Dr. Malakaj and Dr. Puar awarded GCRC funding for “Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis”
Dr. Ervin Malakaj (CENES) and Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ) have been awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition by the Vice President for Research & Innovation for their project “Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis.”
Dr. Bowers awarded GCRC funding for “Sovereignty in a Fractious Age”
Dr. Katherine Bowers (CENES) and Dr. Heidi Tworek (History and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) were awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters.
Recognizing CENES Graduating Student Leaders in the Class of 2026
On March 31, CENES celebrated our Faculty of Arts Outstanding Student Leader nominees. Meet Diana, Ikra, Tyler and Ashleigh, who briefly dive into their leadership opportunities and advice they have for fellow and incoming Arts students.
Ukraine War: Consuls General panel
Three international diplomats—the Consuls General of Germany, France, and Poland in Vancouver—will share their perspectives on the war in Ukraine and its future at the Experiencing Eastern Europe Undergraduate Student Conference on March 20.
Take a course with CENES in Summer 2026
Consider taking a course with The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) in Summer 2026!
CENES faculty attend Arctic Winter Games
Traveling north alongside six Indigenous comic artists and three Indigenous game designers, Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam and Dr. Tim Frandy are bringing their “Visual Storytelling in the Indigenous North” project to Whitehorse.
CENES welcomes visiting research student
Lukas Baumann (University of Klagenfurt) will be joining the department for Winter 2025-26 Term 2.
New digital humanities project in exile studies launched
Dr. Markus Hallensleben will be building a decolonial Wolfgang Paalen online archive and digital edition through Text Encoding Consortium (TEI).
Dr. Braxton Boyer joins CENES as Postdoctoral Fellow
CENES welcomes new Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Braxton Boyer.
Conference: Hedwig Dohm – Literature, Theory, Activism at the Fin de Siècle
UBC-CENES faculty and students embark on research of German-Jewish writer and activist Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919), whose lifelong work paved way for the modern women’s movement, also anticipating gender, queer, and intersectional perspectives.