Drs. Frackman and Malakaj Co-Edit Special Issue of Monatshefte on Queer Temporality
The special issue is titled “Slowness, Untimeliness, Rupture: Queer Time and History in German Studies.”
PhD Student Selected to Take Part in Holocaust Education Seminar
Braden Russell, a PhD student in Germanic Studies, was accepted to participate in the Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on Pedagogical Approaches to Material Culture and the Holocaust, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Undergraduate Student Receives SWEA Vancouver Undergraduate Scholarship for Exchange Studies in Sweden
The scholarship is handed out every second year to a student registered in a Swedish course in the Scandinavian Studies Program.
An Interview with Modern European Studies Alum
Charlotte Gibbs graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2021 as a double major in History and Modern European Studies.
Meet our New CENES Undergraduate Student Program Assistants
CENES is excited to announce our three new program assistants and one new project assistant, who will work with the department leadership team on enhancing undergraduate programming and intellectual life across our German Studies, Scandinavian Studies and Slavic Studies programs.
Seven CENES courses to learn more about multicultural Europe in WT2
Join us in Winter 2022 Term 2 to learn about the diversity of culture, politics and languages that makes up Europe in 2022!
Graduate Admissions Applications Now Open
Beyond its undergraduate programs, the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies offers pathways to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Germanic Studies.
Full Program Available for Winter 2022 Term 1 Sawchen, Ziegler Lecture Series
The Winter 2022 Term 1 program for the Sawchen Lecture Series and Ziegler Lecture Series is now available. Register for these free virtual events today!
CENES Alum’s Book Wins Canadian Jewish Literary Award
The book But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by CENES/Germanic Studies alumnus Charlotte Schallié (Ph.D. 2004), has been awarded the Canadian Jewish Literary Award.
MA Student Featured on Graduate School Website
Susanna Cassisa was interviewed for the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies “Meet our Students” spotlight series. She is currently working on a master’s thesis on moral panics around queer sexualities in East Germany.