News

Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Publications, Research, Students

New Book On 19th-century German Studies Features CENES-led Research

November 19, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Graduate, Research

Ervin Malakaj and Shoshana Schwebel Co-Author Teaching and Research Dossier on Anders als die Andern

October 25, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Research, Spotlight, Students

Go Global Seminar 2025: Poland and Croatia

October 24, 2024
Announcements, Graduate, Publications, Research, Students

PhD Student Publishes Paper on Mann's The Magic Mountain

October 17, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Research, Spotlight

CENES Faculty and PhD Candidate Project: Decolonizing the Future of Digital Humanities

October 4, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dr. Nijdam Featured in Podcast on Comics Project with Homalco First Nation

September 25, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Welcome Message from Dr. Katherine Bowers, CENES Department Head

September 24, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

From Oral Tradition to Comics: Homalco First Nation Partner with UBC and Education Without Borders to Create Graphic Novel Based on the Stories of their Elders

September 23, 2024
Announcements, Students

Open Call: Join the UBC SNSA and UBC Nordic's Lucia Choir

September 10, 2024
Students

Call for Applications: UBC German Studies Awards and Scholarships (2024-2025)

September 10, 2024
Announcements, Research, Students

CENES GoGlobal Vienna Summer Seminar

September 3, 2024
Research, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Winter 2024-2025 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series

September 3, 2024
Announcements, Research, Spotlight, Students

Looking Ahead to 2024-2025: German Program Highlights and Events

August 26, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Welcome Message from Dr. Frandy, Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies

August 23, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Welcome Message from Dr. Nijdam, Director of German Undergraduate Studies

August 23, 2024
Achievements, Graduate, Students

CENES PhD Student Wins GSC Prize for Best MA Thesis in German Studies

August 14, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Frackman Publishes Chapter on Queer Lives in East German Documentary Films

August 12, 2024
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Article on the Pedagogy of Unwellness in German Studies

August 2, 2024
Spotlight, Students

CENES Student Spotlight: Kendyl Stark

August 1, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

Meet Members of the CENES Advisory Council

July 17, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, In the Media, Research, Spotlight

Nijdam and Cassisa Receive 2024 Public Engagement Award

July 16, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, In the Media, Publications, Research, Spotlight

Dr. Bowers Publishes "Thinking Climate Change" Podcast

July 5, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Dr. Frackman featured in Ubyssey

July 3, 2024
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Queer Iranian-German Cinema

July 3, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

Call for Applications: 2024-2025 CENES Advisory Council

June 25, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

CENES Welcomes Yiddish in Fall 2024

June 11, 2024
Announcements, Research

2024 Call for Applications: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 10, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Jonah I. Garde joins CENES as Banting Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-26

June 6, 2024
Announcements, Students

Applications Open for the 2024 Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz Memorial Scholarships

May 29, 2024
Announcements

CENES Statement of Responsibility to Diverse Communities

May 28, 2024
Achievements, Announcements

Dr. Nijdam Awarded Open Resources Grant for Fairy Tales Course

May 28, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

New Courses Coming to CENES in 2024-2025

May 16, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight, Students

CENES WRAPPED: 2023-2024

May 16, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight, Students

CENES Wrapped 2023-24: Graduating Student Spotlights

May 15, 2024
Spotlight, Students

RUSS 410A Students Present at 19th-Century Style Salon

May 15, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, In the Media, Research, Spotlight

Education through comics: Exploring the Pedagogical Value of Comic Art

May 13, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Dr. Daniela Hempen Receives a 2023-2024 Killam Teaching Prize

May 10, 2024
Announcements, Students

Call for Applications: SWEA & UBC Vancouver Scholarships 2024

May 10, 2024
Sawchen Lecture Series, Spotlight, Ziegler Lecture Series

CENES 2023-2024 Wrapped: Sawchen and Ziegler Lecture Series

May 8, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Spotlight

Director of Slavic Studies and CENES PhD Student receive the CENES Outstanding Mentorship Award

May 3, 2024
Spotlight, Students

Meet the 2023-2024 CENES Student Program Assistants

April 29, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Publications, Students

Augenblick special issue on Gender and Sexuality in German Literature now published

April 23, 2024
Achievements, Graduate, In the Media, Publications, Students

CENES MA student publishes article on CrimeReads

April 11, 2024
Achievements, Graduate, Research

Braden Russell Awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Victoria

April 10, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Publications, Research

基特勒、德国媒介理论与中国媒介研究 : Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes in the Shanghai Journalism Review

April 10, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Publications

Bożena Karwowska contributes a chapter to Inga Iwasiów dla średnio zaawansowanych

April 8, 2024
Students

Call for applications: UBC German Studies awards and scholarships (2023-2024)

March 26, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Drs. Frackman and Malakaj receive Killam Research Fellowships

March 21, 2024
Achievements, Faculty

Faculty Research Award Winners 2023

March 20, 2024
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant for Scholarship on Queer Divination

March 19, 2024
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung

March 18, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Graduate, Research, Students

Dr Katherine Bowers and PhD Candidate Braden Russell Awarded Funding Through PhD CoLab Pilot Program

March 18, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

CENES Cooperation with The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange

March 7, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Publications, Students

Augenblick publishes 2023 Yearbook

February 29, 2024
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Aerial Aesthetics and Queer Intimacy in Contemporary German Cinema

February 29, 2024
Announcements, Students

Summer 2024 Courses in the CENES Department

February 26, 2024
Students

CENES GoGlobal Scholarships for the Multicultural Vienna Summer Seminar

February 13, 2024
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Biz Nijdam publishes on Catan in the Conversation

February 8, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, In the Media

Biz Nijdam's Comics Studies Cluster Makes News

February 8, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight

Arts Multilingual Week 2024

February 7, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

Danish Lecturer talks about Hygge on CBC Radio

February 7, 2024
Announcements, Students

Call for Applications: UBC German Studies Undergraduate Research Awards

January 25, 2024
Students

Call for Submissions: 2024 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (April 6-7)

January 17, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bożena Karwowska publishes a new book

January 16, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bożena Karwowska contributes a chapter to a book on Polish literature

January 9, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Tim Frandy Featured in National Geographic Essay

December 22, 2023
Announcements

Ukrainian Film Festival at the Cinematheque in February 2024

December 22, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Publications, Research, Students

