Meet the 2024-2025 CENES Student Program Assistants
Meet the CENES Work Learns who are responsible for many of our CENES initiatives! Check out what they’ve accomplished in 2024-2025.
CENES Alumni Stories: UBC German Studies Alum Translates for Musical Actress Annemieke van Dam
Since graduation, UBC German Studies alum Dawn Zhao has taken up German to Chinese translation for her favourite actress Annemieke van Dam.
Dr. Nijdam Receives AMS UBC OER Champion Award
Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam is among the recipients of this year’s AMS UBC OER Champion Award!
Nijdam featured in Pancouver Article on Comics and Memory during Vancouver’s LunarFest 2025
UBC CENES’ Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam was recently featured in Pancouver for her presentation at LunarFest 2025.
Congratulations, soon-to-be Dr. Manoff!
On Friday, January 17, CENES Yiddish teacher and scholar Itamar Manoff successfully defended his dissertation, as the final component of his doctoral work in Educational Studies at UBC on the topic of mistakes and errors among adult language learners. When one of his students described a person in the English-as-an-Additional-Language classroom with the phrase “She […]
Call for Submissions: GSURS 2025 (March 14-15, 2025, in-person & online)
The German studies programs at UBC, UVic, and UW Seattle are teaming up to host the fourth annual German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (#GSURS2025).
Call for Applications: UBC German Studies Awards and Scholarships (2024-2025)
Each year, the UBC German Studies and Modern European Studies Programs issues awards and scholarships to undergraduate students to support them on their German Studies and Modern European Studies journeys. Each year, CENES issues up to $30,000 in awards and scholarships to undergraduates in the UBC German Studies and the Modern European Studies Programs. These awards were put into […]
2025 Graduate Admissions Applications Now Open for Germanic Studies
The 2025 admissions application for the Germanic Studies graduate program is now open until January 15, 2025.
PhD Student Publishes Paper on Mann’s The Magic Mountain
Dante Prado’s “The Crisis of Sociability and Laughter in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg” was published in German Life and Letters.
Welcome Message from Dr. Katherine Bowers, CENES Department Head
Meet the new CENES Department Head, Dr. Katherine Bowers!