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Sep 12 2025 12:00 pm
For queer Berliners who had opposed and survived the Nazis, the end of the Second World War was a moment of liberation and hope. Those who had experienced the Weimar democracy often hoped that its progressive politics could be continued, its promises fulfilled, or better yet, surpassed in the new political system that they would...
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Apr 3 2025 12:30 pm
Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Buchanan Tower, Room 997, 1873 East Mall, UBC Vancouver Or register to attend over Zoom Abstract: Dr. Tomkinson will discuss and present on his current book project, titled Adapting Schreber: From Memoir to Multimedia and Beyond. The book project aims to assemble a comprehensive production history...
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Mar 13 2025 5:30 pm
DeepStateMap: Mapping the Synthetic Battlefield of Ukraine by Dr. Svitlana Matviyenko
Thursday, March 13, 2025 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room. Registeration Required Abstract: Maps of the war in Ukraine – and we know a good number of such tools – are typically not considered synthetic images in a sense of pure computer-generated simulations and visualizations. By focusing on one...
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Feb 27 2025 12:30 pm
Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Transformation: Nation-Building, Identity Formation, and Foreign Policy Evolution Thursday, February 27, 2025 12:30-1:30 PM Buchanan Tower, Room 997, 1873 East Mall, UBC Vancouver Or register to attend over Zoom Since gaining independence in 1991, Kazakhstan has undergone a complex process of national identity revival, balancing its historical legacies, ethnic diversity, and geopolitical positioning....
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Feb 13 2025 12:30 pm
Modest Luxury: Jewelry and Meaning in Byzantium and the Wider Eurasian Context Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Buchanan Tower, Room 997, 1873 East Mall, UBC Vancouver Or register to attend over Zoom Valued for its beauty, intricate production processes, and often the precious raw materials it contained, jewelry had a ubiquitous...
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Oct 3 2024 2:30 pm
Katie Gee Salisbury Talk and Q&A on her book, Not Your China Doll (2024)
Katie Gee Salisbury Talk and Q&A on her book, Not Your China Doll (2024) The Winnifred Eaton Archive will be hosting a public event, “Not Your China Doll: A Conversation on Anna May Wong, the First Asian American Film Star” with author Katie Gee Salisbury and Dr. Mila Zuo. Thursday, October 3, 2024 2:30 – 4:00 PM ...
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Sep 19 2024 3:30 pm
“Translation, Multilingualism, Poetics: Language Work in Muslim and Jewish Diasporas”
At a moment when ethnonationalist and heteropatriarchal narratives erase the intertwined histories of global Jewish and Muslim communities and portray us as inherently antagonistic, diasporic scholars and artists connect through resonant forms and questions to find pleasure in differences. On September 19, 2024 at 3:30 pm PT, please join the Department of English Language & Literatures...
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Sep 13 2024 12:00 pm
Friday, September 13, 2024 @12-1:30 pm PST Buchanan Tower 225 A Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies: In Search of Lost Time: Primitivist Homomythopoetics and the Self-Invention of the White Gay Man Primitivist homomythopoetics––the creation of a white gay male subjectivity constructed, poetized, out of myths about Others considered primitive, stuck...
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Sep 11 2024 12:30 pm
Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada
This fall, CENES and various UBC Departments will welcome Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada, to UBC’s Point Grey campus for a talk and Q&A. The Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies, the Office of Global Engagement, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, the Department of...
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Mar 27 2024 7:00 pm
Film Screening Of Under Blue Skies (Suot tschel blau, 2020) & Discussion with Ivo Zen
A small alpine community reckons with an unspoken tragedy in Swiss documentarian Ivo Zen’s poignant film, which premiered at Visions du Réel in Nyon. Upper Engadine, nestled within the mountain ranges of the Eastern Alps, is a picture-postcard destination for sky gazing and winter sports. The locals know firsthand, however, that the trade-off for such scenery...
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Mar 22 2024 3:00 pm
Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: How to Survive Grad School With Your Soul (Mostly) Intact
How to Survive Grad School With Your Soul (Mostly) Intact Join Dr. Mimi Khúc in a discussion on how to do ethical, interventional work within the unethical (and soul-crushing) structures of the academy. Spoiler: she doesn’t know, but we will figure this out together! 3-5pm BuTo 225
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Mar 21 2024 4:00 pm
Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Towards an Archive of Unwellness and Care
Towards an Archive of Unwellness and Care Dr. Mimi Khúc will facilitate a closing event for the durational exhibit created throughout the week. Participants will engage the communal archive that has excavated UBC unwellness to take stock of where we are and where we need to go as we move towards collective care. 4-6pm BuTo...
