Dr. Malakaj Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant for Scholarship on Queer Divination
Dr. Ervin Malakaj, associate professor of UBC German studies, received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
Dr. Winthrop-Young contributes a chapter to Wagner in Context (Cambridge University Press).
Dr Katherine Bowers and PhD Candidate Braden Russell Awarded Funding Through PhD CoLab Pilot Program
Dr Katherine Bowers and PhD Candidate Braden Russell are part of a team alongside colleagues and students in English and FHIS who have been granted a Large Award in the PhD CoLab Program that Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is piloting this year.
CENES Cooperation with The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange
In January 2024, the CENES Department signed a cooperation agreement with The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.
Augenblick publishes 2023 Yearbook
Augenblick, UBC’s undergraduate journal of German Studies, has just published its first yearbook.
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Aerial Aesthetics and Queer Intimacy in Contemporary German Cinema
Dr. Ervin Malakaj, associate professor of German, published a chapter titled, “Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut.”
Summer 2024 Courses in the CENES Department
The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) will be hosting a variety of exciting courses in SUMMER 2024.
CENES GoGlobal Scholarships for the Multicultural Vienna Summer Seminar
Funding opportunities to provide 4 students interested in attending the Global Seminar: Multicultural Vienna–Mutikulti Wien (GMST 424 | 3 credits).
Dr. Biz Nijdam publishes on Catan in the Conversation
How do board games uphold colonial narratives? Learn more in Biz Nijdam’s article in the journal ‘The Conversation’.
Biz Nijdam’s Comics Studies Cluster Makes News
The UBC Comics Studies Cluster (CSC) has embarked on a exciting new partnership with the Homalco First Nation to bring Indigenous storytelling to life through the “Remember” Comics Project.