Graduate Student Conference on “Disruptive Materialities” kicks off on February 6
The program is full of exciting panels featuring 17 presenters, including Dr. Liam Cole Young, who will give the keynote on February 6. All are welcome!
Dr. Nijdam awarded SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Biz Nijdam was awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for her book manuscript for “Paneled Pasts: History, Media, and Memory in the German Graphic Novel.”
Dr. Malakaj publishes text in The Conversation
Dr. Ervin Malakaj has published a piece in The Conversation on the controversy surrounding the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, which was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke.
“Experiencing the Holocaust, Sharing Memories: The UBC Community Reading and Witnessing Auschwitz”
The current UBC Library exhibition was curated by Reference Librarian Susan Atkey, Dr. Bozena Karwowska, Dr. Anja Nowak and Dr. Ania Switzer.
Malakaj Joins Editorial Board of Studies in 20th and 21st-Century Literature
Dr. Ervin Malakaj was appointed to the editorial board of Studies in 20th and 21st-Century Literature.
Dr. Karwowska to Present at CENES Faculty Research Colloquium
On Thursday, January 23 at 12:45 p.m. in Buchanan Tower 997, Dr. Bozena Karwowska will be giving a talk on “Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen: Facts, Literary Style and a Testimony of Auschwitz.”
CENES Faculty present at 2020 MLA Conference in Seattle
Several CENES faculty members presented research at the 2020 annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Seattle (9–12 January).
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on State of Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies
Dr. Ervin Malakaj published a peer-reviewed chapter titled “The State of Diversity and Decolonization in North American German Studies” in the volume Transnational German Education and Comparative Education Systems.
Dr. Karwowska teaches graduate seminars on Erasmus+ at University of Warsaw
Dr. Bozena Karwowska was on Erasmus+ at the University of Warsaw November 25-28, teaching at the Institute of Polish Studies.
Dr. Bowers’s Work Recommended Reading for BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” Broadcast
Dr. Katia Bowers’s co-edited volume, A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (Academic Studies Press, 2018), and creative Twitter project, @RodionTweets, were featured as “recommended reading’ on the November 14 BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” program on Crime and Punishment.