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Get set for the IU Summer Music Festival

Summer Music Festival

The collegiate premiere of a Broadway hit, orchestral and chamber music — more than 50 performances — are in store June 21-Aug. 11 on the Bloomington campus. Many are free.  More »

Aheym

Ukraine Interview

The Yiddish word for "homeward" is the name of a project by two IU faculty members to preserve and annotate oral histories they have collected from Yiddish-speaking residents of Eastern Europe and make the material available to scholars.  More »

Re-education

Criminal Justice in China

An IU historian delves into the subject of criminal justice in China, from the late imperial era to the present, including a focus on the 1950s and 1960s, when labor camps were the strategy for re-educating counter-revolutionary activities.  More »

Merchant of Dmitrov

A Russian Merchant's Tale

An 18th-century merchant's daily diary opens a door for historian David Ransel, whose new book delves into the lives of the merchant class in Russian society. It is, he says, a moral tale.  More »