The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies is pleased to announce its Fall 2016 line-up for the Ziegler Lecture Series. We have a great selection of speakers and topics. All Ziegler lectures will take place at 5pm at St John’s College in the Fairmont Social Lounge (2111 Lower Mall). See the full schedule below or our events calendar for more details.
Ziegler Lecture Series Fall 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016 / 17:00
Pawel Śpiewak (University of Warsaw,) Director, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
“Shoah and the Insufficiency of Political Philosophy”
CENES gratefully acknowledges support from the Polish General Consulate.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 / 17:00
Bethany Wiggin (University of Pennsylvania), Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
“Philadelphian Experiments: Past, Present, Future”
CENES gratefully acknowledges support from the Department of History.
Thursday, October 6, 2016 / 17:00
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University Weimar), Director, IKKM
International Visiting Scholar, Peter Wall Institute
“Turn Meaning On/Off: The Flip and Flop of ‘Understanding’ Media”
Additional events with Bernhard Siegert:
➜ “The Free Sea. A Conversation with Renisa Mawani and Bernhard Siegert.”
Wednesday, October 12 / 16:00 / Peter Wall Institute VIP Room / rsvp to info@pwias.ubc.ca
➜ “Ishmael’s Critique of Pictures: Representation and Anti-Representation in Moby-Dick”
Thursday October 13 / 17:30 / Lasserre 102
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 / 17:00
Thomas Kühne (Clark University), Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History
“Nation Building Through Genocide: The Germans and the Holocaust”
CENES gratefully acknowledges support from the Rudolf Vrba Memorial Lecture Endowment Fund and the Waldman Endowment for Holocaust Education.
Additional event with Thomas Kühne: Vrba Memorial Lecture
➜ “The Murderers Are Among Us”: Images of Holocaust Perpetrators from the Third Reich to the Present
Thursday November 17/ 17:00 / Buchanan A 101
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 / 17:00
Ástráður Eysteinsson (University of Iceland)
“Searching for Iceland: A Literary Quest”
CENES gratefully acknowledges support from the The Richard and Margaret Beck Lecture Fund at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.