Tatort Abend: “Amour Fou” with Team Berlin
Tatort Abend: “Amour Fou” with Team Berlin February 4, 2019 5:00 p.m. Buchanan Tower 997 CENES presents a subtitled screening of a Team Berlin episode: “Amour Fou.” Practice your German while having fun. Snacks provided. Event page: https://cenes-arts.sites.olt.ubc.ca/?p=32753
New Position: 2-year Assistant Professor Without Review in German Language and Literature
The Department of CENES invites applications for an Assistant Professor Without Review in German language and literature.
Elder Scholar: Our Strange Relationship with Fiction – From Classical Antiquity to Evolutionary Psychology
Dr. Florian Gassner is offering a six-part lecture series for UBC Extended Learning on Theories of Fiction.
Dr. Florian Gassner featured on Global News: Ukraine Orthodox Church moves towards Independence
Over the weekend Global News ran a piece on the Independence of Ukrainian Orthodox Church which featured CENES member Dr. Florian Gassner. To watch the piece, please click here!
Dr. Florian Gassner featured on CTV News Vancouver: War in Eastern Ukraine
CTV News Vancouver recently ran a story about humanitarian aid in Eastern Ukraine and Dr. Florian Gassner was interviewed for social and historical context. For the full interview: ‘People are still suffering’: B.C. aid group nears Ukraine frontlines to bring food to victims”, click here.
Dr. Uma Kumar featured in Yad Vashem’s Year in Review
Dr. Uma Kumar was featured in the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem‘s Year in Review. Dr. Kumar received a CSYV Holocaust Scholarship and participated in the seminar at Yad Vashem in Israel. She was able to examine archival resources that she included in her courses, including “German Representations of the Holocaust.” Dr. Kumar continues outreach and […]
Dr. Bozena Karwowska delivers talk at Jagiellonian University
Dr. Bozena Karwowska gave a talk at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland on November 19. For more info, visit here.
Dr. Bowers publishes Dostoevskii Companion
Dr. Katherine Bowers and co-editors Dr. Connor Doak (University of Bristol) and Dr. Kate Holland (University of Toronto) have published a volume called A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts. The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevskii continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevskii’s Russia. A Dostoevskii […]
Dr. Bozena Karwowska publishes book chapter – Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture Since 1918
Congratulations to Dr. Karwowska on the publication of her chapter on Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 recipient of The International Man Booke Prize in the recently published book Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1917. For more information, please visit here.
New Term 2 course – GERM 403B
Tales of the Average, Tales of Deviance: Literature and Statistics. New Course. UBC Calendar link.