Russian and East European Institute

Frank Hess (Euro, Greek) currently the Director of the Modern Greek Program at IU, has been named President of the Modern Greek Studies Association. More information about the Modern Greek Studies Association can be found on their website: https://www.mgsa.org/About/goals.html.

Padraic Kenney (History) recently delivered lectures on the history of political imprisonment in Poland, at the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, the Warsaw University's Institute for Polish Culture, and the History Institute of Wrocław University. He also published a commentary on the new Polish law criminalizing historical speech, entitled "Wina, wojna, naród" ("Guilt, the War, and the Nation"), in Kultura liberalna, accessible here: https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2018/02/23/kenney-wina-narod-wojna/.

Sarah Phillips (Anthropology/REEI) is a founding member of Salo University, "a friendly cloud space for thinking about Kurt Vonnegut and why his writing matters today . . . that features "thoughts and interpretations from scholars, students, and everyday fans as well as news, art projects, discussions, and hopeful signals from anywhere in the known universe" (http://salo.iu.edu/). Her blog entries on Vonnegut's work can be found at: http://salo.iu.edu/index.php/portfolio/sarah-philips/.

Mark Roseman (History/Jewish Studies) has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Board for the former concentration camp memorial sites Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora.

Mirjam Zadoff (History) is the author of a book on Jewish spa cultures (Nächstes Jahr in Marienbad: Gegenwelten jüdischer Kulturen der Moderne [Next Year in Marienbad. The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture]) that has recently been published in Czech translation: "Tak napřesrok v Marienbadu. Ztracené světy židovských lázeňských kultur" (Prague: Jewish Museum and Czech Academy of Sciences, March 2018).