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Dante Prado successfully defends Ph.D. thesis

 
In fall 2026, Prado successfully defended his thesis titled The Gesture of Laughing: A Comparative Study of the Fascination and Dissatisfaction with Laughter during the Long Nineteenth Century.
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‘Witchcraft is like tofu’: From folklore to TikTok, why witches still matter

 
From political resistance to folklore icons like Baba Yaga, Dr. Frackman (CENES) and Dr. Magliocco (Anthropology) explain why witches continue to capture the public imagination.

CENES faculty member delivers 2026 Attallah Lecture at Carleton University

 
Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young presented his lecture "Scorched Time: Radical Chronopolitics in the Third Reich" at Carleton's School of Journalism and Communication.

Tamar Kugelmass successfully defends M.A thesis

 
Tamar Kugelmass' thesis titled "Learning and looting from the Left : the American New Right’s inversion of the Frankfurt School" can now be read on UBC cIRcle.
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The Possible: Surrealists on the Northwest Coast (with Prof. em. Colin Browne, SFU)

 
November 16, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
place Buchanan B202

UBC Plauder-Treff

 
November 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
place Buchanan Tower, Room 910

CENES Café

 
November 18, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
place Buchanan Tower, Room 910
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