Michael Nijhawan
CCGES faculty affiliate, Prof. Michael Nijhawan will present a paper entitled “Precarious Presences, Hallucinatory Times: Configurations of Relgious Otherness in German Leitkultur Discourse” on Monday, February 22nd from 12:00-2:00PM in 2101 Vari Hall, York U. Keele Campus (building #30 on the map found here). Prof. Amira Mittermaier (University of Toronto) will act as the discussant.
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On Thursday, February 25th, CCGES is pleased to present a free screening of Peas at 5:30/Erbsen auf halb sechs, a 2003 film by German director Lars Buechel. This film tells the story of Jakob, a young stage director who loses his sight in a car accident, and Lily, the young woman who tries to help him come to terms with the dramatic changes this means for his life. This is a movie about lovers who can’t see each other, about two blind people, who venture into an unknown world. At the same time, it is an interesting attempt to make the world of the movies accessible to the visually impaired.
Miranda Schreurs
Together with the German Consulate General of Toronto and the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, CCGES is pleased to be presenting a talk by Miranda Schreurs, Director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Free University of Berlin, on Tuesday, February 23rd from 9:30 – 11:00 am at the offices of the Chamber (480 University Avenue, Suite 1500). Prof. Schreurs will speak on “Green Energy and Climate Change Politics: German-Canadian Perspectives”. Dr. Burkard Eberlein, a CCGES faculty affiliate from the Schulich School of Business will comment on Prof. Schreurs presentation.
All are welcome, but attendees are asked to RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca.
Light refreshments will be served
