Research News


New article alert!: Past CES Student Research Fellow, Cheuk Him Ryan Sun, publishes in the Journal of Holocaust Research!

Last year, Cheuk Him Ryan Sun (he/him) used his time as a CES 2024 Graduate Student Research Fellow to work on a project related to his PhD dissertation. CES is excited to announce that the research Ryan conducted during his fellowship has evolved into a research article published in the Journal of Holocaust Research! Find the […]


Project Interview: Susanna Cassisa

Susanna Cassisa (she/her), is originally from Oxford, Mississippi, she earned her B.A. in International Studies and German from the University of Mississippi in 2021. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in German Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include modern queer history in Germany and the United States and the ways that […]


Project Interview: Psyfun Mustary

Psyfun Mustary is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has an MA in English from UBC, prior to which she received her BA Honours and MA in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her doctoral dissertation reads representations of colonial […]


Project Reflection Essay: Alicia Barker-Åström

Alicia Barker-Åström is a student in the Dual Degree between Sciences Po Paris and the University of British Columbia. She got her first Bachelor’s in Politics and Government with a Middle East and North Africa specialization from Sciences Po Campus de Menton. She is currently pursuing an Honours degree in Political Science and International Relations at […]


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!


Project Interview: Byron Arthur Clark

Byron Arthur Clark is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. His work uses semiotic analysis to understand and describe symbolic communication at Neo-Pagan sacred places, particularly in the village of Glastonbury in England. Byron is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. He has a BA Honours cum Laude in Philosophy from Stellenbosch […]


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!


Project Reflection Essay: Sriharsha Madireddy

Sriharsha Madireddy is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing a double major in political science and philosophy. His academic focus centers on political philosophy and the historical development of political thought, with a particular fascination for continental philosophy and the Frankfurt School. Thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, and […]


Project Interview: Lance Pederson

Lance Pederson (he/him/il) is a Ph.D. student who studies power, masculinity, and homosexuality in France and its colonial empire from 1660-1815. He obtained his B.A. from Hamline University where he majored in History with a double minor in French and Mandarin Chinese. He completed the first year of his Ph.D. program at the University of […]