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Secret love letters and languages: UBC exhibit offers Pride Week history lesson

Secret love letters and languages: UBC exhibit offers Pride Week history lesson

Co-curated by Dr. Kyle Frackman (CENES) and Dr. Gregory Mackie (English), A Queer Century, 1869 – 1969 makes UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections a great place to learn about queer history during Pride Week in Vancouver.

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at International Dostoevsky Symposium

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at International Dostoevsky Symposium

Dr. Katia Bowers presented her research on “Dostoevsky’s Gothic Heroine: From Netochka to Nastas’ia Filippovna” at the recent International Dostoevsky Symposium in Boston. The Symposium occurs only once every three years and is the preeminent Dostoevsky Studies conference in the field. The 17th Symposium celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Idiot.

Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) were awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant ($169,232) for their project “Digital Dostoevsky.”

Dr. Hallensleben is awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Dr. Hallensleben is awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Dr. Markus Hallensleben has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the “Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature.”

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at University of St Andrews

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at University of St Andrews

Dr. Katia Bowers was invited to present her research at a small symposium at the University of St. Andrews called “An Invented Tradition: Russian Realism as Will and Representation.”

Dr. Frackman presents at CTLT’s Learning Analytics Event

Dr. Frackman presents at CTLT’s Learning Analytics Event

Dr. Kyle Frackman presented at CTLT’s “An Afternoon of Learning Analytics: Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning.” Dr. Frackman’s presentation focused on his work to study the use of UBC’s online course reserves tool, LOCR, and its benefits for teaching and learning. 

Dr. Iurascu presents at international Fontane conference

Dr. Iurascu presents at international Fontane conference

Dr. Ilinca Iurascu presented at the international conference “Fontanes Medien (1819-2019)” (Fontane’s Media) at the University of Potsdam.

Florian Gassner and his Quest to Define Censorship

Florian Gassner and his Quest to Define Censorship

If a book has been purposefully removed from a library, does that mean censorship has occurred? What if a publisher decides not to publish a book again? Read the full UBC article.