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 […]
Ann Cvetkovich on “Grappling with Care”
In the “Thinking with Lauren Berlant,” workshop last week, this keynote explored the proliferation of discourses of care — including self-care, collective care, and radical care — as well as critiques of those discourses, both of which have gained additional momentum and urgency in activist and academic contexts during this time of pandemic.
Dr. Malakaj Co-Organizes International Symposium on All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Ervin Malakaj, Assistant Professor of German Studies, collaborated with Molly Harrabin (University of Warwick) to co-host, “Watching War: A Symposium on Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front.”
Modern European Studies Major to give 2023 Graduation Address on May 24th
On May 24th, Melanie Kilchherr, a Modern European Studies major in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies Department, will be giving the graduation address for the class of 2023.
Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies and Nordic Minor receive the 2023 CENES Outstanding Mentorship Award
The 2023 CENES Excellence in Mentorship Award has been conferred on a team of mentors, Lena Karlström, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Nordic Studies, and Ashley Samsone, graduating minor in Nordic Studies.
Dr. Bowers Receives British Academy Visiting Fellowship
Dr. Katherine Bowers has received a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to spend the summer at the University of St Andrews. working on her new book project, Unstable Environments: Reading Climate Change Across the Long Nineteenth Century.