Students of GERM 426 Publish Their Research on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work
During the academic year 2020/21 students who took GERM 426 (German Representations of the Holocaust) in German literature and film, taught by Dr. Uma Kumar, wrote a research paper on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work.
Dr. Bowers Gives Talk for Anglo-Russian Research Network
On May 25, 2021, Dr. Katherine Bowers gave a talk for the Anglo-Russian Research Network called “Ghost-Writing: Radcliffiana and the Russian Gothic Wave.”
CENES Department Welcomes New Danish Lecturer
Ann-Kathrine Havemose will be teaching Danish language courses and Scandinavian Studies, beginning in Winter 2021.
Webinar Recordings of “Storytelling as Research: Unsettling the Cultural Politics of Diversity through Filmmaking” Now Available
The recordings of webinars from the workshop, organized by Erin Goheen Glanville and Markus Hallensleben on April 7-9, 2021, are now freely accessible and open to the public.
Dr. Bowers Appears as a Featured Guest on CiTR Radio’s The Blue Hour
Dr. Katherine Bowers spoke about Dostoevsky and her research for the CiTR 101.9 FM radio program “The Blue Hour,” a “dialogue about life, literature, science, philosophy, and everything in between.”
Dr. Nijdam Awarded a Diversity and Inclusion Grant in German Studies from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Dr. Biz Nijdam’s project will develop educational tools and curricular content that engage Indigenous methodologies and activate Indigenous systems of knowledge in German studies teaching and research.
Video Collection from “Crime and Punishment at 150” Conference Now Available
Videos from the “Crime and Punishment at 150” conference organized by Dr. Katherine Bowers in October 2016 are now available in UBC’s cIRcle repository.
Two Graduate Students Defend Their Dissertations
Germanic Studies graduate students Carolina Franzen and Dorothee Leesing have successfully defended their dissertations and completed their Ph.D. degrees.
Dr. Bowers Named as 2021-22 Public Humanities Fellow
The UBC Vancouver Public Humanities Hub Faculty Fellowships are awarded annually to support research excellence among humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at UBC and to develop and highlight public-facing research in the humanities.
Dr. Bowers Named as Member of New Languages for NLP Cohort
Dr. Katherine Bowers will be participating in the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute hosted at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University called “New Languages for NLP.”