Call for Papers: 2021 FHIS Graduate Student Conference
The FHIS Graduate Program is seeking papers for the 9th Biennial Graduate Student Conference that will be taking place on October 29-30th. Theme: “In-between normalities: Care, persistence and the (re)imagination of life” Submission deadline: August 20, 2021 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2021 Submissions in English, French, and Spanish will be considered. Abstracts (250 words maximum […]
Two FHIS Graduate Students Receive Affiliated Fellowships
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies offers approximately 50 Affiliated Fellowships each year to meritorious students for full-time study and/or research leading to a graduate degree. Awards are made on the basis of academic excellence, with applications open to current and prospective full-time UBC graduate students regardless of citizenship or visa status. Fellowship values […]
Graduate Student Award Recipients 2021
UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Student Awards. FHIS Graduate Student Leader Award recipients for outstanding leadership, significant contributions to the department, and the enhancement of the UBC graduate student experience: José Ricardo García Martínez Mirta Roncagalli Johann Pitter FHIS Graduate Teaching Assistant […]
Jennifer Nagtegaal Elected as Student Representative to Canadian Association of Hispanists
Congratulations to Jennifer Nagtegaal, PhD student of Spanish Studies at UBC, for being elected as the new Student Representative for the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (Canadian Association of Hispanists) from 2021-2023. The ACH promotes and supports the study of Hispanic language, linguistics, literature, history and culture in all its artistic and scientific manifestations.
Mirta Roncagalli: Graduate Student Ambassador
Mirta Roncagalli, PhD Student of Hispanic Studies, describes her role to help prospective and newly admitted graduate students as a Graduate Student Ambassador, and why she chose to pursue a PhD at UBC in the first place. Graduate Student Ambassador I was looking for a program that could support my professional development and help me […]
Romance Philology Students Translate and Encode Arthurian Literature
Students in our Romance Philology seminar (FREN 578) translated extracts from completely unedited Arthurian literature of the 15th Century and learned how to encode text in XML-TEI as part of the digital humanities aspect of this project.
“My Thesis in 180 Seconds” Winners: Joel Akinwumi and Magali Blanc
UBC’s Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies is pleased to announced that two of its PhD students, Joel Akinwumi and Magali Blanc, are winners at the Western Final of «Ma thèse en 180 secondes» (“My Thesis in 180 Seconds”) competition. Joel Akinwumi: Doctorate Award Winner Joel will go on to compete at the […]