BRITISH COLUMBIA THROUGH ARRIVING EYES
The “British Columbia and Canada through Arriving Eyes” project run by Dr. Kyle Frackman, former-UBC masters student (and current University of Calgary librarian) Marc Stoeckle and UBC reference librarian Keith Bunnell, identifies key materials describing German speaking immigrants’ experiences of British Columbia and Western Canada. It includes German and English material relating to immigrants with […]
Dr Frackman and Dr Iurascu to give pre-show talk before Max Raabe concert
German singer and orchestra leader Max Raabe, whose style evokes 1920s Berlin cabaret culture, is coming to UBC. He will give a concert with his Palastorchester at the Chan Centre on Sunday, April 9, 2017. Join Dr Kyle Frackman and Dr Ilinca Iurascu for a pre-show talk on Weimar-era culture. The talk will begin at […]
Dr. Thomas Salumets nominated for an Estonian Cultural Endowment Award in Literature
The Estonian translation of Thomas Salumets’s monograph “Unforced Flourishing: Understanding Jaan Kaplinski” (McGill-Queen’s University Press and Varrak) has been nominated for one of the 2016 Estonian Cultural Endowment Awards in Literature.
Ziegler Lecture Series for Term 2
Please see the current line-up for the Ziegler Lecture series of 2016-17 for Term 2. All lectures will take place at St. John’s College with the exception of Danish cartoonist Rikke Platz-Cortsen, who will be at Buchanan Tower room 104.
Call for Papers: CENES Undergraduate Research Conference – deadline extended
We invite undergraduate students in our CENS, DANI, GERM, POLS, SCAN, SLAV, SWED, and RUSS courses to submit a one page proposal to our Undergraduate Research Conference by the new deadline of February 27, 2017. What work have you produced in Term 1 or Term 2 that you might want to share? Check out these great […]
Congratulations to Scandinavian program undergraduate Aleea Dahinden
Congratulations to the Scandinavian minor student Aleea Dahinden for winning the Scandinavian Business Club’s 70th Anniversary Legacy Scholarship of $2,000! The Award ceremony will be at the Club dinner on March 8, 2017 at the Scandinavian Community Centre.
“Witnessing Auschwitz” students made impressive presentation to ARA
Undergraduate students who participated in Bozena Karwowska’s “Witnessing Auschwitz” study abroad course this past summer made a presentation to the Arts Research Abroad program on January 16, 2017. The program is funded by anonymous donors and provides scholarship support to students who wish to take some of the many advanced research-intensive study abroad courses through […]
Dr. Bożena Karwowska organizes conference on Polish Literature from 1944-48
Dr. Bożena Karwowska has organized a conference with the University of Warsaw December 5-6, 2016. Conference: The Very Beginning (dr. Bożena Karwowska) Conference: Warsaw, 5-6.12.2016 The conference, “The Very Beginning: The Years 1944-1948 in Literature from the Period of the Polish People’s Republic” provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars to utilize modern-day analytical tools to […]
Congratulations to CENES grad student, Laura Isakov!
Congratulations to Laura Isakov, who will be receiving her MA in her UBC Congregation ceremony on Thursday, November 24, 2016! Laura’s thesis, Intelligent weiblichkeit: The correspondence of Charlotte Schiller and Henry Heron can be found on cIRcle here. Laura is continuing her studies by pursuing her Ph.D. in the CENES department.
CENES Undergrad Olivia Chorny featured on Cambridge University Library blog
Congratulations to UBC Russian Minor Olivia Chorny, who wrote an excellent caption relating Dostoevsky’s experience of Siberia to an immense 1899 Russian Ministry of Railways map for the Crime and Punishment 150 exhibit. Her caption has received a write-up as the Slavonic Item of the Month on the Cambridge University Library blog. Check out the […]