Graduate Program in Germanic Studies Now Accepting Applications
Interested in pursuing master’s or doctoral work in Germanic Studies at UBC? We are now accepting applications for September 2015 admission. Visit our prospective students page for information about funding, admissions requirements and how to apply.
@NeinQuarterly Visits UBC on Nov 20
“A Civilization of Discontents: A Conversation with @NeinQuarterly about Social Media and the Humanities” UBC welcomes the self-identified “failed intellectual” behind the media phenomenon known as @NeinQuarterly. Dr. Eric Jarosinski, formerly a faculty member in German at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League research institution, has a unique perspective on the role of academic, […]
Recent publication by Kyle Frackman
Kyle Frackman has written an article entitled ‘Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime” in Tatort Germany (Edited by Lynn M. Kutch and Todd Herzog). Prof. Frackman discusses regional & local German crime fiction’s links to the origins of journalism in the 18th-19th Century, and the recognition of local news details […]
Casting a Long Shadow: Interview about the Berlin Wall with Kyle Frackman
Dr. Kyle Frackman reflects on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in an interview with UBC News. Read the full article here.
Learning from the Horrors of the Past: UBC News Article about Auschwitz Global Seminar
Read the UBC News article “Learning from the Horrors of the Past” about the Witnessing Auschwitz Go Global Seminar, set to take place again in Summer 2015.
CENES to Mark 25th Anniversary of Fall of the Berlin Wall
Read the article in ArtsWire:CENES will mark this year’s 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) with a lecture in the department’s Ziegler Speaker Series featuring Dr. Skyler Arndt-Briggs. Arndt-Briggs is the Executive Director of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the only research centre outside […]
Space available in Term 2 courses
The following courses offered in Term 2 of 2014 Winter Session currently still have space: CENS 201: Ukraine in the Middle – Florian Gassner The crisis that erupted in Ukraine in early 2014 is a devastating event in its own right, but it also expounds challenges faced by most of Eastern Europe today. This is […]
2014 Department Newsletter Available
Our 2014 department newsletter is now available. The department newsletter, produced annually, contains highlights of CENES events, activities and achievements. Stay in touch! As of fall 2014, the department newsletter is issued electronically and will no longer be printed. If you did not receive a copy of our annual newsletter via email, and would like […]
Recent faculty publications: Ilinca Iurascu, Kyle Frackman and Markus Hallensleben
Ilinca Iurascu has published a journal article entitled ‘Annoncenliteratur’: Kleist, Fontane and the Rustle of Paper in Oxford German Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3: 246-261. Abstract Critical discussions of German realist literature over the last few decades have repeatedly examined the intersection between publicity, audience formation and literary production, especially in the context of the […]
Gela Struch and Lena Karlstrom Among Top 5% of Instructors in Arts
Lena Karlström and Angelika (Gela) Struch received letters of recognition from the Dean of Arts, congratulating them for being among the top 5% of instructors in the Faculty of Arts in 2013/14. Gela is our first-year German language coordinator, and Lena is our Swedish instructor and teaches the very popular course SCAN 336 on Scandinavian […]