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Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms

Image Attribution: Wikimedia Commons Dr. Ervin Malakaj, associate professor of German studies, published his research on German feminist filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Die Berührte (No Mercy, No Future, 1981). The research appeared in a chapter for the volume New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts, edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher, and published by Wayne State University Press. The […]

Gramling Completes Trilogy of Books on Multilingualism and Monolingualism

Gramling Completes Trilogy of Books on Multilingualism and Monolingualism

With a solemn promise not to write any more books on this topic (in English anyway), David Gramling releases on 12 Dec. a last of three books dedicated to understanding monolingualism and multilingualism in our time from various disciplinary contexts, including literary studies, cultural studies, and applied linguistics.

New Book On 19th-century German Studies Features CENES-led Research

New Book On 19th-century German Studies Features CENES-led Research

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, a new title from De Gruyter’s Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History series.

Ervin Malakaj and Shoshana Schwebel Co-Author Teaching and Research Dossier on Anders als die Andern

Ervin Malakaj and Shoshana Schwebel Co-Author Teaching and Research Dossier on Anders als die Andern

Dr. Ervin Malakaj and Shoshana Schwebel were co-authors of a teaching and research dossier about Richard Oswald’s remarkable queer film melodrama Anders als die Andern (1919).

Go Global Seminar 2025: Poland and Croatia

Go Global Seminar 2025: Poland and Croatia

Interested in traveling to Poland and Croatia? Consider taking “Experiencing Eastern Europe (including Witnessing Auschwitz)”, a Go Global Seminar with CENES’ Dasha McEwen this summer.

CENES Faculty and PhD Candidate Project: Decolonizing the Future of Digital Humanities

CENES Faculty and PhD Candidate Project: Decolonizing the Future of Digital Humanities

CENES Department Head and PhD Candidate, Katherine Bowers and Braden Russell, speak to their work on the “The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Inclusive Markup Interventions.”

Dr. Nijdam Featured in Podcast on Comics Project with Homalco First Nation

Dr. Nijdam Featured in Podcast on Comics Project with Homalco First Nation

Dr. Nijdam’s work as Director of the UBC Comics Studies Cluster has been featured in a recent podcast by UBC’s Community Engagement Office.

Welcome Message from Dr. Katherine Bowers, CENES Department Head

Welcome Message from Dr. Katherine Bowers, CENES Department Head

Meet the new CENES Department Head, Dr. Katherine Bowers!

From Oral Tradition to Comics: Homalco First Nation Partner with UBC and Education Without Borders to Create Graphic Novel Based on the Stories of their Elders

From Oral Tradition to Comics: Homalco First Nation Partner with UBC and Education Without Borders to Create Graphic Novel Based on the Stories of their Elders

A project team with CENES’ Dr. Biz Nijdam has brought together a team of Indigenous graphic artists to create a series of short comics based on archival recordings of Elders from the Homalco First Nation.

Welcome Message from Dr. Frandy, Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies

Welcome Message from Dr. Frandy, Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies

Meet CENES’ Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Tim Frandy!