Dr. Biz Nijdam to present at University of Waterloo
Dr. Biz Nijdam is set to give a presentation on Reinhard Kleist’s graphic novel An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar at the University of Waterloo on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.
Faculty Research Colloquium: Dr. Bowers on “A Russian Jane Eyre”
On Nov. 5, 2019, Dr. Katherine Bowers presented “A Russian Jane Eyre: Gothic Subjectivity and the Woman Question in Tur and Turgenev” in the Faculty Research Colloquium.
Dr. Bozena Karwowska presents at conference by World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants
Dr. Karwowska presented on the panel, “Holocaust education: The antidote to antisemitism?” where she discussed the Witnessing Auschwitz Go Global course and Representations of the Holocaust CENS 303 course.
Dr. Malakaj co-convenes Seminar on Strengthening Undergraduate German Programs
The seminar, financed through a grant from the German embassy’s Netzwerk Deutsch programming and Valparaiso University, brought together 25 faculty from across the US to develop action plans to revise their curricula and strengthen their co-curricular offering.
CENES Ph.D. Student Featured in EuropeNow
After the Council for European Studies Conference in Madrid in June 2019, Ph.D. student Sabine Zimmermann was asked to take part in an interview about Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Go, Went, Gone. It is part of a special feature on forced migration, Narration on the Move.
Dr. Frackman introduces The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at Roedde House Museum
On Oct. 24, Dr. Kyle Frackman introduced and facilitated a discussion of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) at an event at the Roedde House Museum in Vancouver.
Dr. Malakaj introduces and facilitates discussion of Nosferatu film screening at Roedde House Museum
Dr. Malakaj teaches Nosferatu as part of his GERM 304 German Cinema course on the sexual politics of Weimar cinema.
CENES Ph.D. Student publishes essay on translation
CENES Ph.D. student Ajibola Fabusuyi has published an essay: “Afrikanische Texte und verfälschte Übersetzungen: Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Übersetzung anglophoner westafrikanischer Literatur.”
CENES Members Attend and Present Research at 2019 German Studies Association Conference
CENES was well represented at the 43rd annual conference of the German Studies Association, which was held in Portland, Oregon, October 3–6, 2019. CENES members presented papers, organized panels, commentated or moderated panels, or participated in seminars.
Dr. Bowers presents at “Literary Citizenship” conference in Oslo
Dr. Katia Bowers presented “‘She Lived on Terror’: the Gothic Novel Reader and the Russian Book Market.”