Events Archive - Centre for European Studies

Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

January 8, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

January 15, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

January 22, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

January 29, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

February 5, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

February 12, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

December 18, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

CES Affiliate End of Term Get Together

December 11, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

CENES Lounge

Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

December 11, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

December 4, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

November 27, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

November 20, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Co-sponsored Event, Conference

FHIS Graduate Student Conference 2025

November 20, 2025 | 9:00 AM - November 21, 2025 | 5:00 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History

November 17, 2025 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

November 13, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Visiting Scholar Talk

Technology on the Margins of Europe and other Not-Quite-West | Dr. Alessandro Mongili

November 13, 2025 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Critical Thinkers Series: Clément Lagouarde

November 7, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

MATH 203

Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

November 6, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Visiting Scholar Talk

Sawchen Lecture: Kamil Karczewski, “Lesbian Utopias and Polish Nationalism, 1840–1940.”

November 5, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Colloquium Series

BOOK TALK | Gaoheng Zhang in Conversation with Sima Godfrey on Italian Fashion in China: Transculturality and Cultural Appropriation

November 4, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Community Gathering

Postdoc and Graduate Writing Community Drop-in Sessions

October 30, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Visiting Scholar Talk

Climate Governance in Kazakhstan: Policies, Challenges, and Corporate Responses | Dr. Renata Faizova

October 27, 2025 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Czech Comics: Heartcore

October 27, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Peña Room

Co-sponsored Event

The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024): A screening and discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic women’s strike

October 24, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Norm Theatre

UBCCECIS

Jean Monnet Center for Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies Workshop 2

October 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Buchanan Penthouse

Co-sponsored Event

Romani Literary History and the Role of Comics and Graphic Narratives

October 23, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Urban Seasonalities: Time, Culture, & the Environment in Summer Resorts & Winter Cities around 1900 & Today | Dr. Dorothee Brantz

October 21, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Book Talk | Reindeer Caravan: Indigenous Writing from Siberia | Dr. Tatiana Filimonova

October 16, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Book Talk: David Gramling’s “Literature in Late Monolingualism”

October 15, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Co-sponsored Event, Conference

UBC Time Machine Symposium

October 15, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dodson Room, IKBLC

Colloquium Series

BOOK TALK | Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance by Dr. Vin Nardizzi

October 9, 2025 | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Viking Games Night with Dr. Erin McGuire

October 8, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Co-sponsored Event, Visiting Scholar Talk

What is a Time Machine? What is it for? From Dark, Coil and Black Quantum Futurism to La Dispute’s ‘King Park’

October 3, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

MATH 203

Co-sponsored Event

Film Screening of Intercepted + Director Q&A

September 29, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Normand Bouchard Memorial Theatre

Colloquium Series

Adapting Schreber: From Memoir to Multimedia and Beyond

September 29, 2025 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Soviet Cinema as Seen from Central Asia

September 26, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

MATH 203

Co-sponsored Event

BOOK RELEASE | Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States by Dr. Alexis Lerner

September 15, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Buchanan C Penthouse

Tobin Distinguished Lecture Series

Tobin Distinguished Lecture: Andrea Rottmann "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship Through Hilde Radusch’s Five Lives"

September 12, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Community Gathering

CES Affiliate Gathering @ Koerner's Pub

September 10, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Koerner's Pub

Book Club

Summer CES Book Club

August 25, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Zoom

Book Club

Summer CES Book Club

July 25, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Zoom

Student Fellow Showcase

2025 CES Student Research Fellows Showcase!

April 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Colloquium Series

CES Spring Colloquium: Adapting Schreber: From Memoir to Multimedia and Beyond by Dr. Matthew Tomkinson

April 3, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Co-sponsored Event, Visiting Scholar Talk

DeepStateMap: Mapping the Synthetic Battlefield of Ukraine by Dr. Svitlana Matviyenko

March 13, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Dodson Room, IKBLC

Colloquium Series

2025 CES Research Colloquium: “Fantasies of Eldorado: Germany’s Mythical Place in the Trans* Historical Imaginary” by Dr. Jonah I Garde

March 11, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Visiting Scholar Talk

Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Transformation: Nation-Building, Identity Formation, and Foreign Policy Evolution

February 27, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Colloquium Series

CES 2025 Research Colloquium: Dr. Georgios Makris, “Modest Luxury: Jewelry and Meaning in Byzantium and the Wider Eurasian Context”

February 13, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Colloquium Series

CES 2025 Research Colloquium: Dr. Babak Amini, “The First World War and the Prospects of General Social Theory”

January 15, 2025 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

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Colloquium Series

CES 2024 Research Colloquium: Dr. Terri Givens, From the Radical Right to Radical Empathy – Positionality in Research on Europe

December 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Colloquium Series

CES 2024 Research Colloquium: Dr. Katharina Piechocki, Erudite Eruptions: The Colonial Philology of Volcanic Matters between Europe, Central and South America (14th to 17th Centuries)

November 20, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Katie Gee Salisbury Talk and Q&A on her book, Not Your China Doll (2024)

October 3, 2024 | 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

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“Translation, Multilingualism, Poetics: Language Work in Muslim and Jewish Diasporas”

September 19, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tobin Distinguished Lecture Series

In Search of Lost Time: Primitivist Homomythopoetics and the Self-Invention of the White Gay Man - a Tobin Distinguished Lecture

September 13, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada

September 11, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Film Screening Of Under Blue Skies (Suot tschel blau, 2020) & Discussion with Ivo Zen

March 27, 2024 | 7:00 PM - March 27, 2025 | 9:00 PM

How to Survive Grad School With Your Soul (Mostly) Intact

March 22, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Visiting Scholar Talk

Towards an Archive of Unwellness and Care

March 21, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our Ableist Syllabi: Toward an Access-and Care-Centered Classroom, or, Reading Our Syllabi for Filth

March 20, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

CES Speaker Series: “Indigenous Energy Diplomacy in the Arctic: Probing the Complexity with Cases in Sápmi and the Inuvialuit Region,” Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen

March 20, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Tarot for the Apocalypse: Engaging Unwellness through Critical Arts Praxis

March 19, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Our Students Are Dying: Touring the University Abyss

March 18, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace, Dr. Aida Hozić

March 13, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Zoom

“Franz Stoedtner’s Institute for Scientific Projection and the Remediation of Archive Dust” by Ilinca Iurascu

March 1, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Speaker Series

Language Test as Border Work, Dr. Kamran Khan

February 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Colloquium Series

Origins of the Soviet computer subculture in 1960s Kyiv: Prototype of Personal Computer “MIR” and the Association of Users‘ Cybertonia

December 7, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Buchanan D, Room 324

Speaker Series

“Techniques of Time in Settler Colonial Utopia: Property-Owning Democracy and R.R. Torrens’ Archive” by Ari Finnsson

December 7, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Colloquium Series

“Zap! Why Intuition Matters in Academia”

November 28, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Colloquium Series

“Marseille, Mediterranean Ports, and Migratory Routes to South America, 1892-1932”

November 16, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Ziegler Lecture: Graduate Student Workshop with Erin McGlothlin

November 10, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Ziegler Lecture: Erin McGlothlin, “Between Exile and Holocaust: Fred Wander’s Hôtel Baalbek”

November 9, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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Colloquium Series

“The Hypogée des Dunes, Poitiers: Faith and Science in Nineteenth-Century France” Research Colloquium by Dr. Bonnie Effros

October 30, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Colloquium Series

“Biblical Forgery and the Carceral State, ca. 1000” Research Colloquium by Dr. Mo Pareles

April 19, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Zoom

Colloquium Series

“Metaphors of Invasions in Contemporary Spanish Documentary” Research Colloquium by Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar and Dr. Mónica López Lerma

April 12, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Speaker Series

“The Monstrous and the Posthuman: On Filmic Depictions of Cyborgs” Talk by Leon Kraft

April 6, 2023 | 12:30 PM - November 12, 2025 | 1:30 PM

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Speaker Series

Engaging Transylvania – “Untypical for a Transylvanian Lady? Gender and Nationalism in Modern Science”

March 28, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Zoom

Co-sponsored Event, Speaker Series

“Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany” Talk by Dr. Yvonne Ivory

March 23, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Buchanan Tower, Room 323

Visiting Scholar Talk

Women’s Impact: Byzantium in the Visual Culture of Medieval Eastern Europe

March 22, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Room 202, Buchanan A Building

Engaging Transylvania – “Between Exoticism and Colonialism: Historicising Transylvania in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

March 13, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

Engaging Transylvania – “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires” Book Talk

March 8, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium – MakeShift: handmade, homemade, and remade productions

March 3, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Room 1002, Audain Art Centre

Speaker Series

Unsetting the Structure: The Russia-Ukraine War

February 15, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

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Co-sponsored Event

Cinema Thinks the World: Mariupolis (2016) Film Screening and Discussion

November 25, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Colloquium Series

CES Research Colloquium “Coercion, Rivalry, and Lessons for the EU Integration from the Lithuania-China Row”

November 16, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

Multicultural Ukraine – “Imagining Jewish Carpathians: The Myth of Baal Shem Tov in the Yiddish and Polish Literature of the 20th Century”

November 2, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Zoom

Colloquium Series

CES Research Colloquium “The Body of Crime in Early Modern Rome”

October 26, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

Multicultural Ukraine – “The Crimean Tatars: The Situation of the Indigenous People of Crimea from the Occupation of Crimea in 2014 to the Occupation of Ukraine in 2022”

October 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Colloquium Series

CES Research Colloquium "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic"

September 28, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

Nomadic Cosmologies: Conversation with Alisi Telengut

September 27, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Zoom

Colloquium Series, Speaker Series

Cultural Memory, National Identity, Collective Forgetting: Crimea, the War the French Won and Forgot

May 17, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

EU Sanctions and Aid: The European Union’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

May 11, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Zoom

Speaker Series

Wildfires, Satellites and Reindeer Shoulder Blades: Readings and Mis-Readings of Environmental Uncertainty in Northeast Siberia

April 29, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Zoom

The White Fortress (Tabija) – Film Screening and Talk

April 27, 2022 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM