| November 9, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 2:30 pm |
On November 9th, CCGES will be presenting a double-bill of wall-related films to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (CONTINUE READING)
| November 6, 2009 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
On November 6th from 4 – 6 pm, the Goethe Institut Toronto (100 University Avenue, 2nd Floor, North Tower) will present Mr. Markus Meckel, one of the central figures in the East German citizens’ movement and a German representative to the Two Plus Four Negotiations which laid out the ground rules for German unification. (CONTINUE READING)
| October 20, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Together with York’s Faculty of Education, CCGES is pleased to present an event featuring talks by two education scholars visiting from Swedish universities. Sharon Todd (Stockholm University) will speak on “Educating Beyond Cultural Diversity: Redrawing the Boundaries of Democratic Pluralism” while Carl Anders Säfström (Mälardalen University) will present “Rethinking Emancipation, Rethinking Education”.
ZDF broadcasts election night
The view from the inside of an election campaign can provide real insights as two CCGES students found out during the run-up to the recent German federal elections. Ben Bryce (PhD candidate, History) and Frederick Peters (PhD candidate, Political Science) were selected to take part in the one-week trip for international graduate students organized by CCGES’ sister-Centre, the Duitsland Instituut/Amsterdam, and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. In addition to meetings with experts and election staff at which they parsed the issues and positions central to the campaign, the group’s itinerary also included the final Berlin rallies of all the major parties and an election evening event from which Germany’s large public broadcaster ZDF reported on the vote results.
| October 26, 2009 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
Since the turn of the century hedge funds – largely unregulated institutional investors of Anglo-American origin – have forced a number of German publicly listed companies to focus on short-term shareholder value. This is diametrically opposed to the “patient capital” paradigm that had been traditional to German capitalism, which emphasized stability and long-term strategies. Hence, a German politician has termed them “locusts”, which in the opinion of many German commentators plunder the firms and then move on.
