Message from the CENES Department Head to all of our 2026 Graduating Students 🎓
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Dr. Malakaj and Dr. Puar awarded GCRC funding for “Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis” - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Dr. Ervin Malakaj (CENES) and Dr. Jasbir Puar (GRSJ) have been awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters competition by the Vice President for Research & Innovation for thei...

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.”
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Dr. Bowers awarded GCRC funding for "Sovereignty in a Fractious Age" - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Dr. Katherine Bowers (CENES) and Dr. Heidi Tworek (History and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) were awarded $100,000 in the 2026 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters.

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
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Dr. Malakaj publishes chapter on film director Richard Oswald’s collaboration with Anita Berber.
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Recognizing Graduating Student Leaders in the Class of 2026 - Faculty of Arts Recognized for their impact in Arts, at UBC, and beyond, these students are also sharing heartfelt wishes for this year’s graduating class.

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
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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.
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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!

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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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LLIMU symposium explores barriers to language and multilingualism in universities and beyond UBC’s first symposium on Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference and the Monolingual University (LLIMU) took place this fall as part of the Faculty of Arts’ Multilingual Week.

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 | Peretz Centre In the final talk of the 2025 Zhargon Speaker Series, Dr. Gabriella Safran explores how Jewish migrants around the turn of the 20th century used literature, plays, and songs to work through questions ...

"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.

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🎓⭐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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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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