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Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 910
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UBC Plauder-Treff is a weekly German conversation hour created and designed to assist German language learners in the UBC community to develop their speaking skills. Looking for a place to practice your German? Whether you’re a learner who wants to practice speaking German in a casual and relaxed setting, or a proficient speaker who simply […]

Sawchen Lecture: Drs. Daniil Skorinkin & Alexey Vdovin, “Russian Digital Humanities: Spotlight on Russian Drama and Novels Corpora”

20 October 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on October 20 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Daniil Skorinkin and Dr. Alexey Vdovin of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Jason Groves, “Mineral Imaginaries: Literature for the Anthropocene”

20 October 2020 3:00 pm

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Join us on October 20 at 3 pm for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Jason Groves of the University of Washington Seattle.

Ziegler Lecture: Ilija Trojanow, Reading and Lecture on “Confluences post Migration”

22 October 2020 10:00 am

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Join us on October 22 at 10 am for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring author Ilija Trojanow.

Intergenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust: Nora Krug in Conversation with Marsha Lederman

27 October 2020 6:00 pm

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Featuring Nora Krug in conversation with Marsha Lederman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and the Western Art Correspondent of The Globe and Mail, the event will explore themes of identity, memory, inherited responsibility and the cultural legacies of war in Krug’s visual memoir, “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home”, winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Margarita Vaysman, “The Trouble with Nadezhda Durova: Historicizing Queer Celebrity in Russia”

30 October 2020 9:00 am

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Join us on October 30 at 9:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Margarita Vaysman of the University of St Andrews.

Sawchen Lecture: Ilya Vinkovetsky, “Using Literature in History, and History in Literature”

04 November 2020 11:00 am

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Join us on November 4 at 11 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Hallensleben to Present at Virtual UBC Migration Speaker Series

12 November 2020 10:00 am

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On Thursday, November 12 at 10 am PDT, Dr. Markus Hallensleben will be giving a talk on “Deconstructing Eurocentric Politics of Belonging through Literary and Visual Narratives of Plural Relations.”

Sawchen Lecture: Quinn Dombrowski & Dr. Andrew Janco, “Computational Methods for Russian Literature: Current State and Future Directions”

17 November 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on November 17 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Quinn Dombrowski of Stanford University and Dr. Andrew Janco of Haverford College.

Sawchen Lecture: David Bamman, “Building Russian BookNLP”

08 December 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on December 8 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring David Bamman of the University of California Berkeley.