Ziegler Lecture: Jamele Watkins, “From Celebrity to Saint: Angela Davis in East Germany”

03 March 2021 12:00 pm

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Join us on March 3 at 12:00 pm (noon) for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Jamele Watkins of the University of Minnesota.

Sawchen Lecture: Nick Mayhew, “Russian Sexual Politics: The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity”

16 March 2021 11:00 am

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Join us on March 16 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Nick Mayhew of Stanford University. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster.

Ziegler Lecture: Kira Thurman, “Interwar Liederabende and the Matter of Blackness”

19 March 2021 12:00 pm

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Join us on March 19 at 12:00 pm (noon) for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Kira Thurman of the University of Michigan, History Department. This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC School of Music.

Sawchen Lecture: Philip Gleissner, “Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia: From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing”

26 March 2021 11:00 am

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Join us on March 26 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Philip Gleissner of Ohio State University.

Storytelling as Research: Unsettling the Cultural Politics of Diversity through Filmmaking

07 April 2021 - 09 April 2021

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Our interdisciplinary workshop brings together filmmakers and scholars who incorporate participant centred storytelling as part of their work and research. The workshop is an opportunity for participants to discuss current artistic and scholarly collaborative storytelling projects that challenge collective core narratives of diversity, migration and settlement.

Ziegler Lecture: Regina Römhild, “Other Europes in Moments of Post-Otherness”

08 April 2021 11:00 am

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Join us on April 8 at 11:00 am for a virtual Ziegler Lecture featuring Regina Römhild of the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt University of Berlin. This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies and the UBC Institute of European Studies.

The New Media Aesthetics of Migration Workshop

13 April 2021

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Dr. Biz Nijdam has organized the upcoming workshop “The New Media Aesthetics of Migration Virtual Workshop: Social Media and Digital Technologies in Representing Refugee Experience,” hosted by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.

“Behind the Mythological Curtain: Reception of Greek Tragedy During the Communist Rule in Serbia”

21 April 2021 12:00 pm

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Join us on April 21 at 12:00 pm (noon) for a virtual talk by PhD candidate Jelena Todorovic on “Behind the Mythological Curtain: Reception of Greek Tragedy During the Communist Rule in Serbia.” This event is hosted by the UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and co-sponsored by the CENES Department, the UBC Institute for European Studies, and the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.