Early this May, Dr. Frackman gives two talks on East German queer media at University of Chicago. cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-frac...

Congratulations to Shoshana Schwebel, who completed her Ph.D. thesis on the works of Emmy Hennings! cenes.ubc.ca/news/shoshan...

Congratulations to Alexander Suyanto (UBC CENES MA) who presented his paper “Multilingual Trajectories: Learner Investment in German as an Additional Language" at the German Studies Canada conference this week, and received the Award for Best Graduate Student Paper!

In the second episode of our CES podcast, Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel examines the history of the European Union and the political and administrative infrastructure it has established to shape Europe’s economic and political order over the past decades. Tune in at the link in our bio!

🎓✨️Congratulations, Class of 2026✨️🎓 CENES is proud of our graduating Modern European Studies majors. Join us in wishing Ashleigh, Chris, and Theo as they reach this important milestone, and on all future endeavours. Welcome to our CENES alumni community! @arts.ubc.ca @alumniubc.bsky.social

Her Excellency Signe Burgstaller, Sweden’s Ambassador to Canada, visited CENES to discuss the UBC Swedish language program and Nordic minor. Thanks to our CENES faculty for hosting, and to Arts Associate Dean Academic, Prof. Andrew Owen, for joining us! @arts.ubc.ca @canadasweden.bsky.social

The Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES) is looking for undergraduate student colleagues to join the 2026-2027 CENES Undergraduate Student Advisory Council. More info in the link below: cenes.ubc.ca/news/call-fo... @arts.ubc.ca

Congratulations to Dr. Florian Gassner who received a UDL Champions Award from the AMS. The UDL Champions Award recognizes the work of faculty and staff in advocating for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to foster more inclusive, accessible classrooms. www.ams.ubc.ca/what-we-stan...

Message from the CENES Department Head to all of our 2026 Graduating Students 🎓 cenes.ubc.ca/news/message... @arts.ubc.ca

CENES Department Head, Dr. Ervin Malakaj, and Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ) secured a competitive Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters in the amount of $100,000 for a project titled, “Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis.” cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-mala...

Dr. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Heidi Tworek (History, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) have been awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition for their project “Sovereignty in a Fractious Age.” @heiditworek.bsky.social cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-bowe...

Dr. Malakaj publishes chapter on film director Richard Oswald’s collaboration with Anita Berber. cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-mala...

On March 31, CENES celebrated our Faculty of Arts Outstanding Student Leader nominees. Meet Diana, Ikra, Tyler and Ashleigh, who briefly dive into their leadership opportunities and advice they have for fellow and incoming Arts students. @arts.ubc.ca www.arts.ubc.ca/news/recogni...

Join CES for our next colloquium talk, in which Dr. Winthrop-Young examines Nazi propaganda, philosophy, pharmacology and changes to the pension system. The talk will present the increasingly compressed, accelerationist and catastrophist notions of history that made up the “Nazi chronobscene.”

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.