CENES 2023: A Year in Review

December 20, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Discusses his New Book on New Books Network Podcast

December 12, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

"Wotan's Biopunk": Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on an early alternate history classic

December 4, 2023
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Term 2 Program Available for Winter 2023-2024 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series

December 4, 2023
Faculty

Dr. Karwowska invited as an international guest scholar to the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

November 30, 2023
Faculty, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Rudyard Kipling’s finest story

November 23, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Karwowska Dr. Karwowska visits Wagner College to give talk on art by women prisoners in Auschwitz

November 16, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on the resurrected aurochs

November 15, 2023
Students

Summer 2024 study abroad at Bauhaus University

November 9, 2023
Spotlight, Students

German Undergraduate Award Recipients

November 6, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Students

Global Seminar in Guatemala, Summer Term 1 2024

November 1, 2023
Faculty, Students

Global Seminar in Poland, Summer 2024

October 30, 2023
Faculty, Students

CENES Recap: German Day 2023

October 26, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Research, Spotlight

Dr. Bowers Named Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge

October 23, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

UBC Arts Faculty on Unmasking Halloween: Beyond myths and monster of the week

October 20, 2023
Students

Call for Applications: UBC German Studies Awards and Scholarships (2023-2024)

October 3, 2023
Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Winter 2023-2024 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series

September 27, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Dr Bowers Receives International Dostoevsky Society Award for Exemplary Service

September 21, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Tim Frandy Presenting at MOA's 2023 Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series

September 20, 2023
Achievements, Graduate, Students

Braden Russell Advances to Candidacy

September 20, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

Dr. Malakaj awarded Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm Prize

September 18, 2023
Faculty, Research, Students

Dr. Kumar and Dr. Malakaj awarded $48K Arts Research Abroad Grant for “Multicultural Vienna”

September 18, 2023
Alumni, Announcements, Graduate, Research

Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship

August 28, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research, Spotlight

Markus Hallensleben published two co-edited special issues on Postmigration

August 10, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, In the Media, Research, Students

Rieger and Gramling write on "linguistic indifference"

August 9, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, In the Media

Interview with Faller and Frackman: recipients of prestigious Killam Teaching Prizes

August 9, 2023
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dr. Kyle Frackman interviewed by the Vancouver Sun

August 8, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Hiring: Southeastern European Studies / Croatian Language and Culture Lecturer

August 4, 2023
Announcements, Students

Call for Applications: 2023-2024 CENES Advisory Council

August 1, 2023
Achievements, Graduate

CENES Graduate Research Featured in Washington Post

August 1, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Students

New CENES Undergraduate Directors, Centre Directors, and Professors

June 30, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Publications

CENES Tim Frandy Book Listed on Smithsonian Magazine's Best Books of 2022 List

June 30, 2023
Graduate

Ajibola Fabusuyi is a 2023 Recipient of Diversity and Inclusion Grant of Waterloo Centre for German Studies

June 30, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Nijdam Receives a Diversity and Inclusion Grant from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies

June 28, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on totalitarian termites

June 23, 2023
Achievements, Graduate, Research

CENES masters student awarded Diversity and Inclusion grant

June 16, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers receives Faculty Research Award

June 6, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Celebrating Achievement in Queer Studies

June 2, 2023
Spotlight, Students

UBC German Undergraduate Student Profile: Melissa Phua

May 26, 2023
Announcements, Research

Claudia Breger on "Negativity and Resilience, Fantasy and Hope: Multivectoral Dialogues between Laurent Berlant and German (-émigré) Critical Theory"

May 26, 2023
Announcements, Research

Ann Cvetkovich on "Grappling with Care"

May 26, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Co-Organizes International Symposium on All Quiet on the Western Front

May 25, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Students

Modern European Studies Major to give 2023 Graduation Address on May 24th

May 24, 2023
Achievements, Announcements

Director of Nordic Undergraduate Studies and Nordic Minor receive the 2023 CENES Outstanding Mentorship Award

May 17, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Receives British Academy Visiting Fellowship

May 4, 2023
Announcements, Students

How our German and Nordic programs are getting ready for the future

May 3, 2023
Announcements, Research

2023 Call for Applications: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 1, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Two CENES faculty members selected for Killam Teaching Prize

April 27, 2023
Graduate, Publications, Students

PhD student publishes on narrative and obedience

April 24, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Article on Free Fall in GLQ

April 18, 2023
Graduate, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

MA student featured on graduate school website

April 14, 2023
Achievements, Students

Nordic Studies Minor named outstanding student leader in Arts

April 4, 2023
Faculty, Research

Drs. Gramling and Malakaj co-organize the 2023 DDGC Conference

April 4, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Malakaj promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

April 3, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on The Difference Engine

March 31, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research, Students

Grant for "Holocausts and the Rise of Antisemitism" project

March 30, 2023
Alumni, Graduate, Publications, Research

PhD alum publishes book with Indiana University Press

March 29, 2023
Students

SNSA hosts author Bill Arnott

March 27, 2023
Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: Stammtisch

March 24, 2023
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship

March 21, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj awarded Canada Council for the Arts grant to write book on queer Bosnian diaspora

February 28, 2023
Graduate, In the Media, Students

Third-year PhD student featured on graduate school website

February 27, 2023
Students

Call for applications: UBC German Studies awards and scholarships (2022-2023)

February 14, 2023
Graduate, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

First-year PhD student featured on graduate school website

February 14, 2023
Graduate, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

PhD student featured on graduate school website

February 6, 2023
Spotlight, Students

CENES Work Learn student spotlight: Sanya Malik

January 30, 2023
Achievements, Students

Inaugural Alumni Night at the CENES Department

January 24, 2023
Achievements, Graduate, Publications, Research, Students

PhD candidate in Germanic Studies publishes new book

January 23, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on war and media studies

January 20, 2023
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young publishes on Wagner and Kittler

January 16, 2023
Achievements, Students

Two undergraduates awarded UBC German Studies scholarships

January 10, 2023
Graduate, Publications, Students

PhD student publishes article in Monatshefte

January 9, 2023
Alumni, Spotlight, Students

UBC German Studies Alumni Spotlight: Christian Epp

January 5, 2023
Spotlight, Students

UBC German Studies Student Spotlight: Vivian Voong

December 7, 2022
Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Program available for Winter 2022 Term 2 Ziegler Lecture Series

