The call for applications to the awards, scholarships and bursaries available to students enrolled in CCGES’ Graduate Diploma program is now out and the deadline for submissions is Friday, January 15th, 2010.
More information on the support available, can be found here.
In cooperation with the German Consulate General Toronto and the Federal Foundation for the Critical Appraisal of the SED-Dictatorship abd the Consulate General Toronto of the Czech Republic, CCGES will be hosting the poster exhibits “From the Peaceful Revolution to German Unity” and “1989 – As Seen by Photographers” from Monday, November 23rd through to Friday, December 11th in the 2nd floor foyer of the York Research Tower. Using the photographic record, these powerful exhibit marks the 20th anniversary of the events in brought an end to the Cold War and which literally changed the world. (CONTINUE READING)
Mr. Vojtech Kyncl (PhD candidate, University of Southern Bohemia and Schiller University Jena) has spent this semester at CCGES pursuing research related to his dissertation thesis which looks into the investigation and prosecution of World War II war crimes in Communist Czechoslovakia.
In this talk, he’ll present information on this process, in particular the level of cooperation between Czechoslovak prosecutors and officials in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. To do this, he will use as a case study the prosecutions of Nazi soldiers tried for their participation in the acts of terrible retribution which followed the assassination of the highest ranking National Socialist official in the Protectorate, Reinhard Heydrich, by the Czechoslovak resistance in June 1942.
All are welcome to this talk.
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: Room 749, York Research Tower
As part of the Holocaust Education Week program, Jewish-American author Lev Raphael will read from his latest book My Germany. Described as “part travelogue, part detective story”, My Germany follows Raphael as he traces what happened to his parents, both Holocaust survivors, during the war, and reveals how this process led him to a new sense of self. (CONTINUE READING)
