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

CCGES is pleased to be a co-presenter of the conference “Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics and Society” which will be taking place at both York University and the University of Toronto from June 3-5, 2010. This interdisciplinary conference is designed to problematize the prevailing discourses surrounding the veil while exploring its subversive potential.

Keynote speakers at the event is Prof. Ellie Ragland (University of Columbia-Missouri) who will present on “The Masquerade, The Veil and The Phallic Mask” on June 3 at 6:00 pm.

For more information on the conference, including details on the event schedule, please visit: http://www.veiledconstellations.com/index.html

Terry Maley

Prof. Terry Maley is an assistant professor in York’s Department of Political Science and a CCGES faculty affiliate. In this paper he will argue that there is a complexity in Weber’s view of democracy that has been obscured in the recent Anglo-American reception of Weber as a liberal defender of rights.  There is a tension between two sides of Weber’s view of the political, one which sought to defend liberal-democracy against more reactionary political forms, and the other which sought to contain the radical left and the ‘unruly’ ‘politics of the street’ that accompanied the revolutionary turmoil in Germany right after WWI. Weber struggles to include both, and to defend capitalism, in his ‘realist’ model of parliamentary democracy, a struggle that is prescient today as both his model and capitalism (freed from the Protestant Ethic) falter in the west.

This talk is co-presented by CCGES and the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought.

Location: 749 York Research Tower
Time: 12:30-2:00 pm