Join us on Zoom January 27th at 10 AM for the first talk in our CES Spring 2026 Speaker Series! The Speaker Series features scholars from around the world who specialize in topics related to Europe and the languages spoken there. Register here: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Does anyone know who the translator is of Dalkey Archive's edition of "The Snake Skin" by Robakidze? It's out of print and I can't find a pdf of the copyright page anywhere.

We are happy to share this conference opportunity from our partners at the UIUC's Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia! Please see the post below for more details on submitting proposals. tinyurl.com/r39jekww

Save the date for these upcoming CES Spring 2026 Speaker Series events! CES is excited to announce Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel, Dr. Ellen Marie Jensen, and Dr. Hans Kundnani as this year's presenters. #ubc #speakerseries #europeanstudies

So excited for this reading group that Fiona Bell is organizing!

Got 5 minutes? Fire up your rageful typing fingers and write a comment on the government's efforts to ban trans healthcare for kids. Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

UVA Library’s new fundraiser asks folks to donate $20 to cover the library fee Edgar Allan Poe left at the university 1. For a fundraising campaign this is very clever 2. Every year the Dean of the library should symbolically forgive Poe’s fee in a ceremony like the Thanksgiving turkey pardon

‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830. #printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks

Here from the same fabulous series by George Spratt is "The Connoisseur." (I like this art-lover's monocle and also the smaller picture that she's carrying as a reticule, the strap around her wrist.)

Former CES Student Fellow Selin Berktas is leading a student-led seminar titled: “Postcolonial Considerations of Literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia.” Find out more on our website. #ubc #europeanstudies

#CFP: The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites nominations for our biennial undergraduate and graduate essay competitions! Send us your papers/nominations! Submissions are welcome on a rolling basis until June 22, 2026. bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/12/02/c...

Watching #PanArcticVision 2025 broadcast yesterday live from Iqaluit with @quinnanya.me, intrepid song contest comrade extraordinaire ❄️ 🎶 such a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

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Look what I just got! Thank you, @ankahajkova.bsky.social! Excited to read!

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures: Nottingham · Change.org Leicester · Change.org #edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

I've just signed this petition to save modern languages at the University of Nottingham: c.org/WjsgXNLstG

Join us November 17th, 2:30-4 pm for "Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History" by Dr. Itamar Manoff! This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Jewish Faculty Network and funded by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office StEAR Grant.

UBC’s department of Computer Science invites applications for up to 2 full-time tenure-track positions. The department is particularly interested in researchers in: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/about/careers

John's game is on sale! If you want to have more twine-powered text-based space exploration in your life, definitely check it out! 🚀 🪐 👾

And yes we need things like translations of German classics by people who have Black studies in mind, so yes, we do need new translations One translation is never definitively sufficient

UBC friends, the Centre for European Studies is opening its student research fellow competition again this year. Undergraduates and graduates are welcome to apply! Please share with your students who are working on any topic related to Europe! See below!

Friends, if you're interested in thinking about time machines and media at this event, but not in the Vancouver area, you can join via Zoom also! The link for registration (or to rsvp for in person if you are at UBC) is here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...

Woohoo!

Excited to host this talk by Tatiana Filimonova next week in the Centre for European Studies about the creation of this anthology of Siberian Indigenous writing! This one is only in person, so join us there, UBC people! Oct 16, 3pm, details below.

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped: "which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review) Thank you for your suggestions!

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Excited about this talk next week also! 🥕 🥦 🥬 📖 This one is in person or online on Thurs, Oct 9 at 12:45pm Pacific - join us!

On Oct 14 @ 12:30pm Pacific @chloespumpkins.bsky.social is giving a Sawchen Lecture! It's about how #19thC artistic production evaluates and represents history (using the example of Koz'ma Minin). It's virtual! All are welcome, and you can learn more & register here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

U of T is hiring a Slavic Comparativist with a preferred focus on media and/or digital studies!

The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award. This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the cost of attending the 2025 @aseees.bsky.social Convention. The deadline is September 29. bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/18/c...

Since so many people in my timeline seem to be considering deleting academia.edu, here's a thing I wrote ages ago that is still mostly up to date info about good ways to share your academic work green open access: blog.seej.org/index.php/20...

In excellent news, this beauty arrived at my office today! So happy to see it making its way around the world to our truly global author list. And especially happy to finally hold the finished (and weighty!) volume in my own hands!

“As scholars of literature, we have something desperately important to teach our students: what and how we read matters.” Today on the blog, Vadim Shneyder sits down with Melissa Frazier to discuss #Dostoevsky, #science, and the power of #language: bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/15/a...

so thrilled to have been included in this book -- many thanks to @katiabowers.bsky.social and Margarita Vaysman for everything. My chapter is "Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade."

Loved working on this chapter! It’s on trans realism in games, drawing a lot of inspiration from @caelkeegan.bsky.social’s and micha cárdenas’ works. Excited to see it out, and thanks to fantastic editors Katherine and Margarita!

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

This news came out a bit ago, but it's still exciting! @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social and I and a bunch of other scholars are going to be working on this Erasmus+ project in the Centre for European Studies this year: www.arts.ubc.ca/news/beyond-... @ces.ubc.ca

CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Dr. Alexis Lerner presents her book Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States, the culmination of a decade of fieldwork across the post-Soviet and post-Communist European regions. Join us in the Buchanan C Penthouse or over Zoom on 9/15 at noon! Free lunch included!

Please note that the deadline for proposals has been extended until September 15! #cfp #buenosaires #dostoevsky

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!