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Mar 20 2024 4:00 pm
Our Ableist Syllabi: Toward an Access- and Care-Centered Classroom, or, Reading Our Syllabi for Filth What if education was not a system of achievement and inculcation into hyperproductivity but a transformative care project? The pandemic has revealed the contours of unwellness in our universities as never before, making it clear that “business as usual” in...
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Mar 20 2024 9:00 am
“Indigenous Energy Diplomacy in the Arctic: Probing the Complexity with Cases in Sápmi and the Inuvialuit Region” Wed, March 20, 9-10 am PT (online) Register here! “Indigenous energy diplomacy” is a relatively new term, but Indigenous peoples have long practiced various forms and degrees of traditional kinship diplomacies as well as more recently engaged in...
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Mar 19 2024 4:00 pm
Tuesday, March 19 Tarot for the Apocalypse: Engaging Unwellness through Critical Arts Praxis Kicking off a communal durational exhibit that will be open for contributing and engaging throughout the week, this event engages Dr. Mimi Khúc’s Asian American Tarot and offers participants the opportunity to co-create a tarot card as a community. 4-6pm BuTo...
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Mar 18 2024 4:00 pm
Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Our Students Are Dying: Touring the University Abyss
Monday, March 18 Our Students Are Dying: Touring the University Abyss 4-6pm BuTo 225 Our students are dying. This is a reality many of us, including students themselves, have not been able to face. We have not been able to look directly at the mental health crisis happening beneath the veneer of our beautiful...
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Mar 18 2024
Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Unwellness and Care in the University
Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC Theme: Unwellness and Care in the University March 18-22, 2024 Dr. Mimi Khúc is a leading disability studies scholar whose work is situated at the intersection of care work, art practice, and community making. She will spend a week in residency at UBC holding workshops for students, staff, faculty,...
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Mar 13 2024 12:30 pm
CES Speaker Series: Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace, Dr. Aida Hozić
Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace Wed, March 13, 12:30-1:30pm PT (online) Register here! The war in Ukraine and the prospect of renewed warfare elsewhere in Europe is rapidly shifting the security and economic landscape not only in Europe but around the world. Less visibly, it is also – like other...
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Mar 1 2024 12:00 pm
Abstract: The “dusty archives” formula provokes and irritates, but why does it still seem to stick? My paper considers some of its implications for conducting research in 19th century cultural studies, to finally focus on a particular archive where dust really matters: the lantern slide collection of the Institute for Scientific Projection founded by Franz Stoedtner in 1895. Ilinca...
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Feb 14 2024 10:00 am
CES Speaker Series: Language Test as Border Work, Dr. Kamran Khan
Language Test as Border Work Wed, Feb 14, 10-11am PT (online) Register here! Language tests provide scores which are signs with social meaning. The social function of these tests are varied. Increasingly through reconceptualisations of language tests for immigration and settlement purposes, these scores relate to solutions for social problems. This talk will outline the...
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Dec 7 2023 5:00 pm
Thursday, December 7th at 5:00 PT Buchanan D, Room 324 “Origins of the Soviet computer subculture in 1960s Kyiv: Prototype of Personal Computer “MIR” and the Association of Users ‘Cybertonia'” by Dr. Serhii Zhabin The Laboratory of Calculating Machines in Kyiv that in 1950 built the first Soviet electronic digital computer (MESM), after 1956 continued...
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Dec 7 2023 12:30 pm
Thursday, December 7 at 12:30 PM PT Buchanan Tower, Room 997 “Techniques of Time in Settler Colonial Utopia: Property-Owning Democracy and R.R. Torrens’ Archive” by CES Visiting Scholar Ari Finnsson The concept of a “property-owning democracy,” coined by British Conservative MP Noel Skelton in 1923, exercised a powerful hold over a number of twentieth...
