CENES Faculty involved in Recent UBC Library Acquisition
CENES faculty Dr. Ilinca Iurascu and Dr. Kyle Frackman have assisted with and advised the UBC Library’s acquisition of the Hanne Wassermann Walker archive.
Graduate Student Colloquium: Treasonous Women and Becoming Men
Mar. 12 – Graduate Student Colloquium: Treasonous Women [Laura Isakov] and Becoming Men [Steve Commichau]
Ziegler Lecture: “H.G. Wells and Early Soviet Science Fiction”
Mar. 15 – This talk pays particular attention to the impact H.G. Wells had on Alexander Belyaev, a pioneer of sci-fi in the USSR. Lunch is sponsored by the Institute for European Studies.
Dr. Bowers named a Wall Scholar for 2019/20
Dr. Katherine Bowers has been named a Wall Scholar in the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for the 2019/20 academic year.
Dr. Bowers and Dr. Malakaj present research in Japan
Drs. Bowers and Malakaj are travelling this week (Mar. 3-10) to Japan to present their research as part of the Hokkaido University Research Exchange Program with UBC.
“Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna” – Lecture by Dr. Edith Sheffer
Mar. 5, 2019 – Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defence of children with disabilities. This talk uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich—and questions how societies assess, label, and treat those diagnosed with disabilities.
Graduate Student Colloquium: Psychoanalysis and Kafka
Mar. 7, 2019 – Psychoanalysis and Kafka (Anna Westpfahl and Andrea Dahlmann-Resing)
Ziegler Lecture: “Armenian Genocide: Legacies of Denial”
Feb. 27, 2019 – Drawing on the Armenian Genocide, and linking analysis of various genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries, the talk argues that recognition and reparation (structural recognition) is a necessary aspect of holding active and passive genocide deniers accountable.
Dr. Ilinca Iurascu presents in Early Modern Research Cluster
Dr. Ilinca Iurascu presents on “In Papyro: Jacob Christian Schäffer and the Reinvention of Paper” March 1, 2019 3-4:30 p.m. Buchanan Tower 1197
Dr. Leif Weatherby on “The Metaphysics of Data Capital”
This talk traces the origins of data capital to the work of cybernetics founder Warren McCulloch and economist Friedrich Hayek, who borrowed heavily from German Idealism in providing the basis for the new economy.