The new Slavic and Eastern European Studies (SEES) Minor invites students to tackle big, global questions—like how different cultures coexist and how art and politics intersect—through an interdisciplinary lens. www.arts.ubc.ca/news/sees-mi...

In January 2026, Professor David Gramling took over the editorship of the De Gruyter book series Trends in Applied Linguistics, which was until recently led by his mentor Claire Kramsch and her colleague Ulrike Jessner. cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-gram...

Drs. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland co-authored an article on “A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing”. @katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-bowe...

Dr. Markus Hallensleben is set to begin building a decolonial Wolfgang Paalen online archive and digital edition through Text Encoding Consortium (TEI). cenes.ubc.ca/news/new-dig...

Lukas Baumann (University of Klagenfurt) will be joining the department as a newly accepted Visiting International Research Student (VIRS) for Winter 2025-26 Term 2. cenes.ubc.ca/news/cenes-w...

Traveling north alongside six Indigenous comic artists and three Indigenous game designers, Drs. Nijdam and Frandy are bringing their “Visual Storytelling in the Indigenous North” project to the 2026 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) to document and create AWG-inspired artworks. cenes.ubc.ca/news/cenes-f...

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!

Join CES as Dr. Mhishi examines how Europe contends with how it will be constituted in the future, a recurring challenge has been how Europe engages, in this instance particularly in relation to Africa, in processes of reparation in the aftermath of colonial histories that shape the present.

This month Dr. Braxton Boyer joined CENES as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the “Computational Dostoevsky” project! Read more here: cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-brax... @katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social

Join us for "We are fighting for our very existence!" by Dr. Ellen Marie Jensen! This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES). This event will be held on February 2nd at 4PM both in-person in BuTo 225 and over Zoom.

Save the dates for upcoming research colloquia! CES is excited to have affiliate faculty currently working on issues related to Europe and the languages spoken there present this year. #europeanstudies #ubc

Join CES as Dr. Savage examines the coloniality of gardening in 20th century Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), through representations in contemporary cultural production, as part of our 2026 Spring Colloquia. #europeanstudies #ubc

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

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

Read the @ubyssey.ca article on UBC’s first symposium on Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference and the Monolingual University (LLIMU). LLIMU is a research project co-investigated by Dr. David Gramling and Dr. Ervin Malakaj from CENES. Read the highlights below. ubyssey.ca/research/lli...

"Give Alms to the Jewish King Lear: Eldercare in Yiddish Literature" Join the Peretz Centre on January 25 for an online lecture with Dr. Gabriella Safran. More info here: www.peretz-centre.org/event-detail...

🎓⭐Congratulations to our Germanic Studies PhD and MA students who completed their programs⭐🎓 The CENES Department is thrilled to share their accomplishments, and recognize their hard work. cenes.ubc.ca/news/cenes-m...

UBC CENES, FHIS, and Asian Studies are excited to collaborate on a careers workshop for our students! Check out our event "From Classroom to Career: Speaking Success with Language Learning". More details in the link below. fhis.ubc.ca/events/event... @arts.ubc.ca @ubc-fhis.bsky.social @asia.ubc.ca

Meet CENES' new Swedish Lecture Dr. Karin Filipsson! cenes.ubc.ca/profile/kari...

Join us for an online lecture by Prof. Lori Emerson (@loriemerson.net) on "How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks" in our Ziegler Lecture Series hosted by UBC's @ubc-cenes.bsky.social. Registration info here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

📚 New from Prof. Gaoheng Zhang: 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢𝘴 offers a fresh framework for understanding how China–Italy culinary exchanges blur cultural boundaries and shape identities, consumer cultures, and connections in a globalized world. 🔗 fordhampress.com/italian-dump...

This talk will present "Reindeer Caravan: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from Siberia" – a book that is currently being prepared for publication with Amherst College Press. Learn more on our website: ces.ubc.ca/events/event... *Co-sponsored by @ubcenglish.bsky.social & @ubc-cenes.bsky.social

In a world where memes, movie blockbusters and graphic novels shape cultural consciousness, the Pop Culture Cluster at UBC is led by Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, the research cluster breaks down barriers between the classroom and the wider world. thelasource.com/cover-story/...

With co-editor Dr Margarita Vaysman (Oxford), Dr Katherine Bowers has published The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms with Oxford University Press. The book includes 40 chapters and an introduction. @katiabowers.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-bowe...

