Dr. Iurascu publishes article in “Seminar”
Dr. Ilinca Iurascu has published an article in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies: “Paper Matters: Vielschreiberei and Bookkeeping in August von Kotzebue’s ‘Das Buch Papier’.” Far less explored than his dramatic output, Kotzebue’s shorter prose offers surprising insights for cultural critics and media historiographers. Against the background of nineteenth-century concerns with literary overproduction, the […]
Congratulations to Dr. Kyle Frackman on his SSHRC Insight Grant!
Dr. Kyle Frackman, Assistant Professor in CENES, has been awarded an Insight Grant of nearly $73,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to study the experiences of queer people in East Germany. Dr. Frackman’s project, titled “Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Queer Lives in East Germany,” focuses on depictions of sexuality […]
Publication by Katherine Bowers- Information and Empire Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850
Cambridge Publisher Releases New Collection: Information and Empire How did systems of information shape Russia’s transformation into the largest empire on earth? Free to read, this new title casts a fresh look at Russia’s communication networks in the early modern period. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, when the country’s history and communication practices […]
UBC Global Seminar GERM 515: Klassik-Kolleg in Weimar, Germany, June 2018
“Wie froh bin ich, daß ich weg bin …” / “So glad to be away …” (Goethe’s Young Werther) The Queen’s Two Bodies: a UBC Global Seminar in Weimar, Germany – Summer 2018 Application deadline: December 14, 2017 UBC’s Dr. Gaby Pailer, along with colleagues from the Università degli Studi di Bergamo and the Freie […]
Queering German Studies – Lecture Series
On November 7th, Dr. Kyle Frackman presented a lecture on “Persistent and Deceptive Ambivalence: Queer East German Studies” at Stanford University. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) had an ambivalent relationship with homosexuality. Under the principles of socialism, everyone was welcome to contribute to the greater good. The situation for lesbians and gay men was different: one […]
Undergraduate Scholarship for Exchange Studies: Sweden
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FOR EXCHANGE STUDIES IN SWEDEN SWEA-UBC Scholarship We are now accepting applications for 2018. Deadline April 30th 2018.Value: $3,000. Persons eligible: Canadian citizens or landed immigrants enrolled in an undergraduate Swedish language course at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) of the University of British Columbia. Where tenable: At any […]
Assistant Professor – Germanic Studies / German Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies / German Literature and Culture The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Germanic Studies, effective July 1, 2018, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Adding to departmental strengths, the successful candidate will have demonstrated […]
Broadcast featuring Dr. Florian Gassner
German public radio broadcast an hour-long special on the Austro-Hungarian poet Nikolaus Lenau. Throughout the broadcast, Dr. Florian Gassner will feature as an academic specialist on the show. The announcement (and podcast) can be found here: http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/nikolaus-lenau-100.html.
Dr Frackman elected to CAUTG Board
At the 2017 annual conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) in Toronto, Dr. Kyle Frackman was elected to a two-year term on the organization’s Executive Board as Member-at-Large.
The Parthenon of Books Project
CENES instructor, Dr. Florian Gassner currently holds a Visiting Professor position at the University of Kassel, Germany. Together with his colleague Prof. Nikola Roßbach and just under 20 students, the research team produced a list of banned books which date as far back as 1575 and contains just over 72,000 titles. This year, Argentine artist […]