NEAR-EU: The Europeanization of Higher Education

NEAR-EU: The Europeanization of Higher Education

UBC Researchers Prof. Kurt Huebner (Director of Research) Dr. Conrad King (PI) Research Assistants Jana Cleve (March – June 2017) Lindsey Wong (April – May 2017) Funding Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (80%) Co-financing by partner institutions (20%) Sept 2016 – Sept 2019, €373,415 Project Summary Near-EU is a project to establish a Nexus […]

The Ethics of Immigrant Admission

Project Name The Ethics of Immigrant Admission: Race, Gender, Class and Disability in Immigrant-receiving Democracies Researchers Antje Ellermann (PI) Research Assistants Madeleine Page Camille Desmares Klaudia Wegschaider Agustín Goenaga Salta Zumatova Alberto Alcaraz Funding Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant #435-2013-1065 Project Summary How do democratic societies select their prospective […]

Cartografias in/justas: representaciones culturales del espacio urbano y rural en la España contemporánea ed. by Dr. Monica Lopez Lerma

Cartografias in/justas: representaciones culturales del espacio urbano y rural en la España contemporánea ed. by Dr. Monica Lopez Lerma

Cartografias in/justas: representaciones culturales del espacio urbano y rural en la España contemporánea, edited by Dr. Monica Lopez Lerma, was published by Comares Editorial on May 15, 2024. ¿Cómo se relaciona el espacio con la (in)justicia en la España contemporánea? ¿Cuáles son los límites y posibilidades de esta relación en la era del Antropoceno? Los capítulos de […]

Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Colette H. Winn ed. by Dr. Nancy Frelick and Dr. Edith Benkov

Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Colette H. Winn ed. by Dr. Nancy Frelick and Dr. Edith Benkov

A collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the field. This edited volume was published by Iter Press in February 2024. Subject/Object and Beyond brings together essays by established and emerging scholars to honor the exceptionally rich contributions and career of scholar Colette H. Winn. It also celebrates […]

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 23(2) ed. by Dr. Ross King

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 23(2) ed. by Dr. Ross King

Dr. Ross King recently edited a special issue of Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies entitled “Inter- and Intralingual Translation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis.” This special issue was published November 15, 2023. 

The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot by Dr. Sima Godfrey

The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot by Dr. Sima Godfrey

Sima Godfrey is an associate professor emerita of French at the University of British Columbia. Her book, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot, was published in September 2023 by the University of Toronto Press. The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use […]

The Interwar World ed. by Dr. Andrew Denning and Dr. Heidi J.S. Tworek

The Interwar World ed. by Dr. Andrew Denning and Dr. Heidi J.S. Tworek

Dr. Andrew Denning and Dr. Heidi J.S. Tworek‘s edited volume The Interwar World was published August 29, 2023 by Routledge. The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches […]

Anders als die Andern by Dr. Ervin Malakaj

Anders als die Andern by Dr. Ervin Malakaj

Dr. Ervin Malakaj‘s book Anders als die Andern was published on August 1, 2023 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters celebrated the film’s moving storyline, while conservative detractors succeeded in prohibiting public screenings. Banned and partially destroyed after the rise […]

Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective ed. by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar et al.

Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective ed. by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar et al.

This special edition of Catalan Review was edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, Ignasi Gozalo and Núria Silleras and was published by Liverpool University Press on July 26, 2023. Read Volume 37, Issue 1, “Presents and Futures of Catalan Studies: A North American Perspective”.