Ph.D. Student Awarded Affiliated Fellowship Funding
On July 23, Steve Commichau, a Ph.D. student in the Germanic Studies program, was awarded Affiliated Fellowship funding from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
Extra Section of CENS 303B (“Representations of the Holocaust”) added for Winter 2020 Term 1
This online distance education course guides students through a carefully arranged selection of material and assignments that help them learn about the Nazi Holocaust and related aspects of Nazi Germany by focusing on the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 303 (Topics in Russian Culture)
In this course, students will discuss the fundamental values that structure the Russian worldview, the historical events and societal pressures that went into forming it, and how these values are evident in the manifestations of Russian high culture we are all familiar with today.
Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 321A (Imagining Location in Russian Literature)
Focusing on the Russian imperial capital St. Petersburg, this course will explore the city’s history through its rich literary and artistic heritage.
Dr. Bowers Receives 2020 Public Humanities Hub Grant for Eurasia Research Cluster
The PHH cluster grant will support an interdisciplinary speaker series, workshops, and community-building activities for the Eurasia Research Cluster.
Dr. Rieger Participates in Health Outcomes and Language Project
This ‘review of reviews’ looks to identify gaps in academic literature regarding how communication between a healthcare provider affects the health of a patient, focusing on vulnerable populations.
Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 306A (Russian Literature in Translation)
In this online course, students will read Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, with a particular focus on the form and development of the novel, character psychology, and historical and cultural context.
New Winter 2020 Course: GERM 206 (Exile, Flight and Migration)
Students will critically discuss topics such as diasporic and national belonging, asylum and integration politics, multiculturality and European cultural identity.
Dr. Karwowska Contributes to Essay Collection “Creating Under Covid”
Dr. Bozena Karwowska took part in the book project, Creating Under Covid, published by the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Dr. Hallensleben to Collaborate on “Belonging in Unceded Territories”
Dr. Markus Hallensleben is a part of the team of UBC Migration collaborators to receive a SSHRC Parternship Development Grant to study place-based identity and belonging in Vancouver.