Announcements

CES to host Affiliate Get-Together October 9th!

Looking to connect with other CES Affiliates, Faculty, and Staff? Come discuss all things European Studies at Koerner’s Pub on Thursday, October 9th from 4:30-6! You can network while enjoying our taco bar, drinks, and excellent company.

Vegan and gluten-free options will be available. See you all there!

Please RSVP here so that we can make sure we order the right amount of food!

Welcome back to campus!

Wishing all our affiliates, faculty and students a great start to the 2024-2025 academic year! We have some exciting programming coming up this year, and we can’t wait to see you all there. You can check out some of our upcoming events here. We also want to help celebrate your recent accomplishments. Completed a big […]

2024 Speaker Series Recordings Available Now!

Recordings of our 2024 Speaker Series: Fortress Europe are available on our Event Recordings page now! Lectures include “Indigenous energy diplomacy in the Arctic: Probing the complexity with cases in Sámpi and the Inuvialuit region” by Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen, “Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace” by Dr. Aida A. Hozić, and “Language tests as border work” by Dr. Kamran Khan. Be sure to check out these illuminating talks co-sponsored by UBC Centre for Migration Studies!

Dr. Ben Miller to Give Inaugural Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies

Historian, author, and host of hit podcast Bad Gays, Dr. Ben Miller will give the inaugural lecture in the Centre for European Studies’ new Tobin Distinguished Lectures in Queer and Trans German Studies on September 13th @12-1:30, BuTo 225. To learn more about his talk, entitled “In Search of Lost Time: Primitivist Homomythopoetics and the Self-Invention of the White Gay Man,” check out the event details here!

Check out our new Affiliate Bookshelf!

Looking for some intellectually stimulating summer reading? Our brand new Affiliate Bookshelf page on our website features CES Affiliate Faculty’s books, special-edition journals, and edited volumes!

Want to contribute your work to the shelf? Submit the details of your publication here!

New Summer Hours

The Centre for European Studies has officially switched to our summer schedule. Our new hours of operation are: Monday 10:30 AM-5 PM Wednesday 10 AM-5 PM Friday 10 AM-5 PM If you need to reach our office, you can contact our Senior Program Assistant Charli Brown at ces.assistant@ubc.ca. We do our best to reply to […]

Our Spring 2024 Newsletter is LIVE!

As we wrap up another successful Winter Term, our team here at the UBC Centre for European Studies extends our thanks for a fun-filled year and our well wishes for the summer! Looking back at this year’s programming, we have had so many exciting moments of growth, and these were made possible by all of […]

Welcome CES Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows!

The Centre for European Studies is excited to welcome our first cohort of undergraduate and graduate student fellows! Alicia Barker-Astrom, and Sriharsha Madireddy are the undergraduate fellows. Byron Clark, Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon, Lance Pederson,  Psyfun Mustary, Ryan Sun,  Simen Hennum, and Susanna Cassisa are the graduate fellows. Our student fellows come from an array of scholarly […]

CES Welcome Back Get-Together!

Join us for the CES Welcome Back Get-Together! On Thursday, January 25th from 5-7 PM, affiliates, fellows, and associates of CES are invited to drop by Buchanan Tower rooms 910 and 997 for coffee, Cartems Donuts, card games, and tarot readings from the Centre’s director, Dr. Ervin Malakaj. We can’t wait to see you there! […]

Introducing Two New CES Team Members!

The Centre for European Studies is excited to welcome two new staff members to our team! Charli Brown (she/her) is taking on the role of Senior Program Assistant. In this role, she’ll be handling the Centre’s event planning, day-to-day admin, and general communications. Charli graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from Washington & […]