As part of The Canada-EU Bridge Project, a CCGES research initiative examining the state of academic mobility between post-secondary institutions in Canada and the European Union member states, CCGES will be hosting a workshop to consider the effects of the Bologna Process on academic exchange. This event will bring together academics, high-ranking university administrators and government representatives with responsibility for implementing a “mobility agenda” to discuss various aspects of this subject.

Funding for The Canada-EU Bridge Project has been provided by the European Commission Delegation to Canada’s program ’Public Diplomacy, Policy Research and Outreach Devoted to the European Union and EU-Canada Relations’.

During this talk Jens Wissel, a Research Fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Main, will introduce his current research project examining the transformation of the modern nation state in the context of globalization with a particular focus on Europeanization as a regional answer to and motor of this process.

Wissel’s research looks specifically at the changes to EU migration control policy since the partial shift of responsibility for this area to the EU level with 1997’s Amsterdam Treaty. Arguing from a materialist standpoint, he proposes that the national territorial state neither disappears nor survives in an unmodified way in the globalized world, but rather becomes part of a novel configuration of the political which distributes political regulation to a multiple spaces.

Jens Wissel is spending the fall term 2006 at CCGES and York’s Department of Political Science as a Visiting Researcher traveling with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: 230R York Lanes

Please RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca

During this talk Jens Wissel, a Research Fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Main, will introduce his current research project examining the transformation of the modern nation state in the context of globalization with a particular focus on Europeanization as a regional answer to and motor of this process.

Wissel’s research looks specifically at the changes to EU migration control policy since the partial shift of responsibility for this area to the EU level with 1997’s Amsterdam Treaty. Arguing from a materialist standpoint, he proposes that the national territorial state neither disappears nor survives in an unmodified way in the globalized world, but rather becomes part of a novel configuration of the political which distributes political regulation to a multiple spaces.

Jens Wissel is spending the fall term 2006 at CCGES and York’s Department of Political Science as a Visiting Researcher traveling with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: 230R York Lanes

Please RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca

CCGES is pleased to be able to welcome Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Pánek, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, to the Centre for a talk on November 8th. Prof. Dr. Pánek is a distinguished scholar of Czech and Early Modern European History (16th-18th centuries) and a Full Professor at Prague’s Charles University.

For his talk at the Centre, Prof. Dr. Pánek will reflect on the role Central European historians are playing in a unified Europe, a subject which has no doubt been informed by his extensive international experience at universities throughout Europe as well as in the USA and Taiwan.

He was (and still is) the editor-in-chief or co-editor of leading scientific journals, such as: Folia Historica Bohemica (1990-2004), Historica. Historical Sciences in the Czech Republic (since 1994), and since 2000 Èeský èasopis historický (Czech Historical Review). He was the national editor of the international yearbook Scholars of Early Modern Studies (1989-2000), a member of the international editorial boards of Central Europe (London), Historický èasopis (Historical Journal) (Bratislava) and Österreichische Osthefte (Vienna). In the years 1996-2002, he was Chairman of the state professional organisation Association of Historians of the Czech Republic, and since 2002 he has been Chairman of the Czech National Committee of Historians.

Time: 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Location: 230 York Lanes

Please RSVP to this event at ccges@yorku.ca

Dr. Claudia Schoppmann is a well-known German historian. She is the author of Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualitaet (1991), on Nazi politics and female homosexuality, co-editor of Nach der Shoah geboren (1994), on second-generation Jewish women in Germany, and other books on German (women’s)history. Dr. Schoppmann’s work opens up new roads for further research in contemporary German societal issues.

She will read from her book Days of the Masquerade (1996), which presents the life stories of ten lesbians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who lived through the Nazi era. The women Claudia Schoppmann interviewed, and others whose lives she reconstructs, took very different paths under the Nazi era.

This program is specifically recommended for students of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Women’s Studies, Modern German History, and Holocaust Studies. Q&A period follows.

This program has been co-sponsored by York University’s Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and Centre for Jewish Studies as well as by Hillel of Greater Toronto.

Time: 12:30 pm
Location: 230 York Lanes

Please RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca