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.

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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

York’s European Studies Programme will be screening Jean Renoir’s 1937 Film “Grand Illusion” on Thursday, February 11th from 12:30 – 2:30 pm in the Nat Taylor Cinema (N102 Ross Building, building #28 on the map found here).

“Grand Illusion” examines class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.

The screening will be shown in a dubbed, English version and is open to all!

Time: 12:30 – 2:30 pm
Location: Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building

The Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education at York University is pleased to present two lectures by Anthony Julius, an eminent British lawyer, academic, and public intellectual, who successfully defended historian Deborah Lipstadt against Holocaust denier David Irving. Julius also represented Princess Diana.

Saturday, February 13th, 8 pm – “Holocaust Denial – What’s the Point?”

Sunday, February 14th, 2:30 pm – “How Can Good Literature Be Bad for the Jews?” (CONTINUE READING)