mary Fischer’s The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin: A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia 1190-1331 in the September issue of The Medieval Review.