Dr. Biz Nijdam publishes on Catan in the Conversation
How do board games uphold colonial narratives? Learn more in Biz Nijdam’s article in the journal ‘The Conversation’.
Biz Nijdam’s Comics Studies Cluster Makes News
The UBC Comics Studies Cluster (CSC) has embarked on a exciting new partnership with the Homalco First Nation to bring Indigenous storytelling to life through the “Remember” Comics Project.
Danish Lecturer talks about Hygge on CBC Radio
Lecturer in Danish and Nordic Studies speaks with Stephen Quinn on an episode of ‘The Early Edition’ to talk about he Danish word “hygge”
Dr. Bożena Karwowska publishes a new book
Dr. Bożena Karwowska publishes her fifth manuscript ‘The Witness and the Body in Auschwitz: Early Literary Accounts of the Camp Experience’
Dr. Bożena Karwowska contributes a chapter to a book on Polish literature
Dr. Bożena Karwowska published a chapter in the book Empathy, Hospitability and Solidarity in Polish Literature from the XIX to the XXI century
Tim Frandy Featured in National Geographic Essay
Tim Frandy was interviewed for an article in National Geographic that talks about the origins of Santa Claus.
Dr. Malakaj Discusses his New Book on New Books Network Podcast
Dr. Ervin Malakaj, Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the UBC Centre for European Studies, was recently interviewed by Dr. Armanc Yildiz for the New Books Network.
“Wotan’s Biopunk”: Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on an early alternate history classic
Dr. Winthrop-Young published “Wotan’s Biopunk: The Grim(m) German God and his English Bloodsport in Sarban’s Sound of His Horn” in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
Dr. Karwowska invited as an international guest scholar to the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)
Dr. Bożena Karwowska has been invited as an international guest scholar to the Silesian University in Katowice, a European City of Science, 2024.
Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Rudyard Kipling’s finest story
Dr. Winthrop-Young contributed “Gespeicherte Seelenwanderung, oder, Die beste aller Schreibszenen” (“A stored migration of the soul, or, The best of all writing scenes”) to the collection Noten zum Schreiben.