December 5, 2022
Graduate, In the Media, Students

MA student book review published

December 1, 2022
Graduate, Students

Paid internship and study abroad opportunity in Germany

December 1, 2022
Graduate, Students

Summer 2023 study abroad at Bauhaus University

December 1, 2022
Graduate, Students

Study abroad opportunity in Germany

December 1, 2022
Research, Students

Call for submissions: 2023 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (March 11-12)

November 30, 2022
Alumni, Research, Spotlight, Students

Interview with Bauhaus-Weimar alum Pedro Amaral

November 28, 2022
Faculty, In Memoriam

Dr. Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (1927–2022): A Tribute

November 25, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty spotlight: Dr. David Gramling

November 25, 2022
Faculty, In Memoriam

Dr. Peter Stenberg (1942–2022): A Tribute

November 24, 2022
Faculty, Publications, Research

Drs. Frackman & Malakaj co-edit second special issue on queer temporality in German Studies

November 24, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Drs. Frackman and Malakaj Co-Edit Special Issue of Monatshefte on Queer Temporality

November 9, 2022
Achievements, Graduate

PhD Student Selected to Take Part in Holocaust Education Seminar

November 8, 2022
Students

Undergraduate Student Receives SWEA Vancouver Undergraduate Scholarship for Exchange Studies in Sweden

November 3, 2022
Alumni, Spotlight, Students

An Interview with Modern European Studies Alum

November 2, 2022
Announcements, Students

SCAN Studies Changes to NORD Studies

October 18, 2022
Spotlight, Students

Meet our New CENES Undergraduate Student Program Assistants

October 7, 2022
Announcements, Students

Seven CENES courses to learn more about multicultural Europe in WT2

October 5, 2022
Announcements, Graduate, Students

Graduate Admissions Applications Now Open

October 3, 2022
Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Winter 2022 Term 1 Sawchen, Ziegler Lecture Series

September 26, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate, In the Media

CENES Alum's Book Wins Canadian Jewish Literary Award

September 23, 2022
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

MA Student Featured on Graduate School Website

September 16, 2022
Students

Seven Key Takeaways from the UBC German Program

August 30, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Appointed to Editorial Boards of a Scholarly Journal and Book Series

August 29, 2022
Students

Call for Applications: UBC German Studies Awards and Scholarships (2022-2023)

August 25, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: Dr. Gassner and German Extracurriculars

August 24, 2022
Announcements

Call for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship

August 16, 2022
Students

German Studies as Community Work at UBC

August 5, 2022
Students

Welcome Message from Dr. Malakaj, Director of Undergraduate Studies in German

August 3, 2022
Announcements, Students

Call for Applications: CENES Advisory Council

July 26, 2022
Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: German Language Student Ben Marquard

July 15, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

CENES Welcomes New Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Studies

June 30, 2022
Achievements, Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: German Minor Pippa Rogak

June 29, 2022
Alumni, Students

German Program Alumnus Co-Creates Debut Theatre Performance

June 28, 2022
Announcements, In Memoriam

Remembering Our Colleague and Friend: The Laura Isakov Memorial Fund

June 27, 2022
Graduate, Research, Spotlight, Students

17th-Century German Poet and Her Songs Amplified

June 23, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (German Cinema)

June 22, 2022
Research, Students

Survivors of the Holocaust from Vancouver – Life & Work

June 21, 2022
Achievements, Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: German Minor Christina Qi

June 9, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on SCAN 332A (Sámi Culture: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow)

June 9, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on CENS 201 (Cultures of the Black Sea Region)

June 8, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Exploring Academia and Community with Care: An Interview with Dr. Peña

June 7, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman Presents at East German Film Workshop in Scotland

June 6, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (Sexuality and Weimar Cinema)

June 6, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 305

June 3, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Wins 2022 Public Engagement Award

June 3, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (Shadows and Screams)

June 1, 2022
Achievements, Spotlight, Students

Spotlight: German Minor Gabrielle Bonifacio

May 30, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Nijdam Wins Innovate German Award for GERM 121: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture

May 26, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on CENS 202 (Bad Feelings)

May 26, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on GERM 304 (German Cinema: Reel Cities)

May 25, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on SCAN 335

May 19, 2022
Alumni, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Leesing Publishes in Crossings on Night Spaces in Postmigrant Literature

May 18, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

CENES Courses: Spotlight on CENS 307

May 18, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Call for Applications: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 10, 2022
Students

Winter 2022-23 Courses in the CENES Department

May 4, 2022
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Essay on Relevance of German Literary Studies

May 3, 2022
Alumni, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Leesing Publishes Article on Game Environments in Early Gaming

May 2, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Receives DAAD Grant for Research

April 28, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Publishes Book about Russian Realism and the Gothic

April 26, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Students

Dr. Malakaj Inaugural Recipient of the CENES Outstanding Mentorship Award

April 25, 2022
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dr. Nijdam Featured in Recent Article about Maus

April 22, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

CENES Welcomes Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies

April 21, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Let's Become Story Ready: SSHRC Connection Grant

April 21, 2022
Students

Paid Internship and Funded Study Abroad Opportunity through Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

April 7, 2022
Faculty, Students

CENES Instructor Helps Organize Food Donations for Ukraine

April 1, 2022
Research, Students

Student Research Investigates Nazi War Crimes

March 29, 2022
Announcements, Spotlight

CENES Remembers UBC’s First Female Faculty Member

March 29, 2022
Students

The White-Blue-White Anti-War Flag: Student Reflections

March 28, 2022
Faculty, In the Media, Publications

Dr. Frackman Publishes Op-Ed about the Humanities and Ukraine

March 24, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Centre for European Studies Launches

March 17, 2022
Faculty

Arts Insights on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

March 16, 2022
Achievements, Graduate, Publications, Research

CENES PhD Candidate Corrects Previous Scholarship

March 16, 2022
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Radio-Canada Interviews Dr. Frackman for Story about Queer Books and Catalogues

March 14, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman Participates in University of Michigan Colloquium

March 14, 2022
Faculty, Publications

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Essay on Historical Injury and Solidarity in New Fascism Syllabus

March 10, 2022
Students

Summer 2022 Courses in Russian, German, Nordic, and Holocaust Studies

March 2, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, In the Media

UBC’s Russian Instructors Stand with Ukraine

March 1, 2022
Announcements, In the Media

CENES Statement in Support of Ukraine

February 25, 2022
In the Media, Publications, Research

Dr. Nijdam Publishes on Tennessee School Board Banning of Maus

February 9, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Graduate, In the Media

