“Wotan’s Biopunk”: Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on an early alternate history classic
Dr. Winthrop-Young published “Wotan’s Biopunk: The Grim(m) German God and his English Bloodsport in Sarban’s Sound of His Horn” in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Rudyard Kipling’s finest story
Dr. Winthrop-Young contributed “Gespeicherte Seelenwanderung, oder, Die beste aller Schreibszenen” (“A stored migration of the soul, or, The best of all writing scenes”) to the collection Noten zum Schreiben.
Dr. Karwowska Dr. Karwowska visits Wagner College to give talk on art by women prisoners in Auschwitz
Dr. Bożena Karwowska visited the Wagner College in New York in October to give a talk on Art by women prisoners in Auschwitz.
Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on the resurrected aurochs
Dr. Winthrop-Young contributed “Deutsche Rindergrammatik; or, The Once and Future Aurochs” to the special sesquicentennial issue of New German Critique.
Dr. Bowers Named Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge
Dr. Katherine Bowers (CENES) will join Clare Hall, Cambridge as a Visiting Fellow during Winter Term 1 2023 (Michaelmas).
Dr. Kumar and Dr. Malakaj awarded $48K Arts Research Abroad Grant for “Multicultural Vienna”
Dr. Uma Kumar and Dr. Ervin Malakaj were awarded a competitive $48,500 UBC Arts Research Abroad grant. The funding will support instruction as well as student travel costs for a May 2024 Go Global study abroad course titled “Multicultural Vienna.”
Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship
The UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) invites applications from interested parties to be considered for the Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program.
Markus Hallensleben published two co-edited special issues on Postmigration
Dr. Markus Hallensleben, together with collaborator Moritz Schramm from the University of Southern Denmark, has published two special issues on postmigration.
Rieger and Gramling write on “linguistic indifference”
This interview is a retrospective on the latest The German Quarterly Forum, entitled “On Linguistic Indifference.” It was written by The Pipestone Group, of which CENES Head & Professor David Gramling and Associate Professor Caroline Rieger are members.
Dr. Kyle Frackman interviewed by the Vancouver Sun
Dr. Kyle Frackman was interviewed by the Vancouver Sun for a story about the history of Pride on the occasion of Vancouver’s 2023 Pride Festival.