Tereza Barta, York Film professor, presents her 30-minute documentary Through Her/ Their/ Your Eyes (in German with English subtitles) about her experiences as a refugee in Austria. The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion led by Iris Mendel, a visiting doctoral fellow of the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna. (CONTINUE READING)

CCGES and the CITY Institute are pleased to welcome Prof. Patrick Le Gales, a Research Director at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) in Paris, to York for a talk. Prof. le Gales is the prize winning author of European Cities, Social Conflicts and Governance, published by OUP in 2002, and former editor of the international Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Prof. Le Gales will speak about his current research analyzing the attitudes of urban upper-middle classes (defined as people with executive responsibilities in either private corporations or public administrations, as well as intermediate technical personnel, e.g. engineers) in relation to the redistributive mechanisms embedded in the social protection schemes that characterise the Welfare State. (CONTINUE READING)

Croatian-German author Jagoda Marinić reflects on her reading at York this past Monday, March 19th in her literary blog, strawberryfields. To see what she has to say about her experience at the reading, click here

Ms. Marinić is the author of Der Namenlose (The Nameless One) and the 2008 Munk-Goethe Writer-in-Residence.

The European Politics & Society Workshop is a monthly, interdisciplinary forum for discussing work in progress. This month the workshop welcomes Dr. Markus Kaim, the DAAD’s German Chair at the University of Toronto for 2007-08. Attendees of the workshop will discuss his paper “Germany, Afghanistan and the Future of NATO.” (CONTINUE READING)

In the wake of a recent string of “breakthrough” election results for Germany’s Left Party, Prof. Frank Deppe and Ingar Solty will reflect on the way in which these outcomes are transforming the political scene in both Germany and Europe.

Frank Deppe is a Professor-Emeritus at Germany’s Marburg University and has been one of the leading Marxist intellectuals and political activists in West Germany since the 1960’s. Prof. Deppe has published extensively on labour, politics, Eurocapitalism and the global political economy. (CONTINUE READING)