Posted: November 12, 2009
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
Posted: November 2, 2009
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)
Posted: October 29, 2009
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)
Posted: October 10, 2009
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)
Posted: October 6, 2009
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”.
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