01 April 2022 3:00 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage

Join us for a screening of the 1923 silent film Das alte Gesetz (The Ancient Law), directed by E.A. Dupont, with German/English intertitles, with musicians Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin performing the live score.

2022 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (GSURS)

02 April 2022

Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage

You are cordially invited to attend the 2022 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (#GSURS2022), which will take place April 2-3, 2022.

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Kathryn Graber, “Mixed Messages”

14 April 2022 12:30 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Russian

Join us on April 14, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Kathryn Graber of Indiana University. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster, UBC Department of Anthropology, and UBC Centre for European Studies.

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

25 April 2022 10:00 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Please join us for our first event in the CENES series “Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance” on Monday, April 25 from 10am-11:30am Pacific time.

A Panel Discussion: What’s Happening in Ukraine?

28 April 2022 4:30 pm

Venue: Middlefield Group Lecture Theatre (UBC Sauder School of Business)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Hear from someone working on the ground in Kharkiv, followed by a panel discussion on the geopolitical play between the West, Ukraine, and Russia, and the role of the private sector in addressing the war in Ukraine.

Graphic Historiography: Comics and/on the Writing of History

18 May 2022 9:30 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Dr. Biz Nijdam will be presenting research from her book project at Cardiff University on May 18, 2022 as part of the School of Modern Languages’ History and Heritage research theme.

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

25 May 2022 11:00 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

While the Russian war in Ukraine continues, we in UBC’s Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies will focus on the experience of people of (and in) Ukraine. We will maintain solidarity with them until Ukraine triumphs over its unprovoked invaders. Each month, around the day of the unprovoked Russian invasion on February 24 […]

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

24 June 2022 10:00 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Polish, Featured Russian

Please join us for the third event in the CENES series “Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance” on Friday, June 24, at 10 am Pacific time via Zoom.

Conference: Con/Figurations of Female Adventure: Dynamics, Spaces, and Alliances

11 August 2022 - 14 August 2022

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The SSHRC Connection Grant Conference will be held at the UBC Vancouver campus on August 11-14, 2022.

Witnessing Auschwitz Conference 2022

14 September 2022 - 21 September 2022

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Undergraduate

Join us for the virtual Witnessing Auschwitz Conference 2022, beginning Wednesday, September 14 at 11:00 am and ending on Wednesday, September 21 at 12:30 pm.

Event Category Archives: Featured Homepage

The Ancient Law (1923): Film Screening and Live Musical Accompaniment

2022 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (GSURS)

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Kathryn Graber, “Mixed Messages”

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

A Panel Discussion: What’s Happening in Ukraine?

Graphic Historiography: Comics and/on the Writing of History

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

Ukraine: a Spotlight on the Culture of Change and Resistance

Conference: Con/Figurations of Female Adventure: Dynamics, Spaces, and Alliances

Witnessing Auschwitz Conference 2022