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.
Gaby Pailer co-organized a 3-day conference in Munich, Germany, in collaboration with Tilman Venzl (LMU Munich) to take place from 18-21 December 2025. UBC faculty and Head of Department Ervin Malakaj will give an onsite presentation.
Program: Conference Program Hedwig Dohm – Literature, Theory, Activism at the Fin de Siècle
This collaborative project has been supported by Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (LMU), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Zauberberg-Stiftung. For further outreach events and activities a SSHRC application is under review.
Hedwig Dohm, Gender and Nation – UBC Student Presentations
This conference includes an online component, which is free and open to the public to join and view: UBC students and graduates Sarah Blackwood, Emmett Mark, and Sebi Singh, will present in this session based on their previous CENES-UBC course work in CENS 404 “Women’s State: Gender and Nation”.
The panel will be steered by CENES MA student Petra Semeniuk on 20 December, 8-9:30 am, Vancouver time, 5:00pm to 6:30pm in Munich, Germany.
- Gaby Pailer: Hedwig Dohm on “Gender and Nation” – Introduction
- Sarah Blackwood: Blooming Bodies, Booming Nations: Dohm’s story Blumenduft (The Fragrance of Flowers), Gabriele Reuter’s novel Aus guter Familie (From a Good Family), and Nadine Neema’s Story of a Travelling Girl
- Emmett Mark: The Heroine’s Adventure: Dohm’s Become the Woman You Are and Velma Wallis’ Two Old Women
- Sebi Singh: Dohm’s Become the Woman You Are and Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine’s Broken Circle
