Research

2025 Graduate Admissions Applications Now Open for Germanic Studies

2025 Graduate Admissions Applications Now Open for Germanic Studies

The 2025 admissions application for the Germanic Studies graduate program is now open until January 15, 2025.

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.

PhD Student Publishes Paper on Mann’s The Magic Mountain

PhD Student Publishes Paper on Mann’s The Magic Mountain

Dante Prado’s “The Crisis of Sociability and Laughter in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg” was published in German Life and Letters.

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.

CENES GoGlobal Vienna Summer Seminar

CENES GoGlobal Vienna Summer Seminar

The CENES Summer Vienna Go Global Seminar will be running in Summer 2025.

Full Program Available for Winter 2024-2025 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series