Event Category Archives: Featured Events

“Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia”

Join us on January 28 at 11 am PT for a virtual talk by Dr. Amila Buturovic (Professor, Department of Humanities at the University of York) on “Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia.” 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.

Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Renae Watchman, “Trans-Atlantic Indigeneity”

Join us on January 28, 2022 at 1 pm PT for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Renae Watchman of McMaster University. This talk is co-sponsored by The Narratives Group. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies in the planning and organization of this virtual event in the CENES series on Indigenous Presence and Representation in German and European Studies.

What is Thinkable is Also Possible: Surrealists on the Northwest Coast (Public Talk by Colin Browne)

In this talk, Browne will reflect on the journeys of surrealists Kurt Seligmann (Swiss), Wolfgang Paalen (Austrian), Alice Paalen (French), and Eva Sulzer (Swiss), to Alaska and British Columbia in 1938 and 1939 to experience firsthand the monumental and ceremonial arts of the Indigenous cultures of the Northwest Coast.