Dr. Malakaj presents at Cornell University’s “Re-Imagining the Discipline” Conference
Dr. Malakaj gave a talk on curricular flexibilities and the leading role of small German programs for the future of the discipline.
Dr. Bowers attends and presents at Slavic Digital Humanities Workshop
Dr. Katia Bowers attended and presented at the Slavic DH Working Group’s summer workshop at Princeton University.
Dr. Malakaj publishes article in The German Quarterly
Dr. Ervin Malakaj published an article on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Michael (1924) in The German Quarterly.
Secret love letters and languages: UBC exhibit offers Pride Week history lesson
Co-curated by Dr. Kyle Frackman (CENES) and Dr. Gregory Mackie (English), A Queer Century, 1869 – 1969 makes UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections a great place to learn about queer history during Pride Week in Vancouver.
Anna Westpfahl Passes M.A. Thesis Defence
Congratulations to Anna Westpfahl! She passed her master’s thesis defence on July 24, 2019. Her thesis, “Of Matter and Meaning: Quantum Entanglement and Biological Fantasy in Psychoanalysis,” was supervised by Dr. Kyle Frackman.
Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at International Dostoevsky Symposium
Dr. Katia Bowers presented her research on “Dostoevsky’s Gothic Heroine: From Netochka to Nastas’ia Filippovna” at the recent International Dostoevsky Symposium in Boston. The Symposium occurs only once every three years and is the preeminent Dostoevsky Studies conference in the field. The 17th Symposium celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Idiot.
Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) awarded SSHRC Insight Grant
Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) were awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant ($169,232) for their project “Digital Dostoevsky.”
Dr. Hallensleben is awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Dr. Markus Hallensleben has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the “Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature.”
Ph.D. Student Presents in Madrid
While attending the Council of European Studies Conference in Madrid, Germanic Studies PhD student Sabine Zimmermann presented on “Immobilities in a ‘Postmigrant Age’: Phenomenological Borders in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone and Elfriede Jelinek’s Changes.”
Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at University of St Andrews
Dr. Katia Bowers was invited to present her research at a small symposium at the University of St. Andrews called “An Invented Tradition: Russian Realism as Will and Representation.”