Dr. Frackman Presents at East German Film Workshop in Scotland
On June 1, Dr. Kyle Frackman presented a paper at a research workshop on East German documentary film hosted by the University of St. Andrews.
CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (Sexuality and Weimar Cinema)
GERM 304 001: German Cinema (in English), taught by Dr. Ervin Malakaj, is a three-credit course that explores the political, social, and economic processes that shaped the German “Golden Age” of cinema: the Weimar Era (1918–1933).
CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 305
GERM 305 001: The Culture of Nazism (in English) is a three-credit course that explores selected features of the Third Reich, including methamphetamine abuse, attempts at species resurrection, university politics, and occultism.
Dr. Bowers Wins 2022 Public Engagement Award
Dr. Katherine Bowers has been awarded a Public Engagement Award from the UBC Public Humanities Hub for her on-going public scholarship in the field of Dostoevsky studies.
CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (Shadows and Screams)
GERM 304 004: German Cinema (in English), taught by Dr. Jason Lieblang, is a three-credit course about “Shadows and Screams: Germanic Horror Films from Expressionism to Today” that focuses on the horror genre in the German-speaking world from its gothic beginnings in late 18th-century literature to contemporary films.
Spotlight: German Minor Gabrielle Bonifacio
Gabrielle is graduating with a major in Media Studies and a minor in German, with specialties in creative writing and graphic design. As a Filipino immigrant and artist, she is interested in projects that explore the act of translation, and themes of diaspora, generational love, and liminality.
Dr. Nijdam Wins Innovate German Award for GERM 121: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture
Dr. Biz Nijdam is this year’s recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and German Studies Canada’s Innovate German Award 2022 for her GERM 121: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture (in English) course.
CENES Courses: Spotlight on CENS 202 (Bad Feelings)
CENS 202 001: Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern and Northern Europe (in English), taught by Dr. Ervin Malakaj, is a three-credit course about “Bad Feelings: The Literary Lives of Anger, Boredom, and Jealousy” that explores the relationship between negative emotions and literary cultures.
CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (German Cinema: Reel Cities)
GERM 304 003: German Cinema (in English), taught by Dr. Ilinca Iuraşcu, is a three-credit course that asks the question, “How has cinema transformed the way we represent and inhabit cities?”
CENES Courses: Spotlight on SCAN 335
Vikings and Norse Mythology (in English), taught by Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, is a three-credit course that explores the reasons for the First Scandinavian Expansion (800-1100) and the basic features of Old Norse Mythology.