Dr. Katherine Bowers celebrates Crime & Punishment
This summer Dr. Katherine Bowers is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment through a digital outreach program organized as part of her SSHRC-funded project “Crime and Punishment at 150.” The project includes multiple online forums for discussion and new examination of the novel, from a Facebook-based summer reading group to a series of blog posts […]
Slavic Faculty and CENES PhD candidate travel to Poland
Over the past few weeks, Dr. Bozena Karwowska and CENES PhD candidate Anja Nowak have been travelling in Poland speaking on the Holocaust. Titles of the events are listed below. Lectures April 12 2016, Lecture by Dr. Bozena Karwowska at the Center for the Holocaust Research. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Title: Auschwitz and its Space(s). […]
Dr. Ilinca Iurascu to give public lecture at VISR
On May 30, Dr. Ilinca Iurascu will give a talk on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crocodile” at the Vancouver Institute for Social Research. The event will take place at 7pm at the Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton Street. Starting from one of the more obscure and often overlooked literary references in Freud’s Das […]
Prof. Em. Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz wins Jiří Theiner Award!
We are proud to announce that CENES UBC Professor Emerita Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz has been awarded the 2016 Jiří Theiner Award for her contribution to the dissemination and promotion of Czech literature abroad! Her research is on Czech samizdat, and she also works on Czech drama by playwrights including Kohout, Topol, Klíma, and Havel. Dr. Goetz-Stankiewicz will receive the […]
Dr. Olga Rosenblum visits UBC
Dr. Olga Rosenblum (Departments of Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) is visiting UBC from April 7-12, and will give two talks. The CENES Department is co-sponsoring Dr. Rosenblum’s visit along with the UBC Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present lecture series at Green College and the Liu Institute for Global Issues. First, on […]
CENES Instructors Recognized by Dean of Arts
TWELVE IN TOP TEN We are thrilled to announce that twelve CENES instructors have been ranked among the top 10% of instructors within the Faculty of Arts based on student evaluations. Veta Chitnev Florian Faller Kyle Frackman Petra Ganzenmüller Florian Gassner Daniela Hempen Lena Karlström Eszter Laszlo Jens Monrad Sara Pashan Gela Struch Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Many of […]
Lecturer position in German (limited-term) posting
9-Month Lecturer position 23 Feb, 2016 The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver invites applications for a non-renewable 9-month lecturer position in German, with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2016. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill service duties as assigned by the […]
CENES language coordinators inaugurate UBC network
Last week 14 of UBC’s language coordinators met together for the first time to talk about language instruction at UBC more broadly. Many languages were represented, including the five taught in the CENES department: Danish, German, Polish, Russian, and Swedish. Veta Chitnev, the 1st and 2nd year Russian coordinator, said that the goal of the […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunity: German Studies
Research Assistant in German Studies Deadline: January 31st, 2016 Click here to apply now! Job Type Part Time (29 hrs/wk or less) Number of Openings 1 Job Description This position is funded by an Arts Undergraduate Research Award and is aimed at students who wish to participate in a research project related to the subject […]
Undergraduate Research Assistant Job Opportunity
Research Assistant in Germanic Studies available Click here to apply now Deadline: January 31st, 2016 Job Type Part Time (29 hrs/wk or less) Number of Openings 1 Job Description This position is funded by an Arts Undergraduate Research Award and is aimed at students who wish to participate in a research project related to the […]