Thanks to the generosity of our partners and a number of private and corporate donors, CCGES is able to offer financial support to students who are registered in its Graduate Diploma program or who have been accepted for formal affiliation with the Centre. Detailed information on this year’s funding opportunities and how to submit to the January 31st, 2012 deadline are found in
2011-12 CCGES Student Funding Call

Should you have questions about any of the programs or how to apply, please contact CCGES Coordinator, John Paul Kleiner at jkleiner@yorku.ca

Maps can be tools of social control and of resistance, of ideology and of critical analysis. Ever since Brian Harley called for a deconstruction of maps and Denis Wood reminded us of the power of maps, and since people like William Bunge or (much earlier) Sandor Radó started mapping the marginalized and the invisible (un-mapped) costs of capitalist development, it is clear that maps are everything but innocent statements of what is where. Critical approaches to maps and cartography are both: A critique of cartographical rationalities – a critique of the assumption it is unproblematic to claim this is there – and a call for critical maps – a call for saying this is there.

This workshop is dedicated to the question of mapping urban spaces. Urban spaces are in the focus of maps produced and used by a wide range of urban actors, and we are looking for critical analyses (of for example planning maps, maps of poverty, maps of health needs, maps of minorities, maps of “dangerous” areas …) and underground mappings, counter-cartographies and interventionist maps.

A second workshop is planned for 2012 and will examine transnational spaces.

Mapping Urban Spaces workshop – Program

For more information on the workshop, please contact the event’s convenors:
Ulrich Best, York University, ubest@yorku.ca
Boris Michel, Universität Erlangen, bmichel@geographie.uni-erlangen.de.

CCGES and the European Union Centre of Excellence project at York  are pleased present the inaugural EUCE York Law Workshop from December 2-3, 2011. This event takes place under the title “Securitization in Germany and the EU – Legal and Policy Implications for Canada” and is being convened by Prof. Dagmar Soennecken (School of Public Policy and Administration / Social Sciences).

Among the questions, this workshop will consider are:

• How have states balanced the goal of collective security with that of upholding individual rights?
• What factors have shaped the different policy choices in North America vs. Europe?
• What role have courts and international human rights norms played in these insecure times?

Securitization, argue many scholars, has also adversely affected the way in which advanced industrialized states make immigration and asylum policy, in particular with respect to deportation and detentions. At the same time that humanitarian protection and liberal immigration policies are under threat, human smuggling and trafficking is on the rise, reflecting a contradiction between the tough restrictionist rhetoric and the reality on the ground. This Workshop will focus on matters related to law and security in the EU, and will necessarily intersect with criminal law enforcement and human rights constraints.

EUCE Law Workshop – FINAL PROGRAM

Participant Bios – EUCE Securitization Workshop

The workshop is co-sponsored by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and York’s Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. The workshop will be held at Glendon College, York’s bilingual downtown campus.

Main organizer: Prof. Dagmar Soennecken, dsoennec@yorku.ca

European Union Centre of Excellence, York University (John Paul Kleiner, Coordinator): euce@yorku.ca

Prof. Christoph Hönnige

The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies is pleased to present a lecture by Christoph Hönnige, a professor of German politics at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen on Monday, December 5th from 10 am to noon in the Fireside Room/petit salon, Room 303, York Hall, Glendon Campus (building #6 on the map found here).

Prof. Hönnige studied at the University of Konstanz between 1995 and 2001 and has a degree in Verwaltungswissenschaften (Public Administration). He received his PhD from the University of Potsdam in 2006. Before being appointed in Göttingen he was Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) for German and Comparative Politics at the University of Kaiserslautern (2007-2011).

His research focuses on three aspects:

– Constitutional courts in comparative perspective and the Bundesverfassungsgericht
– Parliaments and administrative reforms
– Comparative Policy Agendas

All are welcome and light refreshments will be served.

Date: Monday, December 5th
Time: 10 am – noon
Location: Fireside Room (303), York Hall, Glendon College (2775 Bayview Avenue)

Prof. Dirk Matten

CCGES Faculty Affiliate Dirk Matten (Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Schulich School of Business, York University) has an op-ed piece in today’s Globe and Mail which argues that, despite the present turmoil, the euro is here to stay. To read his piece, click on:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/never-mind-the-drama-the-euros-here-to-stay/article2246696/