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.”
English Translation of Unpublished Memoir Meine Erinnerungen (My Recollections) by Anuschka Elkei & Dr. Kumar Now Available
The English translation of Anna Helen (née Mahler) Aszkanazy’s unpublished memoir Meine Erinnerungen (My Recollections) by CENES student Anuschka Elkei and Dr. Uma Kumar is now available for research and learning in open access format in the archive of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC).
New Book Release: Dr. Winthrop-Young and Dr. Iurascu Co-edit Kittler Collection
Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons and Media (Duke UP, 2021) collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology.
Dr. Winthrop-Young Contributes to Information Volume
Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young contributed an essay on “Intel” to “Information: Keywords,” now out from Columbia University Press.
Dr. Nijdam Speaks at Comics of the New Europe (2020) Book Launch Event
On March 11, 2021, Biz Nijdam, José Alaniz (University of Washington), and Martha Kuhlman (Bryant University) discussed the recently published edited collection Comics of the New Europe in a virtual event hosted by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.