Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Edited Special Issue of English Language Notes on Refuge and Displacement
Dr. Ervin Malakaj (UBC) and Dr. Beverly Weber (University of Colorado Boulder) co-edited a special issue of the scholarly journal English Language Notes with the title “Refuge and Displacement.”
Dr. Garde publishes book on Trans* Histories, Sex Change and its Colonial Ghosts
Jonah I. Garde, CENES Postdoctoral Fellow, published new book set in early 20th century Austria, and explores how trans* histories are entangled with and shaped by modernity and coloniality.
Queer media theories workshop meets in Cologne
Dr. Kyle Frackman and Dr. Ervin Malakaj hosted a workshop on Queer Media Theories on June 26, 2025 in Cologne.
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Article on Solidarity Formations in Diacritics
CENES’s Dr. Ervin Malakaj publishes article in Diacritics, a journal that publishes various original works on critical theory.
PhD Candidate Publishes Blog Post on Academic Freedom in Germany, USA, and Canada
UBC CENES’ PhD Candidate Braden Russell published an academic blog post with the Diversity, Decolonize and the German Curriculum Collective (DDGC) on the subject of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
Dr. Frackman gives Talk Introducing “Coming Out” Screening
On February 2, 2025, Dr. Kyle Frackman gave a talk introducing a screening of the East German film Coming Out (1989, dir. Heiner Carow) at Carleton College’s International Film Forum (Northfield, Minnesota).
Dr. Bowers publishes article on collaboration, in collaboration
Together with Lee Skallerup Bessette, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Quinn Dombrowski, Anouk Lang, and Roopika Risam, Katherine Bowers has published an article on the collaborative scholarly practice in which the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist digital humanities collective, engages.
Congratulations, soon-to-be Dr. Manoff!
On Friday, January 17, CENES Yiddish teacher and scholar Itamar Manoff successfully defended his dissertation, as the final component of his doctoral work in Educational Studies at UBC on the topic of mistakes and errors among adult language learners. When one of his students described a person in the English-as-an-Additional-Language classroom with the phrase “She […]
New Book! *Mad Auralities*
The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies (CENES) is delighted to share that Palgrave has published Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities by Dr. Matthew Tomkinson.
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 […]