From climate and energy policy to language and accent bias, UBC Arts scholars offered their expertise to inform many media stories in May. 🌱🗣️ @ubc-cenes.bsky.social @ubcenglish.bsky.social @ubc-fhis.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @psych.ubc.ca @sppga.ubc.ca @ubcvse.bsky.social Read more ⬇️

Arts in the Media: May 2026 - Faculty of Arts

This May, UBC Arts faculty were featured in outlets including CBC, The Globe and Mail, and The Conversation, sharing expertise on climate and energy policy, AI and digital sovereignty, political affai...

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From a 300-year linguistic cover-up in Austria to exploring internet memes, discover new books by Arts faculty for your summer reading list 📚☀️ @ubc-cenes.bsky.social @sppga.ubc.ca @ubcenglish.bsky.social @ubccrwr.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ubc-fhis.bsky.social @ubcmusic.bsky.social

New books by Arts faculty for your 2026 reading list - Faculty of Arts

UBC Arts scholars have published books this year covering a fascinating range of topics — from a 300-year linguistic cover-up in Austria to a rescue dog, the cognitive science of internet memes, and a...

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

Dr. Frackman gives two talks on East German queer media at University of Chicago - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

The University of Chicago hosted two talks by Dr. Kyle Frackman on East German media on May 7 and 8, 2026.

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

Shoshana Schwebel completes Ph.D. with thesis on the works of Emmy Hennings - Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

Shoshana Schwebel successfully defended her thesis and completed her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies this sping.

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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...

Arts recipients awarded for teaching excellence in 2025/2026 - Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology (Arts ISIT)

The awards celebrate remarkable contributions to teaching and learning across UBC.

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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. 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...

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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. 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.

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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...

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.

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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. 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