Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Roma Sendyka, “Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Collective Memory”

14 September 2022 11:00 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies

Join us on September 14 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Roma Sendyka of Jagiellonian University, Poland.

Book Launch: “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”

14 September 2022 7:30 pm

Venue: Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery (Jewish Community of Greater Vancouver)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies

You are invited to the book launch of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Charlotte Schallié (UBC Ph.D. 2004), Professor and Chair of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.

The War in Ukraine: A Conversation and Q&A with Ukrainian Journalist Anastasiia Lapatina

22 September 2022 6:00 pm

Venue: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (Room 120)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies

We are very fortunate and grateful to welcome Lapatina to a panel discussion on her first-hand experience covering the current war in Ukraine, followed by a Q&A period with the audience.

CENES Slavic Tea 2022

03 October 2022 3:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies

All students and instructors who learn or teach courses with Slavic content are welcome to join CENES Slavic Tea.

An Introduction to Ukraine’s Persistent, Stubborn, Resisting Culture

04 October 2022 12:30 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies

Dariya Prykhodko shares her experience of Ukrainian culture as an everyday Ukrainian-Canadian person.

CENES Alumni Night

05 October 2022 5:00 pm

Venue: Peña Room (Room 301) in Chapman Commons
Categories: Featured Danish, Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage, Featured Modern European Studies, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies, Featured Swedish

On October 5, the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies invites you to explore the variety of pathways for CENES students and graduates.

Arts Multilingual Week

31 October 2022 - 04 November 2022

Categories: Featured Danish, Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies, Featured Swedish

Arts Multilingual Week (October 31st to November 4th) is organized in collaboration with over a dozen units across campus. The week’s events will feature students, scholars, and community members reflecting on multilingualism as a practice, discussing career opportunities for multilingual graduates and performing multilingualism through artistic means.

CENES Go Global Information Session

02 November 2022 4:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower, Room 997
Categories: Featured Danish, Featured Events, Featured German, Featured Homepage, Featured Modern European Studies, Featured Nordic Studies, Featured Polish, Featured Russian, Featured Slavic Studies, Featured Swedish, Featured Undergraduate

Join us for a session on international opportunities specifically for students in German, Scandinavian and Slavic Studies! Go Global offers numerous options for UBC students to travel across the world while participating in meaningful learning opportunities. Study for a term or over the summer and earn credits! Featured image: Photo by Erik Odiin on Unsplash

Summer 2023 Witnessing Auschwitz Information Session

03 November 2022 10:00 am

Venue: Life Building Room 1505
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Polish, Featured Slavic Studies

In this multi‐disciplinary inquiry, UBC students will take up social responsibilities as researchers, drawing connections to territory and space of Auschwitz camp complex.

Sawchen Lecture: Slavenka Drakulić, “Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism”

03 November 2022 11:00 am

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured Slavic Studies

Join us on November 3 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Slavenka Drakulić in conversation with Professor emeritus Peter Stenberg, moderated by Dr. Markus Hallensleben. This talk is co-organized by the UBC CMS Research Narratives Group.