UBC PhD Alum Dr. Strzelczyk Named Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at Western University

February 7, 2022
Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Publishes Review Articles for Dostoevsky Bicentenary

February 4, 2022
Announcements, Research, Students

Call for Submissions: German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase 2022

February 4, 2022
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Publishes Article on Ann Radcliffe's Russian Afterlife

February 3, 2022
Students

Undergraduate Student Reflects on his Work in the Beginner’s German “Culture Today” Modules

January 28, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Graduate

PhD Candidate Recipient of SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

January 28, 2022
Students

Short- and Long-Term Study and Research Abroad Opportunities in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Beyond

January 24, 2022
Announcements, Students

Follow UBC German Studies on Instagram, Tiktok, and Twitter

January 20, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman Publishes Article on Queer East German Photography

January 14, 2022
Announcements, Students

UBC Global Seminar: Exploring Russian Culture and National Identity

January 10, 2022
Faculty, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young Interviewed by UBC's On Earth Podcast

January 7, 2022
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Winter 2021 Term 2 Sawchen, Ziegler Lecture Series

January 7, 2022
Faculty, Publications

Dr. Winthrop-Young Publishes on Killer Ants

January 6, 2022
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Chapter on Queer of Colour Cinema in Germany

January 5, 2022
Students

Students Host Lucia

December 10, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Publications, Research

Dr. Gramling Podcasts on Multilingualism

December 8, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young Contributes to Vilém Flusser Collection

November 25, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dr. Frackman Publishes Article on "Coming Out"

November 17, 2021
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Students

Three PhD Students Advance to Candidacy

November 3, 2021
Announcements, Students

Foregrounding Diversity in Beginning German Language Classes

November 2, 2021
Graduate, Students

Applications Open: MA and PhD in Germanic Studies at UBC

November 1, 2021
Spotlight, Students

Meet the New Assistants to the Director of Undergraduate Studies in German

October 26, 2021
Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Co-Writes Guide to Sentiment Analysis

October 26, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Gramling and Dr. Malakaj Present at British Columbia Council of Teachers of German

October 26, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Edited Volume on Slapstick

October 25, 2021
Graduate, Publications, Research, Students

PhD Candidate Publishes Article on Abbas Khider

October 20, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Hallensleben Publishes Two Articles

October 15, 2021
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Winter 2021 Term 1 Sawchen/Ziegler Lecture Series

October 5, 2021
Announcements, In the Media, Spotlight

UBC and CENES Welcome New Croatian Language Program for BC Secondary School Students

September 27, 2021
Faculty, Research

East Germany and Queer Futures: Dr. Frackman Delivers Conference Keynote

September 17, 2021
Students

Why Pursue German Studies at UBC?

September 16, 2021
Faculty, Publications

Dr. Malakaj publishes co-authored article on Misfit Archives

September 15, 2021
Alumni, Publications, Research, Students

Former RUSS 412 Student Publishes Dostoevsky Article

September 14, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Welcome Message from Dr. Malakaj

September 13, 2021
Announcements, Students

Call for Applications: Two Undergraduate Assistants to the Director of Undergraduate Studies (German)

September 7, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight, Students

Collaborative and Compassionate Teaching During COVID: What Have We Learned?

August 27, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Publishes Dostoevsky Bicentenary Book

August 25, 2021
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

News from Our Scandinavian Program

August 23, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Dr. Chitnev on Why to Learn Russian in 2021

August 10, 2021
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Students

MA Student Awarded Affiliated Fellowship Funding

August 9, 2021
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Chitnev To Present at 10th World Congress of the ICCEES

July 26, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

CENES Department Welcomes Dr. Rosemarie Peña

July 22, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Receives SSHRC Connection Grant for Dostoevsky's Bicentenary

July 13, 2021
Faculty, Publications

Dr. Bowers Publishes Essay in "We Are the Baby-Sitters Club"

July 12, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Gramling Publishes New Book

July 5, 2021
Achievements, Alumni, Students

RUSS 306A Student Receives Honorable Mention in North American Dostoevsky Society Essay Contest

July 5, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman Introduces Film at Virtual Film Festival

June 21, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Publications, Research

Dr. Nijdam Publishes Research on Refugee Comics in The Conversation

June 15, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research, Students

Students of GERM 426 Publish Their Research on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work

June 15, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Gives Talk for Anglo-Russian Research Network

June 14, 2021
Announcements, Faculty

CENES Department Welcomes New Danish Lecturer

June 14, 2021
Faculty, Research

Webinar Recordings of "Storytelling as Research: Unsettling the Cultural Politics of Diversity through Filmmaking" Now Available

May 14, 2021
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dr. Bowers Appears as a Featured Guest on CiTR Radio's The Blue Hour

May 14, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Nijdam Awarded a Diversity and Inclusion Grant in German Studies from the Waterloo Centre for German Studies

May 14, 2021
Faculty, Research

Video Collection from "Crime and Punishment at 150" Conference Now Available

May 12, 2021
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Students

Two Graduate Students Defend Their Dissertations

May 4, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Named as 2021-22 Public Humanities Fellow

April 30, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Named as Member of New Languages for NLP Cohort

March 30, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research, Students

English Translation of Unpublished Memoir Meine Erinnerungen (My Recollections) by Anuschka Elkei & Dr. Kumar Now Available

March 23, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

New Book Release: Dr. Winthrop-Young and Dr. Iurascu Co-edit Kittler Collection

March 22, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Winthrop-Young Contributes to Information Volume

March 15, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Nijdam Speaks at Comics of the New Europe (2020) Book Launch Event

March 12, 2021
Achievements, Faculty

CENES Awarded Grant to Revamp Undergraduate German Curriculum

March 4, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Gives Keynote, Lectures, and Workshop

March 4, 2021
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Gives Digital Humanities Talk at Stanford Literary Lab

February 22, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Gramling Publishes Translation in Queer Literature Anthology

February 16, 2021
Announcements, Publications, Students

Call for Submissions: UBC Scandinavian and Nordic Studies Undergraduate Journal 2020-21

February 10, 2021
Graduate, Publications, Research, Students

PhD Candidate Publishes Second Article in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture

