CENES Graduate Research Featured in Washington Post
CENES Germanic Studies Master’s Student Susanna Cassisa’s research in LGBTQ+ history brings lessons to bear on today’s homophobic political discourses around so-called “grooming”.
New CENES Undergraduate Directors, Centre Directors, and Professors
Every year in July, new faculty members join our departmental community, and existing members take on new leadership positions.
CENES Tim Frandy Book Listed on Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Books of 2022 List
A new book by UBC CENES faculty member Tim Frandy and B. Marcus Cederström (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was listed on the Smithsonian Magazine’s list of Best Books of 2022.
Ajibola Fabusuyi is a 2023 Recipient of Diversity and Inclusion Grant of Waterloo Centre for German Studies
CENES PhD Candidate, Ajibola Fabusuyi, has received a grant from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.
Dr. Nijdam Receives a Diversity and Inclusion Grant from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Dr. Biz Nijdam is a 2023 recipient of a Diversity and Inclusion Grant in German Studies from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies for her project “Games for Decolonization,” which explores how board games can be valuable tools in decolonizing teaching and learning in European, German, and Migration Studies.
Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on totalitarian termites
Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young has published “The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture” in Journal of the History of Biology.
CENES masters student awarded Diversity and Inclusion grant
CENES MA student, Susanna Cassisa, was recently selected as a recipient of a Diversity and Inclusion graduate research grant from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.
Celebrating Achievement in Queer Studies
Dr. Ervin Malakaj, Director of Undergraduate Studies, German, whose work focuses largely on queer studies, recently received two significant honours that will provide him with opportunities to further his research.
UBC German Undergraduate Student Profile: Melissa Phua
In this personal reflection, Melissa Phua (Economics major) outlines her journey in the UBC German Studies program.
Claudia Breger on “Negativity and Resilience, Fantasy and Hope: Multivectoral Dialogues between Laurent Berlant and German (-émigré) Critical Theory”
Last week, a keynote traced multidirectional influences and resonances between Berlant’s thought and German studies through a larger project of rethinking political aesthetics for our current moment. The larger project undertakes dialogues between early and mid-twentieth century German-émigré thinking on political aesthetics in the face of fascism (Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch) and twenty-first-century work in affect […]