Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on State of Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies
Dr. Ervin Malakaj published a peer-reviewed chapter titled “The State of Diversity and Decolonization in North American German Studies” in the volume Transnational German Education and Comparative Education Systems.
Dr. Malakaj Elected to the Exec. Committee of the MLA Forum on Second Language Teaching and Learning
Dr. Ervin Malakaj was elected to serve as member of the executive committee for the Modern Language Association Forum on Second Language Teaching and Learning for a five-year term beginning with the 2020 MLA annual convention in Seattle.
Dr. Karwowska teaches graduate seminars on Erasmus+ at University of Warsaw
Dr. Bozena Karwowska was on Erasmus+ at the University of Warsaw November 25-28, teaching at the Institute of Polish Studies.
Dr. Bowers’s Work Recommended Reading for BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” Broadcast
Dr. Katia Bowers’s co-edited volume, A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Academic Studies Press, 2018), and creative Twitter project, @RodionTweets, were featured as “recommended reading’ on the November 14 BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” program on Crime and Punishment.
Dr. Bowers Presents Digital Media and Tools Pedagogy Workshop at the University of Richmond
On December 4, 2019, Dr. Katia Bowers presented a workshop on “Adventures in Teaching Narrative with Twitter, Twine and Other Digital Tools” at the University of Richmond (Virginia).
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Article in Applied Linguistics
Dr. Malakaj collaborated with Andrea Dawn Bryant (Georgetown University), Nichole M. Neuman (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), and David Gramling (University of Arizona) on the article titled “Announced but Not Enacted: Anti-Racist German Studies as Process.”
Dr. Karwowska speaks at 100th anniversary of Commerce School in Wloclawek
CENES Associate Professor Dr. Bozena Karwowska was invited to speak at an event celebrating the 100th year anniversary of the Commerce School in Wloclawek, Poland.
CENES Graduate Student Conference: Abstracts due December 15
The CENES Graduate Student Conference on “Disruptive Materialities” is currently accepting submissions for the 2020 conference. Please send an abstract (no more than 250 words) to patricia.milewski@ubc.ca by December 15, 2019.
Dr. Bowers presents “Watery Creatures: The Fantastic and the City in the Petersburg Text” at ASEEES 2019
Dr. Katherine Bowers presented a paper called “Watery Creatures: The Fantastic and the City in the Petersburg Text” at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies annual meeting earlier this week.
Dr. Lieblang presents on VR Chatbots in Language Education
Dr. Jason Lieblang presents in the CENES Faculty Research Colloquium on “UBC Chatsim: Investigating Virtual Reality Chatbots in Language Education.”