February 5, 2021
Faculty, Research

CENES Professors Attend Virtual MLA Convention

January 14, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Article on Collegiate Language Textbooks

January 14, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Strategies to Foster Visible Inclusivity for Small German Programs

January 6, 2021
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Term 2 Sawchen/Ziegler Lecture Series

December 21, 2020
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Nijdam Co-edits "The Social Justice Work of German Comics and Graphic Literature"

December 16, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Gives Talk at School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London

December 14, 2020
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on Alfred Rosenthal and the Politics of Jewish Visibility

December 11, 2020
Announcements, Faculty

CENES Welcomes New Department Head

December 7, 2020
In Memoriam, Students

In Memoriam: Laura Isakov (1978-2020)

November 27, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Virtually Visits University of Toronto Slavic Department

November 25, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Presents Research at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference

November 15, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Co-Organizes Conference, “Decentering German Cinema”

November 10, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman Presents on East German Film and Unification

November 10, 2020
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Kumar Presents at Virtual Kristallnacht Commemoration

November 9, 2020
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Nijdam Organizes Roundtables for International Comic Arts Forum

November 6, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Speaks at Open Scholarship in Practice Event

November 4, 2020
Achievements, Graduate, Research, Students

PhD Student Receives SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

November 2, 2020
Announcements

Recordings from Nora Krug Virtual Events Now Available

November 2, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Participates in Public Humanities Hub Conference

October 31, 2020
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series, Ziegler Lecture Series

Full Program Available for Term 1 Sawchen/Ziegler Lecture Series

October 30, 2020
Publications, Research, Students

Young Researchers' Essays on Witnessing Auschwitz Available as eBook

October 29, 2020
Announcements, Sawchen Lecture Series

CENES Department Launches New Sawchen Lecture Series

October 20, 2020
Faculty, Publications, Research

Dr. Bowers Publishes Chapter on Reading in Russia

October 15, 2020
Alumni, Publications, Research, Students

Former RUSS 412 “Dostoevsky” Student Publishes Article

October 4, 2020

Winter 2020 Course: GERM 426 (German Representations of the Holocaust)

September 17, 2020
Announcements

CENES Statement on Racial Justice

September 10, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Receives Grant from Institute for European Studies

September 1, 2020
Announcements

Winter 2020 Course: CENS 201 004 ("European Magic Tales")

August 26, 2020
Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Presents at NYU Jordan Center's 19v Speaker Series

August 12, 2020
Announcements

Find out about Online CENES Courses in W2020

August 4, 2020
Announcements

Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 323A (Fantastic Worlds in Russian Fiction)

July 29, 2020
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Ph.D. Student Awarded Affiliated Fellowship Funding

July 28, 2020
Announcements

Extra Section of CENS 303B (“Representations of the Holocaust”) added for Winter 2020 Term 1

July 27, 2020
Announcements

Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 303 (Topics in Russian Culture)

July 27, 2020
Announcements

Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 321A (Imagining Location in Russian Literature)

July 21, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Receives 2020 Public Humanities Hub Grant for Eurasia Research Cluster

July 17, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Rieger Participates in Health Outcomes and Language Project

July 16, 2020
Announcements

Winter 2020 Course: RUSS 306A (Russian Literature in Translation)

July 15, 2020
Announcements

New Winter 2020 Course: GERM 206 (Exile, Flight and Migration)

July 14, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Karwowska Contributes to Essay Collection "Creating Under Covid"

July 13, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Hallensleben to Collaborate on "Belonging in Unceded Territories"

July 8, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Hallensleben to Lead New 'Narratives' Research Group

July 6, 2020
Announcements

New Winter 2020 Online Course: SCAN 337 (Scandinavian Cinema)

June 24, 2020
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Ph.D. Student Receives Killam Doctoral Scholarship

June 23, 2020
Announcements

Dr. Katherine Bowers granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor

June 19, 2020
Announcements

Two CENES Students Recognized as Graduating Student Leaders

June 17, 2020
Announcements

The Significance of Artifacts in the Understanding of the Holocaust

June 16, 2020
Announcements

Postmigrant Aesthetics: How to Narrate a Future Europe? (Online Conference)

June 5, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Katherine Bowers publishes article on Crime and Punishment

June 2, 2020
Announcements

Graduate Seminar “What is Narrative?” offered 2020W T1

May 21, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Presentations from “The Pasts and Futures of Queer German Studies” Conference Available Streaming

May 21, 2020
Announcements

RUSS 306D ("Russian Literature in Translation") added for Summer 2020 Term 2

May 11, 2020
Announcements

New Seminar issue featuring CENES faculty

May 8, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Karwowska's published text available at UBC Library

May 4, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Veta Chitnev awarded a Killam Teaching Prize

April 29, 2020
Announcements

Extra Section of RUSS 101 (“Introduction to Contemporary Russian”) added for Summer 2020 Term 1

April 27, 2020
Announcements

Extra Section of CENS 303B (“Representations of the Holocaust”) added for Summer 2020 Term 2

April 24, 2020
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture: Katie Sutton on "Thinking with and beyond Identity in Queer and Trans German Studies"

April 22, 2020
Announcements

CENS 201 ("Contrasts and Conflicts: The Cultures of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe") added for Summer 2020 Term 1

April 20, 2020
Announcements

Online Symposium: The Pasts and Futures of Queer German Studies

April 6, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Article by Dr. Bozena Karwowska published in special issue of Polonistyka. Innowacje

April 6, 2020
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture Series: "On German Afrofuturism"

March 5, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj gives invited talk at Wellesley College

February 26, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Iurascu presents at "Media Inventories of the Nineteenth Century"

February 24, 2020
Announcements

Faculty Research Colloquium on Feb. 27: Reading and Anxiety

February 22, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Nijdam attends symposium in Sweden on comics and feminism

February 21, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Drs. Frackman and Malakaj receive DAAD Conference Support Grant

February 17, 2020
Announcements

Lena Karlström speaks with Vancouver Sun about Swedes and Scandinavia

February 17, 2020
Announcements

Styx - German Film Screening on Feb. 24

February 17, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj publishes co-edited volume

February 17, 2020
Announcements

Dr. Kumar receives Open Educational Resources Grant for work in Holocaust Studies Course

February 12, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Nijdam to give talk in UBC Mobilities Group

February 7, 2020
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Ph.D. Candidate Dorothee Leesing to present research at UC Berkeley German Studies Conference

