CENES welcomes Dr. Ervin Malakaj as new Assistant Professor
CENES welcomes Dr. Ervin Malakaj as a new Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at UBC, Dr. Malakaj was an Assistant Professor of German at Sam Houston State University in Texas. Dr. Malakaj specializes in late-18th- to 21st-century German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history […]
New Translation by Dr Ilinca Iurascu
The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque– a new release by Yale University Press, translated and introduced by our colleague Ilinca Iurascu. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of […]
Alumna Kalie Stieda wins CAUTG Thesis Prize
MA alumna Kalie Stieda has won the 2018 prize for the Best Canadian Thesis in German Studies from the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG). Her thesis, “The World Is Real: Writing, Counting, and Reading in the Art of Hanne Darboven,” is available in UBC’s institutional repository: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62757.
Frackman publishes new co-edited book
Dr. Kyle Frackman has published a co-edited volume with Camden House: Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in GDR society […]
Coming this Fall: German Book Club
Coming this fall: German Book Club meetings with the Library of Easy Readers. Contact Dr. Daniela Hempen (hempen@mail.ubc.ca) for more information.
Dr. Bowers gives talks in Ohio and Illinois
On April 19, Dr. Bowers gave a lecture for the Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, about the @RodionTweets project entitled “Adventures in Twitterature: Translating Dostoevsky into 140 Characters or Less.” On April 23, Dr. Bowers gave a lecture for the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures […]
Prof. Winthrop-Young presents at Princeton, Rutgers and Michigan University
On April 3rd, Prof. Winthrop-Young gave a lecture at Princeton School of Architecture, for the Media and Modernity Program. The lecture was titled “An Exceptional Time for Hitler’s Cows: Nazi Nercofauna and Charismatic Chronopolitics“. On April 4th, he gave a lecture at the German Department Princeton on “Why a Student is a Willing Termite rather […]
Dr. Frackman presents on Canvas
On April 11, 2018, Dr. Kyle Frackman was one of six faculty who presented on tools in Canvas, the new UBC teaching and learning platform. The Arts ISIT workshop was one in the series of Happy Hours, “6 More Tools in 60 Minutes.” https://isitworkshops.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/canvas-happy-hour-6-more-tools-in-60-minutes/
Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Alice Christensen (Princeton University), who was awarded a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Alice will be joining CENES in 2018/19 to work on a research project related to human and animal temperature perception, with Prof. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young as her post-doctoral supervisor.
International Scholarship for GERM 411 student
International Scholarship for GERM 411 student Congratulations to Olena Arbetova, who took GERM 411, a course on German-speaking Literary Representations of the Nazi Holocaust in Literature and Film (Term 2, Winter 2016/2017). Olena has won a scholarship to attend an international seminar for Undergrad students entitled “A Research Introduction to Jewish Life and the Holocaust […]