This is the next talk in our North American Dostoevsky Society virtual speaker series, with gratitude to Oberlin College for hosting! Register below for the Zoom link and join us to hear Michael's work on April 2!

Drawing upon their individual and collaborative research, Dr. Shneiderman and Dr. Baniya explore how European funding is flowing into Nepal, while young people are flowing out of the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe. Lunch will be served. RSVP on our website!

Excited for this talk coming up on Monday! All welcome

Full respect to Pride and Prejudice but we are clearly in a Northanger Abbey historical moment.

No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist (I wish!!)

Good news! The TEI 2026 Call for Papers deadline has been extended to February 27th! tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html Looking forward to seeing your proposal!

“To link something together is to acknowledge that disparate parts are from the same source, that there is an undeniable connection between them.” How her experience with endometriosis has shaped Ysabelle Cheung’s fiction.

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: [email protected] 🤗🤗🤗

Very excited for this news item! And for Braxton's arrival at UBC! 🎉

The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.

Looking forward to this talk later today!

From this, it is super clear who is running the show in Demons pt 3! We are excited to see how these graphs show the changes in Dostoevsky's novel's social structures over time. More adventures in network graphing with @fyodor76.bsky.social #digitaldostoevsky

This talk kicks off our 2026 thematic speaker series on “Infrastructure and Power” - join us tomorrow online to hear Kiran Klaus Patel share his research. All welcome! Registration link below

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites #applications for a special Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award to support travel to the XIX International #Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires. More information can be found on Bloggers K: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/21/c...

Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")

I finally received this Chekhov volume in the mail today! I have a translation in it, among a lot of others, ranging from prominent Chekhov scholars to undergrad students. Excited it's finally out in the world! www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887198095/

I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...

This afternoon's task: finishing the proofs for my chapter in this exciting book! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Next week, on Jan 20, @bgorski.bsky.social is giving a #Sawchen Lecture at UBC on "Networking Cultural Markets: Capitalism and Literature in Post-Soviet Russia." All are welcome! Details and registration for the Zoom at this link: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event... @ubc-cenes.bsky.social

Vancouver people: The Vancouver School Board is planning to introduce generative AI into classrooms, here's a petition to ask them not to. actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

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!

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!