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Nov 28 2023 3:00 pm
“Zap! Why Intuition Matters in Academia” Research Colloquium by Dr. Erik Kwakkel
Tuesday, November 28 at 3:00 PT Buchanan Tower, Room 1099 Zap! Why Intuition Matters in Academia by Dr. Erik Kwakkel While the notion of intuition would perhaps seem unwelcome in the empirical arena of academia, it thrives in many Humanities disciplines. The study of medieval manuscripts, books before the application of printing, leans...
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Nov 16 2023 11:00 am
Thursday, November 16 at 11:00 PT Buchanan Tower, Seminar Room 997 Marseille, Mediterranean Ports, and Migratory Routes to South America, 1892-1932 by Dr. Benjamin Bryce Drawing from recent research, this talk sheds light on the role of the Société générale des transports maritimes in shaping Italian, Spanish, and Syrian migration to Buenos Aires...
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Nov 10 2023 12:30 pm
Ziegler Lecture: Graduate Student Workshop with Erin McGlothlin
Friday, November 10 @12:30-1:30 PM Buchanan Tower, Room 1099 Professor Erin McGlothlin will be hosting a Graduate Workshop with CENES this November. In this workshop, graduate students will discuss with Erin McGlothlin a number of topics related to her expertise, such as new directions in the fields of Holocaust Studies and Perpetrator Studies as well as...
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Nov 9 2023 12:30 pm
Ziegler Lecture: Erin McGlothlin, “Between Exile and Holocaust: Fred Wander’s Hôtel Baalbek”
Thursday, November 9 at 12:30-2:00 PT Buchanan Tower, Seminar Room 997 Between Exile and Holocaust: Fred Wander’s Hôtel Baalbek by Dr. Erin McGlothlin Focusing on the biography and literary work of the Austrian-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Fred Wander, this presentation will attempt to interrogate a conceptual divide within the scholarship on exile,...
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Oct 30 2023 12:30 pm
Monday, October 30 at 12:30 PT Buchanan Tower, Room 1099 The Hypogée des Dunes, Poitiers: Faith and Science in Nineteenth-Century France by Dr. Bonnie Effros The late nineteenth century saw the growth of a sizable chasm between the faith-based work of clerical scholars and the proponents of professional archaeological circles in France. The...
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Sep 20 2023 5:30 pm
“From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back.” Talk by Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash will speak on September 20th, 2023 on “From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back” at 5:30pm. This talk is drawn from his new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, which gives a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945. More information can be found here. Graduate students...
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Apr 19 2023 3:00 pm
“Biblical Forgery and the Carceral State, ca. 1000” Research Colloquium by Dr. Mo Pareles
This talk explores how a medieval English archbishop used Biblical translation and forgery to claim a greater role for the church in state affairs and, in turn, to extend greater state control over the bodies of women and enslaved people.
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Apr 12 2023 4:00 pm
This Research Colloquium is about Metaphors of Invasions in Contemporary Spanish Documentaries, such as termites and zombies.
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Apr 6 2023 12:30 pm
“The Monstrous and the Posthuman: On Filmic Depictions of Cyborgs” Talk by Leon Kraft
This talk will focus on the complex interplay of the monstrous and the posthuman in cinematic depictions of cyborg entities. The point of departure will be a comparison between Shinya Tsukamoto’s cult film “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (1989) and, as a rather different canonical example, Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964).
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Mar 28 2023 1:00 pm
The third event in our thematic speaker series "Engaging Transylvania".
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Mar 23 2023 3:30 pm
“Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany” Talk by Dr. Yvonne Ivory
Talk by Dr. Yvonne Ivory (University of South Carolina) about the reception of Oscar Wilde and his work in early 20th century Germany.
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Mar 22 2023 5:30 pm
Women’s Impact: Byzantium in the Visual Culture of Medieval Eastern Europe
Lecture about how Byzantine Art shaped Visual Culture in Medieval Eastern Europe by visiting scholars Dr. Maria Alessia Rossi and Dr. Alice Isabella Sullivan.
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Mar 13 2023 1:00 pm
The second event in our thematic speaker series "Engaging Transylvania".
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Mar 8 2023 5:00 pm
Engaging Transylvania – “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires” Book Talk
The first event in our thematic speaker series "Engaging Transylvania".
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Mar 3 2023 11:00 am
46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium – MakeShift: handmade, homemade, and remade productions
46th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium – MakeShift: handmade, homemade, and remade productions. Exhibition opening with paper presentations and workshops.
