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.
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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.
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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”.
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Dr. Markus Hallensleben is set to begin building a decolonial Wolfgang Paalen online archive and digital edition through Text Encoding Consortium (TEI).
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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The cover of Bradley Gorski's book "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism"
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:
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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Meet CENES' new Swedish Lecture Dr. Karin Filipsson!
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Close-up photo of a green leaf and its veins
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Congratulations to the three CENES projects that were successful in the 2024-25 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) cycle!
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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.
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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...
