The European Politics & Society Workshop is a monthly, interdisciplinary forum for discussing work in progress. This month the workshop will discuss “Unintended Gender Consequences: Implications of the Deregulation of the European Airlines Industry on Gender Roles”, a paper by Heather MacRae, an Assistant Professor in York’s Political Science Department. (CONTINUE READING)
CCGES is pleased to present Jennifer Hosek, Assistant Professor of German Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston), for a talk examining representations of Cuba in films produced by the East German film studio DEFA.
Prof. Jennifer Hosek studied Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkley, in 2004. Her Research Focus was German culture post-1945 as refracted through Cuban culture post-1959.
Support for this talk has been provided by CCGES as well as the German Studies Programme/Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and the European Studies Programme.
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: CCGES Meeting Room, 230R York Lanes
If you plan to attend, RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca
Dr. Ingeborg Tömmel is an expert of governance and policy making in the European Union and will be speaking on these matters to Prof. Heather MacRae’s fourth year Political Science seminar.
Interested individuals are welcome to attend, however, due to space considerations, we would ask that you RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Winters College 118 (map)
On the centenary Sigmund Freud’s Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year Old Boy (1909), Frank Scherer (PhD candidate Social and Political Thought) will present a talk entitled “Zarafa or Little Big Hans: Some Reflections on the Centenary of Sigmund Freud’s First Child Analysis and the Viscissitudes of the Castration Complex. Here he will reexamine this work with a view to shedding light on its hitherto unexamined facets including the Orient of race, gender and sexuality that emerges from its pages or the stunning editorial resurrection of the phallic mother/woman at the hands of his daughter Anna Freud.
Location: 305 York Lanes
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 pm
All are welcome, but attendees are asked to RSVP to ccges@york.ca
Together with York’s Centre for Human Rights, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, Hillel@York, and the Office of the Master-Founders College, CCGES will be presenting a program of events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, April 21st. These events will take place from noon to 4:30 pm in the Assembly Hall (Rm. 152) of Founders College – click here for a campus map.
Dr. Felicia Carmelly, a Holocaust survivor, will be on hand to share her experiences and films related to the genocides in both Rwanda and Darfur will be screened as well. For more program details, please visit http:www.yorku.ca/rights.
These Holocaust Remembrance Day events are all open to the public.
For more information on this program, please contact Linda Grobovsky, Centre for Human Rights, lgp@yorku.ca