February 4, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Drs. Frackman and Malakaj Awarded SSHRC Connection Grant for Conference

February 3, 2020
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Graduate Student Conference on "Disruptive Materialities" kicks off on February 6

January 31, 2020
Announcements

"Salt: Fragments from the History of a Medium"

January 31, 2020
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture Series: “Salt: Fragments from the History of a Medium”

January 30, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Nijdam awarded SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

January 29, 2020
Announcements

Website Feedback Needed

January 28, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj publishes text in The Conversation

January 27, 2020
Announcements

CENES alum featured: "University of Victoria takes lead on Holocaust graphic novel project"

January 27, 2020
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture Series: “First Jews in Auschwitz”

January 23, 2020
Announcements

Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

January 21, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

“Experiencing the Holocaust, Sharing Memories: The UBC Community Reading and Witnessing Auschwitz"

January 21, 2020
Announcements

Scholarship for Exchange Studies in Sweden

January 21, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Malakaj Joins Editorial Board of Studies in 20th and 21st-Century Literature

January 17, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Karwowska to Present at CENES Faculty Research Colloquium

January 16, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

CENES Faculty present at 2020 MLA Conference in Seattle

January 13, 2020
Announcements

We are Young, We are Strong - German Film Screening on Jan. 20

January 12, 2020
Announcements

New Position: 1-year Assistant Professor Without Review in German Language and Culture

January 9, 2020
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture Series: “Radical Diversity: Postmigrant Perspectives on Art, Culture, and Politics”

January 6, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Chapter on State of Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies

January 4, 2020
Announcements

Dr. Malakaj Elected to the Exec. Committee of the MLA Forum on Second Language Teaching and Learning

December 17, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Karwowska teaches graduate seminars on Erasmus+ at University of Warsaw

December 16, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers’s Work Recommended Reading for BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” Broadcast

December 12, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers Presents Digital Media and Tools Pedagogy Workshop at the University of Richmond

December 12, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Article in Applied Linguistics

December 11, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Karwowska speaks at 100th anniversary of Commerce School in Wloclawek

December 6, 2019
Announcements

CENES Graduate Student Conference: Abstracts due December 15

December 2, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers presents "Watery Creatures: The Fantastic and the City in the Petersburg Text" at ASEEES 2019

November 29, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Lieblang presents on VR Chatbots in Language Education

November 28, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bozena Karwowska presents at Congress of Education in Polish Studies

November 25, 2019
Announcements

CENES co-hosts Intercultural Learning in Language Teaching Workshop

November 20, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

"A Queer Century" exhibit, co-curated by Dr. Frackman, travels to UBC Okanagan

November 17, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

CENES Faculty participate in Berlin Wall Events

November 15, 2019
Announcements

Lena Karlström featured in UBC's Prof Portraits

November 15, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Article on Queer of Colour Studies in German Graduate Programs

November 12, 2019
Announcements

Coming Out: 11/18, 5pm, film screening in fall series

November 10, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman presents at Holocaust Studies conference in Munich

November 8, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Article by Dr. Frackman reissued in journal's marking of Wall anniversary

November 8, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Biz Nijdam to present at University of Waterloo

November 5, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Faculty Research Colloquium: Dr. Bowers on "A Russian Jane Eyre"

November 5, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bozena Karwowska presents at conference by World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust & Descendants

November 4, 2019
Announcements

Russian Lecturer Veta Chitnev's Global Seminar awarded ARA Grant

November 1, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj co-convenes Seminar on Strengthening Undergraduate German Programs

October 28, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

CENES Ph.D. Student Featured in EuropeNow

October 28, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman introduces The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at Roedde House Museum

October 25, 2019
Announcements

New Go Global Courses in Moscow

October 24, 2019
Announcements

Swedish lecturer Lena Karlström co-organizes 3-day symposium on Swedish feminism & fiction

October 23, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj introduces and facilitates discussion of Nosferatu film screening at Roedde House Museum

October 21, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Florian Gassner to present at Family Studies Lecture Series at Langara College

October 18, 2019
Announcements

Braedon Pauzé Awarded Inaugural Kim Misfeldt Prize

October 17, 2019
Announcements

Polish novelist and activist Olga Tokarczuk awarded 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 16, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

CENES Ph.D. Student publishes essay on translation

October 14, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Kumar recognized as a Champion of Open Educational Resources

October 11, 2019
Announcements

Exploring Russian Culture and National Identity (in English) Go Global Course

October 10, 2019
Announcements

Witnessing Auschwitz Go Global Course

October 9, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

CENES Members Attend and Present Research at 2019 German Studies Association Conference

October 7, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers presents at "Literary Citizenship" conference in Oslo

September 27, 2019
Announcements

Witnessing Auschwitz 2019

September 24, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj presents at Cornell University’s “Re-Imagining the Discipline” Conference

September 18, 2019
Announcements

CENES passes Resolution related to Global Climate Strike on Sept. 27

September 13, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Bowers attends and presents at Slavic Digital Humanities Workshop

September 11, 2019
Announcements

Herzsprung, 9/23 at 5pm, First Film in the Fall Series

September 11, 2019
Announcements

UBC Language Day 2019

September 10, 2019
Announcements

New GSA network on Queer and Trans German Studies, co-founded by CENES faculty

September 6, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Malakaj elected co-chair of Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Central/East/South European Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group

August 29, 2019
Announcements

CENES Welcomes Dr. Biz Nijdam as New Assistant Professor without Review

August 26, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Malakaj publishes article in The German Quarterly

August 6, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Secret love letters and languages: UBC exhibit offers Pride Week history lesson

July 30, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Anna Westpfahl Passes M.A. Thesis Defence

July 25, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at International Dostoevsky Symposium

July 25, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Katia Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

July 19, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Hallensleben is awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant

July 17, 2019
Announcements

Faculty Search: Head and Professor or senior Associate Professor of German Studies

June 24, 2019
Announcements

Rare Books Exhibition featured on CBC

June 22, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Ph.D. Student Presents in Madrid

June 21, 2019
Announcements

W2019 Term 1 Course: German Cinema - Shadows and Screams

June 21, 2019
Announcements

New Course: Intensive Beginners' German

June 21, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Katia Bowers presents research at University of St Andrews

June 21, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Frackman presents at CTLT's Learning Analytics Event

