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.

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.

Ziegler Lecture: Fatima El-Tayeb, “Queer of Color Activism in Decolonial Europe”

13 January 2021 12:00 pm

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Join us on January 13 at 12:00 pm (noon) for a virtual talk featuring Fatima El-Tayeb of the University of California San Diego.

Ambassador Urban Ahlin, “The Nordic Welfare State and Its Challenges in a Globalized World”

20 January 2021 1:00 pm

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Join us on January 20 at 1:00 pm for a virtual talk with Urban Ahlin, Ambassador of Sweden to Canada.

Sawchen Lecture: Barbara Henry, “Road, River, and Book: the Russian Literary Underworld”

26 January 2021 2:00 pm

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Join us on January 26 at 2:00 pm for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Barbara Henry of the University of Washington Seattle. This talk is part of the North American Dostoevsky Society’s Bicentennial Speaker Series.

German-Canadian Business Association: German in Vancouver

27 January 2021 7:00 pm

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Dr. Florian Gassner will be part of a panel presenting opportunities to study German in the Metro Vancouver Area.

Sawchen Lecture: Ioanida Costache, “Attuning to the Roma”

04 February 2021 12:30 pm

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Join us on February 4 at 12:30 pm for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Ioanida Costache of Stanford University, Department of Music. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster (supported by the Public Humanities Hub) and the UBC School of Music.

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