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Feb 28 2023 3:00 pm
Research Colloquium with Dr. Mo Pareles (EVENT POSTPONED, TBA)
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Feb 15 2023 3:30 pm
Unsetting the Structure: The Russia-Ukraine War
Among other explanations, geopolitical justifications predominate the literature on why Russia invaded Ukraine. Join the CES for a discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Muradov , Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine.
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Nov 30 2022 12:30 pm
Multicultural Ukraine, “Roma in Ukraine between a Eurasian Past and a Euro-Atlantic Future”
Multicultural Ukraine is a virtual speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies and dedicated to the histories and cultures of ethnic and linguistic minority groups within Ukraine. This event is the third in our Fall 2022 series.
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Nov 25 2022 6:00 pm
Cinema Thinks the World: Mariupolis (2016) Film Screening and Discussion
A free screening and discussion of Mariupolis, a documentary made in 2016 by Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius about the contested Ukrainian city of Mariupol. This event is co-organized and co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for European Studies.
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Nov 18 2022 8:30 am
Interactions, Exchanges, and Transformations
European Legal Traditions and their Impact on the Construction of Gender in a Global Context
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Nov 16 2022 12:00 pm
CES Research Colloquium – Dr Ljiljana Biuković
There is still time to catch the third installment on November 16th, when Dr Ljiljana Biukovic, Professor at Peter A. Allard School of Law speaks on Coercion, Rivalry, and Lessons for the EU Integration from the Lithuania-China Row.
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Nov 2 2022 12:30 pm
Multicultural Ukraine is a virtual speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies and dedicated to the histories and cultures of ethnic and linguistic minority groups within Ukraine. This event is the second in our Fall 2022 series.
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Oct 26 2022 12:30 pm
CES Research Colloquium – Dr John Christopoulos
There is still time to catch the third installment of the CES Research Colloquia Series on November 16th, when Dr Ljiljana Biukovic, Professor at Peter A. Allard School of Law speaks on Coercion, Rivalry, and Lessons for the EU Integration from the Lithuania-China Row.
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Oct 19 2022 12:00 pm
Multicultural Ukraine is a virtual speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies and dedicated to the histories and cultures of ethnic and linguistic minority groups within Ukraine.
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Sep 28 2022 12:30 pm
CES Research Colloquium – Dr Katherine Bowers
"This text will become essential reading for courses on Russian literature and the gothic, and is just as valuable in terms of its studies of individual authors and works.” Claire Whitehead, Reader in Russian, University of St Andrews
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Sep 27 2022 12:30 pm
Nomadic Cosmologies: Conversation with Alisi Telengut
How can animation explore nomadic and indigenous cosmologies? Join artist Alisi Telengut, animation scholar Alla Gadassik (ECU), and cultural anthropologist Alexia Bloch (UBC) in a virtual screening, talks, and discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for European Studies.
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Aug 29 2022 9:00 am
Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork
The Centre for European Studies is proud to co-sponsor the upcoming Indigenous Storywork Workshop this August 2022, "Let’s Become Story Ready: Decolonizing and Indigenizing European and Migration Studies through Indigenous Storywork".
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May 17 2022 12:30 pm
Dr. Sima Godfrey – CES Research Colloquium
Dr. Sima Godfrey, CES Faculty Affiliate, presents our second Research Colloquium, May 17 at 12.30pm. Register now!
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May 11 2022 4:00 pm
EU Sanctions and Aid: The European Union’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Paulina Pospieszna is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
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Apr 29 2022 11:00 am
Spring Speaker Series: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. Olga Ulturgasheva
The CES inaugural Spring Speaker Series, “Eurasian Environments”, features speakers from Brown University, the University of Manchester and Princeton University.
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Apr 27 2022 4:30 pm
The White Fortress (Tabija) – Film Screening and Talk
Acclaimed writer-director Igor Drljaca will join the Centre for European Studies for a virtual screening and talk on his new film The White Fortress (Tabija) this April 27th, mark your calendars!
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Apr 26 2022 11:00 am
Spring Speaker Series: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. William Wheeler
The CES inaugural Spring Speaker Series, “Eurasian Environments”, features speakers from Brown University, the University of Manchester and Princeton University.
