Together with the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies at the University of Toronto, CCGES is pleased to present this talk by Mr. Karsten Voigt, the Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the German Federal Foreign Office. (CONTINUE READING)
CCGES – together with BMW Canada – is pleased to announce that Lee Kuhnle, a PhD student in Social and Political Thought, is the recipient of the 2008 BMW Canada Award for Excellence. This honour is presented annually to the student enrolled in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma program who is judged to best combine academic excellence with a contribution to Centre life.
Lee Kuhnle has been a Centre-affiliated student since 2004 and in has made an active contribution to the Centre during his time at CCGES. Among the highlights of Lee’s activities at the Centre is his work helping organize a reading group on the work of members of the Frankfurt School of cultural critics and theorist and his oversight of the 2007 graduate student conference which resulted from the reading group’s activities. In addition, he has the distinction of having received the William Graf Essay Prize for best paper by a Centre affiliated student in both 2005 and 2006.
CCGES is pleased to able to recognize Lee for his contributions to the Centre, and is grateful for the support of BMW Group Canada which makes the awarding of this honour possible.
Christian Feilmeier (VP Finance & Administration, BMW Group Canada),
Lee Kuhnle (2008 BMW Canada Award for Excellence Winner),
Lindsay Duffield (CEO, BMW Group Canada) and Klaus Rupprecht (Director, CCGES)
Together with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, CCGES is pleased to be able to co-present this conference which will take place at the University of Waterloo.
The conference will feature three full-days of presentations on a variety of topics. In addition keynote addresses will be made by Barbara Pichler, Artistic Director designate of the Diagonale, The Festival of Austrian Film in Graz and Paul Cooke of the University of Leeds. The complete conference program is available by clicking here . (CONTINUE READING)
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)
