Full Program Available for Winter 2022 Term 1 Sawchen, Ziegler Lecture Series
The Winter 2022 Term 1 program for the Sawchen Lecture Series and Ziegler Lecture Series is now available. Register for these free virtual events today!
Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship
The fellowships “support advanced education and research” broadly conceived, which for CENES means any of the research areas that fall in the purview of the department.
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.
CENES Welcomes New Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Studies
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Olena Morozova as our new Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Studies. She joins us from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine.
Dr. Bowers Wins 2022 Public Engagement Award
Dr. Katherine Bowers has been awarded a Public Engagement Award from the UBC Public Humanities Hub for her on-going public scholarship in the field of Dostoevsky studies.
Call for Applications: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
The UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) invites applications from interested parties to be considered for the award.
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.
Dr. Bowers Publishes Book about Russian Realism and the Gothic
Dr. Katherine Bowers has published her first monograph, Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic.
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.
The White-Blue-White Anti-War Flag: Student Reflections
The White-Blue-White Flag (Бело-сине-белый флаг) has emerged in recent weeks as an anti-war symbol in Russia. We asked UBC students how that flag makes them feel in the midst of the invasion of Ukraine.