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Get to Know UBC Nordic Studies + Jeopardy Night

Join the UBC Nordic Program for their first fall event, Jeopardy! CENES is very excited to announce that UBC Nordic Studies will be hosting a ‘Get-to-Know-Us’ event followed by a game of Nordic-themed Jeopardy! There will be pizza 🍕 and prizes! Interested in Nordic Studies? Students can learn more about what the program, talk to […]

CENES (and friends!) Curiosity Cluster

The path to becoming an early-career researcher can be a daunting one. The CENES (and friends!) Curiosity Cluster helps humanities students start their undergraduate research journey in a low-pressure environment, alongside a community of like-minded individuals. This student-led research cluster will help create space for undergraduates interested in publishing and research to dedicate time to their […]

Go Global Seminar Info Session: Poland and Croatia

Interested in traveling to Poland and Croatia? Consider taking “Experiencing Eastern Europe (including Witnessing Auschwitz)”, a Go Global Seminar with CENES’ Dasha McEwen this summer. Students will travel to Poland and Croatia, discuss very serious, and also culturally interesting and timely topics related to three Eastern European nations:  Poland, Ukraine and Croatia; delve into their […]

CENES (and friends!) Curiosity Cluster

The path to becoming an early-career researcher can be a daunting one. The CENES (and friends!) Curiosity Cluster helps humanities students start their undergraduate research journey in a low-pressure environment, alongside a community of like-minded individuals. This student-led research cluster will help create space for undergraduates interested in publishing and research to dedicate time to their […]

Sawchen Lecture: Alex Drace-Francis “Mămăligă as Metahistory: Between Subordination and Revolt”

Join us on November 5 at 12:30pm Pacific Time for an online Sawchen Lecture. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes Dr. Alex Drace-Francis from the University of Amsterdam. Title: “Mămăligă as Metahistory: Between Subordination and Revolt” Abstract: Dr. Drace-Francis will be drawing on the traditional Romanian trope of the ‘non-/explosive’ corn mush as […]

Ziegler Lecture: Zafer Şenocak, “Migration, Exile, Memory, Identity – A Reading and Discussion with Turkish-German Writer Zafer Şenocak”

Abstract: Berlin-based writer Zafer Şenocak will read from his new bilingual poetry collection First Light (Turkish and English). Readers will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that have appeared throughout his career as a leading Turkish-German intellectual, but which gain new shades of meaning as […]