June 20, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Iurascu presents at international Fontane conference

June 16, 2019
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Florian Gassner and his Quest to Define Censorship

June 12, 2019
Announcements

In memoriam: John Buffinga (PhD '83)

May 27, 2019
Announcements

New Course: Bad Feelings: The Literary Lives of Anger, Boredom, and Envy

May 10, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Frackman and Dr. Iurascu promoted with tenure

May 9, 2019
Announcements

CENES Faculty Members Present at Queer Conference at University of Cambridge

May 8, 2019
Announcements

W2019 Term 2 Course: German Representations of the Holocaust

May 1, 2019
Announcements

New Course: The City of Berlin in German Film

April 30, 2019
Announcements

New Course: German Comics and Graphic Novels

April 28, 2019
Announcements

Extinction: A CENES Symposium

April 22, 2019
Announcements

Business German

April 20, 2019
Announcements

New Course: GERM 304 - The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema

April 15, 2019
Announcements

New Graduate Course: Sex Politics and German Film History

April 15, 2019
Announcements

Workshop: Cultural Sustaining – Kulturelles Nachhalten

April 12, 2019
Announcements

Prof. Winthrop-Young delivers keynote at UPenn Kittler conference

March 22, 2019
Announcements

Faculty Research Colloquium: Crime, Punishment and Temperature

March 22, 2019
Announcements

Faculty Research Colloquium: Laughter, Gender, Homophobia, Files

March 19, 2019
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture: "An English Watchmaker in 18th-Century China: Christoph Ransmayr’s Novel Cox, or the Passage of Time"

March 12, 2019
Announcements

CENES Faculty involved in Recent UBC Library Acquisition

March 8, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Graduate Student Colloquium: Treasonous Women and Becoming Men

March 7, 2019
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture: "H.G. Wells and Early Soviet Science Fiction"

March 6, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Bowers named a Wall Scholar for 2019/20

March 5, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Bowers and Dr. Malakaj present research in Japan

March 3, 2019
Announcements

"Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" - Lecture by Dr. Edith Sheffer

March 3, 2019
Announcements, Graduate, Research

Graduate Student Colloquium: Psychoanalysis and Kafka

March 2, 2019
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture: "Armenian Genocide: Legacies of Denial"

February 20, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Ilinca Iurascu presents in Early Modern Research Cluster

February 15, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Leif Weatherby on "The Metaphysics of Data Capital"

February 5, 2019
Announcements

Tatort Abend: "Amour Fou" with Team Berlin

February 1, 2019
Announcements

New Position: 2-year Assistant Professor Without Review in German Language and Literature

February 1, 2019
Announcements

Elder Scholar: Our Strange Relationship with Fiction - From Classical Antiquity to Evolutionary Psychology

January 30, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Florian Gassner featured on Global News: Ukraine Orthodox Church moves towards Independence

December 17, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Florian Gassner featured on CTV News Vancouver: War in Eastern Ukraine

December 13, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Uma Kumar featured in Yad Vashem's Year in Review

December 4, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Bozena Karwowska delivers talk at Jagiellonian University

November 26, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Bowers publishes Dostoevskii Companion

November 24, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Bozena Karwowska publishes book chapter - Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture Since 1918

November 22, 2018
Announcements

New Term 2 course - GERM 403B

November 16, 2018
Announcements

Term 2 course: RUSS 323A

November 8, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Bowers delivers talk on Dostoevsky (UVic)

November 8, 2018
Announcements

Term 2 course: GERM 426

November 8, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Malakaj receives Hampton Fund Research Award for New Faculty

October 31, 2018
Announcements

Subscribe to our events list

October 16, 2018
Announcements

2018 DAAD Fortbildungsseminar UBC call for participants

September 18, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Malakaj featured among new Arts faculty

August 29, 2018
Announcements

Dostoevsky at 200 – Workshop

August 15, 2018
Announcements

In memoriam: Dr. Leslie Miller (1929-2018)

July 23, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Katherine Bowers publishes piece on Open Access

July 12, 2018
Announcements

CENES welcomes Dr. Ervin Malakaj as new Assistant Professor

July 1, 2018
Announcements

New Translation by Dr Ilinca Iurascu

June 19, 2018
Announcements

Alumna Kalie Stieda wins CAUTG Thesis Prize

May 29, 2018
Publications

The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

May 14, 2018
Publications

Gender and Sexuality in East German Film

May 14, 2018
Announcements

Frackman publishes new co-edited book

May 11, 2018
Announcements

Coming this Fall: German Book Club

April 26, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Bowers gives talks in Ohio and Illinois

April 23, 2018
Announcements

Prof. Winthrop-Young presents at Princeton, Rutgers and Michigan University

April 13, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Frackman presents on Canvas

April 12, 2018
Announcements

Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

March 16, 2018
Announcements

International Scholarship for GERM 411 student

February 7, 2018
Announcements

CENES - Two-Year Lecturer position in German

February 1, 2018
Announcements

New Article by Dr. Frackman in "Journal of Homosexuality"

January 21, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Iurascu publishes article in "Seminar"

January 21, 2018
Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Kyle Frackman on his SSHRC Insight Grant!

December 8, 2017
Announcements

Publication by Katherine Bowers- Information and Empire Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850

December 1, 2017
Announcements

UBC Global Seminar GERM 515: Klassik-Kolleg in Weimar, Germany, June 2018

November 22, 2017
Announcements

Queering German Studies - Lecture Series

November 10, 2017
Announcements

Undergraduate Scholarship for Exchange Studies: Sweden

November 8, 2017
Announcements

Assistant Professor - Germanic Studies / German Literature and Culture

August 2, 2017
Announcements

Broadcast featuring Dr. Florian Gassner

August 2, 2017
Announcements

Dr Frackman elected to CAUTG Board

June 5, 2017
Announcements

The Parthenon of Books Project

May 17, 2017
Announcements

BRITISH COLUMBIA THROUGH ARRIVING EYES

May 10, 2017
Announcements

Dr Frackman and Dr Iurascu to give pre-show talk before Max Raabe concert

March 27, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Thomas Salumets nominated for an Estonian Cultural Endowment Award in Literature

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Ziegler Lecture Series for Term 2

February 17, 2017
Announcements

Call for Papers: CENES Undergraduate Research Conference - deadline extended

February 15, 2017
Announcements

Congratulations to Scandinavian program undergraduate Aleea Dahinden

January 23, 2017
Announcements

"Witnessing Auschwitz" students made impressive presentation to ARA

January 23, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Bożena Karwowska organizes conference on Polish Literature from 1944-48

November 30, 2016
Announcements

Congratulations to CENES grad student, Laura Isakov!

