Event Category Archives: Featured Events

Holodomor: Soviet Famine-Genocide against the Ukrainian Nation 1932-33

24 November 2022 6:00 pm

• Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies

To commemorate this tragedy, the UBC Ukrainian Student Union is hosting a lecture panel on November 24 at 6:00 pm, conducted by Myroslav Petriw on how Soviet famine is only one facet of the Ukrainian genocide.

Cinema Thinks the World: Mariupolis Film Screening and Discussion

25 November 2022 6:00 pm

• Venue: UBC Robson Square
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies, Featured Undergraduate

Cinema Thinks The World is proud to present a rare screening of the late Mantas Kvedaravicius’s 2016 documentary,  Mariupolis.

From Tahiti to China: Czech Literature Seizing the World

29 November 2022 12:30 pm

• Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies

How much influence can literature of one small land-locked country wield outside its borders?

UBC Stammtisch

29 November 2022 5:00 pm

• Venue: CENES Department Lounge (Buchanan Tower, Ninth Floor)
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage

Come join us every week for an hour of conversation in German!

CENES Slavic Tea 2022

05 December 2022 3:30 pm

• Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies

All students and instructors who learn or teach courses with Slavic content are welcome to join CENES Slavic Tea.

UBC Stammtisch

06 December 2022 5:00 pm

• Venue: CENES Department Lounge (Buchanan Tower, Ninth Floor)
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage

Come join us every week for an hour of conversation in German!

PhD Candidate Johan Klingborg, “Swedish Literature in the Film Network 1929–1940”

07 December 2022 3:00 pm

• Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Swedish

Johan Klingborg, visiting PhD Candidate from Stockholm University, presents his ongoing doctoral project.

Lucia 2022

07 December 2022 4:30 pm

• Venue: Norm Theatre
• Categories: Featured Danish, Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Swedish, Featured Undergraduate

Join the Scandinavian and Nordic Student Association to celebrate Lucia on December 7th!

Don’t Panic Mondays: Student Quiet Study Session

09 January 2023 4:00 pm

• Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
• Categories: Featured Danish, Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage, Featured Modern European Studies, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies, Featured Swedish, Featured Undergraduate

Come up to the 9th Floor of Buchanan Tower on Mondays throughout the semester from 4:00-7:00 pm. Come relax, read, write, and think in good company in CENES!

UBC Stammtisch

10 January 2023 5:00 pm

• Venue: CENES Department Lounge (Buchanan Tower, Ninth Floor)
• Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage

Come join us every week for an hour of conversation in German!