Event Category Archives: Featured German

UBC Plauder-Treff

UBC Plauder-Treff (previously Stammtisch) is a 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? Come join us for an hour of conversation in German! Whether you’re a learner who wants to practice speaking German in […]

Swiss Consulate Meet-and-Greet

Students and all members of the UBC community are welcome to meet Thomas Schneider, the Consul General of Switzerland in Vancouver. Thomas Schneider, born in Bern, Switzerland, is an experienced diplomat with a federal diploma in business administration. Throughout his career with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), he has held various diplomatic roles, […]

CENES Careers Night: Why a Degree in CENES? An evening with CENES Alumni

Join CENES for an evening of conversation about your CENES degree and future careers, featuring a panel with alumni from the UBC Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies Department.

Enduring Silences: Anti-Roma Racism in European and Global Studies

The Holocaust Education Committee of the University of British Columbia is pleased to invite you to a talk by Dr. Margareta Matache, Lecturer, co-founder, and Director of the Roma Program at Harvard University. Abstract: This lecture will examine the underpinnings, legacies, and continuities of anti-Roma racism in Europe. It will trace its origins, including racialized slavery in Moldavia […]

Kaffeestunde

You are cordially invited to Kaffeestunde, an initiative to bring together the UBC German Studies community (defined broadly) in an informal setting. Four times a year we gather as a community for an afternoon of tea, coffee, and snacks and conversation in the CENES Lounge (Buchanan Tower 910). During Kaffeestunde, you will be able to meet […]

A Stage of One’s Own: Multiculturalism, migration, and the struggle to belong on the German stage

Dr. Lily Climenhaga (Ghent University): A Stage of One’s Own: Multiculturalism, Migration, and the Struggle to Belong on the German Stage Germany’s theatre culture is one of the best-funded in the world with ca. 140 publicly subsidized theatres currently in existence across the country. However, despite these theatres’ historical and contemporary status as liberal institutions, […]

UBC Plauder-Treff

UBC Plauder-Treff (previously Stammtisch) is a 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? Come join us for an hour of conversation in German! Whether you’re a learner who wants to practice speaking German in […]

Kaffeestunde

You are cordially invited to Kaffeestunde, an initiative to bring together the UBC German Studies community (defined broadly) in an informal setting. Four times each term we gather as a community for an afternoon of tea, coffee, and snacks and conversation in the CENES Lounge (Buchanan Tower 910). During Kaffeestunde, you will be able to meet […]

Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Jake Fraser “Remembering Media: Time, Memory, and Media from Kittler’s Discourse Networks to Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory”

Join us on March 5, 2026, at 12:30 pm PT for the last Ziegler lecture of 2025-2026. Focusing on the theme of ‘networks’, CENES welcomes Dr. Jake Fraser from Reed College. This lecture is co-hosted by the Science & Technology Studies Program. Title: “Remembering Media: Time, Memory, and Media from Kittler’s Discourse Networks to Latour’s […]

UBC Plauder-Treff

UBC Plauder-Treff (previously Stammtisch) is a 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? Come join us for an hour of conversation in German! Whether you’re a learner who wants to practice speaking German in […]