Dr. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) have received a SSHRC Insight Grant for the project “Computational Dostoevsky.” This funding will support the project through 2029. @katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-bowe...

From October 23 to October 29, the Vancouver Cinematheque will show two classic Ukrainian films in a small series with the title: “Ukrainian Poetic Cinema: Rebuilding National Identity.” cenes.ubc.ca/news/october...

The Winter 2025-2026 program for the annual CENES Sawchen and Ziegler Lecture Series is now available! This year's theme is 'networks'. Check out our programming below. @arts.ubc.ca cenes.ubc.ca/news/full-pr...

Congratulations to the three CENES projects that were successful in the 2024-25 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) cycle! @arts.ubc.ca @katiabowers.bsky.social @linguacene.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/news/cenes-f...

CENES invites you to celebrate the launch of Literature in Late Monolingualism (Bloomsbury), the latest book by Dr. David Gramling (UBC CENES). This is a hybrid event, to attend online, please visit the link below. @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social @linguacene.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

Everyone needs to have fun at least some of the time and the people we call Vikings were no exception. CENES, @ces.ubc.ca, UBC Pop Culture Cluster and the UBC SNSA student group to host a Viking Games Night with Dr. Erin McGuire on October 8th. @uvicanthro.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

Together with Dr. Kate Holland, Dr. Katherine Bowers has published an article called “The Failure of Form: Reading Liminality Computationally in Dostoevskii’s The Double” in the most recent issue of Slavic Review. @katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-bowe...

UBC Grad students! We are looking for a Graduate Academic Assistant to work on the ”Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University” Project. For further details and eligibility criteria, please submit applications by 4:00pm PT on June 19: cenes.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

Calling all UBC CENES Alumni! Time to get ready for UBC’s 2nd annual Humanities Alumni Spring Mixer! Get your ticket and join CENES on Tuesday, May 6 from 6–8 PM at Earls Yaletown for an evening of conversations and connections with Arts alumni and faculty. @arts.ubc.ca cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies is now accepting applications for a Lecturer in Swedish Language and Nordic Studies with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025! Applications are due Mary 5, 2025 by 4:00pm PT: cenes.ubc.ca/about/job-op...

We are excited to announce our fourth and final 2025 CES Spring Colloquia Series! Dr. Matthew Tomkinson, postdoctoral fellow in @ubc-cenes.bsky.social will give a lecture titled "Adapting Schreber: From Memoir to Multimedia and Beyond." Happening April 3rd at 12:30PM at BUTO 997 and Zoom!

Our Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @jonahgarde.bsky.social is speaking next week in the @ces.ubc.ca Colloquia! Come join us and learn about their exciting research! The event is hybrid - see details below.

In ‘Collective Praxis, Collaborative Publishing: The Case of the Data-Sitters Club’ @readywriting.bsky.social @katiabowers.bsky.social, Maria Sachiko Cecire, @quinnanya.me, Anouk Lang & @roopikarisam.bsky.social discuss their DH collaboration, its challenges & benefits doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [14/n]

We at @jepub.bsky.social are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our new special issue, On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (editor: @katinalynn.bsky.social)! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/33... [1/n]

📣 Call for Proposals: CMS and UBC Okanagan invite proposals from academic affiliates for the 2025 CMS Research Conference on May 1-2. Theme: “Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes.” Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/call-fo... #migrationconference #researchconference

Join CENES for Careers Night with alumni from German, Nordic, Slavic & Modern European Studies programs! Hear their stories, ask questions, and network over refreshments. Jan 22, 5:30–7:30 PM, Peña Room, Irving K. Barber Centre. RSVP here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Or drop by!

🎉 First-Year Event Alert! 🎉 Explore languages & cultures at the Vanier Outreach Event! 🌍 📅 Jan 15, 5 PM 📍 Place Vanier Ballroom ✨ Highlights: - 15-min language mini-classes - Discover CENES courses - Food & networking Join us for an exciting evening! 🙌 #UBC #CENES #FirstYear

The UBC Centre for European Studies is thrilled to announce the 2025 CES Spring Colloquium Series is Dr. Babak Amini's lecture: “The First World War and the Prospects of General Social Theory.” Join us as we delve into how WWI shaped social theory in America! #UBC #europeanstudies