Full Program Available for Winter 2025-2026 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series

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The Winter 2025-2026 program for the Sawchen Lecture Series and Ziegler Lecture Series is now available.

CENES Sawchen and Ziegler lectures are free to attend and open to the public and all members of the UBC community, including students, faculty, and staff. In 2025-2026, all lectures will be presented online, unless otherwise noted, the recording of each online lecture will be made available on cIRcle after the live virtual event. Students, faculty and staff are all welcome to attend.

What is the CENES Lecture Series?

The Sawchen and Ziegler Lecture series occurs every year, and allows CENES to invite speakers to talk about scholarship within Germanic and Slavic studies. This year, CENES has introduced the theme of ‘networks’ for both of the Sawchen and Ziegler series.

Term 1 Ziegler and Sawchen Lectures

Jeremy Bryant
September 25, 2025 | 12:30pm PT | Online
Online Ziegler lecture by Jeremy Bryant. Registration is free and can be done using the link below. Please note this is a recorded event.

Ziegler Lecture: Jeremy Bryant “From fin de siècle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)”

Chloe Papadopoulos
October 14, 2025 | 12:30pm PT | Online
Online Sawchen lecture by Dr. Chloe Papadopoulos. Registration is free and can be done using the link below. Please note this is a recorded event.

Sawchen Lecture: Chloe Papadopoulos “Capital from Nizhny: Koz’ma Minin and Military Philanthropy in the Arts”

Lori Emerson
November 6, 2025 | 12:30pm PT | Online
Online Ziegler lecture by Dr. Lori Emerson. Registration is free and can be done using the link below. Please note this is a recorded event.

Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Lori Emerson “How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks”

Term 2 Ziegler and Sawchen Lectures:

Bradley Gorski
January 20, 2026 | 12:30pm PT | Online
Online Sawchen lecture by Dr. Bradley Gorski. Registration is free and can be done using the link below. Please note this is a recorded event.

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Bradley Gorski “Networking Cultural Markets: Capitalism and Literature in Post-Soviet Russia”

Jake Fraser
March 5, 2026 | 12:30pm PT | Online
Online Ziegler lecture by Dr. Jake Fraser. Registration is free and can be done using the link below. Please note this is a recorded event.

Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Jake Fraser “Remembering Media: Time, Memory, and Media from Kittler’s Discourse Networks to Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory”