Call for Applications: UBC Slavic Studies Awards and Scholarships (2024-2025)
Applications for the CENES Slavic Studies awards and scholarships are now open until April 30, 2025.
Danish Lecturer Gives Interview About Happiness
Ann-Kathrine Havemose gives interview about her personal experience with Danish happiness to local newspaper, The Source, in relation to International Day of Happiness.
UBC Nordic Studies Lærerlivet Series: An Interview with Lena Karlström
Recently, long time Swedish and Nordic Studies lecturer Lena Karlström announced her early retirement. To commemorate her long and impactful career, UBC Nordic Studies sat down with her and discussed memorable moments in her career.
Dr. Frackman gives Talk Introducing “Coming Out” Screening
On February 2, 2025, Dr. Kyle Frackman gave a talk introducing a screening of the East German film Coming Out (1989, dir. Heiner Carow) at Carleton College’s International Film Forum (Northfield, Minnesota).
New Book! *Mad Auralities*
The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) is delighted to share that Palgrave has published Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities by Dr. Matthew Tomkinson.
Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories: Dr. Nijdam Celebrates Community-Engaged Storytelling with the Homalco Nation
UBC CENES Department celebrates the publication of Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories: A Graphic Novel, a collaborative project led by the UBC Comics Studies Cluster, Education without Borders, three Indigenous artists, and the Homalco First Nation.
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.
New Book On 19th-century German Studies Features CENES-led Research
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, a new title from De Gruyter’s Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History series.
Go Global Seminar 2025: Poland and Croatia
Interested in traveling to Poland and Croatia? Consider taking “Experiencing Eastern Europe (including Witnessing Auschwitz)”, a Go Global Seminar with CENES’ Dasha McEwen this summer.
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.