Russian Language Program

Call for Applications: 2023-2024 CENES Advisory Council

Call for Applications: 2023-2024 CENES Advisory Council

The council will engage students to articulate their views on some of the key challenges and questions of higher education for the present and the future. We intend to engage students’ wisdom and insights, and to recognize and credit students as equals in this planning process.

New CENES Undergraduate Directors, Centre Directors, and Professors

New CENES Undergraduate Directors, Centre Directors, and Professors

Every year in July, new faculty members join our departmental community, and existing members take on new leadership positions.

Seven CENES courses to learn more about multicultural Europe in WT2

Seven CENES courses to learn more about multicultural Europe in WT2

Join us in Winter 2022 Term 2 to learn about the diversity of culture, politics and languages that makes up Europe in 2022!

Call for Applications: CENES Advisory Council

Call for Applications: CENES Advisory Council

The council will engage students to articulate their views on some of the key challenges and questions of higher education for the present and the future. We intend to engage students’ wisdom and insights, and to recognize and credit students as equals in this planning process.

Winter 2022-23 Courses in the CENES Department

Winter 2022-23 Courses in the CENES Department

Spanning Fascism and resistance, Arctic Indigenous activism, literature and the emotions, Nordic mythology, colonial history, and ecological inquiry, CENES is offering a slate of courses that you’ll never forget.

CENES Instructor Helps Organize Food Donations for Ukraine

CENES Instructor Helps Organize Food Donations for Ukraine

Russian instructor Dariya Prykhodko grew up in Lviv, and has stayed in contact with her classmates there over the decades. Today, those classmates have organized a large-scale food-making effort for internally displaced people fleeing the Russian invasion and for those fighting to defend their country.

Summer 2022 Courses in Russian, German, Nordic, and Holocaust Studies

Summer 2022 Courses in Russian, German, Nordic, and Holocaust Studies

The German, Russian, Nordic, and CENS programs will be offering a range of exciting courses over the summer, both in-person and online.

UBC’s Russian Instructors Stand with Ukraine

UBC’s Russian Instructors Stand with Ukraine

We are feeling profound grief and despair at Putin’s invasion of Russia’s sovereign neighbour, and we offer our heartfelt support and solidarity to our Ukrainian students and their families.

CENES Statement in Support of Ukraine

CENES Statement in Support of Ukraine

Our department was founded to actively foster the study and understanding of a multinational, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual Europe. We reaffirm these principles today, as we declare our support for the peoples of Ukraine and the democratic sovereignty and independence of their country.

UBC Global Seminar: Exploring Russian Culture and National Identity

UBC Global Seminar: Exploring Russian Culture and National Identity

Funded by Arts Research Abroad (ARA) and led by Dr. Veta Chitnev, RUSS 303 will bring students to Moscow, where they will explore a selection of themes related to Russia and Russian culture.