November 23, 2016
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CENES Undergrad Olivia Chorny featured on Cambridge University Library blog

November 8, 2016
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Congratulations to German undergrad Marie Urdiga!

November 2, 2016
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CENES prof and Dostoevsky featured in Arts Spotlight

October 20, 2016
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New Scandinavian Undergraduate Scholarship

October 19, 2016
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Call for Papers for Graduate Student Conference

October 18, 2016
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CENES students write Dostoevsky library exhibit

October 10, 2016
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CENES Professor interviewed about her life and legacy promoting Czech literature

September 28, 2016
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"Magical objects in Fantasy" CENES grad student Stephanie Dreier publishes chapter in book on Fantasy Literature

September 27, 2016
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Ziegler Lecture Series for Term 1

September 11, 2016
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Dr. Bozena Karwowska publishes new book

September 9, 2016
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Series 2016-2017

August 19, 2016
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Dr. Katherine Bowers celebrates Crime & Punishment

July 13, 2016
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Slavic Faculty and CENES PhD candidate travel to Poland

June 9, 2016
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Dr. Ilinca Iurascu to give public lecture at VISR

May 16, 2016
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Prof. Em. Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz wins Jiří Theiner Award!

May 5, 2016
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Dr. Olga Rosenblum visits UBC

April 2, 2016
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CENES Instructors Recognized by Dean of Arts

March 23, 2016
Publications

An Other Kind of Home: Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film.

February 23, 2016
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Lecturer position in German (limited-term) posting

February 23, 2016
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CENES language coordinators inaugurate UBC network

February 10, 2016
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Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunity: German Studies

January 26, 2016
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Undergraduate Research Assistant Job Opportunity

January 26, 2016
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In memory of Maria Fürstenwald

January 18, 2016
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Honorary Doctor of Humanities awarded to Professor Thomas Salumets

December 7, 2015
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Five-Year Ph.D Scholarship in Germanic Studies

November 3, 2015
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Roger Chartier's lecture now available online

October 27, 2015
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Frackman speaks at Nerd Nite Vancouver

October 16, 2015
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The Vello Soots Memorial Lecture

September 24, 2015
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German Film Series 2015

September 10, 2015
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Featured Courses 2015W

September 9, 2015
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"Witnessing Auschwitz" Student Conference | Sept 10-11, 2015

September 2, 2015
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Polish British Columbians receive Golden Cross of Merit from Polish Government

August 20, 2015
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2015 CENES Alumni Newsletter Available

August 7, 2015
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Thomas Salumets Awarded Honorary PhD from Tartu University

July 31, 2015
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In Memoriam: Klaus Petersen

July 22, 2015
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Kyle Frackman Co-Directs East German Summer Film Institute

July 7, 2015
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Q&A with Kyle Frackman and Larson Powell: Classical Music & the GDR

June 22, 2015
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Katherine Bowers' Book Published: Russian Writers and the Fin de Siecle

June 16, 2015
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New course materials for German 200 and 210: Denk mal

June 4, 2015
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Learn Danish and German to enhance your Media studies program

May 14, 2015
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Recent Faculty Publications

April 20, 2015
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CENES Hosts #enjoysweden Poster Exhibit

March 27, 2015
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New Publications by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

March 17, 2015
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CENES hosts Lunch and Learn for Students March 18

March 10, 2015
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CENES Faculty Research Featured in UBC cIRcle

March 9, 2015
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Book Launch at the University of Tartu

February 11, 2015
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Forthcoming publication by Katherine Bowers: Russian Writers

February 5, 2015
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Book on Classical Music & GDR Co-edited by Kyle Frackman

January 19, 2015
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Recent Publications by Gaby Pailer

January 15, 2015
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Recent Publication: Essay Collection by Thomas Salumets

January 12, 2015
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Online Interview with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

January 5, 2015
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Lena Karlstrom Awarded Travel Grant from Swedish Institute

December 15, 2014
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Graduate Program in Germanic Studies Now Accepting Applications

November 24, 2014
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@NeinQuarterly Visits UBC on Nov 20

November 13, 2014
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Recent publication by Kyle Frackman

November 10, 2014
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Casting a Long Shadow: Interview about the Berlin Wall with Kyle Frackman

November 6, 2014
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Learning from the Horrors of the Past: UBC News Article about Auschwitz Global Seminar

October 16, 2014
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CENES to Mark 25th Anniversary of Fall of the Berlin Wall

October 15, 2014
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Space available in Term 2 courses

October 9, 2014
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2014 Department Newsletter Available

September 12, 2014
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Recent faculty publications: Ilinca Iurascu, Kyle Frackman and Markus Hallensleben

September 11, 2014
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Gela Struch and Lena Karlstrom Among Top 5% of Instructors in Arts

September 9, 2014
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Guest Lectures: CENS 303-Representations of the Holocaust

September 8, 2014
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Student Reflections: Auschwitz Group Study Program

September 7, 2014
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Book Launch: Thomas Salumets

August 21, 2014
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Gaby Pailer & Florian Gassner Awarded $200,000 SSHRC Insight Grant

August 19, 2014
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PhD Candidate Tim Hoellering awarded "Best Graduate Paper" by CAUTG

June 2, 2014
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UBC Faculty vs. UBC Women's Soccer: A Charity Event

April 3, 2014
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Ukraine in Crisis - BARtalk with UBC Professors

March 12, 2014
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Response from Slavic Faculty Members to Violence in Ukraine

February 19, 2014
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In Memoriam: Michael S. Batts

January 23, 2014
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Confident Competence

January 17, 2014
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Diverse Languages

January 16, 2014
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Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approach

January 15, 2014
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Award-winning Instructors

January 14, 2014
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Thriving Student Community

January 13, 2014
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Graduate applications accepted

November 7, 2013
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Winthrop-Young and Iuraşcu Co-Edit Journal Special Issue

October 19, 2013
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Winthrop-Young on Australian Radio

August 28, 2013
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Gender, Nation and Education

August 15, 2013
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Symposium: Gender, Nation and Education

August 15, 2013
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