Peter McIsaac

The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University is pleased to announce that Peter M. McIsaac has accepted the Centre Directorship for a three-year, renewable term beginning July 1, 2010. McIsaac has been a CCGES affiliate since he arrived at York University in January 2008, and his appointment signals the Centre’s commitment to a strong research and outreach agenda in the coming years. “I am truly excited to be taking on the Directorship of CCGES,” says McIsaac. “Having been a faculty affiliate of the Centre for the past three years, I know what a positive role it plays both in the community in general and in helping faculty and students realize their research goals. To be able to play a part in this process from a leadership position will be both a challenge and a privilege.” (CONTINUE READING)

CCGES will be hosting the conference “The Past on Display – Museums, Film, Musealization” from April 28-30. 2011 and conference organizers would like to invite submissions for paper proposals to be given at the conference.

Both museums and films are now recognized in German Studies as key sites for the production of historical knowledge and the construction of cultural memory, but what they share in how they present the world remains largely unexplored by scholars. This conference focuses on the intersections between museum and film practices in German culture and seeks to deepen our understanding of past and present relationships between both media by exploring their commonalities and differences. (CONTINUE READING)

The new issue of the German Law Journal, Review of Developments in German, European and International Jurisprudence, is now available – at no cost – at http://www.germanlawjournal.com. This journal is housed at CCGES and co-edited by Centre affiliate, Prof. Peer Zumbansen of the Osgoode Hall Law School.

This issue brings three very timely articles on International Peacekeepers, Computer Crime and on the prospects of social justice following the Laval and Viking Decisions by the European Court of Justice. It concludes with two essays that are concerned with the libel case brought in France against Professor Joseph Weiler (NYU Law School), following the publication of a book review, which he commissioned. The GLJ wishes to offer these essays as a small contribution to what the Editors consider a highly important debate around academic freedom.

CCGES is pleased to be a co-presenter of the conference “European Visions – Small Cinemas in Transition” which is being presented by the Department of Film at the University of Western Ontario on June 29-30, 2010. This international conference will address issues which small European cinemas have encountered as a result of European unification and worldwide economic and cultural globalization. During the conference, the presenters will explore how the general concept of “small cinemas” relates to questions of geographical territory, the nation- state and post-national phenomena.

Plenary speakers are renowned scholars in the field, including Mette Hjort, author of The Cinema of Small Nations, and Randall Halle, author of Toward a Transnational Aesthetic: German Film after Germany.

For more information, please visit: www.uwo.ca/film
or email: smallcin@uwo.ca