UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet Series: An Interview with Lena Karlström
Recently, long time Swedish and Nordic Studies lecturer Lena Karlström announced her early retirement. To commemorate her long and impactful career, UBC Nordic Studies sat down with her and discussed memorable moments in her career.
CENES Alumni Stories: UBC German Studies Alum Translates for Musical Actress Annemieke van Dam
Since graduation, UBC German Studies alum Dawn Zhao has taken up German to Chinese translation for her favourite actress Annemieke van Dam.
Dr. Nijdam Receives AMS UBC OER Champion Award
Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is among the recipients of this year’s AMS UBC OER Champion Award!
PhD Candidate Publishes Article on Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten
Dante Prado’s “Queering the Benjamenta Institute: Laughter in Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten” was published in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol.61, issue 1.
UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet Series: An Interview with Dr. Kyle Frackman
UBC Nordic Studies sat down with Nordic Studies Instructor, Dr. Kyle Frackman, for UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet (Teacher Life), a series that allows you to get to know instructors from outside of the classroom. Read more below to learn about Dr. Frackman as he talks to us about approaching grad school, transferable skills between the Sciences and Arts, and his love for trees.
Nijdam featured in Pancouver Article on Comics and Memory during Vancouver’s LunarFest 2025
UBC CENES’ Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam was recently featured in Pancouver for her presentation at LunarFest 2025.
Dr. Frackman gives Talk Introducing “Coming Out” Screening
On February 2, 2025, Dr. Kyle Frackman gave a talk introducing a screening of the East German film Coming Out (1989, dir. Heiner Carow) at Carleton College’s International Film Forum (Northfield, Minnesota).
Congratulations, soon-to-be Dr. Manoff!
On Friday, January 17, CENES Yiddish teacher and scholar Itamar Manoff successfully defended his dissertation, as the final component of his doctoral work in Educational Studies at UBC on the topic of mistakes and errors among adult language learners. When one of his students described a person in the English-as-an-Additional-Language classroom with the phrase “She […]
New Book! *Mad Auralities*
The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) is delighted to share that Palgrave has published Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities by Dr. Matthew Tomkinson.
UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet Series: An Interview with Ann-Kathrine Havemose
Recently, UBC Nordic Studies sat down with Danish language lecturer and Nordic Studies instructor, Ann-Kathrine Havemose for UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet (Teacher Life), a series that allows you to get to know instructors from outside of the classroom. Read more below to learn about Ann-Kathrine, how she came about her job, her hidden gems in Vancouver, and why Irish people are stranger than the Danish.