Event Category Archives: Featured Danish

CENES Careers Night: An evening with CENES Alumni

Join CENES for an evening of conversation about careers with a CENES degree, featuring and panel with alumni from the UBC Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies Department. The UBC Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies (CENES) Department is pleased to invite you to our third annual Careers Night with CENES Alumni on January 22nd, […]

Ziegler Lecture: Søren R. Fauth “Transcendence of the human far beyond AI. Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’ and Schopenhauerian Eschatology”

Join us on February 11 at 12:30pm for our first in-person Ziegler Lecture of 2025. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes dr. phil Søren R. Fauth from Aarhus University. Title: “Transcendence of the human far beyond AI. Kafka’s In the Penal Colony and Schopenhauerian Eschatology” Abstract: Since the Renaissance, humanity has aspired beyond […]

Gaining Control and Losing It. Masculinity and Trauma in a 13th-Century Icelandic Saga

Join CENES for an exciting event circled around Icelandic Sagas! Torfi Tulinius, a Professor of Medieval Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland, will be presenting on March 7th as part of the University of Victoria’s Beck Lecture Series.