Hajo Schaefer, Co-Director, Achtung Berlin

The annual festival achtung berlin – new berlin film award is dedicated to presenting movies from the German capital and, in only six short years, has established itself as the city’s second-largest film festival (after the world-renowned Berlinale).  CCGES is please to welcome the festival’s co-founder, Hajo Schäfer, to the Centre for a talk on Thursday, September 23rd (3:00-4:30 pm in Room 749, York Research Tower – building #95 on the map found here) in which he’ll expound on this unique festival’s beginnings, its place in the German festival scene and how it seeks to speak to current debates in the new capital and new Germany. (CONTINUE READING)

Dr. Matt Bera

Matt Bera, a CCGES Faculty Affiliate and Lecturer in York’s History Department, will be delivering an introductory lecture to Toronto Tarragon Theatre’s presentation of “The Clockmaker” (Stephen Massicotte) at 1 pm Saturday, September 25th, just prior to the matinee performance of the work.

Set in 1930’s Germany, the play tells the story of a humble clockmaker besotted by a married woman who brings a shattered cuckoo clock into his shop. As he unravels the mystery of how the clock came to be destroyed, their relationship deepens and he vows to make her the most splendid clock the world has ever seen.

A lecturer in German history at York, Dr. Bera’s talk is one of a series presented by Tarragon in which they invite a university professor to speak on their area of expertise related to the themes of the play.

A review of this production is found on the website of the Globe and Mail.

For ticket information, please visit http://www.tarragontheatre.com/tickets/

Location: Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman Avenue, Toronto
Date and time: Saturday, September 25th at 1 pm

Prof. Marc Amstutz

The European Union Centre of Excellence at York is pleased to announce that Prof. Marc Amstutz (Professor of Business Law and Legal Theory, LL.M (Harv.), University of Fribourg, Switzerland) will deliver the first lecture in the Centre’s new lecture series “EUCE Lectures in EU Law and Governance” on Wednesday, September 15th from 12:30-2:00 pm in 519 York Research Tower. Prof. Amstutz’ lecture will be entitled “Legal Reasoning in European Private Law: The Interlegality Conundrum in a Multilevel Governance Private Law System and the New Developments in the Marleasing-Doctrine of the European Court of Justice”. (CONTINUE READING)

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura in cooperation with CCGES, the European Centre of Excellence at the University of Toronto’s Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the University of Bologna and the Canadian cluster of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) is pleased to present a roundtable discussion entitled “Memory Studies and the Identity Problem: A Cross Reading of European and Canadian Cultural Traditions”. This event will take place on Tuesday, September 7th from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto). (CONTINUE READING)

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)