Entitled “Of Roadmaps and Crossroads: Transatlantic Perspectives on Advancing Internationalization in Social Sciences and Humanities”, this workshop takes place under the auspices of the Transatlantic Degree Programs Project, a cooperative effort of the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). (CONTINUE READING)

This conference will examine and critique the relevance of the Frankfurt School’s contributions to contemporary critical theory and praxis. By revisiting extant questions, mapping trajectories for future scholarship, analyzing its contribution to current debates, and by drawing upon a wide variety of theorists to critique the Frankfurt School, this conference seeks to “re-think” the work of the foundational thinkers of Critical Theory.

For more information on the conference, please contact conference organizer Lee Kuhnle at lckuhnle@yorku.ca

As part of the CCGES Graduate Student Conference, “Re-Thinking the Frankfurt School”, a book launch will be held for Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays on Thursday, September 27 in Stong College, Room 201 at 5:15 p.m.

It is appropriate that this publication be launched in the context of the CCGES Graduate Student Conference as this volume has been edited by five students participating in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma Program:

Donald A. Burke, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Colin J. Campbell, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Kathy Kiloh, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Michael K. Palamarek, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Brock University

Jonathan Short, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

This collection of essays, though dealing with different topics from section to section, is unified by the idea that, at least in the English-speaking world, there are numerous facets of Theodor Adorno’s work that have been hitherto neglected in terms of critical scholarship. Adorno and the Need in Thinking addresses these forgotten nuances, whether they apply to questions of politics, language, metaphysics, aesthetics, ecology, or several of these at once. Also included for the first time in English is Adorno’s important early essay, “Theses on the Language of the Philosopher.”

At a time when Adorno scholarship is on the rise, this collection sheds light on new areas of critical research, adding another dimension to the existing literature on this most important intellectual.

Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location: Room 201, Stong College

On Monday, September 24th, the initial meeting of the 2007-08 Graduate Research Colloquium will take place at the Centre from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Students enrolled in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma who have not yet fulfilled this requiremed element of the program are encouraged to attend this session.

During this session, the Diploma Coordinator, Prof. Burkard Eberlein, will present the planned content for the Colloquium and offer students an opportunity to ask any questions they may have.

The second meeting of the Colloquium will take place the following Monday, October 1st at the same time and place. Regular meetings of the Colloquium will then follow at two-week intervals.

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: 230R York Lanes

CCGES is pleased to host this lecture by Prof. Heinrich August Winkler, one of Germany’s most prominent and well-respected historians. Prof. Winkler’s lecture will be based on his most recent book The Long Road West in which he seeks to answer ’the German question’, or why Germany became both a national state and a democracy much later than either Great Britain or France.

Since 1991, H. A. Winkler has been Professor of Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Born in Königsberg, he studied history, philosophy, public law, and political science in Münster, Heidelberg, and Tübingen. From 1972 to 1991, Prof. Winkler served as Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. He has been a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University; a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a fellow of Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), a guest of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and the Institute for Advanced Historical Studies in Munich (Historisches Kolleg München).

Prof. Winkler’s lecture is part of a North American speaking tour organized and funded by the Goethe-Institut.

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: W132, Schulich School of Business