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Apr 21 2022 12:30 pm
Spring Speaker Series: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. Bathsheba Demuth
The CES inaugural Spring Speaker Series, “Eurasian Environments”, features speakers from Brown University, the University of Manchester and Princeton University.
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Apr 14 2022 12:30 pm
Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Kathryn Graber, “Mixed Messages”
The Centre for European Studies is co-sponsoring a virtual Sawchen Lecture, featuring Dr. Kathryn Graber of Indiana University. Registration is now open for this free and virtual event via the above link.
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Apr 1 2022 3:00 pm
The Ancient Law (1923): Film screening and live musical accompaniment
The Centre for European Studies co-sponsors a screening of the 1923 silent film Das alte Gesetz (The Ancient Law), directed by E.A. Dupont, with German/English intertitles, with musicians Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin performing the live score. Registration now open via the above link.
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Mar 15 2022 12:30 pm
The Centre for European Studies is co-sponsoring, along with the UBC Eurasia Research Cluster and Ziegler, a virtual lecture featuring Dr. Chunjie Zhang of the University of California at Davis, entitled Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience. Please join us on March 15, 2022 at 12:30 pm...
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Mar 11 2022 12:00 pm
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: An Expert Panel on the Geopolitical and Humanitarian Crisis
The Centre for European Studies is co-sponsoring the discussion, with CES affiliates Dr. Allen Sens, Professor of Teaching, Political Science and Dr. Lisa Sundstrom, Professor of Political Science, as panelists.
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Mar 10 2022 12:30 pm
Dr. Gaoheng Zhang – CES Research Colloquium
The Centre for European Studies is proud to host our esteemed Faculty Affiliate and Advisory Board member, Dr. Gaoheng Zhang, as our first speaker at our inaugural CES Research Colloquia !
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Mar 7 2022 5:00 pm
Ukraine: Past, Present, Persistence
Please join us for a wide-ranging, interactive discussion on Ukraine’s past, present and persistence. Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Germanic & Slavic Studies (UVic) and expert in Russian and Eastern European History alongside Dr. Tamara Krawchenko, School of Public Administration (UVic) will be on hand to answer your questions.
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Mar 5 2022 10:00 am
BAD ROADS (2020) film screening & discussion on Ukraine
The Centre for European Studies is proud to co-sponsor a screening and discussion of the film, Bad Roads (2020), and the situation in Ukraine. This event is hosted by the Department of Theatre & Film, UBC. Bad Roads is a Ukrainian drama film directed by Natalya Vorozhbyt and released in 2020. It premiered at the...
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Mar 2 2022 2:30 pm
This flash teach-in will offer brief historical background, contemporary context, and regional insight to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each participant will draw on their particular knowledge in Eastern European and/or Russian Studies to frame the developing situation through a focused micro-presentation, with time for questions or discussion to follow. We have organized this event...
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Feb 15 2022 11:00 am
Dr. Łukasz Szulc presents “Thinking Europe from the Margins”
Our colleagues at the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies present the Sawchen Lecture from Dr. Łukasz Szulc entitled: “Thinking Europe from the Margins: European Imaginations and Identifications of Polish LGBTQs in the UK”. Please see the link below for more details and to register: Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Łukasz Szulc, “Thinking Europe from...
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Apr 21 2021 12:00 pm
Behind the Mythological Curtain: Reception of Greek Tragedy During the Communist Rule in Serbia
12:00pm – 1:30pm (PST)
Jelena Todorovic, Ph.D. Candidate in Classics, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies
Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies, the Centre for Migration Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster
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Apr 14 2021 10:00 am
Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia
10:00am – 11:00am (PST)
Dr. Amila Buturovic, Professor, Department of Humanities, University of York
This event is hosted by the UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and co-sponsored by the CENES Department, the UBC Institute for European Studies, and the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.
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Apr 8 2021 11:00 am
REGINA RÖMHILD – OTHER EUROPES IN MOMENTS OF POST-OTHERNESS
11:00am – 12:30pm (PST)
Dr. Regina Römhild, Professor, Institute for European Ethnography, Humboldt University of Berlin
Co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies, UBC Institute for European Studies and UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (CENES)
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Mar 24 2021 12:15 pm
Riikkamari Muhonen – Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence
12:15pm – 1:30pm (PST)
Riikkamari Muhonen, PhD Candidate of Comparative History, Central European University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Eurasia Research Cluster